Word: sink
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...superior--and scarier--vampire movie. Millie, unlike any character in Interview, is hugely sympathetic without being boring, so we are much more horrified by Kate's predatious approaches than we are by Lestat's. Also, as the film rolls on, Millie's skin whitens and her eyes sink back in her skull. We can literally see Kate and Merton draining her life...and they really "like" her, which makes their attack more horrific to watch...
...YORK: With the year nearly out, there's still one more thing that can sink the markets: corporate earnings reports. The first victim? Oracle. Citing the Asian market slump and poor telecoms sales, the software maker reported sharply disappointing second quarter earnings Tuesday ? and promptly lost a third of its value in frenzied trading. Play on Oracle accounted for a quarter of the total volume of NASDAQ action ? and the rest was a tech sell-off, erasing all of the index's Monday gains...
Fine, Jim--build the damned ship, sink the damned ship. But in the 90 or so minutes before the iceberg slices open the starboard side, some compelling romantic fiction is in order. Here the film fails utterly. It imagines an affair between free-spirited artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in steerage and Philadelphia blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). DiCaprio has a smooth, winsome beauty, and Winslet, who at first seems bulky beside him, comes to look ravishingly ravaged by the climax. Everyone else is a caricature of class, designed only to illustrate...
Tales of this film's agonizing gestation and tardy birth, though already the stuff of legend, will mean little to moviegoers, who will pay the same $7 or $8 to see Titanic that they spend on films made for a thousandth its cost. Ultimately, Titanic will sail or sink not on its budget but on its merits as drama and spectacle. The regretful verdict here: Dead in the water...
FALSE. It is a love story. But don't worry--the ship does sink...