Word: heroicizing
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...enjoyed a similar opportunity midway through the second period, springing from the penalty box at 10:19 just in time to reach a clearing effort from the Crimson zone as he passed the Colgate blue line. Reversing the strategy that would net his heroic tally, Du tested Silverthorn glove side, following a well-executed deke with a backhand effort that was turned away only by a full-extension pad save...
With enough sirens, flames, and guns to qualify as a standard Willis film, as well as the requisite heroic ending predictable from the very title sequence, the film should fall easily into a police stakeout genre formula. Yet even on a technical level, the movie is stitched together so weakly that director Florence Siri bungles these standard devices...
...film is a tale of a world populated by robots, in which a young bot named Rodney Copperbottom (Ewan McGregor) is dissatisfied by small-town life with his poor parents (Dianne West and Stanley Tucci). He travels to the prototypical big city to meet the heroic inventor Bigweld (Mel Brooks) but is overwhelmed by the bustle of city life and corporate greed. Phineas T. Ratchet (Greg Kinnear) and his conniving, demonic mother (Jim Broadbent) have taken over Bigweld’s plant and, instead of serving the robot public, look to suck every penny out of them with expensive upgrades...
...fought World War II and also their families and the impact it had on all of them when they were brought back to the States and were treated as heroes--that horrible thing about being anointed as a hero when you don't feel like you've done anything heroic...
...Vince Neil vocals. This is likely because the band lacked any ingenuity or real musical drive; their music was commercially calculated to reinforce their wild lifestyle. The only song lively enough for lap dancing is the Crüe’s most memorable hit, the drug-dealer-mock-heroic “Dr. Feelgood.” Covers of The Beatles’s “Helter Skelter,” The Sex Pistols’s “Anarchy in the U.K,” and The Rolling Stones’s “Street...