August 2, 1987 -

4- Sunday,

I HAVE. been

‘The latest show was Robocop,
In bepacen,

tasy of
throush town,

Ape of special effects

Sound and all.

whelming graphics.”

That particular movie set new
standards for special effects, and
since then even the average bad
sci-fi movie has been a mind-
blower in terms of spectacular vi-
suals, although there have been
real disasters too, Spacehunter
and the rernake of Invaders from
Mars coming immediately to
mind.

In this category, by the way,
Aliens rates as the all-time best.
Take it from me. Followed by
Dune, } would think, even if the
story line came out fike the victim
of a Procrustean Bed.

Even a farce like Mel Brooks’s
hysterical Spacebalfs takes the
trouble to blow a few million ex-
tra on backgrounds. Has to, in
fact—because nothing less will
do. .

Audiences are getting, as they
say, very sophisticated.

Take Willy, for example. I had
no hesitation taking him to see
Robocop, despite the restricted
listing.

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movies since he wis two vears old.

we dutve seen yust
about every science fietian, fan.
cartoon movie LO pass

Willv’s good fortune was to be
born just in time for the Golden
Jo fact,
Stu Wars was out before Willy,
but not by much, and he still got
to see it on the big screen, Dolby

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taking my cipht-year-old son Willy to

He started with A. 7.

We have worked out a tech-
maue. Ti we come fo a part in the
movie where he doesn’t tike it, he
sunply pulls my jacket over his
head and bunkers down ins his

seat.

Psteer away from shows about
sexe-athough there is always an
element of that, just as there is in
life—and avoid movies about real
wur, martial arts violence flicks,
horror and teen-age snuff films,

“The giant movie screen is our bullring, if you
like. It is increasingly a testing ground for
your stamina in the face of absolutely

over-

those sorts of things.

It does so happen that we are
living through a renaissance of
the visual arts, with the movie

forefront, as
The Dream is

camera at its
witness IMAX’s
Alive.

My calculatieon is that Willy
will gain more by seeing all these
fantastic science-fiction movies,
in terms of his imagination being
stimulated and enriched, than he
will lose.

What he loses is—oh,  in-
nocence, for one thing.

Science-fiction is going mostly
the heavy metal route. There is a
blend of flesh with ihe flash. The
measure of the trend is that Cap-
tain—excuse me, Admiral—Kirk
could actually swear in Star Trek
IV.

And there is almost inevitably
a whole mess of blood, not all of
it slime green, although plenty of
that too.

The big test for Willy as a sci-fi
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Aliens. Yes.

Hd seen the first movie, Alen,
along with my wife, but she had
fled to the women's room, which
she reported was full, to avoid
th. awiul tension and terror of
thedast minutes of the film.

iM was preat, gripping, ghastly
theatre, absolutely magnificent
from a visual point of view.

The sequel, Affens, according
to all the reviews, was 10 times
worse. My wife flatly refused to
go. So Liook Willy.

He was duly warned, of
course, that this might be so
scary he couldn't stand it, and in
thal case we'd leave right away.
That was the deal we worked out
in front of Mom. He gulped, but
couldn't resist the challenge.

Once we were in the car, mano |

a boyo, | added one other clause:
Dad would be real ticked-off if
somehow we did have to feave.
Got that?

This is, after all, the modern
age. I don’t get to take my kid to
a bulfight or introduce him to
the Running of the Bulls. I’m not
a jock, although | have promised
to take him to see Hulk Hogan,
naturally. But f don’t mind.
That's special effects too.

The giant movie screen is our
bullring, if you like. It is increas-
ingly a testing ground for your
stamina in the face of absolutely
overwhelming graphics.

The kid passed his Alfens test,
by the way, which meant that
Robocop was easy to take. It was
also great.

When the bad guy was melting
to death from the acid bath near
the end, Willy asked, peeking out
from under the hood of my
jacket:
fects, isn’t it, Dad?”’

Yep.

“Boy,” he* whispered,
awesome!”

He’s learning to appreciate it
as art, you see.

Make an aficionado out of him
yet!

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