Word: alienment
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...Doom” the movie also ignores perhaps the most crucial part of the game series: losing. For every time you are triumphant, surviving the onslaught of countless bad guys, there are a thousand times where you can’t quite anticipate the movement of that horrible alien-creature-thing, and you slowly fall to the ground, a red film covering the screen as teeth, claws, and chainsaw blades meet your flesh. While it may have been impossible for the film to include “game over” screens, it could have made an effort to emulate...
...pause to let the rest of us recover from the latest verbal landslide. I wish, for example, there were a few more scenes like that of the narrator’s Uncle Fernando air-dropped into a remote and impoverished Native American community. The near-lunar landscape, its equally alien and wordless inhabitants, and the echoes of pre-Colombian rite and myth manage, for nine pages, to hold in thrall the “civilized” characters and, I suspect, Fuentes himself. Even more stunning are Fuentes’ descriptions of the overlooked wonders of the human body...
...home from school to see the transmissions that the Apollo 17 astronauts were beaming back live from the surface of the moon. "There was no lunar module in sight," Hanks says. "All you could see were the astronauts in the distance as the camera panned around this incredibly alien, incredibly desolate place. I was just gone...
Threshold is easily the goofiest of the trio yet occasionally the most entertaining. It has quirky humor but turns into CSI: The Fourth Dimension as the team chases sailors cum aliens. More disturbing is how blithely it notes that the team members are draftees, serving on pain of jail. Later, a government agent, bringing in a man suspected of being an alien, casually conks the guy's head against a car hood as he demands his rights. With friends like these, who needs aliens...
...feather in his soon-to-be-copied chicken dance. It's up to him and his outcast pals to persuade the local skeptics that, darn it, the sky really is falling. At a pace as sprightly and assured as the great old Warner Bros. cartoons, the movie flirts with alien abductions, crop circles, Streisand jokes and familial reconciliation. The animation is gorgeous, but it's the feeling that you'll take home--warm, smart and happy...