Every movie, it now seems, is a sequel of every other movie. Writers pick over the carcasses of hit films and try to extract the golden elements for their own projects. Why, it's Die Hard in a minivan, or Pretty Woman but with Lassie and Beethoven, or Terms of Endearment only she gets the Ebola virus. It's filming by numbers-last year's box-office grosses. The uniform look and feel of recent films suggest that the mad scientists in A Clockwork Orange had it wrong. You don't make a viewer a zombie by force-feeding him scenes of sex and violence. You do it...
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