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...right, now, have we had it with blockbusters? It's true, we paid only $6 or $8 to see the Judge Dreddfuls and the Waterworlds Without End, not the $80 million or $200 quillion the studios ponied up, but a lot of us still feel taken. All those tough-guy movies wore us down and knocked one another out. But now that the big boys have slunk away, adventurous viewers are seeking a late-summer tonic in independent cinema...
Biggest Surprise: Waterworld, the $200 quillion sump that has sucked in Kevin Costner, Universal Pictures and director Kevin Reynolds -- who recently walked off the production, leaving the final editing to Costner and others. It might actually be an entertaining movie. such, at least, is the accumulated wisdom to be gleaned from watching not the actual summer movies-that would be cheating! -- but the films' trailers. Hollywood will be spending more than $2 billion to make and market 50 or so pictures between now and summer's end, and the moguls want you to want to see what they...
...those elegant parties that James Bond used to attend, then leave in rubble. Harry prowls about in a tuxedo; he speaks French, Arabic and a little English. He even tangos. Then he is pursued by the usual inept Middle East terrorists -- the ones with a quillion rounds of ammunition and lousy aim. He escapes with the help of spy's-best-friend Tom Arnold and arrives home, where Helen awaits him in sweet ignorance; she thinks Harry is a workaholic salesman for a computer company. Helen always waits; she is Penelope, unaware that she's married to Ulysses...