(I mean, didn't you wince just reading this film's title?) The shoehorned love story is tedious, everything between Owens and Coach Snyder is rote and the central moral dilemma – the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's request that Owens not participate – is forgotten right after it's introduced.
"The virtual cascade of revolutions, mechanical, optical and electronic, that made the SX-70 possible," rhapsodized a Polaroid brochure, "had only one purpose: to free you from everything cumbersome and tedious about picture-taking, so that it could become at last the simple creative act it should be".
I loved almost everything about the Studio Ghibli game Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch except the tedious combat.
We are made to listen to tedious digressions about everything from Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" to the art of composite portrait photography to the creation of eugenic utopias.
He quickens people as he quickens pieces, not by making everything "interesting," which itself is tedious, the philosophy of dinner parties, but more radically, by penetrating the thick crusts of convention that form around art and emotion and sweeping them away, so that his listener, his interlocutor, is left on a higher plane, and with the memory of a revelation, large or small.
Everything, that is, but this tedious cinematic exercise.
Which was great in many ways – you learn how to audit absolutely everything – but was also really really tedious.
It can, however, sometimes be tedious having to adjust everything through the rear LCD.
Everything besides hagiography and dominance seems tedious to him.
