Word: greate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Genre, some say, is nothing but a set of expectations, and the great works are those which transcend those expectations. Runaway Bride, unfortunately, is a genre piece that does its transcending in all the wrong places. It begins, intriguingly enough, as a modern day fairy tale. In any good fairy tale, evil is summarized and allegorized by a single villain, but Runaway Bride splits evil in two and then sets its male and female halves at one another's throats. Julia Roberts as Maggie Carpenter is everything a man can fear in a woman: pretty and sweet but a heartbreaker...
...does a good job of it so long as Brosnan isn't around. But Brosnan's boredom is infectious, and by the end of the film both principals seem thoroughly weary of one another. Maybe that's the way wealthy people love. If so, it doesn't make for great cinema...
...impressively, his camera eye. Fittingly, since the script praises the hidden beauties of the world, this is itself a deeply beautiful film. Its static compositions by Conrad Hall are overloaded with vibrant colors and symmetries that make you almost want to cry. On the surface, Mendes has packed a great deal into this movie, and he maneuvers like a pro through its quicksilver shifts in tone -- from blackest comedy to fiercest tenderness and all the bathos in between. It feels like there is a great deal here, and it's presented with extraordinary ease. I found my reactions changing even...
...friends felt it after the first lecture of Gen Ed 105 (note to first-years: this is a notoriously easy, totally great senior-filled class that meets twice a week in Paine Hall). Surrounded by fashion plates, she wondered whether she should get more decked out to attend lecture. (She was wearing a pair of khakis, a nice T-shirt, and carrying a Kate Spade...
...films, except 'Gremlins' and 'Revenge of the Nerds,'" Nathans said in an e-mail message. "No to Cabbage Patch Kids, no to Atari but yes to TI-99 (which was the slightly more sophisticated version of Atari; you could program it, but it also had great games...