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    We've changed Internet/digital TV/phone provider where I live and as part of the deal I got to pick 8 digital TV channels. I chose TCM as one of them. So far I've recorded A Day At the Circus (Marx Brothers) and Casablanca - I haven't seen either in ages.

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    There are 3-5 absolutely unforgettable moments in this movie!

    *The opening scene where they wait for the train. ("I guess we're missing a horse." "You brought two too many.")

    *The next scene where the family gets shot up and Henry Fonda stares down the son, while the amazing music blares.

    *James Robards and Charles Bronson meeting in the bar. Bronson grabs one of the guys coats. (*Speeding through the dialogue a little bit* "I've seen three of these drifters before." "So?" "Inside the drifters there were three men." "And?" "Inside the men there were three bullets.")

    *Robards sneaking onto the train, picking off the men one by one. Finally, he lowers his boot, and when the final enemy approaches, he shoots him in the face, through his boot.

    Classic.

    :clap:

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    re-watch of Once Upon A Time in the West :wub:

    Harmonica: The reward for this man is 5000 dollars, is that right?

    Cheyenne: Judas was content for 4970 dollars less.

    Harmonica: There were no dollars in them days.

    Cheyenne: But sons of bitches... yeah.

    ^_^

    -- Permanent Floating Music Thread --

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    Neil Young - After The Gold Rush

    Well, I dreamed I saw the knights

    In armor coming,

    Saying something about a queen.

    There were peasants singing and

    Drummers drumming

    And the archer split the tree.

    There was a fanfare blowing

    To the sun

    That was floating on the breeze.

    Look at Mother Nature on the run

    In the nineteen seventies.

    Look at Mother Nature on the run

    In the nineteen seventies.

    I was lying in a burned out basement

    With the full moon in my eyes.

    I was hoping for replacement

    When the sun burst thru the sky.

    There was a band playing in my head

    And I felt like getting high.

    I was thinking about what a

    Friend had said

    I was hoping it was a lie.

    Thinking about what a

    Friend had said

    I was hoping it was a lie.

    Well, I dreamed I saw the silver

    Space ships flying

    In the yellow haze of the sun,

    There were children crying

    And colors flying

    All around the chosen ones.

    All in a dream, all in a dream

    The loading had begun.

    They were flying Mother Nature's

    Silver seed to a new home in the sun.

    Flying Mother Nature's

    Silver seed to a new home.

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    Posted · Edited by Doktor Kosmos

    I see movies by myself all the time, whats the big deal.

    Hell, when I saw HBP last week, I was the only person in the whole theater. It was sweet.

    LOL

    I saw Eddie Murphy's Boomerang at the cinema and it was me, a guy and a couple in the theatre, a grand total of four people. The couple left about halfway through. I only sat through the whole movie cause I had a big a$$ bag of candy. :lol:

    ADD: Oh and I'd like to point out that I didn't buy the ticket myself. They were handing them out for free at my dad's record store.

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    Posted · Edited by Doktor Kosmos

    I find Second World War movies to be the best, probably because the conflict was the last truly polarized war. There was no doubt that it was a life and death struggle of good versus evil, and for the freedom of the majority of humanity. This is different then let's say, Vietnam. While certainly a struggle against what WE saw as good and evil, there truly was no good and evil in this war. While ideologies were the cause for war in Europe much like they were in Vietnam, to say Communism was the evil would be taking a fairly Western approach.

    This gives those World War Two movies a greater sense of urgency, of importance, at least in my opinion. To say Vietnam or Iraq is unimportant would be a very inappropriate statement, as they are very important. But the stakes are not nearly as high as they were several decades earlier.

    On the topic of WW2 movies, there are two clear standouts in my opinion. The first is Saving Private Ryan. Yes, it is a cliche. But can anyone really argue this isn't one of (if not the) greatest war film of all times? The opening scences of them hitting Omaha are among the best in film history. The movie is deep, and you really grow attached to the characters.

    My second choice would be Enemy at the Gates. Once again, you get to know the young Russian sniper from the Urals. You grow attached to him, and you really get a good insight of the struggles of Stalingrad and the impossible odds Soviet soliders faced.

    What I think was good about Saving Private Ryan was that it really showed, in a very visual way that you couldn't escape, what kind of Hell war is (or must be, I wouldn't know since I've never been in one myself).

    Very good point about WWII, I totally agree.

    As a matter of fact, about a year ago I think, I recorded Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of our fathers, but I still haven't watched them. However yesterday I finally burned them to DVD discs so I could clear up space on the harddrive of my DVR. From what I understand these movies are very hyped. What I hope to see when I finally watch them some day is a different viewpoint, a new take on WWII if you get what I mean. Which is something that makes Enemy at the gates interesting - here we have a bunch of Russians who are fighting the same enemies as the Allies did, i.e. the Nazis.

    I also burned Das Boot for that same reason.

    Don't get me wrong, America did us Europeans a heckuva favour in WWII and during the post-war year, no doubt about that, but... well I suppose many of us have a sort of love/hate relationship with the US.

    I don't know if it qualifies as a war movie, but if you should happen to be interested in seeing a movie that offers a different point of view then I can heartily the Italian 1960's movie La battaglia di Algeri, which is a movie about a couple of the people in the resistence in Algeria during the French invasion.

    I love The Great Escape and Bridge on the River Kwai.

    Oh and Dr. Strangelove is just in a league of its own. :lol:

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    Not a huge fan of war movies. How about you guys?

    I don't love them, I don't hate them.

    I definitely like movies like Apocalypse Now and Platoon better than Black Hawk Down or We Were Soldiers. I'm not an American so the patriotism is lost on me. Also I'm not a fan of war so trying to glorify war and soldiers doesn't appeal to me.

    Nothing To Do With Anything

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    OK, I thought about creating a whole new thread for this but I figured taht would be overkill, so I'm posting this in here instead.

    I seem to recall there used to be a "HabsWorld on Facebook" thread but I can't find it, so I'm gonna have to ask here instead.

    The other day someone added me on Facebook, someone who was born in 1958 and who lives somewhere in PA and who's a fan of John Coltrane (yay!) and, as far as I can tell, the Phillies (meh). I don't want to post the person's name. I don't know who that person is, and if that person posts here, would you be kind enough to let me know that you are you, if you get what I mean. Someone on a different message board where I (regretfully) post occasionally has decided to start bringing me into the biggest meltdown since Chernobyl, that person created an account with my real name on that board and started posting racist sh*t and stuff. So I'm trying to straighten out all the question marks. You can PM me, I would really appreciate it.

    Thank you.

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    I got a note on e-mail today saying that the movie I ordered the other day is due to be delivered most likely tomorrow. So this time tomorrow I may be watching The Rocket. :)

    I'm excited. :) :hlogo:

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