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RE: Favourite Films - Boomer - 03-06-2011 12:10 PM
(03-06-2011 11:44 AM)Mufasa Wrote: "Heavy Metal"... wow - haven't even thought of that one in years.
I can remember seeing that in the theater in 81'. It was the first animated film that gave me.... naughty thoughts.
You have no idea!
We got this on the submarine I was stationed on when VCR's first came out, and man did we WEAR this one out. This one, "Excalibur", "Red Dawn", and "Revenge of the Nerds" were about our favorites. I would love to have this movie in dvd form, because it really kicked booty for me....and Muffy wasn't the ONLY dirty minded lad in the theatres when it came out!!!
RE: Favourite Films - K4RM4 - 03-06-2011 01:08 PM
(03-06-2011 11:44 AM)Mufasa Wrote: "Heavy Metal"... wow - haven't even thought of that one in years.
I can remember seeing that in the theater in 81'. It was the first animated film that gave me.... naughty thoughts.
I was excited because it had as the soundtack Sammy Hagar who came out of the Inland Empire. We were excited to know a local boy "made it."
RE: Favourite Films - Bageleth - 03-06-2011 01:46 PM
yeah, that was certainly a different "cartoon". I only saw parts of it on cable, many years later. It was "interesting".
RE: Favourite Films - Mufasa - 03-06-2011 03:06 PM
I have it on good authority that one of our own was the model for one of the girls in the film...
RE: Favourite Films - Boomer - 03-06-2011 03:38 PM
OWWW WEALLY?
Dare I ask?
RE: Favourite Films - NWoBHM - 03-10-2011 01:48 PM
Saw a film today, an old Black and White with Sir Richard Attenborough - about the Long Range Desert Group - in El Alamein. I am pretty sure the LRDG morphed into the SAS under Colonel David Stirling, (prisoner of war at Colditz apparently).
I have the utmost respect for these blokes, although I am a little embarrassed to note an (apparently) 8 man SAS patrol was captured in Libya the other day.
Also a lot of lambasting for the coalition (UK Conservative and Lib Dem) asking for a no fly zone - with no planes to enforce a no fly zone - as Dr David Starkey (Historian) put it, "For Gun Boat diplomacy.....you need.......Gun Boats!!!"
What is this country coming to?
RE: Favourite Films - Rey - 03-11-2011 02:25 PM
Going to see a double feature tonight. My friend has one of those fancy video projectors and a screen that rolls down from the ceiling. Its pretty good, like being in a real theater with the surround sound and everything. Tonight were gonna see Indianapolis Jones and the Crystal Skull, and then later, Watchmen.
-Rey
RE: Favourite Films - Rey - 03-16-2011 10:08 AM
(03-04-2011 04:58 PM)NWoBHM Wrote: Just finished watching "Conspiracy" with Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth and a host of other Brit actors about the meeting in 1942 at lake Wannsee in Berlin, to determine the "Final Solution" for European Jews. An amazingly acted film, (as you might imagine with Branagh and especially and topically Firth), but also appalling in the clinical and financial determination of how best to eradicate all of Europe, (including the UK) of Jews, and yet somehow either derive some efficiency or productivity from this process.
Assembled at the meeting where all the Department heads, Military Officials, Ministers etc, who could influence, and accelerate the "production line", the argument from those assembled not being about the abhorence of what they are doing, but whether it translated to the bottom line.
A moving film.
Apparently the film is based on the actual transcript and minutes of the meeting!
I finally got around to watching “Conspiracy”. It is a really good movie. Those craving action and adventure might not like its slow pace, because it is a movie just about a meeting. But, what a meeting it was. How can a group of people gather together and discuss the best way to terminate millions of people? And do it while exchanging pleasantries, enjoying fine wine and food, and joking amongst themselves. At least there were some there who were thinking, “Well…maybe this is not such a good idea”, but even they, in the end, were persuaded to go with the majority. Frightening, but an important part of the history of the war that changed the world.
-Rey
RE: Favourite Films - NWoBHM - 03-16-2011 10:12 AM
Hi Rey,
I am glad you liked it mate!
RE: Favourite Films - Rey - 03-16-2011 10:17 AM
(03-01-2011 05:38 PM)Brutus Wrote: Anyone know if "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" is available on DVD? It is one of my top 10 movies. Julie Christie and Warren Beatty with a sound track by Leonard Cohen and directed by Robert Altman. Very sad and bootiful.
Now I'm going to have to find Brutus' movie to see next.
-Rey