Word: armageddons
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...course, those action-adventure staples contributed their share to the box office bonanza. "Armageddon" is the summer's biggest moneymaker at $180 million (although "Private Ryan," the No. 1 film for the past four weeks, has the asteroid flick in its crosshairs). Look at the rest of the top grossing movies of the season so far, though, and you'll see that the summer box office heroes came in all shapes and sizes...
...Armageddon," $180 million "Deep Impact," $139 million "Dr. Dolittle," $135 million "Godzilla," $133 million "Saving Private Ryan," $126 million "The Truman Show," $123 million "Lethal Weapon 4," $121 million "Mulan," $115 million "There's Something About Mary," $92 million "The X-Files," $82 million "The Mask of Zorro," $79 million "The Horse Whisperer,"$74 million
...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...
...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...
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...