Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week before, Colgate's quarterback Ryan Vena led his team to a win over Harvard by directing his offense on a game-winning 69-yard drive--most of those yards coming through the air--in the final two minutes. The drive culminated in a game-winning 33-yard field goal...
Life's a bitch, and then your Volvo dies. As millennium fever reaches hysterical new heights in the final months of 1999, it seems that everything and everyone in America has something to be worried about: computers, Bill Gates, non-Christians, even yuppies. That's right: if movies are any indicator of the American psyche, even the high priests of American consumer culture have been bit by the Y2K bug. There's a new genre in Hollywood that is threatening to flood out the competition from the tide of teen comedies: yuppie angst. Friday night at your local theater means...
...Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice little nuclear family, she likes martinis...of course she should be happy. Just as the narrator in Fight Club spends the entire movie running from his problems (an escapism he admits to in the final scene), Carolyn also spends her entire life trying to sell herself on the idea that she is living a happy, harmonious life (we already know how successful a salesperson...
...many self-referential moments (without giving too much away...): the bizarre walk through the IKEA catalog; the moment when movie projectionist Tyler Durden, discussing the "change filmstrip" blip that appears on movie screens, points to the one on the screen of the movie he is in; and a final revelation about the relationship between Durden and the narrator. Unfortunately, these po-mo asides don't detract from the fact that one man's yuppie angst has spawned an entire world where violence is not the answer (because there are no questions to answer) but the only thing to do. Granted...
...expected to culminate this Sunday in a "final battle" that, according to Garcia, will probably include football and tug-of-war games...