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We've had radio and TV but do any films hold a special place in your memory from childhood?

I have fond memories of the Superman serials (Kirk Wotsisname, long before Christopher Reeves) and the Roy Rogers films, though I can't remember a single title or plot of those. The first film that really made an impression on me was The Glenn Miller Story, about 1954 ( I was 11), which started my life-long passion for both Glenn Miller and the lovely Jimmy Stewart. I have the film on tape and still watch it, regularly, to this day.

I also remember going to see Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel", with Gordon McRae and Shirley Jones in the lead roles. We had the LP at home so I knew the music and the story, which is quite sad. I went to see it at Ossy Paladium with 3 school friends and I can still remember how embarrassed I was when we came out of the cinema, in daylight as it was Summer, and my eyes were like 2 poached eggs as I'd sobbed all the way through it. Well, I was only about 13. ;)

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Forrest Gump was one of the first films that I really remember watching. Must've been about 6. Seen it millions of times since, it's one of the best films ever made in my opinion. It's got everything in there; makes you laugh & cry at the same time, making you forget the fact that this character is completely fictional! Tom Hanks is the dogs bollocks of the acting world there's few better than him.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind - first saw that and was amazed.

Richard Dreyfus is incredibly underated but also features in another of my all time favourite films - The Goodbye Girl.

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GREEN MILE


Tom Hanks again

What a legend film with John coffee and mr Bo Jangles, it made me cry.....

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dirty dancing one of my favs "no-one sits baby in a corner" or is that just me being soppy

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soldier blue. tells a more accurate story of how the indians were treated,than all the bull seen in the john wayne etc movies,p.s. not havin a pop at j.w. i enjoy his films,but prefer accuracy.

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I remember my mum taking me to the Ossy Paladium to see 'Pollyanna', I was glad for days!

There are so many to choose from. The war type ones like Mrs Miniver, Brief Encounter.....all of Bette Davis' films..........modern day as in Pretty Woman, Notting Hill and such........but my all time favourite is Dirty Dancing. How could anyone put Jennifer Grey in a corner!!

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A few of what I liked, The Graduate, Easy Rider, Guess who"s coming to dinner, Midnight Cowboy, Arsnic & old Lace, Lavander Hill Mob, Kind hearts and Coronets.

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I remember being let loose to go to the pictures and see Star Wars, I loved it. I also remember sneaking in to see Grease, I was just that little bit too young to see it and had to try and make myself look a bit older in order to get in. Me and my mates were putting make up on whilst we were in the queue but we all got in.:D

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Absolutely one of the best films i have watched this film so many times and i have cried every time!!

Another one for me is The Shawshank Redemption a fantastic film and another one i have wached countless times :) .

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I've never seen any films at the cinema that really hooked me. I did go to the premier of Merchant Ivory's Maurice which I enjoyed, but my all time favourite films I first saw on tv. These include Death in Venice which me fall in love with the music of Mahler, Cabaret, and my all time favourite film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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There is a film called SAN DEMETRIO LONDON about a merchant navy oil tanker that got torpedoed the crew got off but after saling around ended up back aboard and saved the ship The ship in the film was actually the San Vito that my dad sailed on he was fourth engineer

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I found soldier blue a fantastic film. Whilst it was churning the toughest of stomach's it made me cry. It was soooo sad.
The Green mile is another brilliant film that had me in floods of tears.
The film Mandy was one of the first brilliant films I saw. I cried buckets.
Big red,old yeller an the fluke.
There have been so many good films over the years.
I just love a good tear jerk-er.

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I also like Adam Sandler i think " Happy Gilmore" has to be the funniest film ive seen and watched over 100 times.

"your gonna die clown!":D

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Oh yes, Garinda and Junetta .. all Bette Davies films. 'Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte' remember that one.

Most of the films mentioned here... Shakermaker 'Forest Gump' .. that's when I realised Tom Hanks had more to him than a face like putty .. good innit ?

I love 'Face Off' with Nicholas Cage/John Travolta .. no comments Gayle please, and a light film but very funny is 'Death Becomes Her' Goldie Hawn, hilarious.

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That was one hell of a picture ..i have watched it about 6 times.. oh that EVIL guard ,, i would so easilly have put HIM in that chair with no water on his head,,,:mad:
It left a deep impression as does most of Steven Kings films

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Favourite films - dirty dancing - i loved that film, green mile - me & sis cried at that one, pirates of the carribean - johnny depp how can it miss! But the favourite oldie was my mums favourite as well - The Quiet Man - the fight at the end! You laugh all the way through it mainly because its set in ireland and thats what the people were like!

