Word: riding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highlights Max's fundamental isolation through silent, close-up slow-motion shots of him ponderously feeling his naked body and relishing strawberries, and loud, fast-paced cuts to the crash. The style and mood of each scene contrasts with the next, and the overall effect of this roller-coaster ride is admittedly intense. By the long, drawn-out ending, however, the audience is exhausted and out of sympathy for Max's long overdue return to normalcy...
...repetitive and infantile, as when, in the same courtroom scene, Ned continually hurls new evidence at the bailiff as if it were a football. The movie also disappointingly borrows certain "Naked Gun" gimmicks, like having Ned's hair freeze in the direction the wind blew it during a car ride...
Enter Sydney Bruhl's Westport, Connecticut living room and make sure your safety bar is pulled all the way down; Deathtrap is a wild ride that will leave you thrilled and exhausted...
...dead! variety. TV, video games and videocassettes keep folks hermited away; VR gets them out of the house with a new gimmick -- a twist on the lures that '50s moviemakers, faced with the challenge of TV, offered film audiences with Cinerama's roller-coaster ride, 3-D's spears and paddleball, William Castle's Tingler showmanship...
...difference is choice. The only choice a filmgoer or TV viewer has is to walk out or turn off. Even Star Tours and Universal Studios' Back to the Future ride are, at heart, drive-in movies; you're just driving in a car with no shock absorbers. VR, which lets you wander at will through a force field or minefield, offers a democracy of entertainment. As VR programmer Randal Walser wrote, "The filmmaker says, 'Look, I'll show you.' The spacemaker says, 'Here, I'll help you discover...