carryfast-yeti:
i like the old spaghetti western’s! along with…
The Long Riders (Jesse James story,David Carradine is my favourite)
Josey Wales
and any films inc. the American Civil War.
Once upon a Time in the West was the definitive spaghetti western for me.
God’s and Generals for the US civil war.
Carryfast:
carryfast-yeti:
i like the old spaghetti western’s! along with…
The Long Riders (Jesse James story,David Carradine is my favourite)
Josey Wales
and any films inc. the American Civil War.Once upon a Time in the West was the definitive spaghetti western for me.
God’s and Generals for the US civil war.
i’ll have to look that one up!
Carryfast:
Vanishing Point viewed as the car being the star and a parable about control freak authority crushing freedom .
Can also add Sugarland Express, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and good old Convoy to that.
A shame really, one of my favourites isn’t on tv this weekend in spite of the actual event taking place on a Sunday. This weekend sees the 79th anniversary of " A Bridge too Far".
The film is a remake of “Theirs is the Glory” shot actually in Arnhem in 1946, with the cast composed of survivors from the Battle portraying themselves. Maybe we’ll see one or other of them next year.
Batman returns.
Devito,walkden and pfeiffers catwoman.
Wow.
youtu.be/eIo_S0aHyfI?si=4LBytxXO7oZ4nCfd
The horse whisper.
The walk in the woods.
Indecent proposal.
The sting.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid.
The river wild.
Whistle down the wind, childhood innocence… beautiful film…
Hyena, it’s about corruption in drugs squad of the police.
Wild Tales, an Argentinian film made up of separate stories.
Carryfast:
Carryfast:
Vanishing Point viewed as the car being the star and a parable about control freak authority crushing freedom .Can also add Sugarland Express, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and good old Convoy to that.
Also not forgetting this.More than matches Yates’ effort in Robbery and Bullit.
m.a.n rules:
Whistle down the wind, childhood innocence… beautiful film…
Oh yes, charming film, I try to make a point of watching it again if it is on TV.
I remember going to see it with mum at the Odeon in Streatham when it first came out in 1961, I would have been 7 or possibly 8 at the time. Afterwards, we went to tea just around the corner, at my beloved, blind, great aunt Daisy’s. I am sure we would have had Battenburg cake - her favourite. Daisy died in 1983 at the grand old age of 98.
Thank you for reminding me of a lovely afternoon. Surprisingly the cinema is still there.
I am surprised that Saving Private Ryan didn’t get a mention.
The scene in the bombed out French village when the German soldier enters the abandoned house to find an American soldier, they fight and as the American is on the floor, the German slowly pierces the heart and says shush, it’s a disturbing to watch.
The film depicted troops saying their final words when dying and it would be mother , when dying they would call out for their mothers.
‘Sunflower’ which was made in 1970 with Sophia Loren was a great film for the time.
It’s about an Italian bloke who gets drafted into the Italian army and sent out to fight the Russians on ‘The Eastern Front’.
I have just read that it was the first Western film to be filmed in Russia, Ukraine actually.
youtube.com/watch?v=3veukjwslZY
‘The Captain’ based on a true story, in German with English subtitles, I think it gives a good idea of how it was for the Germans at the end of the war.
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And Midnight Cowboy.
Bone Shaker:
I am surprised that Saving Private Ryan didn’t get a mention.The scene in the bombed out French village when the German soldier enters the abandoned house to find an American soldier, they fight and as the American is on the floor, the German slowly pierces the heart and says shush, it’s a disturbing to watch.
The film depicted troops saying their final words when dying and it would be mother , when dying they would call out for their mothers.
Some things about war are probably best left unsaid and to the imagination.The effects of close mortal combat and private final moments of casualties arguably being two of them.
Also could never understand how a bolt action rifle in the sniper scene could be more effective than that depicted of the Garand in other scenes.Probably would have been better with the shooter saying ditch this piece of junk give me a Garand for the job.
Also Thunderbolts not Mustangs in the final fake Tiger scene.
Also think that Fury was a far less effective and less realistic film than it could have been with it’s ridiculous unrealistic Sherman v real Tiger scene and the even more unrealistic final showdown in which a few chucked Jerry cans full of petrol and a phosphorus grenade or a molotov would have ended it in a similar way as the end of Battle of the Bulge.
It would also have done far more justice to allied tank casualties for 131 to have taken out Fury from around a mile away without even having been seen, with its first shot and the final scene being the recovery of what was left of its totally wiped out crew.
As opposed to the understated casualty scene near the start.
cav551:
m.a.n rules:
Whistle down the wind, childhood innocence… beautiful film…Oh yes, charming film, I try to make a point of watching it again if it is on TV.
I remember going to see it with mum at the Odeon in Streatham when it first came out in 1961, I would have been 7 or possibly 8 at the time. Afterwards, we went to tea just around the corner, at my beloved, blind, great aunt Daisy’s. I am sure we would have had Battenburg cake - her favourite. Daisy died in 1983 at the grand old age of 98.
Thank you for reminding me of a lovely afternoon. Surprisingly the cinema is still there.
.
your welcome cav glad it brought that memory back… p.s i love battenburg … 
The Enemy Below.
Run Silent,Run Deep.
Das Boot.
The Beast( Also known as The Beast of War)
A brilliantly made film about the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and a tank crew getting lost, very original and shows how the Taliban out witted them, the women stoning scene is quite graphic.
Bone Shaker:
The Enemy Below.Run Silent,Run Deep.
Das Boot.
The Beast( Also known as The Beast of War)
A brilliantly made film about the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and a tank crew getting lost, very original and shows how the Taliban out witted them, the women stoning scene is quite graphic.
Both Tankers by Konstantin Maksimov and White Tiger are arguably better films than The Beast.
While the books Iron Coffins by Herbert Werner and U977 by Heinz Schaeffer should have been made as accurate biopics for their historical value.
Also Alert in the West by Luftwaffe pilot Willi Hielmann.
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.
Probably a little romantic for the bad boys here, but has a lot going for it and a bit of romanticising never does anyone any harm.
Nought wrong with Mandolin.
Captain Phillips.
Sully.
The Terminal.
My contribution…mostly testosterone filled stuff 
, or ‘Dad’s blokey stuff’ as my youngest daughter says.
The Long Good Fri…Bob Hoskins.
Legend…Tom Hardy (Kray twins movie)
Sweeney 2…John Thaw/Dennis Waterman.
Sixth Sense …Bruce Willis…(maybe not so blokey. )
Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan,.and Schindlers List.
Das Boot…a Gernan movie about WW2 U boats.
Convoy…(of course. )
Favourite all time movie…and theme tune.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly…Clint Eastwood. 
Best bit is this…‘Its for you’ 
The next three days.
A good year.
Unbreakable.
The Mothman Prophecies.