Word: alienating
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...yourself city appears overnight. On one makeshift street, a three-story tower of scaffolding grows like a high-tech mushroom; draped with a parachute, it becomes an instant cafe. At a table, generous folks with a spare gallon of blue body paint offer to turn you into an alien. Behind them, two guys have built a house out of old wooden doors hauled in on a yellow rental truck. Inside you hear hypnotic techno music. The house will be gone 48 hours later, as will the rest of the instant city...
...kinky, if unspoken, attraction that develops between O'Neil and Viggo Mortensen's master chief, the man in charge of clubbing the baby SEALs into fighting trim, with sardonic objectivity. We know where Scott's sympathies lie--he did, after all, make those terrific tributes to female capability, Alien and Thelma & Louise--but he wears them lightly. What he does superbly is establish a raw, compelling reality that transcends his movie's banal premises and predictable conclusion. That permits Moore to play, and us to feel, authentic pain, isolation and courage--shocking stuff to find in an action movie these...
...other legal drinker, who decided that I was not drinking enough beer, assured me: "even though you go to Harvard, you can still drink." Thanks. His phraseology interested me because it summed up my existence among this crowd. It was fine that I was visiting, but I was an alien in their midst. Had I met these people without Kim's introduction, I would have been relegated to the corner...
...Moines, Iowa, is missing. So are Deming, N.M., the Albuquerque police department, the New York Stock Exchange, the Dallas Cowboys and countless ordinary folk. An alien plot? Close. The once simple act of obtaining long-distance information has become the latest casualty of deregulation. These days a call for out-of-state information not only gets you way out of state--not the one you think you're dialing--but often doesn't get you any information either. The misinformation is the result of a spitting contest between AT&T and the local phone companies, as they begin to compete...
Another movie about aliens? Well, it takes all kinds to make a universe, I suppose. Coming so soon on the heels of "Men in Black," new-flick-on-the-block "Contact" does a 180-degree turn from the sassy, no-big-deal attitude of its predecessor. Here, communication with extraterrestrials is a very big deal, though there's nary a conventional alien (if there is such a thing) to be seen. The result is a thoughtful, honorably conceived film, with all the best intentions in the world, that, alas, is frequently dull and lacking in imagination, and drags...