Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believable but inevitable is nearly miraculous. Stop and think about the plot an hour after the movie and it doesn't seem too impressive, but you'll never question it as the film is rolling. The chemistry between the two is astonishing. Each is perfectly capable of controlling a scene alone as well, thank you very much. Lesser-known Lopez is incredibly appealing--she might play a lousy employee, but she plays a great human being. And George Clooney is, well, George Clooney, but, instead of choosing the easy way out and smirking through the film to make women swoon...
...frame prevents this from being the most consistently attractive studio release in recent memory. The sense of slow motion is oddly timed, as when a short still interrupts some slight motion, the motion continues for three or four seconds, and then a newspaper photo of the new and different scene is plastered across Foley's vision and the screen. Fortunately, the frequent freeze-frame is less pervasive than the edgy, upbeat score, which adds at least as much to the general geniality of the movie as the cinematography...
These bizarre names reflect a relatively new trend in music. Though it is always easy to compare today's culture to the ostensibly "simpler" times of years past, it is undeniable that the groups on the music scene of the 1980s had a much more intelligible system of nomenclature...
About three years ago, amid the hype over the nouveau punk radio revolution, Rancid blasted onto the mainstream modern rock scene with ...And Out Come the Wolves, a pop powerhouse that provided a Clash-esque revitalization of the rock airwaves. The rough-around-the-edges quartet wooed listeners and fans alike with its brash musicianship while roping in the critics despite the band's inescapable unoriginality. No matter how much Rancid sounded like the punks of old, though, the band undeniably impressed the masses with its raw street-rock energy and perspective. As Green Day resurrected the three-chord...
...will never let you go." You get the impression that the members of Rancid weren't perfectly aware of what they were getting into by releasing the modern rock smashes "Salvation," "Time Bomb" and "Ruby Soho." Playing into the system isn't a respectable gesture in theunderground punk scene where the band was born:"Backslide" is the retrospective self-analysis inRancidspeak to explain the misgivings away...