Word: megabudget
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...this for Avatar: it has passion and ambition and a daffy, almost heroic, dead seriousness. Which is to say it's one megabudget Hollywood epic that feels as if it was made by a human, not assembled by cyborgs. Maybe some of the folks paying inflated prices for the 3-D IMAXed Avatar are doing so out of social obligation to see what they've heard the rest of the world is seeing. But what they're getting is a personal vision. Not a religious experience; rather a mass hallucination - an elevated, persuasive fiction, a thing that...
...Typical. Luchini always seems like the odd man out - the box office success who prefers 400-seat theaters to megabudget films, the high-school dropout who knows all the great French literary classics by heart, the 21st-century movie star whose greatest passion is reciting the works of long-dead writers. If Gérard Depardieu is France's best-known actor today, Luchini is perhaps the most interesting...
...even looked as if this season would bring another of those old-fashioned megabudget bombs of Broadway legend. What else could one expect from a $10 million musical called Titanic, based on everybody's favorite sea disaster and seemingly headed for a similar catastrophe, after some well-publicized technical problems (the ship had a bit of trouble sinking) during previews...
...telephone pole. His death last month has prompted many professionals in the world's most glamorous industry to call for an end to the grueling hours that are now the norm behind the scenes--a problem that has become even more endemic as studios rush to complete the megabudget "event" movies currently in vogue...
Every summer needs an oddball movie, muttering happily to itself in a forgotten corner of the superplex while the megabudget pictures bat each other silly. So welcome to SLACKER, a parade of all-American weirdos. Writer- director Richard Linklater has borrowed the format of La Ronde -- one character talking to a second, the second to a third and so on -- and populated it with dozens of layabouts (slackers) in Austin. These motor-mouth dropouts have decided on a life of independent study: of the Kennedy assassination, or the space program (we've been on Mars since 1962, colonizing the galaxy...