Word: damns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, most students say that social life comes second to academics. "They [his classmates] don't do enough to relax, that's for damn sure. They're all sick--the clean cut ones. I recommend valium for 90 percent of the school," says Arthur C Epker, a second-year student...
Parker makes damn sure that we know this is no ordinary missing person case: the forces of Evil are at work here. He wants to hit his audience above the neck as well as below the belt. The integration of the occult with the detective story is possible, albeit difficult. However, the task is obviously beyond Parker. Though an extremely talented craftsman, he has consistently found it difficult to muster cinematic subtlety. His previous efforts (Midnight Express, Pink Floyd: The Wall, and Birdy to name three) are virtual textbooks in cinematic exhibitionism, from "sturm und dreck" junior high metaphysics...
Eventually it got to be too much. When the speaker for the fifth time rang out "MARIAN? MARIAN? MARIAN? ARE YOU THERE? IS MARIAN THERE?" I screamed: "YES, damn it, its true! She's been lying here all along! Marian is here! HA HA HA HA! I kidnapped Marian...
...coughs again. "Uh, I wanted Heath bar, not Reeses, if that's okay?" Stifling an urge to scoop his eyes out and fling them into the goody pile, I glance down at the smoosh-in board. Sure enough, my--his--glob of cinnamon-nutmeg is sprinkled with the wrong damn goody...
More than anything else, Hoosiers resembles one of those NFL Game of the Week films, with the pounding score and super-slow motion. But there, at least, you generally give a damn about the teams that are playing. Here, you really are given no motivation, beyond the need to create in your mind a reasonable explanation for the driving synthetic soundtrack and didactic, pedestrian dialogue...