Word: seamlessness
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...vast grounds on its own headland opposite the Gili Islands is the Oberoi, Lombok's premier resort. The huge bungalows are well spaced and beautifully maintained. Some have private pools. Its showpiece is the main pool, sculpted with shallow ponds on either side like a rice terrace, disappearing in seamless steps into the ocean beyond. Sunset can be mesmerizing. Doubles start at $240 but, as elsewhere, rates can fall dramatically outside the July-August peak season; call (62-370) 638-444 for reservations...
Effects wizards of the future may concoct a seamless blend of new fakery and old, so that John Wayne can co-star in a Julia Roberts movie--technical progress that smells like life-stealing regression. Meanwhile, fogey-geniuses like Lasseter and Park will go forward to the past, creating sweet monsters and frazzled chickens, and astonishing new generations of kids in the dark...
Well, as the Disney people said about Pearl Harbor, it's not a treatise, it's a movie. And as a movie, A.I. engrosses without quite enthralling. It's got technological wonders (the seamless integration of Teddy as a puppet and a computer image) that are truly wonderful. Scenes like the Flesh Fair and a chase through the woods display the supple camera work, dramatic lighting and savvy editing that you get when a terrific filmmaker is on his game. He isn't always, though. Intriguing plot twists (like the exploits of the nicely malicious Martin) are dropped for excursions...
...Well, as the Disney people said about Pearl Harbor, it's not a treatise, it's a movie. And as a movie, A.I. engrosses without quite enthralling. It's got technological wonders (the seamless integration of Teddy as a puppet and a computer image) that are truly wonderful. Scenes like the Flesh Fair and a chase through the woods display the supple camera work, dramatic lighting and savvy editing that you get when a terrific filmmaker is on his game. He isn't always, though. Intriguing plot twists (like the exploits of the nicely malicious Martin) are dropped for excursions...
...wild experiment in what happens when two halves of a metropolis are governed by very different economic, civic and cultural rules. This is a place where two cities breathe the same air, drink the same water and share the same destiny along what U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes calls a "seamless border...