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...Enigma Museum, which began in 1988 in the back of his video store and today sprawls through four big rooms and features a homemade diorama of a crashed saucer with blinking lights, surrounded by four dead-alien dolls and a stuffed, seemingly unconcerned jackrabbit. Says Price: "The old sci-fi films were just kind of made up from someone's imagination. But The X-Files calls us every once in a while for information; a lot of the shows do. So a lot of your sci-fi is based on facts, so to speak. And that makes it something that...
Bruckheimer's next megalomovies are Armageddon, a sci-fantasy with Bruce Willis, and Enemy of the State, with Will Smith enmeshed in a top-level conspiracy. "Jerry's not the least bit fulfilled yet," says DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg, who helped bring S. and B. to Disney. "He feels energized and excited." So it's Mr. B. for Big now. Like Cruise in Top Gun, Bruckheimer is flying solo and flying high...
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...trailer or be miniaturized and slipped into a Happy Meal. "Heroes have to be drawn according to more conventional terms," says Hollywood Reporter columnist Martin Grove. "When you have these huge-event pictures with megabudgets, villains become the jewels in the crown." Sure, heroes like Jodie Foster in the sci-fi film Contact or Samuel L. Jackson in the drama 187 catch our eye. But when the villains start scheming, that's when summer starts...
...direction, special effects and the show-off panache with which its director and co-writer, Luc Besson, deploys them." Besson's energy and inventiveness are considerable and, up to a point, quite entertaining. Indeed, one could argue that his work offers a distinct kinetic improvement over classic sci-fi, generally a talky and static genre with its space voyagers forever standing around discussing whatever strange phenomena they encountered in their travels, and none too subtly offering futuristic metaphors to help the audience understand. On the other hand, Besson, like most pop futurists these days, has nothing but ironic knowingness...