Sentences with phrase «rest in a time capsule»

Not exact matches

Not the fault of the actors but when you have the excellent Danny Huston (30 Days of Night) playing an evil German officer then there is the potential to create a proper villain, a mad genius with grand plans for world domination during a time of great sorrow for the rest of the world, and instead his General Ludendorff is resorted to cracking open gas tablets that give him Hulk - like strength for no real reason and never really pays off in any way; in one scene he locks a group of people in a room with a deadly nerve gas and then decides to snort on his magic capsule before cackling and running off - camera like Jack Nicholson's Joker.

In spite of its «modern» aspects (extended families, separated and remarried parents, step - fathers and half - siblings, the father's progressive politics, the mother's struggles), it's a time capsule of an America that is no more: white suburbs, established rites of passage, unquestioned gender and ethnic identities, a national territory unchallenged by the rest of the world, no real vanishing point.