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...opening just before Memorial Day, exactly a year after The Lost World: Jurassic Park, is another really big lizard movie, Godzilla. This updating of the old Japanese monster series, by the Independence Day team, has been teased so cannily ("Size Does Matter") that now industry folk have only one debate: Which film will come in second? Analyst Alan Kassan of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell picks Saving Private Ryan. "A great script, Steven Spielberg directing, Tom Hanks starring--I'd take points in that...
...still have to sell the film. Godzilla went with size, plastering hints about its star's dimensions on 8,000 outdoor displays. Others try niche marketing. In ads on Ally McBeal, Armageddon peddles itself as a love story, with kissy spots featuring Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. The idea is to attract Hollywood's hot new demographic, young females--the segment PaineWebber analyst Christopher Dixon calls "the new bobby-soxers...
...kind of banking miracle in homey Charlotte, a deus ex machina where the machina is his very own NationsBank automated-teller machines, and the deus wears cowboy boots. Last week McColl announced the boldest deal yet: a plan to merge NationsBank with California-based BankAmerica to create a golden Godzilla with deposits of $346 billion. On Wall Street, where financial stocks have sizzled this year, the marriage was greeted with huge plaudits. On Main Street, average customers (the combined bank will have millions of them) worried about what this would mean for their accounts. And in Charlotte? McColl wasn...
...course, just like with browsers trickily embedded in operating systems, Godzilla is strictly buyer beware. So stay away from the late ?60s stinker ?Godzilla?s Revenge,? an excuse to repackage old Godzilla footage in a new and spectacularly stupid story that is of interest mainly as an early exercise in shovelware. And we?ll withhold judgment on the new flick except to note that if the big guy makes Matthew Broderick p?t?...
...find it, of course look for ?Gojira,? the original Japanese version that features our favorite radiation-enhanced lizard in full Gates mode, stomping on people like so many third-party software vendors. But settle for the somewhat altered but still terrifying American version, ?Godzilla, King of the Monsters,? if only for a rather fine performance by Raymond Burr. And try not to read to much into "Bambi Meets Godzilla" -- the boys at Justice surely...