There&#39;s nothing romantic about gloom, doom
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BOSTON -- Agony sells for only so long. Eventually, the charm of it all goes stale and diehard loyalists start looking like so many masochistic morons.
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Unlike movies involving razor-toothed monsters in outer space or adorable hobbits searching for magical rings, comedies -- romantic or otherwise -- usually don&#39;t make great sequels.
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TORONTO (CP) - The NHL season isn&#39;t dead yet, but it is on its last legs. The cautious optimism accompanied by last week&#39;s offer by the NHL Players&#39; Association was replaced by doom and gloom Tuesday as both
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it&#39;s been more or less around the clock since the steamy lead-in to Monday Nihilist Football last week. Why we haven&#39;t seen this sort of firestorm in ... oh, about 10 months.
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It has been well recorded that the mid-nineties are best known for sudden popularity of independent cinema, but independent from what? The term "indie" is as slippery when applied to films as it is to music. The studio at the vanguard of this "revolution" was Miramax, which was long a subsidiary of Disney, and as for the "revolution" itself, it unleashed more painful and derivative Pulp Fiction clones than it did anything truly revolutionary. It was bled dry, turned inside out, repackaged, and sold back to the masses until it became the paradigm of unhipness. This seems to be the nature of all revolutions, from the Soviets to the Sixties; the bullshit always comes full circle.     While it's easy to be cynical of all so-called revolutions in hindsight, what one can't be cynical about is the intense enthusiasm audiences had for the so-called independent cinema of this era. To every person who ever dreamed of being in the director's chair, it seemed like all one needed to have the new hit movie was a vast knowledge of pop culture, the ability to write pages worth of rambling dialogue, and a Visa card.
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It&#39;s been a bad time for movies in general lately, but good for thrillers like &quot;The Forgotten,&quot; right, which claimed the No.
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There is a part of gamer psychology that is rarely discussed, but incredibly important: We are thrilled by wanton destruction. We need it like a form of food. Commentary by Clive Thompson.
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This holiday, there is no &quot;Harry Potter.&quot; But &quot;Lemony Snicket&#39;s A Series of Unfortunate Events&quot; serves as a charming substitute.
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It&#39;s not about character. There&#39;s no moral lesson. It&#39;s not even about solving a mystery, though the question of what is happening is at first haunting.
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Romantic whimsy is hell. Either that, or press junkets.
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Wasted chances, edgy crowd, gradual retreat into defence, late panic, strange negative substitution, two points wasted. A pessimistic Liverpool supporter turned around at half-time and said: &quot;It can&#39;t get any worse than this.
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Skies here were overcast by day, rainy by night. An uninitiated visitor might expect around-the-clock gloom to deepen despair over the local nine and their two-game
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There is joy and elation, and there is emotional torture and bitter disappointment in this torrid relationship that changes with the seasons in New England.
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The good news is that it&#39;s not terrible but it&#39;s not that great either. The Grudge joins The Ring as part of the American trend of remaking Japanese horror flicks for an American audience.
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This wasn't a football game. It was a series of unfortunate events.
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Call it destiny, serendipity, karmic justice, whatever you will. But the planet has come around full circle since last October, when Tim Wakefield was sobbing in the Bronx amid the sad wreckage of yet another autumnal fantasy.
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Lets Enjoy does not have a matured plot, and offers little humour.