Word: lair
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cure to curtail the microbe. Some diseases, such as chicken pox, gradually become endemic to man, eventually resulting, if we are lucky, in nothing more than a mild childhood illness. Others, such as Ebola, retreat back to whatever animal reservoir they came from, stalking humanity from their hidden lair, only occasionally lashing out to bloody a village or crash a rural hospital. But diseases don't, as a rule, just go away...
...theme of self-discovery in the great heroic tradition. So, what did the brothers do for an encore? They spread the sequel over two feature-length films and, with all that time to fill, got a little gassy in their storytelling. The rebel fortress of Zion was a drab lair whose denizens engaged in way too much Jedi Council--style nattering. Then--as if producer Joel Silver had pleaded, "Could you please have somebody hit somebody?"--Reloaded 180'd into an action film, with the most elaborate car chase ever shot but without the first film's zip or resonance...
...catfight that reveals the lack of respect for her authority held by the rest of her crew. In the movie’s final scenes, Ridley discovers another character half alive and part of Brett’s body trapped by the alien in a sort of lair, which she deals with in a fashion reminiscent of scenes in later Alien sequels...
...film, scripted by Nicholas Meyer, begins stiffly, concealing its true nature. But when Coleman opens the lair of his vulnerability to two strangers--the writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) and a local louche woman named Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman)--The Human Stain warms to its characters' decency and neediness. It blooms in poignancy with flashback scenes of Coleman's '40s family--the wise mother (beautiful Anna Deavere Smith) and upright father (Harry Lennix) he disowns--and finds anchor in his affair with Faunia. "Granted, she is not my great love," Coleman says. "But she sure as hell is my last...
...caps, comical by day, but somehow haunting when he is actually angry or incredulous. When I informed him that they were gay, and that Mather house allowed for such arrangements, his tone didn’t change, and he was sure I was entering some sort of sketchy roommate lair that would swallow his only, delicate daughter whole before she ever managed to grasp a diploma...