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Modelicious
by Akira Kato
July 6, 2003
When I picked up a local tabloid, the following review gabbed my eyes:
Thin plot and bland characters ruin Terminator 3
After the triumph of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, this plot-weak third installament can’t be viewed as anything more than an entertaining postscript. The main ingredient missing from Terminator 3 is director James Cameron, who kick-started his career with The Terminator and proved himself a directorial genius with T2. (T3 was directed by Jonathan Mostow.) Cameron’s forte is his aptitude for balancing action with eminently human characters and complex, affecting relationships. Sure, the action in T3 is ripping good fun; a crane, a fire engine and several remote control police cars make for a brain-hemorrhagingly exciting chase through L.A. But so what? The ridiculously extravagant action sequences—launched before barely 20 lines of dialogue have been delivered—beat the viewer senseless in an attempt to disguise how disappointingly thin premise and characters are the third time around. The T-X terminatrix is played by modelicious Kristanna Loken. She has been sent to kill John’s future lieutenants in the war against the machines. Apparently, the above film critic doesn’t seem to love the movie too much, yet it sounds like a fun flick. I wanna see it. For more on this movie, please visit this page: Terminatrix. The word modelicious turns up quite new to me. So, I looked it up in my dictionary, which doesn’t list it. The first impression I got from the word tells me about a possibility, in which this word was coined with “model” and “delicious”. I went to the google.com search. The results are as follows: I haven’t come up with many hits, but 103 hits are reasonably justifiable to list it as slang in this page. As you see, the word has something to do with model. The introduction to Kristanna Loken goes like this:
The Norwegian model-actress has landed the role of the Arnold
Schwarzenegger-battling Terminatrix in Warner Brothers’
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Aha! So, she also works as model, eh?
Delicious
Therefore, “modelicious” probably means “model-like, visually pleasing”, or something like that. Let’s see how the word is used in those Web pages:
After all, my definition sounds all right.
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