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...weeks. I had a pretty good, regressive time at it - I've always kind of liked movies about airplanes that get the wobbles somewhere in mid-flight - but I don't really think it has a lot of crossover potential with the AARP crowd. Which means, I think, that cheapish movies can be cheaply, effectively promoted via the Net - more bad news for the people who sell display ads for the newspapers. I don't think, however, that the next Meryl Streep film is likely to gain a lot of traction among the bloggers. It'll still have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hype on a Plane | 8/18/2006 | See Source »

...movie, which does have a sort of cheeky energy, goes into narrative and cliche overload once the spacemen start exploring the unnamed planet -- Shall we call it Lucasland? -- where they set down. There's a slave population to be freed, a tyrant to be deposed, some cheapish special effects to put on display, and a lot of problems about getting safely back to Earth to solve. Tying all this together, Stargate stumbles to a hasty, muddled ending instead of soaring to a conclusion worthy of the only thing that's first rate about it -- its sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Indiana Jones, Space Linguist | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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