Word: armageddon
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Abrams began his career writing for the movies (as Jeffrey Abrams), and his early work--middlingly received movies like Regarding Henry and a credit on the asteroid thriller Armageddon--didn't show much innovation. But in 1998 he premiered Felicity, a WB series about a soulful college girl that had more character depth than your typical teen soap and less self-seriousness. It also proved his eye for casting: he plucked Keri Russell from out of nowhere to play Felicity; Garner, then unknown, had a supporting role. (Lost likewise discovered Evangeline Lilly as the stunning, and stunningly tough, fugitive Kate...
...Until recently, Asian horror movies?with titles like Chinese Torture Chamber Story and Reborn From Hell: Samurai Armageddon?were geared to what are politely referred to as niche audiences. That all changed in 1998 with Ichise's stylishly creepy Ringu, which Hollywood remade as The Ring. Ringu earned nearly $20 million, the sequel took in double that, and the Hollywood remake grossed $230 million. Viewers found themselves face to face with a new Asian beast: scare flicks that kept them suspended in fear, instead of grossed out by gore. As a result, says Danny Pang, co-director of the Hong...
...climactic clash between roughly 10,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines and about 2,000 newly minted Iraqi fighting men against the 1,500 to 3,000 armed militants who have turned the city into Iraq's biggest insurgent haven. But the battle has not involved any single Armageddon-style showdown with massed insurgent forces. Instead, for men like the soldiers of Alpha Company's 3rd Platoon, part of Task Force 2-2, the fight was far more intense, chaotic and harrowing. The Americans battled armed insurgents not just street to street or even house to house, but also up close...
...political realities may prove a greater obstruction to the President's domestic agenda than financial limits. Given the Democrats' enmity--and given their continued ability to block almost anything in the Senate--the President will face a battle on any initiative, and Armageddon when he nominates the next Supreme Court Justice. He will face conflicting pressures from his own party as well. The fierce supply-side and social conservatives who run the House are almost a different party from the fiscal conservatives and social moderates who populate the Senate. Fragmented Republicans plus pugnacious Democrats--plus no money--is a formula...
Additionally, Armageddon is an important piece of art. Bay’s neo-baroque aesthetic prioritizes the primacy of visual language over plodding dialogue. For example, instead of commenting on current debates in the field of cosmology, Bay sends a small asteroid flying into Grand Central Station. Brilliant...