The Wind and the Lion The Sand Pebbles Kelly's Heros M.A.S.H. - the movie The Great Escape Run Silent, Run Deep Stalag 17 Forest Gump The Shawshank Redemption Wings - the original 1927 version
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.
Oh my gosh This brings back so many good memories. Our son is now 34, married with two great kids. But back when he was six or so we watched Predator and the little guy just couldn’t get enough of Ahhhnald killing the intergalactic space monster. The blood and guts in every scene just blew his mind, not to mention all the guns.
Our favorite line in the movie was Ahhhnald tracking the bad monster dude with the fluorescent green blood and saying “Eef eet bleeds, vee cahn keel eet “ ( If it bleeds we can kill it). To this very day if we are blood trailing a deer we have to recite that momentous line .
My wife hated to see our six year old son exposed to that much violence and really complained about it. So I dialed it back a bit. Every Wednesday night she had choir practice at church. He’d look out the window and as soon as she left the driveway he hauled butt to the VCR and popped in Predator, getting so excited he couldn’t sleep later that night.
Flash forward 28 years and our grandson is soon to be indoctrinated…
You only live once, but...if you do it right, once is enough.
I'll throw in True Grit, Home from the hills, All quiet on the western front (original in B&W), Jeremiah Johnson, Little big man, Tombstone and Walking Tall, 1 and 2.
"The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them." -Master Chief Hershel Davis
"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend." Isak Dinesen
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
if only to see that South African gal in her undies!
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
