Word: star
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...original Star Wars was a groundbreaking movie. Special effects aside, never before had the world seen what was essentially a kid's story told with such earnestness and excitement on the big screen. For better or worse, Lucas revolutionized the film industry, making the telling of myths and fables not only acceptable, but also extremely lucrative. But if Hollywood storytelling is going to be revolutionized again today, Lucas is not the one to do it. And The Phantom Menace was certainly not the movie to do it. It's not that it is a bad movie. For all the critics...
...used to be a Star Wars fan. That is, until I realized what the term "Star Wars fan" entails. One day while surfing the net, I found the enchanting site www.jarjarmustdie.com. Faced with pictures of Jar-Jar being bludgeoned, hacked, served on a silver platter, etc., I realized that some "Star Wars fans" have too much time on their hands. Now I'm just a "Star Wars observer." Less chance of spiraling into delirium, I would hope. I was actually happy The Phantom Menace wasn't the religious event it was supposed to be. After all, the marketing juggernaut clouded...
...suspicion that the hype around The Blair Witch Project this summer was as much generated by guilt as by respect for the picture. Perhaps this was inevitable for a summer in which we all suddenly realized we were making George Lucas even wealthier by going to see yet another Star Wars movie. Had The Blair Witch Project not actually existed, it, or something very much like it (eight-millimeter footage and all), would probably have been created by our collective unconscious. That's not to say The Blair Witch Project is a bad movie. In terms of premise alone...
...masses! But it was DOA. The problem, of course, is that Kubrick forgot to give a film its center. In Schnitzler's novel, which was faithfully adapted (part of the problem), the emphasis is on the discrepancies between Tom and Nicole's dream (I call the characters by the star's names since I don't see the difference) and the fleetingness of reality. The film is supposed to come together when they say, "The reality of one night is not the whole truth. And no dream is entirely a dream." Instead, the movie ends with a thud--a curse...
...some reason, I feel sorry for the parents of Haley Joel Osment, the 11 year-old star of The Sixth Sense. He just looks so sad. Even when he's happy, he probably looks sad. I hope his parents treat him well. Or at least increase his allowance--especially considering that this movie has chomped up the box office like nothing since Titanic since opening in early August. The reason The Sixth Sense has been so successful is because it's wonderfully tricky--not since The Crying Game have we been so utterly fooled that we must see the movie...