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...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...
...Armageddon: The state of contemporary American cinema is morphed into an apocalyptic nightmarescape in this 1998 film from famed Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay. Some of the most horrifying images every committed to celluloid leap off the screen, including Liv Tyler bemoaning her father’s sacrificial heroics and Ben Affleck crying. One sequence, however, stands out as eliciting a primordial fear in literally every audience member. In the scene, Affleck playfully animates an animal cracker “crawling” across Tyler’s exposed mid-section to an undisclosed location. But we?...
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...