The first 18 film i saw though after sneaking into the pictures was bachelor party - i was 13 at the time!

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I loved watching Shirley Temple's films when they showed a season of them on Saturday mornings when I was small.

I cried when my Mum told me she was an old lady now and that I couldn't marry her.:(

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Yes ANNE,, i just saw your post.i loved that picture MANDYas well..i think we dicussed it before ,,,,great stuff,,,

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All time favourite? - Some like it hot. Great story, wonderful acting, and that last line - "Nobody's perfect".
Also loved Zulu - another wonderfully acted film, with great locations.
I can watch (and have) The Addams Family and Addams Family values time after time.
Two very underrated films which I found fantastic were: Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell, and My Favourite Year.
I can always weep at Brief Encounter - ahhh.

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Sorry can't help it but eeeeeewww, eeeeeewww, eeeeeewww!

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The thought of Nicholas Cage always gets me that way.

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:tongueout One's woman's beefcake is an another woman's mutton. :D

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That's true and you can keep him all to yourself. :D

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watched crash this weekend excellent movie but one has to concentrate as the story is built round several people but it all comes right at the end the wife kept falling asleep and asked what was it about at the end

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That's right we did Granny.
Road House n Ghost with the body beautiful. Patrick Swayze.

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ghost,, with patrick swayse,, that was good..

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Please don't mention Roadhouse. That bit where they were being naughty against the wall!! I so love Patrick Swayze. In fact, 'im indoors and I did think about phoning in to see if they would do a swop!

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a toss-up between, Judgement at Nuremberg, Breakfast at Tiffanys or Who's afraid of Virgina Wolfe

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has to be starwars for me it was teh first film i ever saw at the cinema and i have been hooked on the starwars films ever since :D

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for me it has to be the 1953 film "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" starring kenneth more and honar blackman, about the sinking of the TITANIC,:engsmil:

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"The Big Sleep", Raymond Chandler's finest novel, brought to life by an excellent cast including Bogart and Bacall at their best. Truly timeless!

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A good film is one that you can watch once or twice, whilst a great film is one that you can watch over and over and over. Like these:
War films that are as close to reality as you can get without actually having a war have to be “In Which We Serve” made in 1942 and “The Cruel Sea” made in 1953.

For musicals it has to be “The Jolson Story” and “Jolson Sings Again” plus “The Benny Goodman Story” and “The Glen Miller Story”.

Treasure Island with Robert (Arrggh! Jim lad!) Newton is a great kids adventure film.

For comedy it has to be Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton.

The Ealing Studios films like Passport To Pimlico and the Lady Killers are classics.

The original “War Of The Worlds” is a classic sci fi.

“The Jungle Book” the full length cartoon is watchable by all ages.

Mystery thrillers have to be the Hitchcock classics.

Westerns - well there is only one John Wayne.

Most of the films since the Hollywood heydays are good films but few are as memorable. Terminator II for its special effects long before CGI was about is one. Good story too.

With nothing interesting on telly tonight I’m having a double feature. Start with a Tom & Jerry cartoon then Way Out West with L & H and then The Jolson Story.

Ice cream and iced lollies will be served during the interval.

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films that impressed, hmm...

in no particular order and with plenty of omissions :)

Donnie Darko, Star Wars, The Breakfast Club, Superman II, Batman, Terminator 1 and 2, Soldier, Cruel Intentions, King Kong (the original not the recent remake), Metropolis (with the pop music soundtrack), all 3 Lord of the Rings movies...

These are all films I can watch and rewatch, and indeed have done many times most recently the 3 LotR movies extended editions of course :)

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a recent German movie called Downfall , about the final days in the bunker ..... may not appeal to some older people as it is in German with sub-titles

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I like lots of different types of films. I love westerns to this day, and really like the black and white ones we sometimes get to view on TV these days. Here are some of my favourites by category:-

Musicals: Calamity Jane, with Doris Day. Oklahoma, Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae. White Christmas, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye.

Bio's: The Glen Miller Story, with June Allyson and James Stewart.

Feel Good: Dave, with Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline

Westerns: Just loved the old Roy Rogers Movies, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry etc. which takes me back to my Saturday mornings at the Odeon.
I liked, The Tall Men with Jane Russel and Clark Gable. I have to say some of the modern made for TV westerns with Robert Duval are great. Lonesome Dove, Broken Trail and Open Range are all excellent.

