nuff to make ya wanna puke.
Posted on 11/02/2016 7:34:04 AM PDT by pabianice
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‘main steam stop walve....”
Too much!
“You savvy?”
In the movie you might have noticed an older German fellow in the bar where the sailors got together. In the book, he and Holman become friends and he saves the day by magically producing an enormous sledge hammer to start the nuts on th bearing caps.
I just watched the McQueen movie “Nevada Smith” on Netflicks a couple of nights ago and it’s quite a contrast. Not a good movie and not good acting by McQueen. Karl Mauldin really shows him up in the acting department.
Such a great movie puts today’s stuff to shame. Movies today don’t spend enough time on character development just cram it full of special effects to keep the low info short attention span group engaged
That was a very good movie.
I have few small technical issues with “In Harm’s Way”, but...I absolutely love the movie.
My dad was career Navy, and I saw plenty of parties like the one the movie opened with, complete with people making fools of themselves, the political under and overtones (evident to even me, as a kid) and the overall atmosphere of that opening scene.
There is something about it that just hearkens back to another time, the ambiance, the lighting, the uniforms...everything.
The book of the same name spent a lot more time with the young married lieutenant and his wife. The movie is actually only the high points of ‘In Harm’s Way,’ a testament to screenplay adaptation. Loved both.
Sigh. What is it with Hollywood these days, besides being overrun by liberals?
I just rented “USS Indianapolis, Men of Courage”.
I know I shouldn’t have, especially since it was very expensive to rent, but...years ago, I had a chance to spend a good part of a day with one of the survivors, and I have read a number of books about it, and was in the middle of re-reading “In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of The USS Indianapolis”, so I was really curious and could not resist, even at the exorbitant price.
It was literally one of the worst movies I have ever seen, made even worse by the Hollywoodizing and liberalizing of what is a compelling story on its own.
I watched 15 minutes and just turned it off. They made it into a love story, a racial division story, a dumb-ass, stupid, liberalized Hollywood movie. Spielberg, who is as liberal as the day is long, managed to do a great job in “Jaws” of touching on the subject in a way that gave the event some real meaning to many moviegoers who knew nothing about the USS Indianapolis.
If you have ever seen “Monument Men”, you would know EXACTLY what I mean. GREAT book, a story every American should know about (and few did), but the movie was turned into a stupid, repugnant, moronic cartoon. I was so disgusted, and I should have known given the cast, but...again, I had read the book and was really interested.
Same thing.
Thanks...I will have to read that!
nuff to make ya wanna puke.
It did make me angry. They could have done it right, taught some history, shown people the terrible sacrifices that were required, and...
...it is almost as if they DELIBERATELY fouled it up. Just because they could.
true moral bravery and altruism have no place in the RAT philosophy
Yes. I liked the squeaky voiced ‘Dexter’ but it was an entirely different and mature Crenna in Sand Pebbles.
LOL! Yup.
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