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...ramshackle enclosures and wood huts. There's little sign of military menace as goats and pigs loll around on grass knolls - that's before we near the sandbags of an outer bunker where a young woman in fatigues, who appears to be of school-going age, turns her machine gun in our direction and fixes us with a steely gaze...
...overrun by wildlife - kind of what it was like in the 1970s. Except that now Times Square is empty of all human life except for Robert Neville (Smith), who patrols the streets with his rifle and his faithful dog Samantha. He spots a deer and is ready to gun it down, when a lioness leaps on her prey and begins devouring it, as her mate and cub watch. As we used to say about New York 30 years ago, it's a jungle out there...
...unexpected places. 1. Die Hard—Bruce Willis, in his first major action flick role, plays tough NYC cop John McLean coming to meet his family for the Holidays. A German terrorist/robber gets in the way. Choice lines: “I’ve got a machine gun now. Ho, Ho, Ho,” written on a sweatshirt in blood, and “Yippee kai- yay motherfucker.” Also has a cheery moralistic ending full of holiday cheer: Willis’ ally on the LAPD finally gets over his fear of guns (he once...
...lightening, has begun to reverse the aging process, both in physique and memory. He also has gained superpowers: He can converse with a double of himself who aids him in intellectual queries, read a book just by touching its cover, and save his own life from a gun-toting Nazi. Dominic, fluent in a dozen languages, attempts to complete his “life’s work”: The quest to find the origin of language and human consciousness. But he is bogged down by the Nazis, who take a keen interest in his situation and his loneliness...
...When not stereotyping voters, the media is stereotyping Republicans as gun-toting, Bible-thumping rednecks. The CNN/YouTube debate was a prime example. CNN billed the debate as a chance for ordinary Americans to ask the candidates tough questions, but it was really a chance for ordinary Democrats to take a shot at Republicans. Besides a large number of the questioners being avowed supporters of Democratic candidates, the questions were insulting. One video showed a man from Texas brandishing a Bible asking, “Do you believe this book?” We soon learned that Giuliani thought some stories...