It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
... View MoreIt really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
... View MoreThe joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
... View MoreThere's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
... View MoreSomeone could make a great deal of money if they were to transfer the Another World series on DVD. There are very loyal fans out here. I started watching Another World when it fist started and it is the only soap that I have ever followed devotedly. !Please!, !Please!, someone release the whole series. I feel crestfallen yet again with the unannounced, whoops it is no longer being carried by Soap Net, gone again!!! I never understood why this soap that won many awards along the way was cancelled. It is typical of a network to try and fix something that is not broken! AND, did I not recently hear that the soap that replaced ANother World is gone Kaput. Why not bring Another World back, starting with some old story lines to catch new viewers up to speed. If not, the concept of DVDs would have me at the store standing in line to buy the entire series!! A fan to the end...shimanc
... View MoreHow well I remember this show from when I was a child...Jim & Mary; John & Pat; Walter & Lenore; Aunt Liz; Iris Carrington. The peak years were 1968-74, when the Alice-Steve-Rachel triangle dominated the show. That storyline really captured the viewers' attention and the actors (Jacqueline Courtney, George Reinholt and Robin Strasser followed by Victoria Wyndham)were well-cast. The show was expanded to an hour in 1975 (the first soap to do so), but popular cast members Virginia Dwyer, Reinholt and Courtney were all fired (Susan Sullivan exited at the same time)! The focus shifted to the Rachel-Mac-Iris conflict but was dealt a death blow in 1979 when it (incredibly) expanded to 90 minutes daily (the first 90-minute episode featured the death of long-time character John Randolph, played only by Michael M. Ryan since 1964). The show returned to the one-hour format a year and a half later (to accommodate it's spin-off, "Texas"), but it never recovered. It was sad when it was canceled in 1999. But many fans had long since abandoned it by that time.
... View MoreI started watching this show in 1984 when Sally and Catlin were in trouble and Cecile disappeared in the tunnel of love, they were all involved in the David Thatcher murder storyline - i was 13 years old in a new town and had no friends, the one friend i made watched Days of Our Lives, AW came on after it, I watched it for 15 years and was shocked it was cancelled! now i watch As The World Turns, this month is my 20th anniversary for watching a 1 hour soap continuously for 20 years! THANKS NBC FOR AIRING THIS SHOW, BUT SINCE YOU CANCELLED IT I NEVER WATCHED ANYTHING ELSE ON YOUR NETWORK EVER AGAIN! ERIC
... View MoreI'm not the typical soap opera watcher, if there is such a thing. I'm a male between the ages of 18 and 49 which is precisely the demographic NBC was seeking when they canceled Another World on April 12, 1999. Even though I'm not a woman, I suspect that age was more important to the suits. The network brass stated that the 35-year-old serial no longer fit their profile. Why? because it had too much class? Thanks to my beloved Grandmother, I started watching Another World back in the fall of 1968. The show was 30 minutes long and in black and white. (It may have been in color but our TV was B&W.) I was just a kid. Most of the time I didn't quite know what characters were talking about. However I knew the faces and I knew who everybody was. So I stopped arguing for cartoons and watched Another World every day. Back then it started at 3:00 and I was home from school in time to see it. Whoever thinks the soaps are trash obviously never watched AW. The acting was excellent, something that never changed from 1968 to 1999. I've seen just about all of the other soaps since 1968. I have to say that none of them ever equaled Another World's caliber. The stories were very much like real life except with much more bad luck. The characters from Rachel Davis and Walter Curtin in the 60's and 70's to Lila, Cameron, Cindy and Paulina in the 90's, were always striving to get to their own "another world". A place, in their minds, that they thought they ought to be. Their perception of the world around them was colored by their preconcievd emotions and aspirations. The best example of this, in my opinion, was the Walter/Lenore storyline which played out over four years and included a murder trial, the birth of a baby,and the value of material possessions versus truth and respect between a husband and wife. There was so much history in the show. NBC just threw it away like an old shoe. In an era where hundreds of channels are available, NBC canceled the one show which would have kept me watching NBC no matter how many choices I had. But no more. In September I will be put in charge of a "people-meter" to measure and inform the neilsen ratings people on what I watch. I'm told that I'll represent 250,000 viewers. I don't know how that can be considered accurate, but that's how the ratings people do it. Bad News for NBC and Passions. They have both just lost 250,000 viewers in the "good" demographic.
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