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Arachnophobia has been billed by its distributor, Buena Vista Pictures, as "the first thrill-omedy," a novel combination, one supposes, of the horrific and the humorous. While the film does combine these elements, its success lies not so much with an original synthesis as with prudent use of time-proven moviemaking techniques...
Clearly the people at Harvard Medical School know this, and are quite simply taking advantage of "starving"--or at least thrill-seeking and often less mature--young students...
...kneecapping those whom they capture. For every child who wants no part in civil war and wants to go to America, for every child who dreams of joining the I.R.A., there is a ghetto kid who has no dreams and who lives for the present, finding the instant, brief thrill of joyriding worth the risk. It's senseless, except that these kids have become inured to risk, and joyriding is the one violent activity in Belfast where the kid is in control, steering his own danger...
...cops, but he still knows what side of the civil war he is on. He was in the neighborhood of New Lodge the night of the biggest riot in Belfast last August, throwing rocks alongside the pro-I.R.A. teenagers he normally shuns. He makes a distinction between the thrill of joyriding and that of rioting. "Joyriding is for fun," he says earnestly. "Rioting is because you hate...
When Universal Studios Florida finally opened last week, the people did come, but the field of dreams was not ready for play. The park's most anticipated attractions, a pair of $40 million thrill rides based on King Kong and Jaws, were operating sporadically or not at all, thanks to last-minute tinkering with the daunting computer systems that run them. When the Earthquake ride was closed for repairs, those in the queue chorused an angry demand for "Re-fund! Re-fund!" (and got it). Others stood in line nearly two hours to experience Spielberg's rapturous E.T. Adventure...