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...Faced with shrinking revenue and investment, the Hong Kong film industry responded as threatened industries often do?it forgot how it became successful in the first place. Gone was the freewheeling spirit that fueled the creativity of the '80s and produced international icons like Jackie Chan. There were exceptions, but too many Hong Kong filmmakers began to churn out timid, formulaic comedies with the same old stars. Audiences flocked instead to the high-budget Hollywood event movies that are increasingly pitched at international audiences, and to films from Asian nations like South Korea, where young directors weaned on John...
...rode off the emotion, we expected things to happen,” Ramos said. “The crowd was really close, the bleachers were closer than they’d ever been before, so I guess we all thought that the emotions would carry us through. We forgot that we’d really have to play volleyball to win this match...
...sickeningly simplistic morality structure of the film, the two rich children serve as wholesome victims, while the three rough and bitter kids from the bad part of town are posed as the inevitably doomed youth that life forgot. When one of the hooligans, Mars (Ben Foster), begins to threaten Jennifer, we are informed that this “goth” character’s father’s abusive behavior left him an orphan, resulting in his disregard for human life...
There was the beauty who has been engaged for 18 months and the senior who “forgot to mention” she had a boyfriend. Then there was the young woman who abruptly stopped returning my calls and e-mails and the one who insisted that I not refer to our trips to the movies as “going out” or “dates.” And I must not neglect the girl who said—and this is a direct quote?...
...accepted as the norm. When we hear of prisoners being humanely treated by their U.S. captors, that will indeed be news. Tony Correia-Afonso Benaulim, India Peddling Nuclear Secrets You called Khan "the merchant of Menace" [Feb. 14] for his sale of nuclear technology, but it seems you forgot to mention many other "merchants of menace" since the development of nuclear weapons in the 1940s. The title should be conferred on Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and President Harry Truman, who was responsible for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And don't forget the Americans who leaked nuclear secrets...