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...hunger sets in, a visit to the snack bar is in order. Here hot dogs revolve on metal spokes, popcorn gyrates and slushies come in watermelon, raspberry, rainbow, cherry and lime. Bacon cheeseburgers, pizza and a plethora of ice cream bars are also available to the overexerted individual. When skating becomes mundane, Wal-Lex offers, quite randomly, candlepin bowling in an effort to entertain its clientele...
...darkened room, his eyes welling with tears. He's surrounded by other people who are crying--a Pittsburgh multiplex crowd experiencing Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. Leaving the theater after the movie, Buffett is speechless, an unusual condition for him. "Whoa," he says finally. "Not a big popcorn movie." Soon he is talking seriously about thoughts the film stirred up. "My dad, J.D., was in the Army Air Corps, a crew chief on C-47 transports in China," he says. "He was on a flight over the Himalayas when fire broke out belowdecks...
Anybody who loves big American popcorn movies should find High Concept and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls thoroughly engrossing. Ultimately, though, both also seem as depressing as a Swedish art-house film. Simpson's fate reflects the shame heaped on his whores: his heart failed while he sat on the toilet reading a biography of Oliver Stone. Biskind's book ends with a death too: the 1988 demise of brilliant but burned-out director Hal Ashby, whose Coming Home, The Last Detail and Shampoo were touchstone films of the '70s. Other directors fared only a little better, ushering...
...find that obscene, but he's a guy who decorated his driveway with a statue of an angel urinating into the mouth of a frog. Rocco may not go over as well with a jury that will have to sit through all 16 films, most likely without popcorn...
These films keep us entertained while we watch them, but we leave them behind along with our $5 bags of popcorn after we exit the theater. Only truly original films capture our minds because they expose us to situations and personalities which we have not yet encountered. They cause us to question how we would have acted if in the same position as the characters. They cause us to remember lines that are especially witty or poignant. And sometimes, they add to our understanding of the subject matter they address. After leaving Titanic, my only thought was how Cameron made...