If so, it wasn’t reflected in his reviews. Out of the original series of films (the ones with the OG cast) he only gave one - The Final Frontier - a negative review. All the others got three out of four stars from him. First Contact got three and a half.
He wasn’t impressed by the other TNG movies, or the reboot, but then, who was?
Shows he was an insightful reviewer of good taste.
True. He gave Phantom Menace 3/12 out of 4 stars.
He gave Avatar the full 4 out of 4 stars.
Say what? I think you mean Mr. Wise directed the additional sequences (after the studio cut 40 minutes-or-so from Mr. Welles’ version) that made no attempt to match the lighting, mood or theme of the rest of the film and are painful to watch as a result.
I saw Star Wars (as it was originally known) twice when it came out and thought it was great. Decades of movie-watching later, I find it simple-minded, derivative and lame. While there is no denying its influence and impact - particularly with merchandising and vfx - its contribution to the “blockbuster mentality” of studios has not been an entirely positive development, imo.
I gave that shit movie 3/12 of a star too!
Buck Rogers had Princess Ardala as played by Pamela Hensley during season 1. I think I can give Rogers a pass just for that alone but Erin Gray was no slouch herself.
This reference eludes me and being eluded makes me very angry — Huff! Huff! — very angry, indeed!
Hardware Wars.
Thanks, I didn’t remember that part.
Plus, I mis-remembered the “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry…” line. It’s three bux — I adjusted for inflation (Yeah, that’s the ticket.).
I’m pretty sure we had it on 8-track. (Now, there’s something I haven’t thought about in decades!)
I had Jaws on 8-track — so I could take it to the beach!
Wow! look at how they break up the songs to fit the format. The Cantina Band is split over two tracks! It’s only three minutes.
At least they kept the order the same as the vinyl.
That was pretty common with 8-tracks. I had an 8-track of the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour, and it splits “I Am the Walrus” over two tracks even though the song is only four and a half minutes long. I guess there was no other way of assigning the songs to tracks while keeping the same running order as the Capitol LP.
Those spellings were around back then. That’s also how they were spelled in the novelization (credited to George Lucas, actually written by Alan Dean Foster). I had that novelization, and read it and re-read it dozens of times until the cover was literally falling off. That’s how you re-experienced the movie back in the days before home video. So I internalized those spellings. In my mind, on some level, those droids will always be named Artoo and Threepio.
Likewise, I always stumble a bit in remembering that Luke’s callsign was Red Five. In the novelization he was Blue Five, and that’s what seems right to me.
I have a Star Wars 8-track. Bought it at a flea market more than 20 years ago.
Ah, my parents had a Christmas song 8-track that had more than one song split into separate tracks. My childhood coming back to me!
Hardware Wars was brilliant, but I was even more impressed after Lucas came out with Star Wars – The Special Edition and someone (sadly not Ernie Fosselius, who made Hardware Wars) came out with Hardware Wars – The Special Edition, which added bad CGI to the bad “practical” effects in the original – deliberately bad CGI.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x69wnp4
Just the idea cracks me up.
Groove on this: The Jaws 8-track must have come up short on track four because the music during the Brody-shoots-the-air-tank sequence is twice as long as every other version of the soundtrack (including the movie).
I’ve seen the movie more times than I remember, I’ve built the model of the X-wing, and yet I never noticed that “Red (number)” can be identified by the number of stripes on the wing! Obvious as the fex-ex arrow once you see it, but I missed it for 45 years.
Wow. I thought I was the only one.