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Chariots of Fire!
Read reviews first, then decide if it will be worth your financial investment.
Put me down for Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid!
Too much academia will do that to a person.
Thanks for the background info!
Except for squirrel aficionados!
The "jogging craze" goes back to the late 1970's: Jim Fixx published The Complete Book of Running in 1977 and it was on best-seller lists for the next few years.
And to stay on topic, Chariots of Fire is a masterpiece and fully deserving of the Best Picture Oscar.
Squirrels rule!!!
^^^Fully agree^^^
One vote for "un-yummy"!
This movie is nothing more than a "gateway drug" to recruit younger viewers. The Horror Movie Industrial Complex puts out a movie like this every now and then to invest in future viewers and protect their financial investments in the endless rebooting of the tired old franchises.
So what happened with this???
I have a sneaking suspicion that you are really avortac4. Only he/she/they would devote so many words to something so insubstantial to one of the best movies of that entire decade!
This movie is FLAWLESS as is!
If Richard Bennett Mabry were really "legendary", he would have his own Wikipedia page.
Prove me wrong.
Squirrels rule!
Katie Findlay was awesome - the whole cast was perfect!
Will he still be alive then?
The books have a smug "over-the-top"-ness married to a maudlin sentimentalism that doesn't play well in this century. Even when reading them as a kid, it was easy to see that when Pastor Dahl gives names to his characters like Augustus Gloop, Mike Tevee, or even Charlie Bucket that he is attempting to do more than just entertain or capture one's imagination.
That being said, they are better than the film adaptations.
Far better than anything made in the last 35 years!