Wing Commander

Starring:Ken Bones, Saffron Burrows, Richard Dillane, David Fahm, Ginny Holder, Fraser James, TchÃ©ky Karyo, Craig Kelly (II), Matthew Lillard, Simon MacCorkindale, John McGlynn, Kieron Phipps, Mark Powley, Freddie Prinze Jr., JÃ¼rgen Prochnow, Hugh Quarshie, David Suchet, Jamie Treacher, David Warner
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Video games are interesting because they're interactive, and movies because they aren't. In a video game, you're the actor; moviegoing depends on your connecting with those people up on the screen;. There's really no easy crossover.

That's the problem with Wing Commander, based on the bestselling computer game series created by Chris Roberts. Roberts helms the film, too, having previously directed "cinematic" sequences for the game, starring Mark Hamill from Star Wars, no less. But a feature-length story is something else again. Maybe gamers will find something to enjoy here, but that sets the rest of us adrift.

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Video games are interesting because they're interactive, and movies because they aren't. In a video game, you're the actor; moviegoing depends on your connecting with those people up on the screen;. There's really no easy crossover.

That's the problem with Wing Commander, based on the bestselling computer game series created by Chris Roberts. Roberts helms the film, too, having previously directed "cinematic" sequences for the game, starring Mark Hamill from Star Wars, no less. But a feature-length story is something else again. Maybe gamers will find something to enjoy here, but that sets the rest of us adrift.

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"Starship Troopers" meets "Top Gun" in this no-holds-battle for the future of mankind. A vicious alien race, the Kilrathi, has discover the coordinates to Earth and is heading our way with plans of the total destruction. Now it's up to two young hotshot fighter pilots to blast their way through the Kilrathi's defenses and save their planet from this new breed of enemy.

Customer Reviews:

If you hear a box office flop in the middle of space..........2007-05-23

should you watch it? NO! Whatever the guy below me thinks that this movie is the Holy Grail of scifi movies needs to have someone hire a B list celebrity (maybe Freddie Prinze Jr.) to go to his house and slap him in the face with a white glove! How in the world can anyone compare this movie with anything but a paper wieght is beyond me. The plot is as deep as a puddle, the acting... well, Freddie Prinze and Mathew Lillard hahahaha they suck and hollywood was hoping that they would be the next Damon and Afleck combo. Don't get me wrong I think Damon/Afleck suck too.Special effects are good though but nothing impressive considering all the advancement that we have made in that department. Considering that this MOVIE was concieved after a GAME I believe that there should be some continuity and relation to the game. So all you people who say that this is A MOVIE and not a GAME, yeah we know that. I hope that you never find yourself in a position to watch a representation of something you like be bent over backwards. Guess that explains how I feel about the MOVIE. I think that this movie sucks.

Wing Commander.......2007-04-12

Received in a reasonable length of time & was in good condition.
Liked the movie.
Thanks,

First scene using Bullet- time .......2007-03-14

The movie is sub-par the plot is very loosly based but then again it is a sci-fi movie. The one plus point is it shows one of the very first applications of bullet time as seen in the matrix, swordfish, etc. It does have a pretty cool effect.

Wing Commander dvd.......2007-03-08

If you played any of the pc/video games than you know how much they left out of this movie. Still, its one of the best "B" movies I've ever bought. I enjoy it every time I watch it.

A Crusade of Good Taste. The Holy Grail of Science Fiction.......2007-02-19

Brilliantly scripted and marvelously acted Sci-Fi movie based on the all-time favorite PC-game. The intense combination of an intergalactic war-story and a classic Shakespearian love-tale makes this movie an adrenaline-pumping tears-jerker of historical proportion. Mankind can traverse the darkest depths of space, it will always bring along its emotions!
The Kilrathi character-depth is the secret of its success, diminishing the personality of Hamlet to a superficial cartoon-character. While the lines spoken by the Kilrathi have the rhythm of a Swiss watch, it is the depth of their meanings that truly fascinates. Only repeated viewing can reveal the many layers of its message. Once discovered, your will agree that this is what takes Wing Commander beyond the level of the greatest classics of Hollywood or even global cinema.
The people of the future will divide human history in the pre-Wing Commander era (or the Dark Age) and the post-Wing Commander era, when humanity finally became enlightened by this masterpiece and its powerful message. At a lower level, you are bound to forget the part of your life that was spent - wasted really - before you could become a wittness yourself to the brillance that is Wing Commander.
Oscars may be awarded for artistry in film-making, only a Nobel Prize (or several) could do justice to the levels of excellence reached by Wing Commander. This production will no-doubt be remembered by the many generations to come as a turning point in movie-making. How many ages hence, shall thsi our lofty scene be acted over? Its message, when correctly interpreted, will influence society as only the Holy Bible may have done before.
Be ready to experience never-felt-before emotions as you watch this hallmark movie over and over again. It will leave its tracks on your soul - tractor-pull deep tracks.

