Big Blue Huddle

I really don't watch series.  I watch movies instead.  I just watched "Lost City" with Sandra Bullock.  But I was very disappointed in it.  The makers just didn't seem to decide if it was to be a comedy/adventure or a straight adventure.  To me, it made it all screwed up.

Quote from: LennG on August 11, 2022, 10:38:53 AMI agree with Jim, if one is talking great music as in musicals, there are an infinite number of major movies, last probably being West Side Story and we go on from there.
Hair is a great one
Sound of Music
My Fair Lady etc. etc.

If we are talking just great soundtracks, there is no better than
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Followed by Jaws, the Ten Commandments, Psycho, The Magnificent Seven, and who knows how many others.

I go along with the ones you added, Lenny.  I'll add some more -

BIG COUNTRY, ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, THE SEA HAWK, THE WIZARD OF OZ.

When considering a "movie with great music," there are two categories that I must consider:

1.  A Musical plain & simple.  In that case, I would go with BANDWAGON.

2.  Background music for a mighty movie.  Then I go with the magnificent score by Miklos Rozsa for BEN HUR.

May she RIP.

Way to go Slugsy!!!!!!

I was in the sixth grade when this occurred.  To be perfectly honest, all I knew was that it would likely close out the war.  It made me happy since my brother was on a destroyer heading out toward Japan at the time.

But, at this point in my life, I can look at with the knowledge of a full life.  To be perfectly honest, I still think we didn't know the power we had in our hands at that time. All we knew was that we had an unbelievable weapon to destroy mightily.  An invasion of Japan would've been the most costly loss of lives in world history.  Truman made the only decision he could make.  It's sad that it actually took two bombings to make Japan realize the obvious.

Quote from: Ed Vette on August 07, 2022, 11:08:09 AMI was young and about 19 years old and meeting the father of a girl I was dating for the first time and oddly he asked me that question about the dropping of the atomic bombs. My response was that it saved lives... 

Ed, I never realized that you're older than I.  If you were 19 the day the BOMB was dropped, that means you were born in 1926 & are now 96 years old.  Are you sure about this?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUYS!!!!!    

Quote from: LennG on July 28, 2022, 10:13:47 AMWalk In The Sun

No idea about the other.

The other one is "Objective Burma."

Since this great thread has been re-opened, I might as well throw out a couple that I might already have sent:

1.  "I'd like to be sitting at the bar in the Washington Press Club surrounding a nice tall cold bourbon and soda."

2.  "Nobody dies!"

It's hot across just about all of the U.S.      It's likely to last into next week.

Ed. I LOVE the apron!!!  

13.

I bought a book entitled "The Great Adventure Films" by film expert Tony Thomas.  It was published in 1979.  I think "Adventure" can stand even toes with "Action."  Thomas actually lists 50 Films.  Over the years I have managed to acquire all 50 & am proud to have them.  As Thomas did, I'm listing them Chronologically:

THE MARK OF ZORRO - 1920
DON JUAN -1926
THE GENERAL - 1926
WINGS - 1927
TREASURE ISLAND - 1934
THE SCARLET PIMPERNAL -1934
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - 1934
TARZAN AND HIS MATE - 1934
THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER - 1935
THE CALL OF THE WILD - 1935
THE CRUSADES - 1935
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY -1935
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS - 1936
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA - 1937
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD - 1938
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER - 1938
GUNGS DIN - 1939
THE FOUR FEATHERS - 1939
BEAU GESTE - 1939
NORTHWEST PASSAGE - 1940
THE SEA HAWK - 1940
49th PARALELL - 1941
THE JUNGLE BOOK - 1942
HENRY V - 1944
CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE - 1947
SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC - 1948
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE - 1948
THE FLAME AND THE ARROW - 1950
KING SOLOMAN'S MINES - 1950
CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER - 1951
THE AFRICN QUEEN _ 1951
IVANHOE - 1952
SCARAMOUCHE - 1952
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE -1954
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA - 1954
THE COURT JESTER - 1956
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS - 1956
WAR AND PEACE - 1956
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI - 1957
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN - 1960
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON - 1960
THE SUNDOWNERS - 1960
RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY - 1961
EL CID - 1961
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - 1962
THE GREAT ESCAPE - 1963
ZULU - 1964
THE NAKED PREY - 1966
THE PROFESSIONALS - 1966
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING - 1975
Remember that neither the author nor I are saying these are "the Greatest."  Rather I agree with him that they are all GREAT.  Just a note for some of you young guys, give a peek at some of these older (even silent) movies.  I think you'll find they're as good or better than today's technical movies.    

Quote from: LennG on June 25, 2022, 12:42:51 PMWe haven't done this in quite a while so let's try a few.

I was looking for some that haven't been up here before and were from pretty good movies

1---"Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one."

2--"Do or do not, there is no try."

3--"Welcome to earth! Now that's what I call a close encounter."

4--"With Major __________ , mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners."

5-- "Men will listen to anything if they think it's foreplay."

# 3  INDEPENDENCE DAY

Here are a some for everybody but Lenny:

1.  "Hold until relieved.  Hold until relieved"

2.  "Nobody dies!"

3.  "Let's take our next Leave in San Francisco."
    "We'll go to the pier.  Shrimp and lobster."
    "Steak smothered in chops.  Oh boy!"

4.  "Hang him!"
    "But he's already dead."
    "Hang him.  That's my rulin'."

5.  "The Army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day."
     "Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast."