Old Movies
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@antipodean said in Old Movies:
@nevorian said in Old Movies:
Must watch all of the Hitchcock movies again sometime, seem to remember Birds scared me the most. Other old movies that sent shivers up my spine included The Exorcist and the Omen trilogy
One of my aunts was babysitting me as a young kid and we watched Omen. For all the "bad bits" she'd make me throw a blanket over my head so I didn't see. My imagination was worse...
I watched it as a kid with my cousins as my uncle left us at home by ourselves with the video player, oddly I don't really remember being freaked out by it, but I was upset by the Bruce Lee film we watched as I think some women got killed when their dojo got attacked by the Japanese (Google tells me it was Fist of Fury which made the equivalent today of $600m off a 600k budget).
The most terrifying thing I saw as a kid was on a general drama, I was sick so my Mum let me stay up and watch TV with her, and there was US story set in the 1800s sometime and one of the characters got stung to death by a swarm of bees - I straight up had nightmares about that for months.
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@antipodean My Dad’s other Go To was Where Eagles Dare. Which, BTW, has the best theme tune of all the war films, and I will brook no dissent on this.
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@jc said in Old Movies:
@antipodean My Dad’s other Go To was Where Eagles Dare. Which, BTW, has the best theme tune of all the war films, and I will brook no dissent on this.
Obviously an awesome movie cos Clint……
Von Ryans Express was also a brilliant WWII flick. I love a good ensemble 60s war film although as this trailer shows they are shockingly dated nowadays…..
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@jc said in Old Movies:
@antipodean My Dad’s other Go To was Where Eagles Dare. Which, BTW, has the best theme tune of all the war films, and I will brook no dissent on this.
Guns of Navarone was mine and my Dad's go too to watch together back in the day.
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@nepia said in Old Movies:
@jc said in Old Movies:
@antipodean My Dad’s other Go To was Where Eagles Dare. Which, BTW, has the best theme tune of all the war films, and I will brook no dissent on this.
Guns of Navarone was mine and my Dad's go too to watch together back in the day.
Great film
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Fuuck.. all this mention of the old WWII movies - Where Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarone, etc... has reminded me I used to love the books those were based on as a kid - but haven't even thought of those authors in years.
So... just added to download list: movies - Where Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarone, Von Ryan's Express, The Eagle Has Landed; and epub collections: Jack Higgins, Alistair MacLean
Depending on how that toe-dip into nostalgia goes, I might be adding every Dirty Dozen movie, and looking for a collection of the old "Commando" comics. -
@kruse They had some hardcover collections of the Commando comics at the library, didn’t age well.
With Battle (Later B.A.F mentioned above) the same library has Charlie’s War and Johnny Red. They weren’t bad, esp CW, but really only with nostalgia goggles
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@machpants said in Old Movies:
@kruse They had some hardcover collections of the Commando comics at the library, didn’t age well.
With Battle (Later B.A.F mentioned above) the same library has Charlie’s War and Johnny Red. They weren’t bad, esp CW, but really only with nostalgia goggles
I'd like to get the entirety of Charlies War, as I think it was the longest running serial and it spanned from WW1 to WW2.
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I'd also like to get the entirety of Rogue Trooper from. Dredd/2000AD.I have one Commando comic (4 in 1) here in Oz that I've managed to keep since I was a teen as it was favourite.
I used to love going to the book exchange to trade in my old ones for new ones. One of Dad's mates gave me his entire collection of abut 200 Commando, Battle, and War comics so I always had a bunch of Battle and War ones I'd trade for Commandos (they were the cool ones).
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@jc said in Old Movies:
@antipodean My Dad’s other Go To was Where Eagles Dare. Which, BTW, has the best theme tune of all the war films, and I will brook no dissent on this.
Yeah I forgot all of the Alastair MacLean movies - remember the local movie theatre used to do double bill sessions which were great
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@nepia said in Old Movies:
@machpants said in Old Movies:
@kruse They had some hardcover collections of the Commando comics at the library, didn’t age well.
With Battle (Later B.A.F mentioned above) the same library has Charlie’s War and Johnny Red. They weren’t bad, esp CW, but really only with nostalgia goggles
I'd like to get the entirety of Charlies War, as I think it was the longest running serial and it spanned from WW1 to WW2.
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I'd also like to get the entirety of Rogue Trooper from. Dredd/2000AD.I have one Commando comic (4 in 1) here in Oz that I've managed to keep since I was a teen as it was favourite.
I used to love going to the book exchange to trade in my old ones for new ones. One of Dad's mates gave me his entire collection of abut 200 Commando, Battle, and War comics so I always had a bunch of Battle and War ones I'd trade for Commandos (they were the cool ones).
I was a Warlord reader
Union Jack Jackson -
@mikethesnow said in Old Movies:
@nepia said in Old Movies:
@machpants said in Old Movies:
@kruse They had some hardcover collections of the Commando comics at the library, didn’t age well.
With Battle (Later B.A.F mentioned above) the same library has Charlie’s War and Johnny Red. They weren’t bad, esp CW, but really only with nostalgia goggles
I'd like to get the entirety of Charlies War, as I think it was the longest running serial and it spanned from WW1 to WW2.
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I'd also like to get the entirety of Rogue Trooper from. Dredd/2000AD.I have one Commando comic (4 in 1) here in Oz that I've managed to keep since I was a teen as it was favourite.
I used to love going to the book exchange to trade in my old ones for new ones. One of Dad's mates gave me his entire collection of abut 200 Commando, Battle, and War comics so I always had a bunch of Battle and War ones I'd trade for Commandos (they were the cool ones).
I was a Warlord reader
Union Jack JacksonOddly, I don't think I ever came across Warlord, it doesn't ring any bells for me.
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@nepia said in Old Movies:
@mikethesnow said in Old Movies:
@nepia said in Old Movies:
@machpants said in Old Movies:
@kruse They had some hardcover collections of the Commando comics at the library, didn’t age well.
With Battle (Later B.A.F mentioned above) the same library has Charlie’s War and Johnny Red. They weren’t bad, esp CW, but really only with nostalgia goggles
I'd like to get the entirety of Charlies War, as I think it was the longest running serial and it spanned from WW1 to WW2.
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I'd also like to get the entirety of Rogue Trooper from. Dredd/2000AD.I have one Commando comic (4 in 1) here in Oz that I've managed to keep since I was a teen as it was favourite.
I used to love going to the book exchange to trade in my old ones for new ones. One of Dad's mates gave me his entire collection of abut 200 Commando, Battle, and War comics so I always had a bunch of Battle and War ones I'd trade for Commandos (they were the cool ones).
I was a Warlord reader
Union Jack JacksonOddly, I don't think I ever came across Warlord, it doesn't ring any bells for me.
It was made as a competitor in the UK, never saw it in NZ
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Serial Mom with Kathleen Turner.
A deliciously dark and black comedy to match my current grumpy mood...
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@victor-meldrew said in Old Movies:
Serial Mom with Kathleen Turner.
A deliciously dark and black comedy to match my current grumpy mood...
She was also very good in the War of the Roses
▶️ Serial Mom
