Friday, May 30, 1997
Box office dino-might
They're big. They're bad. They're back. They're box office.
"Lost World," whose principal characters have been
dead for 65 million years, raked in a record $93 million over
Memorial Day weekend, and will probably cover its costs within
a week or two. Its predecessor, "Jurassic Park," has
earned close to a billion dollars.
"Lost World" is even more devoid of plot and character
development than "Jurassic Park." Instead, filmmaker
Steven Spielberg just lets those computer-enhanced thunder lizards
rip. Never was the theatrical phrase "chewing on the scenery"
more apt. These dinosaurs not only chew on the scenery but on
their fellow actors.
In Hollywood, imitation is the sincerest form of trying to
cash in, so we can expect a whole herd of dinosaur movies and
certainly a TV sitcom, "Rex in the City," where a young
Tyrannosaurus Rex trying to make it on his own in Manhattan encounters
funny friends and oddball neighbors and eats them.
All of this means fierce competition among the T. rexes, velociraptors,
triceratops and stegosauruses for that newest category of Oscar:
Best Performance By An Extinct Species.
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