Thread: Four days in

Originally Posted by cudarunner

My son is a lover of movies--Many a year ago my then wife took our son to see the remake of Flight of the Phoenix with Dennis Quaid. When they got back I asked him how he liked the movie and he said it was Great.

So I ordered a DVD from Netflix of the original with Jimmie Stewart and once it landed I asked him if he's like to watch it and he said sure.

I didn't say a word during the movie and at the end I asked him how he liked it and he said "Dad, that was a lot better than the new one"!

A few years later I rented several older movies/most in Black and White including The African Queen and Casablanca for my son and me to watch.

During the scene in The African Queen when Humphrey Bogart had crawled out with the leaches (those were ACTUAL LEACHES by the way) and Hepburn had scrapped them off was going to crawl back overboard to continue pulling the boat through the shallow water my son looked like a snake that had been dropped on 150 F concrete as he was just squirreling around on the couch when he said; "Dad, he's not going back in that water again is he"?

After watching Casablanca I asked him what he'd thought of the movie and he said; "Dad, there wasn't a lot of action but there was all of this 'Interaction'. To which I said; "That's why it's a classic".

When he was taking Drama in High School, on occasion the instructor would show a movie. He announced that the movie he was going to show the class for review would be 'Dancing With Wolves' and asked if any of the students had seen it. -----------------Well I understand that my son was waving his hand like crazy and the instructor told him to please be quiet while the film was being seen and not to tell any other students anything about it.

TO ALL:

In conclusion, movies are a wonderful outlet. Enjoy them.

Agreed-They are a wonderful escape at times. Dances With Wolves is one of my favorites, just a beautiful movie.

My dad was a D-Day vet. He said it was TOO realistic. "It's no wonder some guys were having flashbacks from watching it," were his words.

I watched Crimson Tide again the other night too. Total acting tour de force between Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington, two of the all-time greats!

My pops did 2 years ww2 all in Europe,

I don't think Dad meant "TOO realistic" in a bad way really. It was just hard to watch having seen it in person. D-Day was 2 months ,10 days after his 18th birthday. Hard to imagine for me. My daughter is just about that age and she is just a child

The Professionals with Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Claudia Cardinale, with Jack Palance, Ralph Bellamy, and Woody Strode. It even has a straight razor shave scene.

The other day I mentioned we had our first confirmed case of Covid 19. It was the husband of a couple returning from Florida and now the wife is a confirmed case as well as an individual in their 20s who also recently returned from the US. There will be more in the next week I am sure. Once you start getting positive tests more cases are almost inevitable. This should be fun.

Bob

Wow Glen, that's wild to see snow still on the ground there. Here's what we have here today.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

My dad was a D-Day vet. He said it was TOO realistic. "It's no wonder some guys were having flashbacks from watching it," were his words.

I went to Vietnam twice as a medic, and I've avoided movies about Vietnam. If they were realistic, I wouldn't want to relive it, and if they weren't, I would probably get angry that the war wasn't being accurately portrayed.

Richard-What I know about Vietnam I've learned from watching all those movies, reading all the books, and watching the Ken Burns Vietnam doc over and over-most of it is interviews with vets combined with lots of actual footage. For whatever reasons, I have also always been fascinated by the Johnson presidency, which as you know was doomed by Vietnam.

I can't even begin to imagine the horrors a Vietnam medic had to get up close and personal with over there. Hats off to you.