tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post159892166849880886..comments2024-03-17T23:08:28.960-07:00Comments on Raybeard: Film: '(Seven Days in) Entebbe'Raybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-36594499808019255232018-07-04T21:39:27.899-07:002018-07-04T21:39:27.899-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.sanpiseth40https://www.blogger.com/profile/02877855535800623770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-79447537065329711022018-05-18T20:35:10.255-07:002018-05-18T20:35:10.255-07:00Well, whatever it meant there's no doubt that ...Well, whatever it meant there's no doubt that if its purpose was to convey a 'message' it failed, and failed miserably. Truth is that even without this distraction the film would have been disappointingly inert anyway. At least this act (I hesitate to over-use the word 'dance', as it's not quite that) gives it an additional talking point, albeit one that doesn't do the film any credit. Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-44548635674806485522018-05-18T10:09:57.310-07:002018-05-18T10:09:57.310-07:00I think it is out of five stars. The reviewer was...I think it is out of five stars. The reviewer was as puzzled and bemused as you. He suggested the dance routine repeating itself may have been trying to say that the attack was rehearsed like the dance?? He didn't think it was saying it very successfully if indeed that was what it was saying. Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-81804451921307228642018-05-18T08:27:14.700-07:002018-05-18T08:27:14.700-07:00I think awarding it a single star (out of four?) w...I think awarding it a single star (out of four?) would be grossly unfair, Rachel, though it does come from the right direction. Another case of opportunity missed, I fear.Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-23800269815831071892018-05-18T08:25:10.206-07:002018-05-18T08:25:10.206-07:00The Amin character only has a bit part in this fil...The Amin character only has a bit part in this film, Gwil. Nevertheless, he represents a still scary curiosity when one considers what we know about him, even at the time this film relates to. But he's not enough to make one want to see or avoid the film for that reason alone. There are several other reasons.<br /><br />I'd not heard of 'The Green Lie' but, on looking it up, if it does come to here I think I'd rather not see it as it's sure to get me irate and raise my blood pressure, something that happens easy enough when I just have to think about the subject. And your experience with a tiny audience only underlines people's lack of concern - unless they are also avoiding it for the same reason as me, of course! Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-76571845286700894712018-05-18T04:56:18.976-07:002018-05-18T04:56:18.976-07:00 I read the Guardian reviewer after I read yours a... I read the Guardian reviewer after I read yours and he said very much the same thing and found the same irritations of the film that you found. Overall he gave the film 1 star. I decided to give it a miss. Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-3090734913717896072018-05-18T03:20:12.064-07:002018-05-18T03:20:12.064-07:00I've watched the original Raid on Entebbe and ...I've watched the original Raid on Entebbe and also The Last King of Scotland. I don't think I need any more Idi Amin films, unless somebody wants to make one about his years in exile in their Saudi Arabia. A couple of days ago I went to see The Green Lie. It's a new Austrian documentary film about how we are polluting the planet and decimating the rain forests etc.. It was filmed mainly in Indonesia, USA, Germany, South America. There must have been at at least 10 of us in the cinema. I'm only joking, there were really less than that. Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-57402626340717967512018-05-17T20:13:35.120-07:002018-05-17T20:13:35.120-07:00I don't, JayGee, because I've never been a...I don't, JayGee, because I've never been a great telly watcher. I can't even recall any talk of it. It must be significant for you to have mentioned it, though.Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-17803166969990009272018-05-17T12:50:21.960-07:002018-05-17T12:50:21.960-07:00Do you remember the TV movie from the seventies
Wi...Do you remember the TV movie from the seventies<br />With David groh, Richard Dreyfus and Helen hayesJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.com