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THE FLEET THAT CAME TO STAY!!
I wanted to see a good WWII Navy movie. This is it.
O.K. Movie, But Lots of Inaccuracies
GOOD WAR MOVIE
Carrier X Gets It Done

Wing and a Prayer
Starring: Don Ameche , Dana Andrews , William Eythe , Charles Bickford , and Cedric Hardwicke
Director: Henry Hathaway
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Release Date: 2002-05-21

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THE FLEET THAT CAME TO STAY!!.......2007-04-07

I was twelve [12] years old when I saw this movie on a Saturday afternoon at a neighborhood theater...It had a powerful impact on my immature grasp of things then...it is a beautiful made movie during the anxious WW2 years about the US Navy and its pilots...just listen to the inspiring/heroic musical score by Hugo W. Friedhofer [kudos to him] and the easy; yet, Naval discipline as it flows so naturally under the direction of Henry Hathaway...forget the nit-pickers that drag on in here...the United States was losing the War in early 1942, I say again, losing the war all the way down to the tip of Australia...movies like the "Wing" made morale on the home/front soar as high as our Navy flyers could take it...by 1944 when this wonderful film was released, the USA was on the threshold of victory all the way to Tokyo...it was a long dirty way to Tokyo as The Captain alluded to...everytime I see this movie, I see my dearest friend recreated in the role played by Dana Andrews aloft in his Grumman Avenger [TBF]...he was decorated with the Navy Cross and Distinguished Flying Cross for heroic actions against the Japanese Imperial Fleet..movies of this genre will stand the test of time immemorial...the studio bosses knew how to make real movies in this era...I had my WAR in Korea and I [we] know what it takes to defeat America's enemies and this movie, "Wing and a Prayer" demostrates that ever so clearly as the carrier heads for the battle of Midway in 1942....I ask you, "Where were you in 1942"??..Semper Fidelis...SSGT CHRIS SARNO-USMC FMF.

I wanted to see a good WWII Navy movie. This is it........2006-11-17

I also know history. This isn't. Yes, there was a Battle of Midway. After that... No matter. lots of action scenes, many of the scenes were actors performing in front of newsreel footage in what we now call a blue screen. Years later we're all so smart it almost seems quaint & we may chuckle. But it is excellent for it's time, which was wartime.
The U.S. military, paranoid as they are, covered up the battle & this movie for a long time. They publicized the Dolittle Tokyo raid which happened a few weeks before to boost the public morale. I would have thought our smashing victory at Midway might have had the same positive effect & a negative one if they Japanese found out.
The plot: The aircraft carrier USS X was traveling at light speed all over the Pacific so the enemy would think we had lots of carriers. It was traveling without it's escort ships which a carrier never does. It's too valuable. Then our pilots were to fly off the carrier but never engage enemy pilots. They are to run away, so the enemy thinks we are cowards. Of course, the enemy pilots would never think of following them back to their carrier which they could promptly sink since it has none of its escort ships. As history it is totally bogus but as a movie it is great. So I'm sorry if I'm critical. Dana Andrews, William Elthey & Henry Morgan etc. did good imitations of Navy pilots. They flew torpedo planes. In the movie they did a lot of damage & some of them survived. As we now know all the torpedo pilots went down & none of their torpedos hit a Japanese ship (some torpedoes were defective). This does not diminish their heroism or sacrifice. Don Ameche was exceptionally good as the stern, by the book, Cmdr. Bingo Harper. He is cast as the villian all the men love to hate. But he had the toughest job on the ship. I've seen worse than him in peacetime. One of the better war movies.

O.K. Movie, But Lots of Inaccuracies.......2006-09-06

Don Ameche (Cmndr. Bingo Harper) and Dana Andrews (Lt. Cmndr Edward Moulton) star in this movie that supposedly describes the Battle of Midway in 1942, but there are numerous inaccuracies that leave the viewer wondering what it is they are actually viewing.

