Word: barrenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nicaragua alone, where 3,800 were thought dead, much of the landscape looks as barren as the moon. Starving, sallow-skinned children, many suffering cholera from the fetid waters that destroyed their homes, begged for food on the crumbled, mud-slick roads between Managua and the flooded northern sierras...
...probably let slide the fact that Todd is unconscious but remains uninjured after his stay in the garbage ship and the 500-foot fall he and the rest of the dumped garbage experience. The only visual or special effects worth mentioning, though, are the few panoramic shots of the barren planet littered with old scrap iron, cars and retired aircraft carriers. On a side note, those expecting chemistry between Todd and Sandra (Connie Nelson) should look elsewhere, Soldier gets an R rating solely because of old-fashioned graphic violence...
Director Paul Anderson envisions Soldier as a sci-fi/western hybrid, perhaps something along the lines of Road Warrior or Waterworld. Apart from barren settings, however, the three films have little in common. Soldier takes itself quite seriously, but the story's take-home message is so blatantly obvious that viewers may wonder whether the movie is actually some sort of farce poking fun at itself. Subtly crafted lines such as "My daddy always said, `If you want to put a nail in a board, you don't do anything fancy, you just use a hammer'" spoil any hope...
...forth by Bono's mournful yet strong vocals and Edge's subtle guitar playing. The song crescendos to a wailing, yearning climax and then fades away gradually. There is silence for a few minutes, and then the brittle piano chords of "October" start. Sparse and lonely, like a barren tree in winter, "October" is U2 at its finest, displaying some of the strongest emotions on the album with the simplest, minimalist music...
...world where men and women walked down the street sporting holsters rather than cellular phone cases. Imagine a world where the size of your caliber meant more than the size of your bonus. Inside Manchester, New Hampshire's Wolf Firearms, it is not so hard. Located on a barren street sandwiched between enormous factory outlet stores, Wolf's range is the nearest shooting range to Boston open to the general, non-gun-owning public...