Word: armageddon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Reading the script actually made me feel better in some ways. It is, quite simply, idiotic. Everyone is a caricature, manufactured and inauthentic. My father is depicted as some demented evangelist, going on about Armageddon every chance he gets. My mother is cast as a female Attila the Hun, and I and my siblings are unrecognizable to me. There are absurdities, like depictions of Mike Deaver and political aides camping out at our house during my father?s early political career - in every scene, there they are, hanging around the house day and night. I suppose this is meant...
...world, and Hollywood feels fine. Pop culture knows that people love nothing more than imagining their own demise. It's not that moviegoers want to die; they just want a theme-park ride through Armageddon. Thinking about what happens after Judgment Day is too disconcerting, like waking up from a nightmare into a worse one. That's why there are many more movies about the world saved from destruction, like this week's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, than about the messy business of surviving an apocalypse, like the new Brit horror film 28 Days Later...
...this month by the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, for a fuller dialogue between the White House and Democrats on any high-court nominees. And if Sandra Day O'Connor should also retire this year, the struggle over her replacement could be judicial Armageddon, because O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy have been the court's crucial swing votes. If Bush could replace her with a more consistent conservative, Roe v. Wade itself would be in jeopardy...
...high school. For minutes on end, the camera tracks the movements of several students at Watt High: a blond boy arriving late because he has been caring for his alcoholic father, an athlete and his pretty girlfriend planning their calendar, and two lads arming themselves for their own private Armageddon...
...film describes, with no special urgency, a typical day at a generic high school: a blond boy arriving late because he has been caring for his alcoholic father; an athlete and his pretty girlfriend planning their social calendar; two other lads arming themselves for their own private Armageddon. And then the shooting starts - a replay of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in the U.S. The film's lyrical pseudo documentary style now lurches into horror-movie mode. The two killers stalk their prey down the bright corridors as efficiently and implacably as any Jason or Freddy. They are monsters...