War: A Bridge Too Far with stars too numerous to mention coming out of the woodwork.

Kitchen Sink: One of my all-time favourites which I have watched many times, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning with the great Albert Finney.

Courtroom Drama: A Few Good Men, with Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon and the fantastic Jack Nickolson.

Children's Adventure: Mentioned earlier in the thread by someone, Jambutty I think, Treasure Island (1950) with Robert Newton and Bobby Driscol. I actually have this on CD. I bought it so my grandchildren (and I, of course) could enjoy it as I did when I was a child. I showed it to my 10 year old grand-daughter last year and she thought it was great. I recently purchased, on ebay, the book of the film which I also had as a child. The book has many stills from the film in it. My grandchildren will be able to read the book now as well.

Horror: The Shining, again the brilliant Jack Nickolson. The Exorcist.

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Borrowed this film off a friend the other week G-C, after all respect all your opinions on here.

Yes, started out to be a good film, Tom Hanks submitting reasonable performance and that big black guy .. wow !!.
Then got to the bit where he graps Tom's 'you know what's" and this gold dust spewing into/outta' his mouth, and, hey presto, he is cured of a bladder infection he has been suffering for months !!

At this point, thought .. humph what a load of rubbish, then remembered was a Stephen King story, so all became clear .... enjoyed every minute of the rest of it.

Bit like thinking you are eating an apple and is really a pear so tastes horrid, then realised is a pear, so tastes excellent .. Ok ...I'm drifting into the abyss :D

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Saturday mornings at the Odeon was a must for most kids. The one thing that always puzzled me was during a fight and maybe falling off a cliff into a river, the hero always managed to keep his hat on. Now how did he do that?

Jane Russell was the first screen love of my life and we honoured her by playing Jane Russell pontoon at school. You know – instead of 21 bust it was 38 bust!:rolleyes:

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soldier blue for me,enjoyed all the westerns etc john wayne blah,blah, when i was young, but the release of soldier blue really struck home as to how the indians were really treated, the old films tend to make out they were evil savages, this film portrayed the cavalry were no angels.

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IIn no particular ordr.....

From childhood:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Music Man
A Night at the Opera
Singing in the Rain


More recent:
The Princess Bride
Young Frankenstein
Some Like it Hot (not recent, but didn't see it until later in life)
Shakespeare in Love

That's just a handful. I have plenty of other favorites.

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James Stewart in 'A Wonderful Life'.........And Carousel STILL makes me cry....I think I am turning into an old softie.
I am not much of a one for films........I'm too 'antsy'....and there are some films mentioned on here that I have never seen.

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I did see 'Soldier Blue'.....many years ago, didn't much like it. I don't want to be educated when I watch a film, I want to be entertained, have my ribs tickled, be transported out of my ordinary mundane life into something perhaps a little better....so, no, Soldier Blue didn't float my boat at all.

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think perhaps i may have felt the same margaret if i,d had your old job? enough reality in that i think. i to have an ordinary life but i dont regard it as mundane- i love it, but to each his own. ive had enough entertainment in my working life been lucky that way so i love reality/history etc.

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2001 a Space Odessy - came out at the time when I was deep into Sci-Fi reading & watching - I actually understood it - although it baffled all my mates

I agree Sodier Blue !! gutwrenching but honest

Breaking Glass with Hazel O'Connor

Alien ! for the effects

and how come no-ones mentioned Lassie

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When I was a kid I really liked the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weismueller, as well as Zulu and Bridge Over the River Kwai.

More recently really like Braveheart, Glory, Gettysburg, The Patriot, and the Waterboy.

Petrified of Horror movies (even the commercials can freak me out!)

BEA

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I never understood 2001. Perhaps you can explain it for us?

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Turns out I've already answered this thread on page 1 so ignore this post.

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for me it would have to be stand by me,what a fantastic film,my second fave is a toss up between the green mile and see no evil hear no evil

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rocky 6

serioulsy thought it was going to be a pile of dung but surprisingly better than the rest of them apart from rocky 1

watched it xmas day after dinner with friends and the whole room was up cheering and realy getting into the fight :Banane33:

mind you most of rockys fight have that effect i remember going to teh cinema to see rocky 4 and everyone was stood up cheering rocky on when he started to smack teh russian guy about lol

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I sat and watched Memoirs Of A Geisha the other night. Really enjoyed it.

