They were more or less united - "We think that this step is positively and absolutely necessary to protect the great motion picture public from threatening combinations and trusts that would force upon them mediocre productions and machine-made entertainment".
The most mediocre productions, which abound on the fringe, could gain audiences of the prurient in response to her condemnations, a reality of which could scarcely have evaded her.
Those were electrifying times.Nowadays, though, the Bayreuth fire has dwindled to a faint glow; no new productions last year or this; a planned new "Lohengrin" next year recently put in doubt; Wolfgang's own mediocre productions like "Meistersinger" and "Parsifal" getting far more of a showing than they deserve.
The content was mediocre; the production values were bad.
The abundance of mediocre opera productions in Germany is a consequence.
She posed for Playboy, Bob Dylan named her in the song I Shall Be Free, and she appeared in a number of mediocre international productions including The Mongols (1961) and Four for Texas (1963), in which the director Robert Aldrich concentrated on Ekberg's bust, especially as she leans over Frank Sinatra while shaving him.
Well, the first thing you need to know is that "Ring of Fire" is not on the level of a decent episode of "Lost," but this middling-to-mediocre Reelz production is at least a few notches above a Syfy Saturday night movie.
He hasn't thwarted the practically criminal act of spending an official $75 million to fob off an at-best mediocre musical, a production that is now apparently the dispiriting result of focus-group-think.
Now it's not bad as a crappy production of mediocre stories with horrible acting like Syfy's Z Nation.
Unfortunately Lean and co's debut is also a hack job of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull proportions, all flat-pack indie production and mediocre songwriting.
