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It might be called the "wow" school of filmmaking, and no one has mastered it better than Industrial Light & Magic, the special-effects division of George Lucas' Lucasfilm Ltd. Some moviegoers may miss the old days, when subtleties of character and story seemed to matter more. Indeed, American movies can...
Along time ago, in a conference room far, far away . . . it was ordained that sword-and-sorcery movies would be the Next Big Thing. Just imagine crossing the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and George Lucas! Mythic reverberations! Megabucks! Didn't work. The crossbreeding produced curious offspring: the low- birth...
But all is not lost. Lucas, in a desperate move, enters the the ultimate arena of high school prowess--the football field. Physically he is utterly inadequate for such an endeavor, but he attacks the heart of high school superficiality with all the unconventional weapons of his character and his...
The performances of Green and Sheen are realistically delivered in the understated tones of actual high school life, forming a soft pastel backdrop for the sharp eccentricities of co-star Haim. In one sense the movie is about the resolution of these oppositions in character, of the maturing awareness of...
In both his direction and dialogue, Seltzer has done what very few filmmakers have managed to achieve in recent years. He has created a nearly accurate picture of high school life that is also entertaining. Lucas is one of the best offerings for the teen market in a while, and...