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Last year's swarm of millennial retrospectives put a peculiar emphasis on Gutenberg's invention of moveable type, as if it prefigured all subsequent media revolutions: television, the Internet, etc. What the Discovery Channel failed to drool over was the near-simultaneous development of printmaking. In the fifteenth century, woodcuts and engravings were accessible to an audience much larger than the small literate classes, and even today we cannot claim to be anything other than a visual culture. Early prints should be as important to us as early editions of the Bible...
...Perfect Storm, both of us were silent for a second, perhaps pondering the lives of the six crew members who died aboard the Andrea Gail. 'I'm really craving sushi,' he said, breaking the silence. 'I gotta stop at Barnes and Nobles afterwards.' 'Oh, can I borrow your cellphone?' etc. etc. Neither of us brought up the movie for the rest of the night. Why would we? The Perfect Storm had absolutely nothing going for it-no character development, no suspense (we all knew the real story), no payoff. It would have played better as an IMAX two-hour...
...with when he has to produce a coherent piece 60 times as long. The problem with The Cell is that it gets so hung up on its little details and visual tricks that it loses sight of the bigger picture - the villain's motivations, the detective's emotions, logic, etc. And sure, we can applaud Singh all we want for his audacity, but what's the point if the movie doesn't have any impact? Meanwhile, Jennifer Lopez's squeaky voice is starting to get on my nerves; for a girl who prides herself on sass...
...muster regardless of how hard he tries. Everything else in MI2 doesn't help to conceal his shortcomings. Woo's schtick is growing tired, Thandie Newton just barely survived one of the most thankless roles in recent memory, the plot was just barely there, the action sequences were corny, etc. . And most intolerable, of course, is that ridiculous 'mask' cop-out that they keep throwing in whenever they run into a script dead-end. I'll accept it as soon as they answer the following questions: 1) Where do they get them made? 2) Where do they store them when...
...College named, of course, after 'Poonster Kevin Etten '00, who presumably wrote the section includes a category for 'onanism': 'From masturbating to masturbating with your parents in the next room to masturbating quickly when your parents go out for groceries, most EFHSC students masturbate roughly 3.8 times a day' Etc, etc. Each Lampoon editor seems to have been given his or her own allotment of self-referential and dirty jokes, and used them liberally...