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...Impact, for instance, occurs when Tea Leoni's reporter character embraces her estranged dad as they stand on a windswept Atlantic beach. (Father and daughter then find real closure when they, the Chrysler Building and the rest of the Eastern seaboard are smacked by a mile-high tidal wave.) Armageddon, the summer's other film in the Earth-threatened-by-space-debris genre, ends with Bruce Willis telling young-stud Ben Affleck to "take good care of my little girl" and then, during a stressful moment involving a nuclear weapon, having a vision of his little girl (Liv Tyler...
Last week, "Clueless" was on TV and "Armageddon" was in the theatres (my cousin said it was so-so, a "typical American movie"). American sitcoms are not what I expected from Israel. Just as at home or on vacation in other parts of United States, it has become a search to find things authentic--the genuine, unfranchised restaurant and the ever-more-elusive regional item that was not manufactured alongside American knick-knacks in China. It is remarkable how similar the battle against corporate blah-ing exists here...
...format in which to load their ill-gotten wares: the video-compact disc, also known as VCD. Popular with Asian counterfeiters for a year or so, the VCD, which resembles the digital videodisc but offers lower-quality images, has begun hitting the U.S., with boots of "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" now available on the black market in Los Angeles. The discs, which can be played on a DVD machine, are going for as much as $200 each...
FUNNY RUSSIA Now Russians are punch-lines. The cosmonaut in Armageddon (1998; 6) provides comic relief, but he helps save the world...
With a take of $34.8 million this weekend, "Armageddon" fell far short of the $51.1 million that "Men in Black" grossed last year on the Fourth of July. Add to this the fact that "Godzilla" earned $35 million less than last year's Memorial Day winner, "The Lost World," and you might think the major studios are ready to plead poverty. But in fact, box office receipts are up 9 percent from last summer. Though the much-hyped blockbusters aren't quite blockbusting, other surprise successes such as "Mulan" and "Dr. Dolittle" have been attracting audiences quietly and reliably...