&Aloha& doesn&t say anything worthwhile - The Boston Globe
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Bradley Cooper stars in “Aloha” alongside Emma Stone.
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May 28, 2015
Is there anything more dispiriting than an idealist who has lost his way? &Aloha& is Cameron Crowe&s seventh film as a writer-director but only his second film in the last 10 years. In that fitful sabbatical, the heart-sore charms of &Say Anything& (1989), &Jerry Maguire& (1996), and &Almost Famous& (2000) have evolved into the inconsequentiality of &Elizabethtown& (2005) and &We Bought a Zoo& (2011). With the new film, Crowe&s unique touch & the generosity with which he views his characters, the human race, and the world in general & seems almost completely lost. It gives me no pleasure at all to report that a mess with good intentions is still a mess.This despite one of the strongest casts Crowe has fielded. Bradley Cooper plays Brian Gilcrest, a hotshot who left the military after barely specified bad goings-on in Kabul and who now works for an amoral master-of-the-universe satellite tycoon played by & wait for it & Bill Murray. Brian lands in Hawaii to smooth things over with the native population so the tycoon can have his launch pad, only to run into his ex-girlfriend, Tracy (Rachel McAdams), who&s now married to stoic Air Force pilot Woody (John Krasinski). They have two children, Grace (Danielle Rose Russell) and Mitchell (Jaeden Lieberher); the latter is one of those wise misfit movie kids who carries a video camera everywhere and talks in fluent encyclopedia.
The wrench in Brian&s gears is his military escort, a hard-charging Air Force captain named Alison Ng, who we learn is one-quarter Hawaiian and one-quarter Chinese and who is played by the 100&percent vanilla Emma Stone. Stone is delightful, as always, but her character has been stitched together in a mad screenwriter&s lab: Alison is a tight-lipped martinet and a passionate romantic and a down-to-earth woman and a woolly-headed mystic (and a floor wax and a dessert topping). Stone and Cooper generate heat from scene to scene, but just as often he looks frightened as to who she&ll turn into next. It&s easy to see what Crowe is going for here: the sort of morally grounded screwball romance typified by Howard Hawks&s 1939 classic &Only Angels Have Wings,& in which Cary Grant was bedeviled by Jean Arthur on one side and Rita Hayworth on the other. That film was tightly crafted. &Aloha& is, to put it kindly, the opposite. Crowe has always had a gift for dialogue and relationships that steer clear of Hollywood clich&; he knows how people talk, or how they&d like to. Anyway, he used to. Here entire scenes drift bumptiously along, the characters bantering arrhythmically while Crowe&s camera does wobbly loops around them.
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The colorful supporting characters include a general played by Alec Baldwin, who&s funny, and a colonel played by Danny McBride, who&s not. The latter keeps doing weird things with his fingers, which makes as much sense as anything else in the movie. There&s a dubious plot about a dastardly secret payload the tycoon is sneaking aboard his satellite, but the movie&s not sure what to do with it, just as Murray has no idea what to do with his character. (Is he a villain? Crowe, to his credit, doesn&t do villains. So what is he, then?) Despite a cheerful appearance by native Hawaiian activist Denny &Bumpy& Kanahele as himself and a thick patina of island mythology spread over the proceedings, &Aloha& is as generic as its title. The islands exist solely as an exotic backdrop for the pretty Hollywood haoles to play in. Business as usual, and I never thought I&d say that about a Cameron Crowe movie.
MPAA rating:
MPAA rating reasons:
(language, suggestive comments)
Running time:
105 minutes
Cast:Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Alec Baldwin
Cameron Crowe
He still has those rock connections from his youth, though, and the soundtrack of &Aloha& is stuffed with big gets (the Who, the Stones, Beck) and lovingly curated finds (the Blue Nile, a ton of Hawaiian music). The songs conjure up emotions, but they never fill the hole where a movie should be.
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Is this a metaphor for business success based on the fast food industry?这个词经常被用来解释、爆料某件超级烦人的公众细节。难道这是基于快餐行业成功的一个隐喻么？（“secret sauce”是秘方/秘籍/秘密武器/宝典的意思，按字面意思来看即“秘密的调料”。）It has become too frequent in business discussions. I am tired of it.这词在商务圈儿里已经被滥用了。真烦人。Break the InternetAn annoying bit of hyperbole about the latest saucy picture or controversy that is already becoming trite.又一个用来吸睛却夸张到讨厌的短语，常用于形容某张艳照或某件引起争议的八卦等，其实早就是陈词滥调了。Meaning a post or video or whatever will have so much Internet traffic that it will ‘break the internet.’ It’s being used for every headline and video. 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