Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the final scene, the gang is at the beach. The police are coming, and everyone runs. Everyone but Madjid who sits, depressed, thinking of the helplessness he sees surrounding him. Pat looks at him, screams his name, but then frightened, he runs off with the rest. The police pick...
First Manassas was such noisy, nostalgic fun that the organizers are talking about staging the battles of Cedar Mountain and Antietam next year, Gettysburg in 1988, the Wilderness Campaign in 1989 and Appomattox in 1990. In the meantime, there is no danger of peace breaking out and boring everyone. If...
This is the basic problem with the movie. And perhaps much of the fault lies with Annabeth Gish, who plays Rose. While Gish seems to have much emotion hidden inside her, she never allows any to surface. In real life, this way of acting is fine; on the screen it...
The movie doesn't seem to know how to treat what one expects to be its central focus--the nuclear testing that its created as backdrop. Vague references are made to it throughout the movie, and the movie's climax is a huge explosion. One wishes, like Rose's step...
But the real excitement came the following day. On Alvin's third dive, the scientists deployed "Jason Jr.," a self-propelled, lawn-mower-size robot armed with still and video cameras. Guided by Bowen, the robot -- nicknamed "J.J." -- made oceanographic history by actually entering the Titanic. It glided down the...