The basic plot of the movie goes something like this. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the American public was wondering where their Navy was. It appeared to them that the Navy had gone into hiding and was actually afraid to face the Japanese fleet. "Carrier X" was dispatched to lull the Japanese into thinking that the American fleet was scattered all over the Pacific ocean, when in reality, they were positioned off of Midway, ready to intercept the Japanese fleet which was intent on invading Hawaii.
Cmndr. Moulton and his squadron of TBF torpedo bomber pilots have just landed on the carrier, and Cmndr. Harper takes command of the squadron. Inflexible and strictly by-the-book, many men in the squadron soon take a disliking to Harper.

During their voyage, the men are told to refrain from engaging enemy pilots, being told to return to their carrier rather than shoot it out with the Japanese. Activities are limited to recon flights and target bombing practice. The men become more and more frustrated with the non-combat strategy. Finally, the Captain tells the crew that they are about to sail to Midway to join in battle against the Japanese fleet. Relieved, the crew can now focus on fighting the Japanese.

Despite this movie being produced in 1944, more care should have been taken in regards to historical correctness. As a reader of World War II history for over thirty years, I was frustrated to see the American people in the film asking "where is our navy" when in reality, the American fleet started striking back (albeit rather small hit and run raids) immediately after Pearl Harbor. Who can forget the heroic defense of Wake island only hours after the bombs had stopped falling over Pearl?

As for the battle of Midway aspect of the film, this was the most disappointing to me. During the actual battle, not a single American torpedo struck any ship in the Japanese fleet, but in the movie, the torpedo bombers were shown with their torpedoes striking with great regularity against the Japanese fleet. Plus, the idea of the "rogue" American carrier joining up with the rest of the American fleet in the nick of time is somewhat absurd.

I felt the acting was fairly good. Don Ameche does a good job as the cold-hearted Commander Harper, Dana Andrews is good as Commander Moulton, and William Eythe does a good job as Ensign Hallam "Oscar" Scott, a former academy award winning actor turned torpedo plane pilot.

I can only give this movie a lukewarm recommendation. If you like action and battle scenes, then the movie is ok, but for historical accuracy and correctness, then the movie is extremely poor. Don't watch this movie expecting to get an accurate account of the Battle of Midway; you won't.

GOOD WAR MOVIE.......2006-06-28

This film is a classic with a believable storyline. If you like fast paced WWII movies..get this one.

Carrier X Gets It Done.......2006-03-15

"Wing & A Prayer" is a very well done WWII period war movie. The story line is engrossing, the direction sure-handed, and the acting first rate. Like such jewels as "They Were Expendable", "Bataan", "Guadalcanal Diary", and others, this was a film as much about human beings and their hopes and fears
in the face of harrowing danger as it was about the "boom-boom-rat-tat-tat" of cinematic combat action ( and such emphasis on the human being rather than the bursting shrapnel was the reason why the television series "Combat" was so enormously popular in the 1960s). There is plenty of action, to be sure, though, in "Wing & A Prayer", much of it culled from actual
combat footage and the rest created by Fox's ace special effects
maestro Fred Sersen. Add up the combat footage, the FX wizardry, the direction, the cinematography, the script, and the acting performances, and you see in toto a fine piece of filmmaking.

People often carp about things that really don't matter in movies (continuity errors, etc.), and most all movies about WWII have them. Yes, you see Hellcats doubling for Wildcats at times, and sometimes Hellcats reconfiguring as Corsairs while in flight and then back to Hellcats again. And you generally see "rising sun" painted SBDs or AT-6 Texans impersonating
Japanese aircraft in films....or Sherman or Walker Bulldog tanks "pretending" to be German Tigers, Mark IV Panzers or Panthers. And sometimes M-3 or M-5 light tanks turn "Japanese"
on us. But so what? Filmmakers, at certain points in time, had to "make do" with what they had available to them at time of production (in "To Hell And Back"...movie version...Audie Murphy earns his Medal of Honor atop a TANK...NOT a tank
DESTROYER as in historical reality...again, so what?).

I, for one, just let these little quibbles scoot by and don't worry about them. In the overall context of the stories being told, they don't amount to a thing.

Give "Wing & A Prayer" a break. Its a good flick and the little "bloopers" just don't matter here.

