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What is shocking is how bad the majority of these films are. Armageddon, Deep Impact and Godzilla cleared over $100 million each at the box office. Godzilla, which took in over $130 million according to Rolling Stone magazine, is the worst film that I have ever seen. Even The Waterboy is less than mediocre, as Adam Sandler's zany nonsequitur humor takes a back seat to highly physical comedy. Too many directors seem to have forgotten George Lucas' advice, that "special effects without a story is a pretty boring thing...
...create "high" and "low" movies. For filmmakers from Chaplin to Hitchcock, "unpopular" was not a badge of pride for movies but rather a sign that they were somehow flawed. Now, of course, we have two contenders: in that corner, weighing in at $100 or $200 million, are "blockbusters" like Armageddon; and in this corner are the 98-pound weaklings of the film industry, "independent" movies like Gods and Monsters. From the former we can expect special effects, saccharine plots and Bruce Willis; while from the latter we can expect intellectual affects, subtle plots and a British actor who just finished...
BOOM! Last week a column on the Christian Coalition website www.cc.org assessed the consequences of the Y2K problem. So apocalyptic were its findings that we checked the Bible to see if Armageddon will be worse...
Rising like Aphrodite from the sea, one or two songs from film soundtracks inevitably surface as a particular season's Love Song. Be it sentimental (Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" from Armageddon), bitter and/or vengeful (Mary J. Blige's "I'm Not Gonna Cry" from Waiting to Exhale) or, most common of all, composed by Bryan Adams (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves's "Everything I Do [I Do it For You]," Don Juan DeMarco's "[Have You Ever] Really Loved a Woman?"), these Love Songs dominate radio play-lists and often surpass their related movies...
What's in a name? If the name is Felicity, then a television show is in it--and not just any show, but the most highly anticipated new series of the season. J.J. Abrams, a screenwriter whose credits include Regarding Henry and Armageddon, was sitting on a beach in Bali on his honeymoon a couple of years ago, and mentioned to his wife that he wanted to write about someone called Felicity. He had also been thinking about a girl he admired from afar in high school and was mulling over a coming-of-age tale. The name pulled these...