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...damaged survivor" who says no word about those drowning around him, much less tries to help them. Drinking his troubles away after reaching shore, he is enraged at being seen naked by his son Ham and invokes a curse on Ham's son Canaan that Armstrong suggests presages the slaughter of the Canaanites later in the Bible. "You come out of the Ark...and what do you do?" Armstrong asks rhetorically. "You lay the seeds for a new holocaust." All this is too much for Baptist minister and professor Samuel Proctor. "Sure, I wish that we could have...
...week before Christmas, and, this being a movie by the writer of Lethal Weapon and the director of Cliffhanger, the bad guys are trying to blast our working-mom heroine (Geena Davis) to hell. The villains--the usual CIA renegades--slaughter a couple of dozen bystanders at a train station while the heroine and a private eye she's retained (Samuel L. Jackson) dash to an upper floor. The dastards follow and shoot a deadly fireball their way. The only escape is from a high window, but below is a frozen pond. No problem: Davis blasts enough bullets into...
...Bands like Green Day, Hootie and the Blowfish and Pearl Jam are built up, and then, when they become successful, trashed by the very same tastemakers and trendmeisters who declared these acts worthwhile to begin with. Only a few bands like U2 and R.E.M. manage to escape the ritual slaughter and mature with grace...
Still, no one can fault Hollywood for lack of effort on the family-movie front: in the past few years, studios have been straining to make child-friendly films without wholesale slaughter. The problem is that in most cases audiences have stayed away...
...Bosnia. Then, as the horrors mounted, it struggled to make sense of what was happening. But sense quickly short-circuited to cynicism: humankind is fatally tribal, especially in its religious impulses, and it is in the nature of tribes to hate one another at all times and to slaughter one another when possible...