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...sense of what a sneering, whining bully McCarthy was, an equally good sense of how utterly unthreatening his victims were. On the other hand, a film (or kinescope) clip is still just a clip. The figures are just images. They have almost no human interest--no motivating foibles or dark passions...
...after his “Planet of the Apes” remake, which was, astonishingly, worse than “Gigli.” But with Johnny Depp, a popular Roald Dahl property, and hordes of pseudo-hipster NYU students who love Burton’s “dark, brooding sensibility” and the “amazing production design of ‘Batman,’” it’s no surprise that “Charlie” made it off the ground. What the public received, instead of a triumphant return...
...appropriately sum up its awfulness. Set on a lava-filled planet that looks like the Bowser stage from “Super Mario Bros.,” Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) exchange heated words on Anakin’s abrupt switch to the Dark Side. The only thing screenwriter George Lucas can think to give Padme (Natalie Portman ’03) to say at this important moment is, “Anakin, you’re breaking my heart!” Not only did my own heart break at hearing the passionate (pedantic?) writing...
...lives, and whether or not that fabric can be purchased with the “Indiana Jones” DVD box set. He certainly left me with a powerful question at the end of his current summer blockbuster. Why hasn’t someone put Dakota Fanning in a dark hole and left her there for a very long time? Actually, the film raised other questions as well, which I will now ask you, the faithful reader. How much money can be made off shamefully evoking 9/11? How much dull heavy-handedness is required to convince an audience...
...fallen short of those expectations. Now 1-2 after starting off the season with a 24-7 win against Bucknell, Cornell will have to turn things around tomorrow against the Crimson (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) if it is to live up to its reputation as a dark horse pick to win the title...