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Many on both sides anticipate that the Democratic primary of 2000 will be a showdown, with Dick Gephardt representing the old Dems and Al Gore standing in for the new.
) The 1995-96 budget showdown and shutdown were, of course, a nightmare for Republicans.
I wonder how she's going to handle the Great Battle that comes with the genre, where Good meets Bad for something like a final showdown.
Another handicap: Aikido is too stylized for a real showdown.
You'd think Petersen would have fun staging an airborne showdown, but there's not a scene in Air Force One that wasn't done 10 times better in the underrated Kurt Russell hijacked-airplane thriller, Executive Decision . That movie had the good sense to leave its absurd politics (first Chechen, then Middle Eastern) on the margins, and to focus instead on the scary ordeal of being stuck on a plane piloted by crazies.