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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19080
Location: PDX7/23/17 10:08 AM |
Anyone see or planning to see Dunkirk?
Elaine and I went yesterday. I think she thought Dunkirk was in Scotland and not No France, and was hoping for some landscape as such. But curious as to what other may have though if them went to see it.
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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2815
Location: hillbilly heaven7/23/17 6:31 PM |
I saw it today. I was a little disappointed, I guess. I don't know what I was expecting, but I didn't think it was great.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19080
Location: PDX7/23/17 8:16 PM |
Did you like how that Spitfire after running outta fuel stayed up going fast for 1/2 hour from about 1200ft max of altitude? ;)
I thought the production and cinematography was quite good. it never quite focused on any particular thing, but I kind of like the freelancing of that.
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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield7/24/17 5:57 PM |
A fully loaded tourist climbing a grade unaware a skinny young grizzly is chasing him?
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven12/22/17 8:45 PM |
I watched Darkest Hour today. Gary Oldman was quite good as Churchill. I liked it better than Dunkirk and actually learned more about Dunkirk than the from the movie of the same name.
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lrzipris
Joined: 04 Mar 2004
Posts: 532
Location: Doylestown, PA12/23/17 8:51 AM |
OT: Bear Story
Years ago, I stopped at a rustic golf course in Ucluelet or Tofino (can't recall), Vancouver Island, BC. A sign on the counter read, "Bear Sighting Today," and the scorecard had this caution: "If bear interferes with play, free drop, no penalty." I thought that, if the circumstances arose, I did not need permission!
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19080
Location: PDX12/23/17 9:42 AM |
Do they call the bears Mulligans?
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lrzipris
Joined: 04 Mar 2004
Posts: 532
Location: Doylestown, PA12/23/17 7:22 PM |
MISTER Mulligan.
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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield12/24/17 4:56 AM |
I see what you did
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Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2626
Location: Canberra, Australia1/31/18 10:55 PM |
We just went and saw Darkest Hour, which we both thought was a much better film covering the events of the time. It has some classic lines in it - in one scene Churchill is sitting on the bog having a crap and reading a newspaper, and one of his secretaries calls through the door saying that the Lord Privy Seal wants something or other. Churchill's response: "Tell him I'm sealed in the privy and can only deal with one shit at a time".
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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2815
Location: hillbilly heaven2/1/18 9:40 AM |
I was going to see Darkest Hour about a week after it came out and it was already gone from local theaters.
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13ollocks
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 413
Location: Chapel Hill, NC2/1/18 11:43 PM |
Dunkirk
I thought it was OK - entertaining enough, with a good cast, but I'm a sucker for most things WWII. Some of the stuff didn't ring true, like the Spitfire landing on the water - this pretty much never happened - Spitfires tended to pitch tail-up and go straight down, a result of the big radiator intakes under the wings, the narrow pointed fuselage and the weight of the monster RR Merlin in the nose.
The Dunkirk scenes in "Atonement" were, IMO, way more realistic and miserable.
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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2815
Location: hillbilly heaven2/25/18 4:24 PM |
And Darkest Hour is coming out on DVD in 2 days, 2/27/18. Must have been a dismal ratings failure.
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven2/25/18 6:29 PM |
Or a final push by the allied forces for all of its acadamy award nominations.
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