Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lucas is even ballsy enough here to give us a fully computer-generated character in the form of Jar-Jar Binks, a goofy-looking rabbit-like amphibian who is (sadly) a major part of the film and who interacts with virtually everyone. He's totally life-like and technically fascinating, but he's so annoying it's almost criminal. I cringed every time he opened his big floppy mouth to spit out whatever nonsense it was he was saying. Jar-Jar is at the root of many of the film's moments of misdirection; I guess he's in there...
...film," he or she is continuing a tradition started by none other than Lucas himself. It's a distinctly American tradition. (Of course, it's based on commerce!) Its basic precept is that what sells in one area will sell in others. More importantly, what is popular in one form can be even more popular in another. Movies into toys into books into CDs--there's no limit to the number of ways the same thing can be sold...
...generation's still-fragile heritage, not as a trilogy of George Lucas movies. Since those movies came out, a generation of Americans have made them an almost-religious touchstone, and in the last decade the Star Wars franchise has generated a canon of Star Wars trivia, coming in the form of trashy novels and pretentious "technical manuals." This new movie, then, comes as a banal realization of rumors that have been circulating for 20 years...
...Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, the movie gods, as it were, smiled down upon the masses. Lines which had begun to form as much as a week earlier at theaters around the country finally surged forward. Internet connections crackled with activity, causing an overload on AOL which blocked out many customers. Moviephone (infamous for their feature-film presentation delay tactics) stayed impossible to contact until late into the evening. After the weeks of speculation, of endlessly replaying movie trailers, of hunting out "insider" Internet sites and comparing notes, rabid fans of the most successful movie series ever took that final...
...ground invasion of Yugoslavia that actually topples Milosevic's regime, NATO's objective can be achieved only by bombing the Serb leader into signing a deal -- which means, ultimately, accepting him as a guarantor of peace in the Balkans. "It is widely believed that Milosevic was given some form of assurances over immunity during the Dayton process, and until recently U.S. intelligence has been very reluctant to give any assistance to the Hague tribunal," says Anastasijevic. But it may be politically impossible for a White House that has compared Milosevic with Hitler to withstand pressure to indict Milosevic...