A pair of stone cold sci-fi classics in 'Star Wars' and 'Alien' take on the iconic horror of Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' in this week's LA Times Ultimate Summer Movie Showdown.
And now we look ahead to Week 4, which covers movies that opened in U.S. theaters between May 22 and May 28, 1975-2019. It’s another robust lineup: two “Star Wars” movies, two “Indiana Jones” movies, two Ridley Scott triumphs and two gung-ho action movies, one of them a best picture Oscar winner. Here they are, in chronological order:Or should we call it “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope”? Under any title, it belongs here, obviously.
Or should it have been called “Rambo: Second Blood”? Maybe not. A nonsensical title chronology has always been one of this franchise’s ludicrous pleasures.Sure, I guess. But do stay tuned for the week of June 12, when “Raiders of the Lost Ark” will be in the running.Between “Return of the Jedi” and “Last Crusade,” this is clearly the week for trilogy cappers. This one might be the best? Discuss. Or just vote.
The Geena Davis-Susan Sarandon classic was my former Times colleague Kenneth Turan’s favorite movie of 1991, so : “Provocative, poignant and heartbreakingly funny, this neo-feminist road movie is as pointed a look at what is timidly called the war between the sexes as we have had in quite some time.”FRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEDDDOOOOOOOM! And it’d make a nice, gristly double bill with “Rambo: First Blood Part II.”“Fallout” and “Rogue Nation” will have their shots later this summer, but Brian De Palma’s sinuous, elegantly impenetrable first installment remains one of the Tom Cruise series’ high points.
The first of two Jackie Chan-Owen Wilson action-comedy pairings remains a high-spirited, unpretentious delight.Sixteen years ago, Roland Emmerich’s climate-change doomsday epic played like a hilarious Hollywood take on an already terrifying prospect. Will it seem quite so ludicrous — or so oddly consoling — 16 years later? will have to wait a bit longer. But at least you can see him alive and well in the franchise’s Justin Lin-directed sixth installment.
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