Word: ickes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grownups can act out revenge fantasies too. In Payback, Mel Gibson dishes it out (pulls a ring out of a punk's nose, shoots his rival's face off through a pillow) and takes it (gets punched, switch-bladed, shot and, ick, toe-hammered). The Matrix, the first 1999 film to hit $100 million at the box office, has more kung fu than gun fu but still brandishes an arsenal of firepower in its tale of outsiders against the Internet droids...
...WILL WIN: Ick. Probably Duvallbecause of Academy Guilt. But look for Coburn ifthere's to be an upset...
...increasingly looking for an all-purpose pop culture explanation for why everything has turned out so lousily. As explanations go, this sort of thing makes a superficial kind of sense, and it's more fun to play around with than Marxism or Freudianism or just about any other ism." Ick. Somebody, please, turn off the critics and pass the popcorn...
Gwynne was also the author of several children's books, including "A Chocolate Moose for Dinner," "A Little Pigeon Toad" and "The Story of Ick...
...ensemble (including Diane Ladd and Crispin Glover) work at high pitch and have a swell time at it. Wild at Heart is also the first Lynch film in which his motives -- to hang a haberdashery of bizarre incidents on the merest hook of plot -- are apparent. You might go, "Ick!" but you won't ask, "Huh?" What's lacking is the old sense of delicious, disturbing mystery. Wild at Heart reveals a master of movie style on his way to becoming a mannerist...