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 Jul 4 2010, 04:53 AM
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What made me chuckle recently was Sharlene and I were watching a DVD of Battle of Britain with the subtitles on. There's a bit in the movie with three London kids watching a bunch of German planes fly over. One boy says "Messerschmitts!" And one of the other kids (correctly) says: "No they ain't, they're 'Einkels!" The subtitle writer obviously didn't speak London as the subtitle read: "No they ain't they're iron corps!" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
-------------------- SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us all the time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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Jul 4 2010, 06:37 AM
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 Major Group: Members Posts: 374 Joined: 23-March 08 From: Western Australia via the Black Country! Member No.: 49 |
Iron corps???? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
I took the missus to see Toy Story 3 last weekend, and we both loved it. We managed to find a screening that wasn't in 3D, cause 3D does my head in (I find it's hard to concentrate on the film when there's arrows and whatnot being pointed at you), and it gives Melanie a headache. The film was as good as we expected - easily as good as the first two - and I don't think that seeing it in 3D would have added anything to the film... --------------------  |
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Jul 4 2010, 08:35 AM
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General Group: Administrator Posts: 2,789 Joined: 7-April 07 From: Cardiff, Wales, UK and Tucson, Arizona Member No.: 7 |
QUOTE(whiskeyonesix @ Jul 4 2010, 11:37 AM)  Iron corps???? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) You really need to hear it said with an East End accent. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) -------------------- SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us all the time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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Jul 9 2010, 06:58 PM
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 Sergeant Group: Members Posts: 108 Joined: 15-September 07 From: Dumfriesshire, Scotland Member No.: 40 |
QUOTE(The_Peer @ Apr 19 2007, 04:00 PM) I haven't seen The Tudors, but it's hard for me to believe Jonathan Rhys-Meyers playing Henry VIII. Henry VIII is always portrayed as being pretty hefty, and Rhys-Meyers looks nothing like him. but you wouldn't want to watch a pretty hefty bloke gettin his grove on, there is a lot of steamy hot sex in this serier |
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Jul 9 2010, 08:34 PM
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QUOTE(Lisa @ Jul 9 2010, 06:58 PM) but you wouldn't want to watch a pretty hefty bloke gettin his grove on, there is a lot of steamy hot sex in this serier The Tudors has now ended with Henry's death. They made an attempt to age him but J R-M really didn't resembe the portrait of Henry viii. Still it held my interest and was very well acted.
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Jul 21 2010, 02:37 PM
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General Group: Administrator Posts: 2,789 Joined: 7-April 07 From: Cardiff, Wales, UK and Tucson, Arizona Member No.: 7 |
I recently got a whole bunch of WW2 movies from a charity shop on DVd for 20 pence each. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Above Us The Waves (1955) - British midget submarines attempt to sink the Tirpitz. The First of the Few (1942) 'Spitfire' in US - The story of R.G. Mitchell's buiding of the Supermarine Spitfire. The Cruel Sea (1953) - British Navy movie about the Battle of the Atlantic. In Which We Serve (1942) - The story of a British Destroyer and her crew. Appointment in London (1953) - RAF Bomber Command movie. The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) - Burmese Jungle movie. I haven't watched them all yet - but some real classics there. -------------------- SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us all the time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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Jul 22 2010, 03:10 PM
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After watching The Pacific and Band of Brothers as well as reading the books that went with them, I've been very interested in WWII.
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Jul 23 2010, 06:49 AM
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Major Group: Members Posts: 374 Joined: 23-March 08 From: Western Australia via the Black Country! Member No.: 49 |
QUOTE The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) - Burmese Jungle movie. George Macdonald Fraser didn't like it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ........ therefore, it's probably worth watching! -------------------- |
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Jul 23 2010, 02:38 PM
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General Group: Administrator Posts: 2,789 Joined: 7-April 07 From: Cardiff, Wales, UK and Tucson, Arizona Member No.: 7 |
QUOTE(whiskeyonesix @ Jul 23 2010, 11:49 AM) George Macdonald Fraser didn't like it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ........ therefore, it's probably worth watching! We read the book in school - it was very good. It deals with seeing a captured enemy (Japanese) as a human being. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) -------------------- SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us all the time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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Aug 11 2010, 03:38 PM
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Recruit Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 31-July 10 Member No.: 833 |
I saw two things of note over the weekend. First, I went to the Boulder Shakespeare Festival and saw King Lear. It is one of the more confusing of the plays but a synopsis on the internet helped. Also, we had a short presentation before the performance which explained a lot. It is unrelentingly tragic but many of the lines are poetic and truly beautiful. The only spoiler was that they set it in the1880's American West. I didn't care for that at all.
The second was the movie Inception. It's premise concerned the possibility of invading people's sub concious minds while they are dreaming to affect their behavior. I saw it with three friends and all of us had different interpretations of what was going on. I'm not sure I really grasped the ending. Have any of you seen it? |
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Aug 11 2010, 09:33 PM
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Major Group: Members Posts: 374 Joined: 23-March 08 From: Western Australia via the Black Country! Member No.: 49 |
I saw Inception at the weekend with the Missus.
It's a really good film, but I had to struggle to follow the plot, and I'm still not sure about the ending...... One to watch on DVD again I think. btw, it'll clean up at next years Oscars you see (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) -------------------- |
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Aug 12 2010, 04:31 PM
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Recruit Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 31-July 10 Member No.: 833 |
QUOTE(whiskeyonesix @ Aug 11 2010, 09:33 PM) I saw Inception at the weekend with the Missus. Since you saw it, did you think the children were real or part of his dream? My friends thought he was back in reality at the end but I don;t know. I thought he might have just been in his own dream. It's a really good film, but I had to struggle to follow the plot, and I'm still not sure about the ending...... One to watch on DVD again I think. btw, it'll clean up at next years Oscars you see (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'm not sure about the oscars. They are usually unpredictable but it should get one. |
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Aug 16 2010, 12:00 AM
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 Major Group: Members Posts: 441 Joined: 8-April 07 From: Tucson, Arizona Member No.: 13 |
I've been watching a batch of WW2 movies that I hadn't seen, or hadn't seen in a long time. I got The Battle of the Bulge (1965) which was not the movie I had seen years ago, and which I remembered as being considerably better at giving a feeling of what war was like. It was called Battleground and was made in 1949. Those who rated it for IMBD give it the rave reviews I rememberas my feeling about the picture..Here is a link to the IMBD movie site. Unfortuantely, I don't think it's available any more.
And I've recently wateched The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan, and a Korean War Movie Pork Chop Hill. I thought I'd seen Saving Private Ryan, but realized when the movie started that I'd only seen clips from it. Quite a powerful movie--much more so than The Longest Day. -------------------- Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile
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Aug 16 2010, 01:14 AM
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General Group: Administrator Posts: 2,789 Joined: 7-April 07 From: Cardiff, Wales, UK and Tucson, Arizona Member No.: 7 |
Battleground is indeed available - I just ordered it for you on Amazon. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
-------------------- SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us all the time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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Aug 20 2010, 06:30 AM
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General Group: Administrator Posts: 2,789 Joined: 7-April 07 From: Cardiff, Wales, UK and Tucson, Arizona Member No.: 7 |
I watched my DVD of 'On The Beach' last night. It's an incredible anti-nuclear message in both the book (by Nevil Shute) and the movie. This one never ceases to move me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
-------------------- SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us all the time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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Aug 20 2010, 06:44 AM
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Major Group: Members Posts: 374 Joined: 23-March 08 From: Western Australia via the Black Country! Member No.: 49 |
I got the DVD out of the library last week. No happy ending, but very moving as you said...
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