Word: climaxes
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...comedy needs a climax. Long before that, MM&I goes slack and desperate. And a chicken in a man's butt isn't all that hilarious. Maybe filmgoers need a lobbying group too: a Society for the Propagation of Promising Comedies That Actually Deliver on Their Promises. Care to join...
...Griffith created Intolerance, a four-part movie set in different ages, all stories converging at the climax. Figgis is more modest: he has four interlocking sketches of show-biz life (all shot simultaneously), one for each quadrant of a split screen. The mood is tres California: four earthquakes and a dying man taking a cell-phone call! When things go slack, you can stare at some of the world's most watchable women (Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Leslie Mann, Golden Brooks). But this spectacle of strenuous improvising is more stunt than true experiment. Nice try, folks. Now go back...
When, at the rally's climax, Matt and Ben finally spoke, I was prepared for the worst. Hollywood boy-toys often do not fine orators make. However, I was pleasantly surprised by their presentations, both of which were extraordinarily eloquent and apparently sincere. There was some irony in listening to two twenty-somethings who each earn millions of dollars every year--largely due to the fact that they happen to be born handsome--extol the virtues of economic justice. But once you got past that, you couldn't help but be moved...
...most part, Klein sustains the mastery of storytelling mechanics that he demonstrated in Colors. The plot accelerates to a fitting climax, goosed along by enough offhand apercus and knowing set pieces to satisfy any reader interested in The Way We Politick Now. If this reporter has more novels inside him, let them come...
...went to talk to him about defusing the situation." Wahlberg welcomed the news from Winona - but unfortunately, "after she'd spent some time with the hunky actor in his suite at the trendy Argyle Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, she succumbed to his charms" and slept with him. The climax of the story? Eventually, Winona "was unable to conceal her infidelity from Damon, who was doubly furious that she'd cheated with the object of his now apparently justified paranoia...