Word: behaviors
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...They're all meant to be cool, attractive, upmarket young professionals - Rob has just been promoted to vice president of some company that's sending him off to be in charge of Japan - but their behavior is, tops, adolescent. The men in attendance clumsily hit on pretty girls they don't know; they mope about an old love (Beth) showing up with a new guy; they frantically pass along gossip about who's been sleeping with whom. A suspicion forms in viewers' minds that Cloverfield has been rated PG-13 "for the emotional age of the characters...
...their behavior is Noel Coward-sophisticate compared to what happens when the monster strikes. A horror/sf/disaster movie loses points every time you're forced to ask yourself, "Why are they doing something so stupid?", and the answer is, "Because they're in a horror/sf/disaster movie." And if you thought that Abrams - the creator of Felicity, Alias and Lost, and the writer-director of the spiffy if underperforming Mission: Impossible III - would produce a horror movie that was not just high-concept but high-IQ - you misjudge his faithfulness to a genre requiring that, in extremis, people act in a manner...
...dancing as fast as she can. She's not helpful to the cops because she's hiding something bigger as her life might be in danger. When you start to do the character's map, as it were, it starts to make sense. It's not behavior one should condone but it can make sense in that world where someone is just trying to survive against every odd imaginable...
...have never noticed a single situation where I felt that students’ behavior had been influenced by drinking,” said Paul G. Bamberg ‘63, a senior lecturer in mathematics...
Carroll thinks about the times he tolerated Bowman's erratic behavior, visiting the then teen-age athlete at the treatment center, bringing him clothes, and the years of struggle after. Says Carroll: "It's such a helpless feeling, when everything you think you've done has done nothing in the long...