If this overblown event has a real effect on the election results, at a time when there are so many serious global concerns, then the media should be ashamed of itself.
As Marvel movies are made for ever bigger budgets, with ever more portentous storylines and overblown special effects, this is an entry in the cycle that makes a virtue of its relatively modest scale.
That's absolutely the audience that will enjoy this silly, overblown special-effects extravaganza.
QUESTION FROM ROSE GARRETT: In your piece, you argue that the education "crisis" is overblown because, in effect, some things are getting better, and nothing is getting that much worse.
"Oil exporters have always, in my view, far overblown the near-term effects of carbon limits on demand for their products," Mr. Victor said.
It may be that companies are waiting until the employer mandate kicks in – or it could be that the fears of significant adverse effects were overblown.
But the norm in this genre is a hodgepodge of adolescent emotions, cheeky humor, cool special effects and overblown action sequences, a formula that can, when the casting is right, make certain specimens (like the first "Iron Man" movie) seem better than they are.
Multiplying one section fivefold into an extravaganza that is more than 40 feet wide produces the effect of overblown, primitivist-style architectural decoration.
(or New Hampshire, or Colorado, or wherever...) Don't say: "The Bradley Effect is overblown in the first place, and that was 26 years ago, so I don't think we'll see it this time around".
Moreover, some economists assert that worries about the housing market are overblown in terms of the effect on the broader economy.
