A A A A A A A A A J8 Sunday Arts movies are back on the ANTHONY BREZNICAN Associated Press Los ANGELES Watch out, moviegoers! It's the attack of the Clones! Attack of the Scorpion King! Attack of the Crocodile, Hunter! And now attack of the Eight-Legged Summer has seen a swarm of big-budget movies trying to mimic the campy excess of fashioned: movies, known for bare-knuckle brawlers, outerspace melodrama and gigantic mutant bugs. The makers of these deliberately cheeky stories know their films are lowbrow and they don't care. Part of the appeal of these expensive pictures is that they don't take themselves seriously. "I'm not after respect. I'm out.
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are limited to theatre capacity, and are "SIGNS" OPENS NATIONWIDE AUGUST 2nd! a 22 10 attack with same campy compliment to be compared to a wouldn't it be cool to do one of movie." those in this day and age with In his film, toxic waste creates modern Elkayem a horrific horde of gargantuan said. spiders that devour the inhabit- In the days of double features, ants of a small desert town, fol- the movie" was typically a lowing in the chewy, gooey tradi- low-budget, science fiction, hortion of insect invasion movies ror or adventure story that was like 1955's "Tarantula," 1977's shown at theaters after the more "Empire of the Ants" and the car- prestigious A picture (with its nivorous worm thriller "Trem- bigger stars and better producors" (1990). tion values). "I'm especially into 'creature As double features disapfeatures' and thought, 'Gee, peared, the term movie" came CATCH IT AGAIN WITH THE WHOLE FAMILY "HERE COMES A TRULY INSPIRED ANIMATED FEATURE. Funny, sassy, startling, original and with six songs by Elvis." Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES 1110 PG disney.com/stitch by Buena NOW PLAYING! RIDGE RIDGE RD.
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Some of those films have been outright parodies, like Tim Burton's 1996 comedy "Mars Attacks!" and 1978's tongue-incheek "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." But even "Star Wars," one of the most popular and profitable movie franchises of all time, was conceived as an homage to the kind of pictures in which 1 you could often see the string dangling the wobbly spaceship. "Star Wars" creator George Lucas wanted to tell the same kind of stories as "Flash Gordon" a and "Captain Marvel," but he also wanted to make it look real. "I started out with a modest little movie that was designed to be in the motif of a 1930s actionadventure serial that they used to show on Saturday matinees," Lucas said. "So the whole style was kind of '30s and very Even the title of his latest film, Dealer Sunday, July 21, 2002 budgets "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones," is an homage to cult movies like "Attack of the Puppet People" (1958) and "Attack of the Giant Leeches" (1959). While "Eight Legged Freaks" had a midlevel budget of $30 million, "Attack of the Clones" cost upward of $120 million.
Most of the movies of the 1940s and 1950s were priced i in the tens of thousands. "The Scorpion King," which cost about $60 million, drew comparisons to Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Conan the Barbarian" (1982) for its muscleman barbarism. But it also echoed the beefcake battling of older "sword and sandal" movies like "Son of Samson" (1960) and "The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules" (1963). "It's a throwback to the old days when there were no guns, just guys with swords going at it," said "Scorpion King" star Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock. "The Scorpion King" was not opposed to making a wisecrack to deflate a weighty scene, and that campy humor is what sets a film apart from sword-fighting prestige pictures like 1960's "Spartacus" and 2000's "Gladiator." Similarly, "The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course," a part-fiction, part-documentary comedy about real-life adventurer Steve Irwin, was designed to humorously mimic the 1940s' "Tarzan" serials starring Olympic athlete Johnny Weissmuller.
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