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Crichton's sci-fi is convincingly detailed. He has the cloning process begin not with ground-up fossils (too much DNA deterioration) but with dinosaur blood sucked by mosquito-like insects caught and preserved in amber. As is traditional in such narrations, there is an arrogant technician, who in this case claims that the park's dinosaurs can't breed because all have been sterilized. And as usual there is a relentlessly cheerful p.r. man. He settles the question of what dinosaurs eat; one of the big carnivores eats him. Then things really go wrong. Dinosaurs, it develops, are much...
HARDWARE. A junk sculpture turns into a ravening home wrecker in this spiky Brit sci-fi parable. First-time filmmaker Richard Stanley has an eye for the macabre and a mind full of undigested ideas. Oh, well, next time . . . This time he has made an arresting exercise in horror on the cheap...
...strangest characters and most hallucinogenic images an American filmmaker ever committed to celluloid. His early career traced a paradigmatic arc of hotshot movie eminence, from a $20,000 underground classic (Eraserhead in 1977) to a $5 million Oscar nominee (The Elephant Man in 1980) to a $50 million sci-fi dud (Dune in 1984). Each film had segments of bafflement and spectral beauty. But Hollywood, looking at the escalating price tags and plummeting ticket sales, wrote the director off. So Lynch made Blue Velvet (1986), a magnificent revenge drama -- his revenge on fettered movie conventions -- about small-town life...
...Thunder. For reprising his role as Nick Nolte's streetwise sidekick in Another 48 Hrs., Eddie Murphy will take home at least $8 million, plus a share of the film's revenues. Arnold Schwarzenegger can count on $10 million for starring in Total Recall, a $50 million-plus sci-fi picture filmed by Los Angeles-based Carolco and distributed by Tri-Star...
...BLUE NILE: HATS (A&M). A trio of ethereally rocking Scotsmen, the Blue Nile weaves a sound mosaic that is part sci-fi parable and part Arcadian fantasy. Gentle, uninsistent and insinuating, a single listen to The Downtown Lights could convert anyone this side of an Aerosmith fan to full-fledged Nile fever...