Word: flicks
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...this being a kiddie flick, I couldn’t resist wondering what kind of message it’s sending to its intended audience. It’s not so complicated, actually. Lohan’s perpetually made-up character is ogled at as much as possible in a G-rated film. As if enacting an English lecture about the oppressive male gaze, the camera lingers on her mini-miniskirted frame as she climbs through a car’s driver seat window and proceeds to floor the gas, all while wearing stilettos...
...Getting to the S.S.A.'s headquarters involves a four-hour trek through fields of maize and forests of dripping bamboo, led by Shan guides who stop only to flick leeches from their boots. They sneak past Thai army border posts in darkness while thunder booms off the mountains, then begin the long final ascent of the cloud-raked ridge to which the S.S.A. headquarters clings. More than 2,000 people live here, mostly in bamboo shacks with thatched roofs. A tenth of Loi Tai Leng's population are soldiers at arms, claims the S.S.A., while the rest are dependents...
...production finds the same raw ambivalence in the quartet of lovers. The rivals Demetrius and Lysander come into the forest armed with flick knives. Later, under the influence of a love potion, they are ready to fight and die for love of Helena, whom hours before they both had ignored, and are almost willing to kill Hermia, to whom they both had sworn undying devotion. Even after a restorative drug has returned them to orderly pairings, all four eye one another uneasily: they have lost the sweet certainty of first love. At the curtain call, the pairs come out again...
...MGM/UA took a chance, despite rumors that some kinky scenes of the obsessive love affair between Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke would mean an X rating. But last week word came that 9½ Weeks will hit theaters in February. Will the final edited R version live up to the flick's overheated reputation? Well, it seems that Lyne's cooler instincts prevailed. "I wasn't anxious to make an art film to be seen by 15 people in Greenwich Village," he says. "I wanted to get the couple in Ohio who will argue about the picture on the way home...
Rants from the director and talk-show regular: "[Ben] Affleck is right for almost every role. Trying to fly a new Superman flick? Cast Affleck ... They're making another Jaws? Affleck can play the shark...