MacArthur 1977

yes, I remembering going to see this in 77.....I got the DVD as a present..but just saw it on TV....the Corsairs in early 1942 Australia?? Mac marching with the troops in Korea?? really cheesy combat scenes......but Greg Peck was a great actor which makes this movie great....it also shows the typical fighter plowing the ground with PERFECTLY spaced rounds as the soldiers try to outrun an aircraft?? instead of taking cover...? same as on From Here to Eternity.....

 

I like seeing old WW2 movies, despite what you said about the cheesy scenes, I would still try to watch it. And I concur with what you said about Gregory Peck.

 

yes, I watch the old ones....fun to see the unrealistic stuff

 

Regarding unrealistic stuff, have you seen or heard of Gung Ho which came out in 1943 about the 2nd Raider Battalion of the Marines?

 

I think I have that..I got some ''ammo can' of dvds covering wars from US Civil to Vietnam ..very nice...the last few dvds have a bunch of very old war movies....

 

I'm curious but do you have a favorite or most interesting one that you have watched now that you mentioned about all of the movies that you have? I used to have a bunch to, but I watched them so much that I got a little bored and sold a bunch of them. They were all rather interesting ones.

 

the dvds in the can have some really bad, unheard of WW2 movies....really bad..but that makes it fun to watch them.....I have a lot of a favorites....Dirty Dozen.....Great Escape...Kelly's Heroes, ...Von Ryan's Express.....None But the Brave...Bridge Over the River Kwai...In Harm's Way....I have the dvds, but they didn't come in the can.....

 

I've heard that Bridge Over the River Kwai is pretty good. Even won best picture Academy award in 1957 along with a string of 6 more Academy Awards. Though in some cases awards aren't the only defining thing about a movie usually.

 

I also watched the film MacArthur he other day. Or should I say, part of the film. When MacArthur was talking about "landing on the beaches of Leyte" while pointing at Lingayen Gulf on a map of the Philippines, I could not help but turn the channel. I can forgive films when they don't get everything exactly right. However, when MacArthur doesn't know the difference between Leyte and Lingayen Gulf, he ceases to be "MacArthur" to me.

 

wow....we had to read the book in high school

 

I think a lot of people [ younger] don't know where Pearl Harbor is, much less Leyte

 

Unfortunately not many young people know where anything is. I'm taking a class in global politics at my school this semester and we are doing a sort of real world global politics situation. At one point we were discussing the country of Turkey, and my friend asks me "Can you point out where Turkey is? I have no idea." And when ISIS was on the rise last year, my broadcast class did a thing about ISIS and asked about 8 people where Iraq is. 1 out of those 8 people could point out where Iraq is. Those are just a couple of examples.

 

"MacArthur" Has a great musical theme by Jerry Goldsmith which has often been reprised in concert in tandem as "The Generals Suite" with Goldsmith's theme for Patton. The rest of the underscore doesn' t quite live up to the main title theme, unfortunately.

Borrowed it recently from the National Library and it bored me to tears. Neither fish nor fowl. Not enough action to be a combat movie but not enough depth to be an interesting biography.

 

and they probably don't read the news much which shows maps of these places

 

yes, I felt the same.....exactly....but I like Peck, so it was a trade off

 

I agree. At least it wasn't Olivier in "INCHON".

 

Nothing better then Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. Great actor.

 

The movie was slow and dry, I agree, though it's a favorite of mine because it's one of my favorite novels. If I were to put an actor to Lee's character, he was it. She even became good friends with him after his portrayal.

 

I had to read To Kill A Mockingbird for a summer reading assignment, and I think I was the only one in my class who actually liked and appreciated that book.