Always makes me think of a German whaling ship captain eating mayonnaise, for some reason.Įg: "Jurassic Park III beastmaster Joe Johnston has replaced departed helmer Mark Romanek"Īnother bastardisation. ![]() This is, I assume, some sort of bastardisation of the term "at the helm". The fact that it's now applied to an art form is just too sad.Įg: "Harry Potter will soon supersede secret agent James Bond as the most successful film franchise of all time" "Franchise" used to signify a chain of burger-and-fries feeding-pens constructed out of moulded plastic in primary colours. The most common, and most hateful, of all. Here's my dirty dozen of new movie cliches: ![]() In fact the new jargon could almost be called Empirespeak – all the magazine's reviews and articles read as if they're written by the same "on-message" computer programme. Though sadly found just about everywhere, they're most often spotted in Empire. And they're every bit as awful, lazy-minded, annoying, dumb and, well, cliched. Sure, film journalists nowadays are far too cool to describe the new Seagal as "a blockbusting action spectacular", but we've just replaced those old saws with a different set. So imagine my surprise and disappointment on realising that, over the last few years, a whole new lexicon of movie writing cliche has developed.
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