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We were all her friends, Maggie, and Bill, and Anne,And I, and the nice Boston Brahmin elderly manNamed Duncan, utterly friendly and benign.And of course it wasn't whether or not the worldWas benign but whether it looked at her too much.She wasn't 'painfully shy' but just the same I wouldn't be surprised if there had beenPainfulness in her shyness earlier on,Say at dancing school.
Warner Bros. refused to have an advance critics screening for this update of the beloved 1960s British TV show, and the reason is now obvious: The movie is "an unqualified disaster" (Dave Kehr, Daily News ). Ralph Fiennes' painfully awkward John Steed and Uma Thurman's beautiful but empty Emma Peel are said to have none of the charm and sexual tension that graced their TV counterparts.
Du Bois wrote, "Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground."
Critics call this painfully predictable and clichéd futuristic sci-fi film a "mechanical, violent military-porn fantasy"(Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ): Shane meets Terminator meets Road Warrior . An extremely buff Kurt Russell plays the title soldier of the future who, when decommissioned, is relegated to the horrors of the slag heap planet, where he discovers human emotion and rises to the defense of his fellow outcasts.
And the gruesome death he recounts prior to this musing is not, as far as we can tell, about someone who responded well to the new treatments only to die too young and too painfully.
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