Lastly, to the reviewer who asked the question about the USS Ticonderoga and SBD footage shot aboard that vessel....part of a movie starring Errol Flynn...no, "Wing & A Prayer" isn't it.
Flynn is nowhere to be found in "Wing". The movie you want to see is Warner Bros. 1941 vehicle "Dive Bomber", starring Flynn and Ralph Bellamy. "Dive Bomber" (about flight surgeons working to prevent dive bomber pilots from passing out from G-force
blood drainage from the brain in steep sustained dives)is the movie that a crackpot named Charles Higham cited as an example of Errol Flynn's "nazi spy activities" in a ludicrous book he wrote in the late 1970s. Long since discounted and now justly ridiculed, this author tried to claim that Flynn used his "influence" with Warner Bros. to have "Dive Bomber" filmed in, around, and over Pearl Harbor, so that views of the harbor could be sent to Japan to help prepare for the December 7th attack. This was a preposterous claim as the Japanese spy network in Honolulu had already supplied all the needed intel months before and models and mock-ups were already in use in Japan. Further preposterousness lay in the fact that no one...not even a "star"...could influence filming locations under Hollywood's old studio system. And, lastly, given the
production facts about "Dive Bomber", one has to wonder how a movie shot entirely on location in SAN DIEGO could possibly offer up any "useful intelligence" on PEARL HARBOR!!

At any rate, if one is looking for "family SBD" footage from an Errol Flynn movie, "Dive Bomber" is what you are looking for.

Commander in Chief - The Inaugural Edition Complete 18 Episodes. 4 DVD Set.

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Great show.. too good to last
Great series but beware of product description.

Commander in Chief - The Inaugural Edition Complete 18 Episodes. 4 DVD Set.

Manufacturer: Touchstone
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

JAG (Judge Advocate General) - The Complete Third Season

Product Features:

Commentary by: Writer/Producer Dee Johnson ("The Elephant in the Room")Dolby Digital 2.0
"A conversation with Madame President" - One-on-one with Geena Davis
Deleted Scenes
"White House Umor" - Bloopers and Outtakes

ASIN: B000OY20UK

Product Description

Acclaimed actress Geena Davis joins Emmy(R) Award winner Donald Sutherland and an accomplished cast in a captivating blend of drama, excitement, and political intrigue. Complete 18 episodes ever made.

Customer Reviews:

Great show.. too good to last.......2007-05-12

Fis this is a review of the series and not so much about the dvd set

This is series I will definitively miss.. an independent US president.. this alone does create a vacuum hard to imagine and tehrefore thsi is why I think the series does not have the in-depth plots sucha as the West Wing.. But Geena SDavies performance is presidential, poised, knowledable.. she adroitly handles the situation very well and deals with the maquivellian schemes always pruced by that you-got-to-love-him-bad-fellow palyed by Donald Sutherland..

Alas another sublimination of an ideal adminstration performed by characters that comfort and inetrest more than the atual clowns in the real places.

Sorry if I sound like I have a political thought of my own, but he way things are turning nowdays, it may be the last chance I have to expres my beliefs

Great series but beware of product description........2007-04-30

As I previously commented for a copy of the complete copy of The Persuaders, all this appears to be is the existing 2 double disc sets wrapped in the same piece of cellophane and not a mega set of all 4 with previously unreleased extras. Since I already bought both sets during the weeks they originally came out, I'm not going to go out of my way and replace them as they are great the way they are. A word of advice, if you wait on buying a complete series until the "complete series" is available because the price is better, you do make out moneywise, but sometimes all you are getting are the same sets already released, but sometimes you do get a legitimate mega set. West Wing, Mash, Prisoner, Danger Man (including aka Secret Agent) are examples of shows with legitimate mega sets available. This (based on the picture showing) is not. So if you can get these 2 sets as separate items, do it and don't lose any sleep about missing something that in this case is not there to miss.

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A Wing and a Prayer
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Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, William Eythe and Richard Jaeckel star in this acclaimed film about newly-trained pilots assigned to an aircraft carrier immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Anticipating the battle of Midway, which will determine the future of the war in the Pacific, U.S. naval leaders attempt to lull the Japanese into a false sense of security by making it look like the American military is afraid to engage the enemy. Eager to fight, the young airmen aboard the carrier are not only confused and angered by their orders, but must also cope with a by-the-book officer (Ameche) who puts discipline and regulations above all else.

Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same [Region 2]

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