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Tuesday, June 10, 1986
Sci-fi remakes, sequels
dominate summer films
SUMMER from Page 9
t Previous remakes of the old set-
fl's added color, swearing and a
touch of hipness.
Imagine taking Shakespeare's
"The Tempest," and setting it in the
! future with space travel and strange
I planets not a bad idea but
I when you have Earl Holliman trying
to come on to Anne Francis in "For
J bidden Planet," an interesting idea
; becomes a corny Hollywood love
story.
; But in time, this dated dumbness
has a nice side-effect: you can laugh
at it and be entertained.
' I doubt if Jeff Goldblum can eas
I ily become the square but likable
egg-head scientist who scrambles
his molecules into a fly's. One thing
- the eighties can't remake from the
fifties is innocence.
"Aliens" might fare better. The
; sequel didn't follow right away which
is a plus. It might then seem like an
' original movie. And it's not going to
take place in a spaceship.
If teenagers aren't horny young
'. aspiring Capitalists who blast the
1 stereo and dance in their under
; wear, they're young, tender and
hopefully less nauseating things
' f now that Robby Benson is too old to
play those parts.
t "The Boy Who Could Fly," which
i is scheduled for release in August is
j about an adolescent boy and girl
' f who meet against a difficult back
. ground of social and familial cir
t ; cumstances.
Movies with a similar theme in
( i the past have turned out surpris-f-
indv cood: "Breakinc Awav." "Mv
S- o w - - V i V
h name a few.
: The other teen film is "Space
; camp," which opens this June.
-. "Spacecamp" is a kind of "Break
fast Club" in space. Stereotyped
- adolescents trying to come to grips
; with life get to do so while prepar
ring for interplanetary travel. Kate '
Capshaw and Tom Skerrit are the
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Ken-and Barbie-doll camp counse
lors. I would think that maturing
would be hard enough without hav
ing to prepare for space travel.
"In the future, everyone will be
famous for fifteen minutes," Andy
Warhol said. It looks like Whoopie
Goldberg is going to get her 15 min
utes in her new film, "Jumpin' Jack
Flash," scheduled for release in
August.
Whoopie is now a bored computer
operator who suddenly finds herself
receiving messages from a British
spy trapped behind the Eastern
Bloc. Naturally the CIA doesn't know
what to do so Whoopie does the job
herself, running into one hilarious
adventure with the KGB after another
while James Bond is benched for the
sake of Women's Liberation.
Compared to his imitators Stal
lone's got class. He's got a side that
wants to be called Marion. He doesn't
drive a huge tractor-trailer like Jack
Burton in "Big Trouble in Little
China," a film where Kurt Russell in
the title role reinvents our Vietnam
experience. He inadvertently helps
an oriental friend and ends in his
razing half of Chinatown.
"Running Scared," scheduled for
release later this summer, is about
.two Chicago cops. Gregory Hines
and Billy Crystal have found a better
life as professional studs in Key
West, Florida. Their only problem is
to get there without getting killed
for the thirty days they have left on
the force.
You can't accuse these two hip
cops of not having any ethics. On
the contrary, they're going to do
their best to look after each other
and see they both get to some real
. life escapism.
Like previous summer films, those
offered this summer are filled with
adventure, space, growing pains and
Neanderthal men.
"Today belongs to the mob,"
Nietzsche wrote.
"Who could still know what is
great and what small?"
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depth, magic
and mystery
TROUBLE from Page 10
The underworld boss, Divine the
dangerous threatening transvestite from
the Jon Waters' films is, in this film,
a bald, effeminate man followed around
by a clumsy violinist. Divine is one of
the few colorful characters. The major
ones like Kristofferson, Singer and
Bujold are actors posing for resume
pictures.
: There is a strong moment when Sin
ger leaves her baby in a car belonging
to a wealthy family, and then tears her
self away as her baby smiles in the arms
of his new mother.
"Trouble in Mind" becomes surreal
istic towards the end when a gunfight
erupts among tuxedoed guests in
Divine's mansion filled with objects d'
art.
Carradine walks through this flare of
pistols unharmed: a nice effect, which
would have been stronger if Carra
dine's character was more developed.
But the film ends with neither magic
nor mystery.
Like Carradine's rain-soaked hair at
the end of this insignificant story, the
film is limp, shapeless and bereft of
vitality.
"Trouble in Mind" will be showing at
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