Posted on 09/24/2011 4:19:32 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
***I guess the laws of physics don’t extend to Hawaii.***
Didn’t have that problem when they cut through the hull in THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1971) But then, that was fiction.
Inchon: Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur? Sorry, does NOT compute.
Inchon: Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur? Sorry, does NOT compute.
Sorry, you have this one wrong. This much at least was lifted from history. Just as in the movie, with the aid of renegade English nobles the French landed in Dover in 1216. The failing of the movie is that English are successful on the beach. In reality the French stayed for some time, moving about the countryside and laying siege to English castles. King John's timely departure from the mortal coil later that year is what actually ended it all.
Rep B1 Bob Dornan makes a cameo in it, as well.
I tell my wife that the big German is shouting "Buxtehude!" at the start of the battle.
‘...Who ya gonna believe, some stupid archaeologist or Raquel Welch?...”
Ha !!! Post of the day !!!
“...There is a scene where she was a walk on...”
She was unrecognizable in the background. Why didn’t they give her a real cameo like being one of the faces on the bus? She was after all, Maria von Trapp, and a defender of the real life warm nature of her husband.
I am waiting for Monk and Psych to come on, so I am watching one called Hard Target, which is just sooo stupid it hurts. The hero person whoever, just put a sleeping rattlesnake in a tree as a trap, and it jumped down on some bad dude and bit him. Oh, hurry up Monk and come on!!! Please.
Ain't that the truth. SALVADOR was a drugged out Marxist hippie fantasy that slammed the legitimate forces of El Salvador and lauded the communists (who were the real mass murderers of the campesinos).
What bugs me the worst are those movies that put out all kinds of publicity about the pains they went to for historical accuracy and are anything but.
BONNIE AND CLYDE
That film did indeed set up some things realistically but the Barrow’s favorite BARs and sawed-off auto-loading shotguns were absent. The real crime was what they did to Frank Hamer.
Hamer killed dozens of criminals in real life and was a dedicated and clever tracker. Clyde never took him prisoner and Hamer’s posse were all old-style lawmen who knew what they were doing firing Winchester lever guns, Remington cal35 semis, a BAR, and two shotguns.
Clyde was more interesting in real life and had a way with tough guy words as witnessed by his letters.
I have never seen the Bonnie and Clyde movie. I will try to get it from Netflix.
Also in the movie "Stripes", you can see my grandfather in several scenes, as most of the movie was filmed at Fort Knox, especially around the Education Center, where my grandfather was the director. There are several shots of him sitting on the front steps, smoking his pipe; plus you can see his Gran Torino stationwagon in the parking lot.
I was aware of the French semi-invasion of 1216, which was really more of a case of the French dauphin being invited by rebels to become the English king, and bringing some of his own troops along. Much as King William did in the Glorious Revolution. It was not, as portrayed in the movie, a national war of the French nation to conquer the English nation. In fact, the French king publicly disavowed support for his son in this endeavor, though he might of course have helped him under the table.
I can’t remember whether in the movie the invasion was portrayed as led by Phillip or Louis.
In any case, the movie portrayed the invasion as only months after John became king instead of 15 years later, after John had time to piss off most of the English nobles, at which he had great talent.
Portraying it as French vs. English national war is a drastic mis-statement of the situation at the time. The political nation was composed of Anglo-French Norman nobility, who didn’t think of themselves as English at all, any more than the English absentee landlords of later Ireland thought of themselves as Irish. In fact, John’s loss of the English crown’s possessions on the continent was the main reason the nobility gradually started to think of themselves as English.
The language of government was still French and many if not most of the nobility had little aversion to supporting Louis over John in a dynastic rather than national struggle.
Also Louis’ forces did not land at Dover, as they beseiged it twice and never did take it. Louis has some claim to be classed among the Kings of England, as he at one time during the year or so campaign controlled well over half the kingdom, including London.
Wouldn't be unlikely that highly compressed air might come gushing out, but not water.
Wouldn't be unlikely that highly compressed air might come gushing out, but not water.
Wouldn't be unlikely that highly compressed air might come gushing out, but not water.
Far more likely. Water in the capsized wreck of the Oklahoma would not have risen above the surface of the water that the ship was in.
Far more likely. Water in the capsized wreck of the Oklahoma would not have risen above the surface of the water that the ship was in.
Well, thank you. At least my heart will be healthier than that of a smoker. ;o)
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