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...kids aren't likely to parse the fine points of the script's psychology. They and their parents will be wowed by the battle scenes, a nifty sea-monster montage and Beowulf's climactic dogfight with a dragon. No question you lose a little character nuance in "character capture"; they don't look quite real. But the effects scenes look realer, more integrated into the visual fabric, because they meet the traced-over live-action elements halfway. It all suggests that this kind of a moviemaking is more than a stunt. By imagining the distant past so vividly, Zemeckis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beowulf and Grendel — and Grendma | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...argues, to keep the low-price tickets out of the hands of potential AirAsia customers and to foster ill will toward his competitor. (Fernandes contends that this has not damaged his business in Thailand.) "I buy them and throw them away," Udom says, adding, "I didn't expect this dogfight to be so serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Raiders | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...6-4.Ermakov won his first-round match in two draining sets, 7-6 (4), 7-6(5), before falling to hometown favorite and sixth seed Sam Chang in three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.Clayton, seeded fourth, won his opening match in what he called a “dogfight,” 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-3. True to form, his second match was another three-hour-plus marathon that he eventually won, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.“It was not a pretty match,” Clayton said...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Tennis Closes Fall in Three Locations | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

...shelf from Greenland toward the North Pole." The Danes know that scientific inquiry alone will not determine who gets what in the north. "When we are talking resources, we are also talking politics," says Sander, who predicts that the demarcation of rights to the Arctic will end with a "dogfight at the International Court of Justice in the Hague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...Harry departs Privet Drive forever (its utility as a sanctuary for Harry expires when he turns 17) under the protection of the Order of the Phoenix. It's a straight-up military operation, staged like an up-armored convoy leaving the Green Zone. Death Eaters are waiting, and a dogfight ensues. In interviews Rowling has put readers on notice that "more deaths are coming," and couple of early casualties confirm that she's willing to draw blood, and not just from the extras and the red-shirts. Being good won't be enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's Last Adventure | 7/21/2007 | See Source »

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