Even Mr. Sutherland's attention-commanding presence is undermined by simplistic dialogue and one-note direction.
Easily the worst winner of that award ever (tough field), the movie was a thoughtless – and indeed artless – liberal wank, where the takeout message seemed to be that some kind of excruciatingly simplistic dialogue about race was America's fast-track ticket to harmony.
It's always easiest to blame our politicians, but the reality is that the majority of citizens did not engage in the conversation beyond the simplistic dialogue of tax hikes versus spending cuts.
This isn't a small argument, and it goes beyond our current simplistic ideological dialogue in which there are only two perspectives: left and right.
("I had pretty simplistic political ideas about dialogue," she says now. "You know, an enemy is somebody whose stories you haven't heard").
Just like in his new work, Garden State has on-the-nose, obnoxious greeting card dialogue, a simplistic view of how the world works, and characters so thin that Kate Moss is currently asking Andrew Largeman for diet tips. .
Counterfeiting, cloning, repatriation, sky diving, pirates, attack dogs, a volcano and lots of fanciful gadgets and gizmos all somehow factor in. Character development is nil, the dialogue is simplistic ("Men just don't understand women!"), and unfunny bits of slapstick and lame sight gags abound.
It's possible that, just this once, before the tsunami of marketing and megatude closed over "Star Wars" forever, these people were seeing the movie for what it really was — a film with comic-book characters, an unbelievable story, no political or social commentary, lousy acting, preposterous dialogue, and a ridiculously simplistic morality.
Inside came more hopelessly simplistic choreographic routines, a few desultory lighting cues and lots of lifted dialogue.
"Too often we come away from these scandals with simplistic conclusions like men are bad, women are" unlikable, said Mr. Norris, using an unprintable epithet, typical of his spiky manner and dialogue.
