You all know that I love - no make that LURRRRVE - movies. I am a self-confessed movie geek, I consume more movies than is probably healthy, and I still get excited like a big kid when a spectacular film is on the way. With Watchmen only a couple of weeks away from its DVD / BluRay release, I'm already like a rabid dog on heat gnashing my fangs to get my claws on it!
I digress. I'm sure at least some of you out there love movies, and the rest of you will, at the very least, LIKE movies from time to time! And so to add a new item of interest to this wonderful website PaulB has allowed me to try out a new magazine page all about movies.
I hope you'll all dip in from time to time, check out reviews, keep up with latest trailers, slam my opinions to smithereens, and enjoy some good old movie banter.
See you there!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i always liked that one about the nuns in austria, with all the nazis running around.
wonderful songs, seen it 355 times.
Howard, well done. You are officially a bigger geek than me. I lose count after 165 viewings normally.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
anything with julie andrews in always captivates me, along with anything involving a chainsaw.
Rick - you sound like my husband - at weekends he does 4 movies a day, has all that stuff you talk about (surround sound, several hundred speakers, all that geeky stuff) and looks at me in That Way when I don't "get" his references to movies...........
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
- Posts: 323
Ahhh - give me 'A matter of life and death' with incomparable David Niven and Kim Hunter - LOVE stops the staircase to eternity with the help of a woman's true love's tear..awwww!
Pass the tissues...
Bring on the reviews - I'll be Very interested....
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
One of my favourites! I love "The Field" and "Into the West" - fabbo irish movies.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,302
For weepie you can't beat Random Harvest "Oh Smithy!"
I know, I'm an old softy at heart.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
you cant beat a couple of clasics,the great escape and the longest day.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
I'm with you on those Brian and would add my all time favourite, Zulu.
Other greats are The Alamo (John Wayne version) and also, with Wayne, the Shootist and The Searchers.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
barryw,of course you are right to mention the others,not to shaw about the shootist though.going on from that she wore a yellow ribbon and the sea chase were very close to classics.
I love John Wayne!
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
- Posts: 573
What about 'Bruno' that seems to be somewhat controversial at the moment.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
who.
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
- Posts: 573
I'm sure you would recognise him if you saw him Brian
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
dont think so,i know so.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,673
The Hangover was the funniest one that I have seen recently
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
Brian - the Shootist was Wayne's last film and much underrated. He played an old gunsliger in the last days of the west dying from cancer, at a time when he was himself really dying from cancer. It had a great cast with Jimmy Stewart as the doctor and the villian was Richard Boone. Lauren Bacall also starred and Ron Howard as a child. You just dont get casts like that any more. John Carradine had a minor role too incidentally.
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
- Posts: 323
More recently (but stil VERY retro) I enjoyed 'Cadillac Records' with Beyonce' as Etta James - when she sings the blues it makes your hair stand on end..
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
