Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Miller's Tale, pop culture referencing, shaggy-dog stories, sitcoms, absurdism, or one-liners? Why can humor be so fascist or dismissive...
...that age I instinctively disliked exchanging the vastness of the possible for the narrowness of the concrete. I wanted to remain forever at an age when I could still believe that I might grow up to be a professor, a firefighter, a musician or a carpenter. Furthermore, the scatological humor, casual cruelty and intellectual indifference of my own peers troubled...
...studio's first two computer-generated hits, 1995's Toy Story and last year's A Bug's Life, are already among the Top 5-grossing animated films of all time. Monsters, Inc., its fourth feature-length film, is set for 2001. "Pixar is about movies with heart, humor, action--and visuals like you've never seen before," says director John Lasseter, the company's resident creative genius...
...Director David Fincher has a wicked sense of humor. "A David Fincher film" deliberately takes one character on a (unnecessary?) roller-coaster and then leaves them strandedto deal with the traumatic aftermath. In Seven, Brad Pitt undergoes torture after torture and finally ends up on a desert road with his wife's head in a box. Pitt's detective had everything stacked so high against them that Fincher gleefully waits until 10 minutes before the movie ends to let everything collapse upon his hero.It's a sadistically amusing abuse of power. The Game is even better. This time...
...Frankly, the Kroks are in over their heads. People like the music, they know that, and people like the show, with its both witty and wacky humor. ("Sadomasochism means never having to say you're sorry.") But looking out over the crowd of undoubtedly cynical management consultants and investment bankers, all of whom have raked in piles of money and accumulated trophy cars, do these boys see why the crowds are smiling? It is because they are young and fresh, as yet unexposed to the daily grind that being a tough sonofabitch requires. The faces of the audience are wrinkled...