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...world and the way it consumes and interprets information. The kind of violence that once shocked the audience of the Vietnam era is now funneled in all day and everyday. We live in an America where people will pay 10 dollars to watch a “Final Destination?? movie and have a good time; for a little more, you can get video games in which you can deal drugs and kill prostitutes. We can sign up for breaking news updates on our cell phones, so we never miss a car chase or a police standoff.To say that...
...flurry of new patrons arrived bright and early at the Malkin Athletic Center yesterday, drawing surprise from MAC employees unused to seeing such concentrated numbers at 8 a.m., and spilling out the doors of their destination??a mirrored third floor room outfitted with 24 stationary bikes, a string of Christmas lights, and a zealous instructor promising to visit unusual pains upon the entrants. The turnout for the occasion—billed in an online schedule of opening day events as a “dynamic stationary group cycling experience,” with the added advantage of being...
Zide, who produced the “American Pie” series as well as the “Final Destination?? series, has a great deal of experience with movies featuring college-aged students—as well as those featuring rather gruesome fare...
...truly pops off the screen. His scene, although too brief, is one of the most memorable in the film. The structure of the movie also strangely lacks the sense of danger and immediacy that a zombie apocalypse usually warrants. It is essentially a road movie, and yet the destination??the home of the narrating heroine—is neither an exciting nor remote destination. They haphazardly change locations throughout the movie. While this slip in pacing in no way breaks the movie, it is clear that Romero thrives on telling stories set in confined areas (see the aforementioned...
...real surprise is that this predictable twist—that the author of the story and Debauer’s father are one and the same—doesn’t feel hokey. The old saying really does hold true here: the meaning lies not in the destination??or, in this case, the climax—but in the journey.And the journey in “Homecoming” is unique. Schlink refutes the idea of a concrete ending. While he offers a few homecomings—exposing a falsehood, finding love, realizing what it really...