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"Even if you love the original Escape to Witch Mountain, you have to welcome a remake. The 1975 sci-fi Disney film has some very dated special effects — though the visible wires used to “levitate” a handgun and a harmonica give it a campy charm — and it’s not exactly the well-respected classic that The Black Hole or Old Yeller is, anyway. So, better a remake (or “modern re-imagining”) of a slightly beloved movie, which has already been redone once, to give The Rock another fulfillment of his Disney contract and utilize all the “perfect” digital effects now available. While it seems that eventually all Dis "
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"In addition to winning Best Picture (and seven other awards) at the Oscars last week, Slumdog Millionaire passed a major box office benchmark. It has now grossed more than $100 million in the U.S., which is pretty astonishing for a film with one-third of its dialogue in a foreign language. But is Slumdog’s popularity a one-shot in terms of its audience’s interest in India, or are moviegoers actually now more curious about the nation and its own films? Some websites are simplifying the question of whether or not Slumdog will be a gateway film with polls asking if American moviegoers will now “go Bollywood” (40% of Cinematical readers flat out answered, “no.”), which is rather silly since Danny Boyle’s movie bears no resemblance to the majority of Bollywood pictures. In fact, Americans have in the past received far "
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"Are you one of the many sci-fi and comic book geeks who’d be more interested in Push were it not for Dakota Fanning? Sure, the precocious child star is now a teen actress (she’s about to turn 15), yet that probably makes you even more worried about her appearance in the movie. But what can you do? She’s literally everywhere this week – voicing the title character in the animated Coraline and starring in two new video releases, Hounddog and The Secret Life of Bees, both of which were released Tuesday. In the tradition of child actors continuing careers into adolescence, it’s only a matter of time before she ruins a movie that would have been better without her. We’ll have to wait until this weekend to see if that time is now, with Push, but in the meantime let’s take a look at some of the past offenders in this tradition. Most of the following "
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#25)100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies (#44)100 Movie Quotes (#15 - E.T. and others: "E.T. phone home.")25 Film Scores (#14)100 Most Inspiring Movies (#6)The Revised Top 100 (#24)10 Top 10's (#3 Science Fiction) I own E.T. It passed the test. I consider it a personal classic. While I haven't seen it a bajillion times like Star Wars or millions of times like The Wizard of Oz, I've probably seen it hundreds of times since I was 5 years old, the year it came out, and the year I saw it at the drive-in, back when those still existed in any kind of meaningful way. It does not matter how many times I've seen this movie, I always cry, starting right about the time E.T. is succumbing to his homesickness and right on through to the end, wit ... "
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"During Spout’s coverage of Comic-Con last week, my ears perked up during the Entertainment Weekly: Visionaries panel when Watchmen director Zack Snyder started railing about the disconnect between video games and Hollywood. It’s nice to know that the director of next year’s mega-tentpole hopeful doesn’t want the marketing department at Warner Bros. to rush something craptacular to the waiting masses. Just like Steven Spielberg did in 1983. Snyder’s best quote to the gaming world was this: “A dialogue needs to be established between filmmakers and game producers. It’s not marketing; it can’t be an afterthought.” It’s doubtful he was remembering the
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"I don’t want to publish the Twitter identities of those who have won tickets to see The Dark Knight on IMAX, a contest we announced yesterday, but I will tell you what movies they told us, via Twitter, what movies they’d like to see released on the IMAX screen: Caligula Blade Runner Mulholland Drive Once Upon a Time in America / Once Upon a Time in the West Titanic Lawrence of Arabia Young Frankenstein / Close Encounters of the Third Kind Brazil Drunken Master
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"Product placement in movies is now so overdone that we may not even notice it unless a particular film or TV show really hits us over the head with a blatant in-your-face product shot. Otherwise, seeing commercial goods everywhere merely seems like everyday life in capitalist America. Just look at any of the websites that tally up products spotlighted in mainstream movies and you’ll probably be surprised (though not shocked) at how many brands appear in each new release. Did you notice that Blades of Glory contains 38 separate products? Probably not. Many of those products couldn’t have gotten their money’s worth, because the movie doesn’t allow the audience to walk away recalling any one particular item. At a time when TV’s Top Chef and 30 Rock show us how lame blatantly whorish and ironic product placement can get, and while moviegoers are being subjected to more subliminal, suggestive and unintentional advertisements (Speed Racer, Wall-E and
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Science Fiction
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"The Science Fiction Top 10 is notable for having what is arguably the least disputable number one on all of these lists in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Even after two decades, the film remains gorgeous and convincing-looking, and still capable of provoking debate about technology, the nature of intelligence, and humanity's identity and place in the universe. It has left an indelible mark on how the future, and how space and space travel, is visualized and imagined, especially, but not exclusively, on film. It's a masterful work, and it's difficult for me to think of a more deserving selection for the top of this list. At the same time, this Top 10 has its share of both puzzling selections and curious absences.E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) at number three leaves much to be desired. Not only does the movie not hold up to repeated viewing, but it also barely qualifies as science fiction. True, the AFI's definition of this genre calls for “imaginative speculation”, but it also sta ... "
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"A couple weeks ago, I was talking with someone about a mutual friend's wedding. "What date is the wedding?" my friend asked. "They're getting married on Star Wars day!" I replied As a youngster with a burgeoning interest in films, I would go to the library and look up facts about my favorite films. I remember looking up titles in the Facts on File and finding little bits of trivia like the release date of a film. At one point, I had compiled a list of Steven Spielberg films and their release dates. I can remember that 'Gremlins' and 'Ghostbusters' came out in June, 1984, but not the specific dates. I can't even recall exactly when in the summer of 1985 that 'Back to the Future' was released, and that's pretty much my stock answer for my favorite movie of all-time. But the date for 'Star Wars' sticks. The one Spielberg film that I can distinctly remember a release date for is 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial' - June 11, 1982. Perhaps that's ju "
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"I listened to Us Weekly staff writer Daniel Holloway's review on Indiana Jones and the Kindgom of the Crystal Skull this morning which was titled 'Indiana': Great Name, Nice Guy, Bad Movie. Daniel and Bryant Park continue to poke fun at the film and trash talk George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Trash talking Lucas isn't a new thing, there was plenty of that going on when he helmed the new Star Wars trilogy, especially the often annoying Phantom Menace. Daniel compares Shia Lebouf's character Mutt to Jar Jar Binks and the two agree that while Lucas's original trilogies are great, he seems to lose inspiration and fall short when he makes a 4th movie. First of all, stepping back from my distaste of Jar Jar Binks (the kids seem to like him, he's an Ewok for a new generation), The Phantom Menace really wasn't all that bad. Recapturing greatness is very difficult, what that film does that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull does is bring you back to the familiar. The opening scenes of both ... "
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