Word: eeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BRANDI CHASTAIN The Bra that Shook the World. Soccer stunt was hit, but don't try it on any (eek!) senior tour...
...good, that ambiguity can coexist with atrocity. The film also plays upon the horror genre's attraction-repulsion for the filmgoer: what-happens-next? vs. why-am-I-watching-this? It makes canny use of dramatic longueurs. It's scary even when nothing happens, because something awful might, and, eek!, right now! Anticipation is all. Anxiety is a more powerful emotion than shock. Knowing we are to die is worse than dying...
...quarterback, junior James Perry has proven to be both a prolific and cerebral leader. Perry partially tore his anterior cruciate ligament in a scrimmage last week while attempting to eek out extra yards on a first-down scramble, but he hopes to return in time for next week's opener against Yale...
...most of these are incomprehensible anyway, especially as they are constantly interrupted by fires, floods and explosions, Jeunet is eager to get on with the really scary stuff. This is not, given the movie's self-satirizing impulse, as terrifying as it once was. But on the whole, the eek-for-yuks trade-off is more than fair--hip without being campy or condescending to one of the better movie franchises...
...Next Generation. Here, for a change, is an action movie that takes its subject but not itself seriously. It has a theme: the temptation to become something other and powerful, instead of cozy, ordinary you. It borrows not only from the Trek canon, but from other science fiction (eek!--there's a killer alien on board!). Yet First Contact is no grab bag of camp gewgaws; it stands proud and apart, accessible even to the Trek-deficient. This old Star, it seems, has a lot of life...