That was as close to a happy ending as we were likely to get from The Missing, which has finished after eight weeks of unbearably tense, unimaginably grim action.
Twenty-five years later, the trailer for the latest "Die Hard" movie ditched the high-spirited schtick, and instead featured the dreadful low hum, reflecting its new place among the grim action movies of our time.
Grim action-RPG Bloodborne, from Hidetaka Miyazaki, creator of cult hit Dark Souls, taps into disturbing Puritan-era imagery as it sends players into the hellish city of Yharnham.
The news from abroad is unremittingly grim: military action in Libya, civil war in the Ivory Coast, the continuing tragic consequences of the tsunami in Japan, and the bankruptcy of major European nations.
This grim price action and the company's struggles with deregulation have fallen on deaf ears in the brokerage community, as five of the 10 analysts following FE still rate the stock a "buy" or better, according to Zacks, with no "sell" ratings to be found.
You can't help feeling Willis should have used those comic gifts more in his subsequent movie career, instead of gurning his way from one gutsy grim-faced action hero to another.
Bright, grim, or action-packed games are the best for this.
A paper in this week's issue of Science Advances offers tantalizing evidence of that grim process in action.
It is, however, a useful way of framing matters for those in the Pentagon and the military who don't want to think seriously about the grim course of action, focused significantly on civilian populations, they are pursuing, which often instills anger and the urge for revenge in such populations and so, in the end, runs at cross purposes to stated U.S. aims.
This makes sense to me: it's the genre that, with its grim premises and violent action, is presumed to be serious rather than frivolous, and that invites naturalistic, action-based, and character-centric interpretations.
The explosion and fireball, the crumpling buildings, the dazed and panicked victims, even the grim presidential address assuring action would be taken -- all were familiar, as if they had been lifted from some Hollywood blockbuster.
