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...last two efforts have suffered from a lack of structure (_Snake Eyes_) or moments of utter incomprehensibility (_Mission: Impossible_), and the trend isn't stopping anytime soon. Not if his latest effort, _Mission to Mars_, is any indication. What De Palma improves on his previous problems is negated for rampant use of overdone sci-fi conventions...
...only explanation possibly for a movie that is so disappointingly and resoundingly bad this reviewer had great expectations for De Palma to resurrect himself is victimization of bad timing. Atrocious lines, leaden acting and rampant predictability are what we have come to expect from summer movies, but it seems as though final editing wasn't ready in time to capitalize on the time of year when people (and their brains) seem to go south, so some genius decided to release it during March. With all the Oscar hype infecting the air at this moment, hopefully _Mission to Mars_ will...
...karma beads: Turquoise can cure your impotence, rose colored quartz takes care of that halitosis and hematite works like magic on that rampant acne. Not! Those round little plastic beads don't do anything but make round-little-plastic-bead-manufacturers filthy filthy rich...
When cable television arrived to expand our viewing possibilities, it multiplied the mindless rubbish you have to wade through to find something worth seeing. There is so much information running rampant that the object of desire has been thoroughly obscured. What is the desire that entertainment fills? We want to be touched emotionally, be viscerally moved, perhaps have our minds challenged, or at best blown. We travel to a different place when we enter the world of a storyteller. Some call it escape; some call it experience...
...Greenspan is concerned that demand for products and services is growing at a faster pace than the economy can supply," says TIME financial writer Bernard Baumohl. "That's the formula for inflation." This rampant demand, notes Baumohl, is based largely on the success of the stock market, in which an unprecedented percentage of Americans now have a stake. "The Fed sees the stock market leading consumers to act in a way that may not be rational," he says. "Consumers check their portfolios and see gains, and spend money based on those gains before cashing in their stocks." That...