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Oh, one other item: Avatar demonstrated that 3-D could bring studios gigantic bundles of cash. For ages, the rule of movie exhibition has been that customers pay the same price for a movie that cost $250 million to make (say, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) as for...
Nobody goes to Iraq-war movies. Four or five years ago, at the height of the insurgency, that was because there were no Iraq-war movies. (Vietnam, while it raged, suffered the same Hollywood blackout.) But even when some directors grew a spine and attempted to dramatize the effects of...
Quirks: The Qube library, which juts out of New Quincy and is supported on stilts, hosts its sizeable comic book collection—although you will need to ask to see it. There is also a gigantic stuffed white—gorilla, or something, we at FlyBy aren�...
Yet any meaning Fish achieves with the present-day setting is negated by the baffling stark and technological aesthetic he forces on the show, which works against the script rather than with it. Videos projected onto a gigantic screen throughout the production are particularly off-putting. Even when the video...
2. Size. Over the decades, the membership has shown a fondness for small dramas with an obvious social message and a prejudice against gigantic science-fiction pictures that use pioneering techniques to create a compelling new world - albeit with their own obvious social message. Avatar is every bit as political...