If justice is understood in universal, rather than parochial terms, if common human solidarity counts as a weighty moral consideration, and if peace is of paramount importance and war is morally permissible only when it is just, then this kind of patriotism must be rejected.
Regal offered similar SuperTicket deals last year, beginning with Paramount's "World War Z" and "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," and plans further such promotions on other movies.
At the same time, the success of Close Encounters of the Third Kind showed Paramount that Star Wars success in the science fiction genre at the box office could repeat.
That doesn't include the Paramount released Tom Cruise-Steven Spielberg frightfest, War of the Worlds, the third-highest-grossing film of 2005, which raked in $591 million worldwide, nearly doubling the profit Paramount realized from its dozen other films combined.
He came on the scene when radio news was playing a paramount role in bringing World War II home to Americans, and he made the transition to television with passion and authority.
As the Democratic candidate, William Jennings Bryan, clashed with the Republican incumbent over imperialism, which the Democrats called "the paramount issue," critics of the war had to defend themselves against accusations of having treasonously inspired the insurgency, prolonged the conflict, and betrayed American soldiers.
The issue is a much wider one - that irrespective of the rights or wrongs of particular wars, the decision to go to war is so paramount to the life of the nation that it should be taken, and only taken, by an elected parliament on a substantive vote, and well before events had moved to such a point that parliament had little or no alternative but to ratify a decision already reached.
Former Foreign Secretary William Hague said the protection of UK citizens from radicalised Britons returning from war zones was paramount.
Paramount released a new "World War Z" trailer at 3 a.m. EDT on Monday morning, proof that when it comes to summer blockbusters, global ticket sales are king.
In a war where perceptions are paramount, the effect is poisonous.
War the war in Vietnam was the paramount issue, and McGovern was the candidate of peace and the peace movement.
