Old Movies
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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
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@canefan said in Old Movies:
@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
fine as a motherfucker
Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile are stone cold classics
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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...
▶️ Serial Mom
