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...math on this one: Will Smith + Barry Sonnenfeld + special effects-laden summer event film = blockbuster. The combination of Smith and Sonnenfeld worked box office magic the last time around when the two collaborated on Men in Black. Smith seems to have cornered the market on huge, big budget summer sci-fi flicks, with his back to back summer money makers Men in Black and Independence Day (we'll forgive him for the latter). Advance looks at the production indicate that the special effects are incredible, and the interaction between Smith and Kline (both known for their own brands of humor...
...hear the occasional renegade whisper below his palace balcony. "Critics say the problem with George and Steven [Spielberg] is that they've created these well-made megamovies that are basically B movies," Lucas observes. "Jaws, they say, was just a big horror movie. Star Wars is just a big sci-fi film. That our films are not like The Exorcist, The Godfather and the great films of the '70s. Well, they were B movies too. And Gone With the Wind was just a soap opera." Lucas thinks of himself as a Marin County rebel against the Hollywood empire...
...assassin star on the scene, Tse Wei Lim `02, killed nearly all his opponents in the Harvard Computer Society/Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association game this year. Although he held no grudge against the members of the vicious HCS, the sci-fi fan jumped at the chance to play because it offered the opportunity to be "predatory...
...earth's core and are represented up top by the very brainy Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and a small band of rebel fighters, living by their wits and their martial-arts skills (nicely enhanced by special effects). A lot of what they do and endure consists of spins on the sci-fi past. There are references to everything from the Alien movies to The Terminator to Soylent Green, but that's what we have for a living mythology these days, and the Wachowskis are bold and knowing in their deployment of it. They're acknowledging a tradition, not ripping...
...electronica-powered new album from the British rock band Blur, resides in precisely that sort of timeless limbo. Not timeless in a positive sense, in the way that, say, Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced? is timeless, but in the way that the old sci-fi series Space: 1999 is now timeless. The series was about the moon's being blown out of Earth orbit and traveling the universe. It's 1999, and our moon is still firmly in place. There's no reason to watch that series anymore...