Old Movies
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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
loved commando comics, used to get heaps of them
Those B&W era WWII movies absolutely own. The Longest Day is my fav (check out the list of names in that fucker) but heaps i could watch over and over. A Bridge too Far, Midway, Tora Tora Tora, it's fucking endless.
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@mariner4life yeah, my brother has 300-400 of them in some boxes, comando and a few similar ones, collected the religiously for years
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@kiwiwomble said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life yeah, my brother has 300-400 of them in some boxes, comando and a few similar ones, collected the religiously for years
I've mentioned before my dad used to have a 2nd job at the paper recyclers and i had a constant stream every month. fucking loved it.
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@mariner4life said in Old Movies:
@kiwiwomble said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life yeah, my brother has 300-400 of them in some boxes, comando and a few similar ones, collected the religiously for years
I've mentioned before my dad used to have a 2nd job at the paper recyclers and i had a constant stream every month. fucking loved it.
Lucky bastard.
I can still remember my favourite one, that I didn't keep. It was about a green American officer in North Africa who was of German heritage and he was a bit bumbling at first and some of his troops thought he was deliberately giving away their position. But of course he becomes a hero by books end and all his troops love him "as they fight their way through Italy to crush the Nazi menace".
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@mariner4life said in Old Movies:
@kiwiwomble said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life yeah, my brother has 300-400 of them in some boxes, comando and a few similar ones, collected the religiously for years
I've mentioned before my dad used to have a 2nd job at the paper recyclers and i had a constant stream every month. fucking loved it.
My uncle’s girlfirend worked at a dairy, if the comics didn’t sell, they rip the covers off them, return the covers for refund/whatever. Pretty standard practise, apparently. I got heaps of comics as a kid, sans cover
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@machpants said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life said in Old Movies:
@kiwiwomble said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life yeah, my brother has 300-400 of them in some boxes, comando and a few similar ones, collected the religiously for years
I've mentioned before my dad used to have a 2nd job at the paper recyclers and i had a constant stream every month. fucking loved it.
My uncle’s girlfirend worked at a dairy, if the comics didn’t sell, they rip the covers off them, return the covers for refund/whatever. Pretty standard practise, apparently. I got heaps of comics as a kid, sans cover
didn't even need to be the cover, just the title and the issue number. So all mine had the cover minus the top quarter or so.
Marvel, DC, Commando, Judge Dredd, fucking Conan the Barbarian!
And dad's massive massive stack of stick mags...
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@nepia said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life said in Old Movies:
@kiwiwomble said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life yeah, my brother has 300-400 of them in some boxes, comando and a few similar ones, collected the religiously for years
I've mentioned before my dad used to have a 2nd job at the paper recyclers and i had a constant stream every month. fucking loved it.
Lucky bastard.
I can still remember my favourite one, that I didn't keep. It was about a green American officer in North Africa who was of German heritage and he was a bit bumbling at first and some of his troops thought he was deliberately giving away their position. But of course he becomes a hero by books end and all his troops love him "as they fight their way through Italy to crush the Nazi menace".
Battler Britton rocked. What a name!
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@canefan said in Old Movies:
@nepia said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life said in Old Movies:
@kiwiwomble said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life yeah, my brother has 300-400 of them in some boxes, comando and a few similar ones, collected the religiously for years
I've mentioned before my dad used to have a 2nd job at the paper recyclers and i had a constant stream every month. fucking loved it.
Lucky bastard.
I can still remember my favourite one, that I didn't keep. It was about a green American officer in North Africa who was of German heritage and he was a bit bumbling at first and some of his troops thought he was deliberately giving away their position. But of course he becomes a hero by books end and all his troops love him "as they fight their way through Italy to crush the Nazi menace".
Battler Britain rocked. What a name!
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@antipodean said in Old Movies:
As were other notables like Dambusters
The dog was the real star
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WARNING NAUGHTY WORD THAT COULD GET YOU FIRED IF YOU WATCH AT WORK
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@mariner4life said in Old Movies:
@duluth looool! holy fuck i forgot about that!!!! that's fucking great
one assumes Peter Jackson won't be putting that in if he ever ends up making that movie?
I'm sure that came up in the media when he was looking at the project.
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@mariner4life said in Old Movies:
@duluth looool! holy fuck i forgot about that!!!! that's fucking great
one assumes Peter Jackson won't be putting that in if he ever ends up making that movie?
There is a school of thought the dog's name is the reason why it is stalled. There is no way around it, damned if you're historically accurate, damned if you wash it out. Easier just not to make the movie
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@mariner4life said in Old Movies:
@machpants said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life said in Old Movies:
@kiwiwomble said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life yeah, my brother has 300-400 of them in some boxes, comando and a few similar ones, collected the religiously for years
I've mentioned before my dad used to have a 2nd job at the paper recyclers and i had a constant stream every month. fucking loved it.
My uncle’s girlfirend worked at a dairy, if the comics didn’t sell, they rip the covers off them, return the covers for refund/whatever. Pretty standard practise, apparently. I got heaps of comics as a kid, sans cover
didn't even need to be the cover, just the title and the issue number. So all mine had the cover minus the top quarter or so.
Marvel, DC, Commando, Judge Dredd, fucking Conan the Barbarian!
And dad's massive massive stack of stick mags...
my current laptop and screen stands, went through a bit of a phase a couple of years back
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@machpants said in Old Movies:
@mariner4life said in Old Movies:
@duluth looool! holy fuck i forgot about that!!!! that's fucking great
one assumes Peter Jackson won't be putting that in if he ever ends up making that movie?
There is a school of thought the dog's name is the reason why it is stalled. There is no way around it, damned if you're historically accurate, damned if you wash it out. Easier just not to make the movie
The dog's name has been (ironically) over-dubbed as 'Trigger' in most copies of the movie for a long time now.
It was quite funny when watching Māori TV one Sunday arvo and the original cut was playing.