Forty-two years ago I was in high school and was giddy with anticipation. Why? This futuristic movie called Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope was soon going to be released. I talked my best friend into going to see this movie. It was a warm early summer afternoon and the line to see the movie went all the way out to the street! I had never seen anything like this before. We finally got inside and sat down and we were blown away for the next 121 minutes! The technology used in this movie was state of the art at the time and mind blowing to say the least. Is this really the end of the line for the Star Wars series? Only George Lucas knows. May the force be with him………
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In 1977 it was not called “Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope”; it was “Star Wars”. And that is how I always refer to it.
I’m not a fan of war movies generally; those I like are not primarily about the fighting itself. These include “The Dam Busters” (1955), “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957), “The Great Escape” (1963), and: “The Man Who Never Was” (1956), which I can watch over and over.
I watched the GG in the 1960s; very entertaining and informative.
Some years later I watched it once or twice in the Vision channel after he got religion. It was a pale imitation of the original show.
He knew it, I think. Once, when he was using a spray to oil a pan, he remarked, “Remember when this would have been clarified butter?”
The subtitle, “No Intelligence Allowed” accurately describes this “documentary”.
Who’s going to replace Trebek next season?
My money’s on Ken Jennings.
I’ve been following this show since the beginning of the 2020 season. I haven’t lived in te UK for more than 50 years, so none of the “famous” Brits were familiar to me … until Mark Billingham. I have read three of his books.
There’s a lot wrong with this movie, but in spirit, this Saint is much closer to the Simon Templar of the books than the Val Kilmer version. That was more a 007 than a Saint.
There is no such thing as an atheist based country. There are a few such as Vietnam, Japan, and South Korea, for example, who have high rates of atheists,but if you look at the list of the country’s, it would seem the culture itself, rather then atheism, has more to do with it.
Quite right, greyfur. Atheism has nothing to do with anything other than belief in any gods. Atheists’ opinions on other things are as varied as those of any religion.
Not a bad action movie, but it has almost nothing to do with the book. The book is about the hunt for the assassin known as Carlos — but he isn’t even mentioned in this movie. For a real adaptation of the book see the two-part miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith: https://www.primewire.li/tv/246902-watch-the-bourne-identity
If you want to see Cats as it should be performed, watch the 1998 version: https://www.primewire.li/movie/1336292-watch-cats
If you want to see Cats, watch this version, not the 2019 movie. This is great; the movie is a CATastrophe.
I wanted to like it. I wanted to be the one who bucked the trend and pointed out its redeeming features. I wanted to … but I couldn’t. The only good thing is the gorgeous Francesca Hayward and her dancing. But that’s just a drop in the slop bucket. Well, there were one or two moments that were all right (e.g. Skimbleshanks), but not enough to redeem this catastrophe.
At first, I was skeptical about Robert Morley playing Oscar Wilde, but he was perfect in the role.
A spoof of a movie made five years in the future? If it is a spoof of a movie, and not the book, it is a spoof of the 1931 movie of the same name.
I watched this expecting something like Cats (2019) that was even worse than it reputation, but this was nothing like that. Not that it was a particularly good movie, but it had its moments. I didn’t have to force myself to go the distance as I did with the aforementioned Cats.