Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are no pep pills in this game, although more often than not, there is beer. No one uses steroids, and the men who battle mightily against the encroaching twilight do not get athletic scholarships. There is only sport...
...like many scripts written by ex-actors it is bad, plagued by longeurs of dialogue between a kid who's too young to be interesting and a woman who lacks even that excuse. And a lot of "tough talk": "Okay you bananas" or an exchange like this: "Gimme a beer." "Any particular kind?" "Cold...
...THEN this film is a high-tech attemp at naivete. The more the director tries to cover up Reeves with swelling music and "magical" sepia sequences, the more frustrated the audience becomes. Enough manipulation. Enough manufactured emotion. Enough preying on private fantasy. Enough of the self-congratulatory "love" of beer commercials and snide movies. It is best to leave this sort of film to future generations who, after they master time travel, may also devise the necessary base for a high-tech future;--the cryogenic suspension of disbelief, wonder, and surprise...
...spot a potential jumper, as Arthur knows. "The worst fare I ever got burned on was about $60. This old guy had hit every bar on Mass Ave., up and down. He'd go into the bar for about an hour. He'd ask me if I wanted a beer. I'd say I just wanted my money; he'd tell me to keep the meter running. He started out with about $80, but by the time he was done he was crocked and broke. I took a check from him--he was about 50 years old and pretty distinguished...
...book presents people talking about their lives; and "people," given a sympathetic listener, speak sense, not solemn pontifications about "the city on the hill." The author's selection of these people is inspired. Terkel didn't look for the "correct" ethnic or social mix--this is no Miller Beer commercial with the required ratio of three whites to every Black. He wants a cross-section of opinions, not faces...