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...movie not quite as funny, but still worth 90 minutes of your life, is slightly more topical: Hot Shots, Part Deux. Like a "fast track" rally, it's full of ex-presidents, and snuck in among the groaners is a classic swordfight between a near-bionic Lloyd Bridges (as the current CIC) and the returning villain de la semana . . . mustachioed mad chemist Saddam Hussein. The best laughs in life are cheap...
...once. The big hits of the '70s--Airport, Love Story, The Godfather, The Sting, Jaws--were broad based, reflecting the audience's demographic democracy. Star Wars devised a novel equation: here was a film every teenage boy wanted to see a dozen times. Lucas spoke, from his bionic heart, to the American boy's love for shiny gadgets, spiffy uniforms, authoritative-sounding technotalk and a hot rod that shoots really cool laser blasts. The film certified a new wisdom: megamovies were now the province of the young male...
...back and "bionic," as she puts...
Americans -- go figure. They can't make a better car or car stereo. They can't stanch their national debt. They can't impose a new world order. But they can fix up a foreign-movie drama like doctors slapping an anemic newborn into shape until it is a bionic baby. It looks so smart, so strong, so very . . . Hollywood...
Nintendo has so far squandered a rare opportunity to use its market position to do some good. The 40 million Nintendo systems installed around the world are powerful little computers that could deliver rich and rewarding experiences. Instead, Nintendo chose to give the world's children RoboCop and Bionic Commando. Too bad the company did not seek out Papert, or people like him, long before this...