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Here's my nominee for worst movie of the year (complete category should be: "Worst Movie of the Year That Assumedly Adult Male Reviewers Slathered Over"): There's Something About Mary --a pathetically sophomoric, penis-obsessed mess that wouldn't even appeal to Larry Flynt!
Near the house was a badly-coifed flowering quince that had only a handful of lovely flowers for a few days in May and one or two fruits clinging pathetically in late summer.
His screenplay ideas in the company of the muse are pathetically feeble, and when she encourages them--and when they find favor with Steven's agent and the executives who'd previously spurned him--the point seems to be that everyone in the film industry is a moron.
Sales of his new album are dismal, and reviewers complain that the music--five new songs and eight remixes of old ones--is pathetically recycled material.
For someone so appalled by celebrity, Allen exploits it deftly, casting big-name actors to fill out parts that would otherwise be recognized as pathetically underwritten.