One excellent WWII flyboy documentary, bombers. Through Prime, I had to use a free trial for HBO to watch. Very highly recommended. THE COLD BLUE. Some of the last alive interviewed.
Quotes from recollection.
Some call you the greatest generation.. *Yah, I'm starting to think that...."
" Anyone says they weren't scared is full of chit." regarding flack...
" it's amazing what a bunch of 18 and 19 tear olds accomplished. "
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!" --- Kid Rock 2022
I'm currently enjoying Giri/Haji (Duty/Shame), a series on Netflix. It's the story of a Japanese policeman whose missing brother was a yakuza gangster. He gets information that his brother may be alive and hiding in London and he goes there to find out. Most of the dialog is in English, there are some scenes in Japanese with subtitles. Very well acted, extremely well written with well developed characters with both virtues and flaws. This is not a stamped out police flick; a lot of thought went into writing it. Very entertaining.
Started watching on your recommendation.
On the 4th episode and it's dam good!
It just gets better. One of the best things I've seen on TV in a long time.
natman, Thanks for the tip. Just finished 2nd episode of season 1. You were spot-on. Nothing like that will ever come out of Hollywood again. The plot is thick and characters are well-developed. As an example, Bosch pales in comparison.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want.
I got hooked on Peaky Blinders on Netflix. Post WWI Birmingham gang with ambition. Dark storyline but exceptionally written, great characters. There are five seasons, so it’ll take a while to get through. Sometimes using the subtitles helps get through the accent. I’d highly recommend it.
There are some great old movies available free on Prime right now. One is Hud, starring Paul Newman. No violence or gunplay, just a character-driven story of the old west meeting the new. Larry McMurtry wrote the novel it's based on. I don't know if he did the screenplay or not.
For those who think they've seen every movie centered around the OK Corral gunfight, there's Doc, an early seventies effort starring Stacy Keach and featuring Faye Dunaway (not as Wyatt Earp). It was not historically accurate, but still entertaining. I knew of the movie for quite some time but short of some effort to get EVERY movie put on DVD, did not think I'd ever get to see it.
We watched Greyhound. It was really good. The only thing that bugged me was all the animation used. Not even sure if animation is the correct term for digitally created scenes. The water didn't look right, etc. I guess that's the reality of modern movies. To be fair, back in the day they would splice in actual war footage for parts of a WWII movie.
