Everyone knows that Steven Spielberg's "1941" was a notorious box office flop. And everyone ... is wrong. Despite its reputation over the years, Spielberg's 1979 war comedy was not a box office failure. It just looked that way because, well, it was a Steven Spielberg movie. In '79,...
I moved back to the log-house under the bank. This had been taken as a hospital, and all night wounded men were being brought in, their wounds dressed, a leg or an arm amputated as the case might require, and everything being done to save life or alleviate suffering. The sight was ...
… There is no finer fighting man on the face of the earth than the American soldier. And there is no finer American soldier than our Green Berets. If you saw what you heard today in a movie, you would shake your head and say, ‘That didn’t happen.’ But it does, every day.” ...
but the result was not the thrilling spectacle that had been advertised [below: Able shot from Enyu Island]. Visually it was a damp squib. Judged by its own Broadway razzamatazz, one reporter jibed, it was a complete flop: ‘Operation ...
He named the movie Victory at Avalon: The Battle of the Five Colleges, and screened it at camps and shelters over LA. He initially thought it was a flop because the viewers didn’t react to it. Elliot found a moving and motivating story in the college students who had worked together ...
—with sea lord there, the p.m. and everyone else being in england and so close to the war made the movie mean so much more. all the c.’s cried—that impressed me too.” on another occasion, they watched citizen kane, “a violent flop,” kathy wrote home. on saturday afternoons,...
MY WARSTORY = I was there the night the earthquake hit Diego Garcia. My girl friend and I, (yes I was one of the lucky few to score!) were in my barracks room doing the horizontal mamba when she really rocked my world! Or so I thought until I realize it was just an earthquake....
When Z hit screens, it did so with bad advance press. The production underwent a mix of problems, issues big enough to necessitate a massive rewrite well into the shoot. Normally concerns like that signal a movie that will flop.
ll have to build a studio in the backyard. In the meantime I’ll used the breezeway, the interconnected porches of the houses. I will be exiting the movie business soon and be back to making stuff, the thing that has always felt like my natural calling. Anybody out there know how to ...
We're just days away from God of War's latest and long-awaited release on the PlayStation 4, so it's only natural that talk soon turns to a potential movie, right? As excitement for the eighth instalment in the hugely popular hack and slash franchise reaches fever pitch, we reckon t...