Don't forget "Battleship". Definitely in the "fun" category...
Most of the movie was bubblegum for the mind, BUT, the final battleship scene when the Missouri comes back to life and sails off to battle with the crusty old sailors gave me a HUGE smile!!!
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Don't forget "Battleship". Definitely in the "fun" category...
Most of the movie was bubblegum for the mind, BUT, the final battleship scene when the Missouri comes back to life and sails off to battle with the crusty old sailors gave me a HUGE smile!!!
Yep, the scene where the "young hero" goes below decks to ask the old guys for their help. Kinda brings a tear to your eye. "Bubblegum for the mind" - pretty much, I'll have to remember that one.
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
I was retrieving my 'Band of Brothers' boxed set and discovered an old VHS tape of ' The Dogs of War'. Another good one. By complete chance I made a connection to the 'Band of Brothers' in the Summer of 2019. My Grandson was playing in a city park while I sat on a bench reading. A couple of Moms with their kids walked by. I said "Hi" and they returned the greeting which is fortunately common where I live. One of them turned and walked back. She said: "You're reading 'Easy Company Soldier'. My Uncle Don's book". Wow! I was speechless for a few seconds then asked "Don Malarkey was your Uncle?". She said "technically no but our families have always been very close. Don and my Grandfather grew up as Brothers so he has always been Uncle Don". She spoke like he was still living so I had to ask. She said "he is in a nursing home in Astoria (Oregon) but is in poor health. I visited him 3 days ago". I knew from the book he was born and raised in Astoria. A couple months or so later I again encountered her in the park. She gave me the sad news that Uncle Don had passed. Another real deal hero from the greatest generation gone.
Be it Marines vs. Japanese in The Pacific, and oddly, Dwarves vs. Orcs in Peter Jackson's take on The Hobbit I was struck by how well they nailed the feeling of a conflict between two sides have nothing but ABSOLUTE hatred for each other; that everybody knows going in that there will be no asking for or giving of quarter; and the only conversation to be had is the final "frank exchange of ideas".
Wild Geese. The most memorable to me was Roger Moore's character outrage when he made the drug dealer eat the heroin laced with poison.Great movie.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill
Don't forget "Battleship". Definitely in the "fun" category...
Most of the movie was bubblegum for the mind, BUT, the final battleship scene when the Missouri comes back to life and sails off to battle with the crusty old sailors gave me a HUGE smile!!!
Yep, the scene where the "young hero" goes below decks to ask the old guys for their help. Kinda brings a tear to your eye. "Bubblegum for the mind" - pretty much, I'll have to remember that one.
I was mostly annoyed with Battleship -- improbable characters, lack of discipline, disregard for authority... So yeah, it was bubblegum.
I watched it anyway because the special effects were it's most redeeming qualities.
If you want to watch bubblegum and actually laugh with them instead of at them, watch Down Periscope. It's the Bad News Bears onboard a Navy submarine. Now that's some good bubblegum.
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Wild Geese. The most memorable to me was Roger Moore's character outrage when he made the drug dealer eat the heroin laced with poison.Great movie.
I hadn't watched Wild Geese for probably 25 years, but always remembered it. I ran across it on DVD on Amazon a couple years ago. It's in my library now. Good movie.
Mike
"Walking away seems to be a lost art form." N454casull
"Letters From Iwo Jima" was a good one as well. Don't often hear about WWII from the Japanese perspective.
One clip I enjoyed in the film was the story about Takeichi "Baron" Nishi, portrayed by Tsuyoshi Ihara, who did indeed win the Gold Medal in the Equestrian Jumping event in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. However, the story about him taking in and treating the wounded Marine was entirely fiction. From my understanding, his remains are still interred somewhere on the island.
At 8 years old I was totally shocked by 'The Bridges at Toko Ri'. I had seen SGT Stryker light up a Lucky Strike and get popped by a Japanese sniper in 'Sands of Iwo Jima but that was the misfortunes of war. Seeing the American heroes brutally murdered in cold blood by the enemy gave me nightmares.
Is a movie concerning our late 19th century Indian wars
acceptable? My all time favorite of those is 'Sergeant Rutledge' (1960) starring
Woody Strode Sr. Produced and Directed by John Ford. He is a Buffalo Soldier
(black). A First Sergeant in the U.S.
10th Cavalry stationed in Arizona
(1881). It exhibits the common racism regarding negroes especially in the
military at that time. In the film they are identified as U.S. 9th Cavalry never in Arizona Territory
at a non existent fort. The 10th was at Ft Huachuca. I was there for 4 and 1/2 months
in 1978 for my advanced Army training. I learned a lot about the Buffalo
Soldiers.
I just watched "Tankers" on prime, dubbed Russian movie, ok story, loved the WWII tanks, not quite "Fury", but only 90 minutes and a couple of beers of KV , T-34, and Panzer action.
I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
I just watched "Tankers" on prime, dubbed Russian movie, ok story, loved the WWII tanks, not quite "Fury", but only 90 minutes and a couple of beers of KV , T-34, and Panzer action.
Don't forget "Battleship". Definitely in the "fun" category...
Most of the movie was bubblegum for the mind, BUT, the final battleship scene when the Missouri comes back to life and sails off to battle with the crusty old sailors gave me a HUGE smile!!!
Speaking of brain gum, was Independence Day technically a war movie?
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"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
I especially liked Steve McQueen in 'Cool Hand Luke' when he ate all those eggs....
Lol!!!
My bad, it was Steve McQueen. Thats what happens when I wake up and dont have coffee before posting....
Edit: I might just watch that movie tonight! … like the hundredth time! Great film.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
Winston Churchill
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Mike
N454casull
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
One clip I enjoyed in the film was the story about Takeichi "Baron" Nishi, portrayed by Tsuyoshi Ihara, who did indeed win the Gold Medal in the Equestrian Jumping event in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. However, the story about him taking in and treating the wounded Marine was entirely fiction. From my understanding, his remains are still interred somewhere on the island.
John 3: 1-21
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Is a movie concerning our late 19th century Indian wars acceptable? My all time favorite of those is 'Sergeant Rutledge' (1960) starring Woody Strode Sr. Produced and Directed by John Ford. He is a Buffalo Soldier (black). A First Sergeant in the U.S. 10th Cavalry stationed in Arizona (1881). It exhibits the common racism regarding negroes especially in the military at that time. In the film they are identified as U.S. 9th Cavalry never in Arizona Territory at a non existent fort. The 10th was at Ft Huachuca. I was there for 4 and 1/2 months in 1978 for my advanced Army training. I learned a lot about the Buffalo Soldiers.
Same question for Pacific Rim.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee