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Fair City (1989)
Bucket of Crap
My God, this series is *awful*. It makes almost *any* other soap look like high art. It is on the "bad" side of "so bad, it's funny".
The acting is mediocre, at best, the story-lines unexceptional, but the *dialogue*: the script-writers should be burnt alive on a pyre of the future scripts. Occasionally, I really feel sorry for the actors who have to deal with such wholly implausible dialogue: a friend reckons that more experienced actors would tell the director to stick it where the sun don't shine, and I can't disagree -- it's just dreadful, dreadful, dreadful.
In fairness, there are a few green shoots of acting talent, but they are doomed in the dark, weedy, untended mire that is "Fair City": if they want to flourish, they need a transplant to much more fertile ground.
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Glenboring Glen Dull
This unimaginative film is pointless, tedious, pretentious rubbish from start to finish. It has neither plot nor story and the characters are universally objectionable. Lacking any entertainment value, this depressing, predictable, pompous drivel, masquerading as serious social commentary, lacks any real depth or insight: its nauseating self-importance is just too much.
So many whom I respect like this film that I've watched it through again just to satisfy myself that it really is every bit as much a depressing snore-fest as I first thought. Jack Lemmon hams it up with over-acting ("The leads! The leads!"), with Al Pacino bellowing along --- these are the performances considered award-worthy!
What a load of crap.