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...claimed $22.2 million, easily besting the $18.6 million registered by the Bruce Willis-Tracy Morgan police-buddy comedy Cop Out, which survived a title change (from A Couple of Dicks) and felonious reviews (a 20% score on Rotten Tomatoes). In third place, with a solid $16.5 million, was the horror remake The Crazies. After months of female-angled hits, the guys returned to dominate the movie market by seeing a bunch of red-meat pictures. This was the first weekend that R-rated films filled the top three slots since Aug. 28-30, when four gorefests reigned: Final Destination, Inglourious...
...zombie-ish locals and the military in hazmat suits, who have come to contain the plague at the cost of Ogden Marsh's very existence. It's an efficient thriller, with scare weapons ranging from the primitive (a pitchfork) to the apocalyptic (an A bomb). The acting is only horror-film-functional, and you might wish that our trio of renegades knew a few basic laws of the genre - don't go anywhere alone, and please leave your vehicle before it's sent into the killer car wash - but you have to give Eisner points for knowing where...
...These days, a tap-water plague would be more limited; in ritzier communities, the drinking glasses and the dog bowls are filled with Evian. But for its time, The Crazies functioned as a compendium of paranoia. Rarely has a conspiracy thriller exploited so many fears. (See the top 25 horror films of all time...
...course, if the heroes didn't go a little gun-crazy, The Crazies wouldn't be a horror movie. The truly radical approach would be to depict an ordinary place, let its people stay ordinary and find meaning and drama in their lives and deaths. But nobody wants to remake Our Town. Everybody wants to remake Romero...
Nearly all captive zoo and park animals live far better today than they did in the horror-show era of full-grown beasts in small metal cages. But many animal psychologists argue that the landscaping and enriched environments of contemporary zoos are as much for the benefit of human visitors as anything else. The array of dysfunctional behaviors on display at even the best zoos - from swaying giraffes to pacing big cats to the compulsive back-and-forth swimming of Gus, the famously neurotic polar bear in New York's Central Park Zoo - illustrate the psychologists' point. Trying to improve...