Word: dooms
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...rituals. And it brings a newly widowed father (Martin Sheen) and his son (Harley Cross) into menacing proximity with the evildoers. A well-made horror film would focus tightly on the son's menaced innocence and force us to share the father's fears as the portents of doom gather about him, his ferocity when at last he must defend his child...
...Paris for a weekend with his secretary. They are swanning around Fontainebleau when they encounter his wife's two best friends, both of whom believe that the Longworths, alone among their acquaintances, have a happy marriage. Can Simon, experienced lecher that he is, handle this? Certainly not. Rushing toward doom, he reasons that if he has managed to pull the wool over his wife Richeldis' eyes for 20 years, why not try to convince Monica and Belinda that they are blind...
...moment the movie switches from New York to Ishtar, a small fictional republic next to Morocco, however, it starts to look like and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom rip-off, complete with 7th century artifacts, a beautiful woman and a complicated plot. May wastes a lot of time on the political intrigue which traps Rodgers and Clark and diverts attention away from the lively interplay between the unlikely heroes...
...Christ," I said. "You know the press, Mike--always doom-and-gloom. The way I look at it, the fast food industry's alive and well. Some people just have to complain...
...struck by the improved keyboard, the smaller system box and the disk drives (3 1/2-in. microfloppies rather than the original 5 1/4-in. disks). Although the new models can handle most of the old PC programs, software written for the PS/2s will not run on the PCs, which could doom the older machines to obsolescence...