What have you been watching?

It's not a great movie if you are looking at it from a historical standpoint...but honestly it made me laugh and cringe. Was a good way to waste a couple of hours on a lazy Saturday. NOT a movie I'll ever need to see again, however.

 

i finally got around to watching Team America. I have mixed feelings about and at the same tiem, it was both a good movie and a stupid movie.

 

We have several documents running almsot daily on personal accounts by the veterans of Winter War. Old and new documents. Very interesting. Also documents by Red Army veterans how they considered the war with Finland, some say it was the right thing to do, some that they don´t understand why they attacked...

 

Started the Missing in Action trilogy last night. Probably will not finish hem untill at least Jan 1st. Also, im ringing in the new year with The Three Stooges-marathon on AMC.

 

Can't go wrong with the stooges. I'm watching Rudolph the red nosed reindeer with my daughter and wife afterwards were watching the 1930s version of a Christmas carol.

 

Heh heh, Larry, Curly and Moe, were the best "boys" out there IMO. Though I have most of them on DvD now, ill stilll get a great pleasure in watching them bring in the new year.

I started this day with two great WWII movies: As both were on at the ame time, I switchd between the two. First found was: The Dirty Dozen-and the next channel had: Sahara-w/ Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Dan Duryea, Lloyd Bridges (as a young and mortally wounded British Soldier) Kurt Krueger (as the shotdown Luftwaffe Pilot) and a couple of other recognizable "faces".

Cought Kelly's Heroes earlier this evening and ill be ending the day with: Escape From Alcatraz-mit: Clint Eastwood.

 

I woke up this morning to the Gene Autry show. I could not believe who I saw on there. Heard the voice and then there he was Clayton Moore. (The guy who played the Lone Ranger). So, I go to IMDB and he was a regular on Autry's show from 1953-1954. Never knew it.

 

Both good movies. In my opinion "Taking Chance" is not okay and should only be watched when you are alone and will remain alone for several hours. Tough movie to watch and reading the essay is just as difficult. Under no circumstances should this movie be viewed in conjunction with:

Marley & Me
Brians Song
or
Old Yeller

You will leak from the eyes and nose

 

Watching some good things on YouTube.

T34 with German markings pulled from a swamp/lake.

A Hetzer pulled from the Baltic Sea by a T54 recovery vehicle and a 3Ton front bucket crane.

 

Can't go wrong with the Gene Autry Show and im also a big fan of Clayton Moores. I wonder if Jay Silverheels (Tonto) ever made an appearance with Moore on that show?

 

Just wateched Three Godfathers which stars John Wayne, Ward Bond, Pedro Armendaries, Harry Carey Jr, Hank Wordon, Jack Pennick and the man who was known as The Worlds Greatest Cowboy-turned Stuntman turned Actor--Ben Johnson.

 

That is a co-inky-dink, so did I! I went to my channel guide, saw it listed and changed to it right away. I too love those old ones. I also have about 30 of the radio shows with Rathbone and Bruce on CD, those are great as well.

Radio dramas are so interesting in that they can "pull you into the story" without the hoop-la of special effects of any kind. Unless you count the guys with the squeaks and creaks in the sound effects booth!

 

Yeah I think that is the term, I don't know where it comes from but I'll bet it was some guy named Foley who came up with the ability to make "sounds" with weird things like halves of cocconut shells popped together to mimick horse's hooves and such.

I couldn't think of that name while I was writting my reply, thanks for the reminder!

 

I checked the IMDB website and sad to say Jay Silverheels never made an appearance on the Autry show. However he was on an episode of Rawhide which i'd like to check out. His fan website states he served in ww2 but there is no real record of it. He made movies up to 44 and a few duds in 45. Maybe he enlisted late when the war was over? Would the army discharge him if the war ended before he could complete basic?

 

Saw Battleground with Van Johnson and Marshall Thompson on TCM last night. Somehow I had previously missed seeing this 1949 movie that was so much more authentic than many war movies I have seen. It didn't glorify war, but honoured the men who fought. I found it interesting that while its primary focus was the US 101st Airborne, they did show in one portion the deployment of the forces of other countries around Bastogne and between it and Antwerp. For its time, it also had some scenes which reflected the multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious backgrounds of the men - they weren't all WASP's as has often been the case in war movies. I highly recommend it to anyone who has not seen it.