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Me and my sis and her partner were sat down waiting for tea to cook and i'd flicked through sky and came across White Christmas near enough at the end but we still sat and watched it. Sisters partner said he'd never seen White Christmas he'd watched Holiday Inn. So she is now going to borrow mum's dvd of White Christmas to educate him we were sat there singing along with all the songs we've seen it so many times it was one of mums favourite films because it had bing in. She said it isnt a patch though on a wonderful life i said i've never seen it my sister then told me off and so last night she sat me down after turkey curry and we watched A wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart etc. Never watched it before ive read about it but never seen it so i knew about Clarence etc. Anway watched it drinking a baileys and another baileys and thought it was ok will probably see it again. And by the time we'd finished watching it sis wasnt able to bring me home so had to get a taxi!

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Amazing that the DVD/Video is available so soon , since its still playing in the movie houses, must be that you have different copyright laws in the UK :confused: :eek: :confused: :eek:

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My personal selections by genre:

"Westerns" -- listed alphabetically accompanied by selected reviews:

Dances with Wolves:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/

Lonesome Dove:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...maculate-books

Soldier Blue:
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...eviews_rssfeed

Son of the Morning Star:
http://www.destgulch.com/movies/sms/

The Wild Bunch:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/

Ulzana's Raid:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069436/

I grew up (in Burnley) on a dose of Saturday morning matinee "Oaters" -- Buck Jones, Ken Maynard, Tim McCoy "B" picture serials, followed in later years by John Ford/John Wayne epics, etc. They were great fun but, I came to realize, not very accurate reflections of real American Western history.

I am, in a modest way, a Western Historian and the above personal movie selection list contains what to me are the real gems of historically correct western movies -- attitudes, prejudices, speech idioms, equipment, dress ..... and so on.

James

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oh its a toss up between cry baby and dirty dancing and stand by me i cant choose just one

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My personal selections by genre:

WW2 movies (no particular order of preference):

The life and death of Colonel Blimp

Yanks

Battleground

The Longest Day

Flags of our Father's

Mrs. Miniver

Saving Private Ryan

Hope and Glory

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Patton

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"Judgement at Nuremberg" with Spencer Tracy and Marlene Dietrich , can watch this movie over and over , in my all time top ten

anything with John Mills ........typical Brit

the RAF movie, Dambusters /633 squadron , where Richard Todd has the dog whose name is allways beeped out (on US television)

Tora Tora Tora , not the recent "Pearl Harbour" with all the Hollywood prettyboys

one of the worst WW2 movies is that Royal Navy thing made by Noel Coward and dedicated to his boyfriend Mountbatten

Korean War

Manchurian Candidate, original version with Frank Sinatra, not the crap remake with Denzil Washington

Vietnam War

the John Wayne thing , 'Green Berets' pure proaganda, typical big John but watchable

WW1

recent movie , now available for rent 'Joyuex Noel' about the Christmas day truce when the opposing sides played football one day and went back to war the following day , in English, French and German .....absolutly brilliant

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Just got back from the pictures tonight, went to see the new 007 movie thougth it was really good.more believable than some earlier ones.

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'In Which We Serve' (1942)

Terrible, jingoistic rubbish.

They were actually just 'friends' by the way. Coward was actually in a relationship with Mountbatten's cousin Prince George, Duke of Kent, the present Queen's uncle.

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Great British films-

Whisky Galore.

Passport to Pimlico.

Whistle Down the Wind.

Room at the Top.

Up the Junction.

Look Back in Anger.

Women in Love.

A Kind of Loving.

This Sporting Life.

...and though not really British, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, which made me want to be a missonary for about ten years.:D

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Mine is a toss up between

Officer and a Gentleman
Dirty dancing
pretty women ( yes it was on tother night and yes I knew what they were gonna say before they said it lol )

green mile is a great film

and another good one I watched other day and had forgotten about is

Goodnight uncle tom

I read the book when I was very young and seen the film loads of times! but I still love that film.

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My personal selections by genre:

Musicals (no particular order of preference):

The Red shoes

Carousel

Amadeus

Oklahoma

Singing in the rain

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

South Pacific

The Sound of Music

Oliver

My Fair Lady

An American in Paris

Cabaret

The Jolson Story

Don Quixote

The King and I

The Pirates of Penzance

West Side Story

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The film that left a lasting impression on me was 'Bambi" saw it as a kid in Accy. It frightened me especially the forest on fire. Every time I see a bush fire over here it reminds me if this film. Also the serial of 'Flash Gordon' with Buster Crabbe and Dale Arden which I am quite sure many on this forum can remember. I used to watch this serial totaly enthralled in the Bug-hut on saturday mornings. I have just purchased the original 12 part series, on DVD from e-bay. and I can't wait for it to get here.:D

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But so accurate in its detail about navy life of the day garinda and the attitude of the officers to the men on the lower deck. Not forgetting the attitude of the men to the officers. It was much the same in the fifties except we didn’t have people chucking bombs, shells and torpedoes at us.

