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Doom had a cultural impact as well. Its fluid, hyperkinetic rhythms have become part of the visual language of movies and TV. "Kids can absorb information on the screen more rapidly, and they react to it much faster as well," says producer Jerry Bruckheimer (The Rock, Enemy of the State). "They also don't have the patience of older audiences, so we have to make our stories move along at a faster pace." The game was also exceptionally violent ("It's going to be like f___ing Doom!" one of the Columbine killers famously said), to an extent that shocks...
...Empire, Hardt and Negri described a world in which countries--and multinational corporations and the U.N. and other chunky, powerful institutions--are bound together in a shifting, fluid, borderless global network that no nation controls. Their name for this global system was Empire, and it's a handy model. The U.S. decision to invade Iraq? A classic pre-imperial move, oblivious to the complex global consequences of one nation's actions within the powerful web of Empire. But the authors insist that Empire has an upside, that it creates an opportunity for a different kind of democracy, one that would...
...also does a pretty good boom. That passing look blossoms into a ferocious shootout on a crowded Hong Kong street, between mainland Chinese gangsters and a band of undercover cops. What follows is a madly complex, five-minute gun battle, shot in a single fluid take, that should be required viewing for directors who can't shoot a visually comprehensible action scene to save themselves. Breaking News isn't a deep movie or even a particularly great one, though it was an official selection at last month's Cannes Film Festival. It is, however, a thoroughly Hong Kong movie...
...once, where he is quickly distracted by a local female attorney with long delectable legs and by the "jaunty bosom" of the hostess at the village bistro. Soon he's thinking to try his hand at making decent wine, or at least something better than the vile purple fluid his uncle was content to produce. But then a cute young American shows up who has her own plausible claim to the property. And wait, what's going on with Roussel, the local who tends Max's vineyards and seems to be doing some mysterious viticulture...
...Hong Kong-based director Johnnie To's Breaking News. A melodramatic critique of the media's connivance in glamorizing criminals (it's like a Survivor series with no survivors), the movie boasts a madly complex heist scene, captured in one incredibly fluid five-minute shot...