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Movies to See This Weekend
Aired August 03, 2001 - 08:41 ET
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COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR: What's up at the movies this weekend? How about a 1979 film about the Vietnam War that may turn out to be the biggest summer hit in the summer of 2001?
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: That's right. Can a 20-something film make it at the box office?
Also, we are going to ask all these questions and the deeper meanings of everything in summer movies with Leah Rozen of "People" magazine.
Good morning, Leah.
LEAH ROZEN, "PEOPLE": Good morning.
LIN: All right. We are having a flashback: "Apocalypse Now..."
MCEDWARDS: Again.
LIN: ... but expanded.
ROZEN: Yes. They're calling this...
LIN: Boy.
ROZEN: They are calling this -- this is -- the best movie of this summer is 22 years old. It's Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam film, "Apocalypse Now." He's added 49 minutes of new footage.
(CROSSTALK)
LIN: So we're talking over three hours now, right, Leah?
ROZEN: We're talking three hours and 16 minutes, but every one of them worth it.
LIN: Wow.
ROZEN: It's just -- you go and you say: Oh, I forgot. Movies could have vision. Movies could be ambitious. Movies could have scope.
It's just really great. And now it's even great for longer.
(LAUGHTER)
ROZEN: This is, of course, his Vietnam film. But what's fascinating is, as we've gotten -- you're now more than 25 years away from Vietnam. So it is really just more of a sort of a war film, and clearly an anti-war film.
MCEDWARDS: Still just one ending here, though?
ROZEN: Same ending as before -- more footage in between, including an entirely new segment where they discover a ghostly French plantation with French owners on it.
MCEDWARDS: All right.
Well, we suffered through "Rush Hour" 1. What about "Rush Hour 2."
ROZEN: Well, it's pretty much more of the same. You're stuck in the same traffic -- Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker teaming up as detectives. Chan plays a detective from Hong Kong; Tucker from Los Angeles.
And there's the same sort of by-the-numbers plot where they have to catch bad guys, which allows for much martial arts displayed by Chan. Chan is fairly charming. And then Tucker is his motormouth comic self.
I -- Tucker's appeal sort of alludes me. But many people clearly find him funny, because the first movie made more -- it grossed more than $250 million worldwide. They're hoping the second one will do the same.
LIN: Yes, Hollywood couldn't resist.
What about "Ghost World"? What did you think of that?
ROZEN: "Ghost World"? I loved "Ghost World." "Ghost World" is a little film. It kind of came in under the radar. It's a coming-of- age story -- teenage girl-- Thora Birch right there in the Batman mask.
And it's -- she's sort of -- she's just graduated from high school, is trying to figure her life out, has a lot of questions. It's a movie that's funny. You don't know what's coming next. It keeps you off balance a little. This is -- "Ghost World" is just a great little movie that is sort of -- I think it's in the top 10 markets now, and with luck, will be moving around the country.
LIN: All right. We will see.
MCEDWARDS: And Leah, what about "Princess Diaries"? Good family film here?
ROZEN: Yes, "Princess Diaries" is a good family film. It's quite cute. It's directed by Garry Marshall, who did "Pretty Woman" and "Runaway Bride." It's about a teenage girl played by Anne Hathaway. She's 15. Unbeknownst to her, she is a princess of the fictional European monarchy of Genovia. Her grandmother, Julie Andrews, the queen of Genovia, comes over to San Francisco to tell her the good news. And her reaction is: Gee, most kids want a car when they turn 16, not a country.
(CROSSTALK)
ROZEN: It's a cute movie. I think it's the kind of movie 9- year-old girls are going to love and think is the next "Citizen Kane."
LIN: Yes.
ROZEN: And parents sitting with them will be perfectly content. I think it's a two-hour movie that would benefit if it were a 90- minute movie -- starts a little slow, ends a little slow. But the middle is fun. And I'm always happy to watch Julie Andrews.
LIN: Yes.
MCEDWARDS: Yes.
LIN: Good one for mothers and daughters.
MCEDWARDS: Thanks so much, Leah Rozen. Have a great weekend.
ROZEN: You're welcome.
MCEDWARDS: Thanks a lot.
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