Word: spielbergism
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...unfair. Although The Touch is transparently aiming for the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon audience and features some awfully familiar flying kicks, we have to be grateful that it avoids the cello solemnity of that blockbuster. Rather than high art, director Peter Pau aims for the high spirits of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones films, with their roguish heroes, cultured antagonists and mytho-archaeological quests. Still, at least Spielberg threw in the occasional Arabic subtitle, thereby adding a bit of real atmosphere?a quality The Touch sadly lacks despite its $20 million budget. Pau and Yeoh may have hoped...
...industry's ratings system has labeled this and other popular gross-out comedies (like Adam Sandler's Mr. Deeds and Eddie Murphy's remakes of The Nutty Professor and Dr. Dolittle) as O.K. for adolescents and, implicitly, their younger sibs. Same for certain violent action films, like Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. These films are labeled PG-13, which does not restrict kids from seeing them (that, supposedly, is the job of the R rating) but does advise parents strongly cautioned about some of the content...
...couple of Camerons, Diaz (on a subway) and Crowe (on a bus), flit through Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg--who also shows up in Goldmember. Men in Black II enlists Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart--aha, they are aliens! In Mr. Deeds, Al Sharpton delivers a rappin' elegy and John McEnroe teaches Adam Sandler how to (mis)behave in New York City. Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal features bits by Brad Pitt and his Se7en director David Fincher...
...industry's ratings system has labeled this and other popular gross-out comedies (like Adam Sandler's Mr. Deeds and Eddie Murphy's remakes of The Nutty Professor and Dr. Dolittle) as O.K. for adolescents and, implicitly, their younger sibs. Same for certain violent action films, like Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. These films are labeled PG-13, which does not restrict kids from seeing them (that, supposedly, is the job of the R rating) but does advise parents strongly cautioned about some of the content...
...Greed. Infectious greed. However unsuitable the material may be for kids, Hollywood wants their disposable income. The 10-to-12 crowd helps pay the salaries and points of pricey artistes like Spielberg and Myers. A studio pays them so highly, it needs a guarantee that the film will be available to the widest possible audiences, so a PG-13 rating is often built into the contracts. The only thing dirtier than the gags in Goldmember is the money that's made from them...