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John's febrile love and the mystery of Susan's subsequent (willing? unwilling?) redisappearance drive the novel's rather implausible plot, which relies too much on coincidence. But for those willing to surrender themselves to Coupland's inventively of-the-minute language ("You two are the most drag-and-click people I've ever met") and his ability to see beauty in the discards of our consumer and pop culture, there's plenty here to allow a pattern of static to resolve itself into the face of love...
...dramatic vehicle. Nonetheless, Anderson is a cinephile, and he is indebted here, as in all of his work, to other distinctive and established filmmakers, Altman especially. This film bears some obvious resemblance to Short Cuts not only in its Californian locale (Magnolia Boulevard is the main drag in the San Fernando Valley, where the film is set), but also in its spliced narrative and its use of overlapping dialogues, songs, and score. The director even subtly acknowledges the stylistic influence by casting classic Altman regulars Michael Murphy and Henry Gibson in small roles...
...None of the councillors want this thing to drag out," said Winters, who added that the behind-the-scenes maneuvering was taxing on councillors...
...disappointment of survivalists, millenialists, and journalists everywhere, the much-hyped Y2K bug failed to bring about the end of civilization. At the very least, weren't all those third-world markets still running on old TRS-80s supposed to drag our shiny new mainframes down with them? Apparently not. Having barricaded ourselves in our bunkers with nothing but a pile of gold krugerrands and a mating pair of hamsters, we now find ourselves asking, didn't any computers, anywhere, crash on the morning of January...
Long after their show has gone off the air, GalaxyQuest's cast drag themselves numbly to conventions, where geeks in space suits assault them with technical queries. Turns out a few of the dweebs are actual aliens, who believe the show's actors are just the astral heroes needed to rebuff an attack on their planet. There's a bit of humor in the spectacle of Tim Allen as a Shatnerized action figure and Sigourney Weaver as a blond bimbette, but the premise--familiar from the 1986 comedy !3 Amigos!--needs more ingenuity to enliven it than anyone here could...