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...forms they would make their own had for decades been honorable Hollywood genres: the exotic epic, the adaptation of famous novels, the decorous comedy of manners. But with spiraling costs, the epic soon went microscopic. Big-budget films today are less likely to be adapted from classic novels than from graphic ones?essentially, long comic books. Comedies stayed around, but lost their manners. Hollywood movies, which had been traditionally tailored to the female audience, now went after the male market, valuing impact over nuance, the gross over the gracious. If Merchant-Ivory wanted the old genres, they could have them...
...Sith [May 9]. It reminded readers that milestones in entertainment can be just as historic as the political news that swamps the media. Director George Lucas has conceived vivid characters that in many ways resemble some members of George Bush's Administration. The final installment in the Star Wars epic could prove to be an eye-opener for moviegoers. Tengbo Li Brighton, Michigan, U.S. Richard Corliss wrote a great story on the new Star Wars movie. Revenge of the Sith looks like exciting summer entertainment and a real winner. I wasn't thrilled with the past two Star Wars movies...
Since we current post-adolescents were actual adolescents, beginning to think about leaving the nest, we’ve experienced a barrage of epic sagas; first the new “Star Wars” trilogy, then “Lord of the Rings” (LOTR) and “Harry Potter.” We’ve flocked in droves to “Spider-Man” and “X-men.” We live from season to season, from installment to installment, waiting for good to triumph at last...
...most influential American movie of the '90s, for good and ill, this multipart crime epic is fully up to matching its cocksure ambition with its love of the medium and its mad pash for melodrama. The movie still has the impact of an Adrenalin shot to the heart...
...cover [May 9]. It reminded readers that milestones in entertainment can be just as historic as the political news that swamps the media. Director George Lucas has conceived vivid characters that in many ways resemble some members of George Bush's Administration. The final installment in the Star Wars epic could prove to be quite an eye opener for moviegoers...