This late afternoon on Film 4 was another British wartime classic that is on a par with the best of them all - The Cruel Sea starring Jack Hawkins.

The Gift Horse starring Trevor Howard (Sid James was in it too and Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee) was about a lease lend destroyer and the men serving in her. Great film and it brought back memories except that we slept in hammocks and not bunks. And HMS Alamein had more guns and 10 torpedo tubes. Strange that because the fighting “A” was an anti-aircraft destroyer. I mean how do you fire a torpedo at a plane?

Pity they never made a film of the book HMS Ulysses but I doubt if the censors would have allowed it

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Yesterday i watched ZULU for about the hundredth time...and i was still spellbound.....i think its the background chanting that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.....What a superb picture that is...
not forgetting ZULU DAWN but that is not QUITE as good ...

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I don't mind admitting it - I love The Wizard Of Oz - there I said it:p Also from recent times Billy Elliott and The Full Monty are amongst my favourites.

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Rented "the History Boys" last night a good movie , not the usual hollywood tripe , recommend for anyone who enjoys Alan Bennett
Thought 'the Last King of Scotland' ok but a bit overated

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I first saw that film when I was 4. It terrified me! :D

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Cruel Sea, Above Us the Waves, Oaklahoma, anything with James Robertson Justice. And from round about this era: Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, and for some reason An American President.

Oh, and my partner says that Soldier Blue is still white man's propaganda. I think I will agree with her. Don't want to wake up tomorrow missing what is left of my hair.

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I don't know about Impressed me BUT I watched the last 20 minutes of Entity last night. Now I watched this film about 15 years ago and it scared the life out of me. I watched it last night and..........................it scared the life out of me. :o

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Recently watched the 1985 (Bela)Russian film 'Come and See'. Not sure impressed is the right word, but it deeply affected me.

Probably the most effective film about war ever made and just shows how far Hollywood has to go before it can ever contemplate creating something like this. Spielberg has so much to learn about real filmmaking.

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The film that affects me most is "The Family Way" with Hywell Bennett, Hayley Mills (yum) and John Mills. It makes me cry even more than "It's a Wonderful Life" and that's saying something.

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Another that I could watch (and have) again and again is The Duellists with Harvey Keitel & Keith Carradine. Its one of Ridley Scott's best but is always relegated to the graveyard shift if it's ever shown these days. I remember chris Kelly showing it being made on Clapperboard- another show they should have kept going.

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I rarely watch any film more than once unless I didn't understand it first time - eg -2001 Space Odyssey.
But the 3 Godfather films I can watch over and over again, and have.
My ex-no2's auntie had married a Sicilian, who anyone could see was a consigliare (sound=consilliore). When we visited them (near Messina) it was clear to see -he had been mayor of Messiina - we could go in any cafe and eat for free just by saying we were his family. Every morning there were freebies on his doorstep and people touched ther brow when they met him (but didn't smile as they did it) - was a bit frightening.
Just a thought -no more Mafia cracks here please - it is no joke!!!!!

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British films from the 60's Billy Liar, A taste of Honey, Saturday night, Sunday morning. I remember seeing earthquake at the pictures on broadway and running out cryng cause the seats were shaking!
Recent films; goodfellas, godfather 1 and 2
always liked Jason and the argonauts, that metal statue coming to life used to give me nightmares. Also loved Kes with brian glover and the football sketch!!!

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...and a young Lynn Perrie, aka Ivy Tilsley from Corrie.:D

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I have always loved The Sound of Music.When I was younger I wanted 7 kids called Liesl,Friedrich,Louisa,Brigitta,Kurt,Marta and Gretl:D.Recently we went to the London Palladium to watch the show starring Connie Fisher (who won the BBC's How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria).It was an outstanding performance of a wonderful show.:)

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just watched on DVD " Shooter" with Mark Wahlberg, full of mindless popcorn violence , will probably do wonders for military recriuting programs , worth the rental on a bad TV night

kind of reminded me though nothing like the old Charles Bronson classic 'the Mechanic' ,

:D :D