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Perhaps the most frustrating case of pseudo-seriousness in action movies is the latest Bond movie, Skyfall.
In "Annihilation," Garland's approach is exactly the opposite: he ramps up the pseudo-mysterious seriousness, and the result is to make the viewer laugh out loud.
This false independence, this display of pseudo-adult seriousness is as evident in the theatrical concern of Cameron as it was in Tony Blair.
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Calder took everything seriously except seriousness.
These films fitted into a certain brand of accessible, middlebrow seriousness made by Hardworking White Males aspiring to a kind of pseudo-European art house sensibility.
Seriousness is his keynote.
This would demonstrate seriousness.
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