What have you been watching?

Did you see "Failsafe" yet? The 60s version, not the one made a few years ago. Chilling one to watch. People not raised in that era will never be able to grasp the meaning and possibilities of things in the Cold War.

 

I just recently saw a bit of Downfall. Even though it was in Austrian I could feel the suspension, great movie

 

Hi Richard, its one of my favorite Cold War flicks too.
Hi A, I have wanted to see Fail Safe but have not had a chance yet.

Heres a few classic Cold War movies you might greatly enjoy-I know I have. Anyway they are:

1) Hell and High Water w/ Richard Widmark and Cameron Mitchell. Scientists recruit a crew for a Japanese Sub they bought for Scientific purposes. Their mission is to locate a secret Chinese Air base that has a B-52? supplied with an A-omb and they are to drop the bomb on Moscow-and since they ar eflying an American Bomber-well gues who gets the blame? Anyway, these scientists atre out to stop that bomber from delivering its load.

2) Ice Station Zebra. Rock Hudson and Ernest Borgnine. Nuff said.

3) The Bedford Incident. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier and Eric Portman. American Nuclear Destroyer finds and tracks a Soviet Nuke Sub. Need I say more? ;-))
There is another great cold war movie that I haveseen only once-I cant remember its name but it did star Yul Brynner as a Russian Officer. I saw it once a few years ago and loved it. Sadly, I doubt it will ever be out on DvD-which is unfortunate because its sucha great and unique movie.

 

I began to watch the film Saints and Soldiers last night. Sadly, I fell asleep. I will finish it tonight.

I also watched the season premier of NCIS season 7

 

Just earlier, the one, the only: Delta Force, w/ Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, George Kennedy, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster and some other "recognizable faces". Inspite of what a few here think of Chuck Norris, this still was a great movie and sadly, Former-Marine: Lee Marvins last.

 

I watched "Trinity is Still My Name" last night. It's been awhile, but worth the hour and 57 minutes to sit through it. It was better than the 1st of the trilogy, "Trinity is My Name." The last one is "My Name is Nobody." It's down the Netflix list, but I am looking forward to it.

 

Hi A/ Terrence Hill was great wasn't he?

Tonight I finally got to see most of that is, 3:10 To Yuma-the original one with Gelnn Ford-which is a classic.

 

the old spaghetti westerns carl,good fun,and well! different,ray...

 

A surprise! Get off work in the morning, come home, and Tora! Tora! Tora! is just starting. A great way to unwind.

 

Watched Europa this week & it worth a watch
he unquiet twin spirits of Fritz Lang and Franz Kafka preside over Europa, Lars von Trier's sardonic, saturnine vision of just-post-WWII Germany. In 1945 Leo Kessler, a young American of German descent, returns to the shattered land of his forebears to help in its reconstruction. Through his uncle, who works for the huge railway network Zentropa, he gets a job as a trainee sleeping-car conductor and also meets the seductive Katharina Hartmann, daughter of Zentropa's owner Max. But acts of sabotage and murder are being planned by unregenerate young Nazis calling themselves Werewolves, and very soon Leo's hapless innocent abroad starts finding out that, in this time and place of shifting loyalties, nothing and no one are what they seem. As if to accentuate this mood of nervous ambiguity, von Trier constantly switches from black and white to colour, and from English to (subtitled) German dialogue, often right in the middle of a scene. The cast boasts several iconic figures of European cinema, including Barbara Sukowa (a Fassbinder favourite) as femme fatale Katharina, and Eddie Constantine (from Godard's Alphaville) as a manipulative American colonel, while a literally hypnotic voice-over is spoken by the great Bergman actor Max von Sydow. There's more than a hint that von Trier intends a mischievous side-glance at today's Europe, and today's European film industry, in resentful thrall to the might of Hollywood. And while Europa is gripping and richly atmospheric, it's never without humour. The long, final episode is a tour de force of tragicomedy, with poor Leo juggling the competing demands of love and loyalty, life and death, while being harassed by his uncle who, horrified that Leo has lost his official peaked cap, forces him to wear a knotted handkerchief on his head, as well as by a pair of punctilious railroad inspectors demanding to know how long it takes him to make up a sleeping-car bunk. Lang and Kafka, sure, but maybe a touch of the Marx Brothers,

 

Casino Royale...Daniel Craig in his first Jame Bond film, not bad at all. Not to sure about when his testicles got a good bashing.

 

Hi Ray, that they are ;-)) I especially love the ones with Terrence Hill and I wonder what the heck ever happened to him? He was doing so well and was very popular-did a few films then dissappeared.
Late last night and before going to bed, I stayed up to watch: The Bridge At Remagen-for probably the 40th time.

I awoke this morning and was very pleased to see the one and only, the original, The Dirty Dozen. After that was Hamburger Hill-which I elected to skip at that time.

 

good films carl,the great escape was on here yesterday,and ice cold in alex too,and again on today,still good though,and sad to see that all! if not most have passed on,ray..

 

The Pelican Brief...lastnight, good film but a little confusing.

 

Great those films they are ;-)) Same here-its a sad shame that most of the actors from those movies are gone.

Tody was a double Western feast of two of Greg Pecks classics. The Bravados and The Stalking Moon. And just started as of 32 minutes ago-the one and only, the restored, the uncut version of--The Alamo. It great to see tow of my absolute top favorites in teh morning and early afternoon. Greg Peck and Duke himself ;-))

 

i watched "a bridge too far" a good few times lately ....supose the anniversary was in mind) .....superb film !

the ...."we dont have the proper facilities to take you all prisoner" scence always cracks me up

i know some people say the film is outdated and such - but i love it just the way it is ......and the paras come across as being very brave men indeed

 

OUTDATED! NEVER.

Great film...I to watched it again.

 

Yes, he carried those movies that he was in. Too bad he didn't do many more. He was in "Mr. Billion" and "March or Die" before fading out.

The spaghetti westerns were hit and miss for the most part, but worth the effort.

 

Hi A/ I too remember Mr. Billion & March or Die, both were great films. Its been so long though since I last saw them that I don't remember much about either movie. Im thinking that Gene Hackman and Telly Savalas is in it? Im sure Telly is in March or Die because I remember he played a character called Sergeant Daginot or either Sergeant Markoff-like the Brian Donlevy character in Beau Geste w/ Gary Cooper and Robert Preston. I forget the name of the actor who played the 3rd Geste brother. I don't think it was Franchot Tone???

 

It's quite some time for me too, since the 80s at least. Thank God for Netflix!

I watched three stinkers over the weekend. Almost embarrased to mention them, but I feel that I owe it to the Rogues out there to steer clear of these titles;

1. Duplex (Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore)
2. Best Men (Drew Barrymore and a bunch of has-beens and never-wuzzes)
3. Flirting With Disaster (Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette and Tea Leoni)