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V For Vendetta is free on Prime. Way too familiar to us in terms of how our society is developing. The only thing it gets wrong is that those who impose the tyranny target homos and non-Christians. They got it exactly backwards.

Netflix made both The Pacific and Band of Brothers available earlier this month.

"The Pacific" is based on two books written by men who were there. My Helmet for a Pillow by Robert Leckie and With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge.

Edge of Darkness, free on Prime. Starring Mel Gibson. Highly recommended.

after that series, I bought both of Sledge's books. He was pretty honest about his post war adjustment. A whole generation of men dealing with that schit after the war. I haven't had the chance to read Leckie's book.

My old man fought in the Pacific . He didn't talk much about it , hardly at all, but he did tell me a couple of stories about fighting. I saw those stories come to life while watching the Pacific.

I was stationed on Okinawa at White Beach in '66. The gun caves, bunkers and pillboxes were just too tempting for young GI's, even though at orientation we were threatened with automatic Art 15 for souvenir hunting or exploring. Short story, those holes were inhabited by large populations of "habu" pit vipers. I found out the rumors about the habu were true, they are very aggressive and do come after you, ignoring your bamboo snake stick. No souvenirs, but saw enough old ordnance to put a full stop on exploring. I cannot imagine the task of rooting the Japs out of those holes. Better man than I Gunga Din.

Just watched that this week. I lost my best friend and hunting partner to an accidental oxy od about a a dozen years ago. He was given them after knee surgery. Watching that show helped me understand it a bit better.

I've had to go through the withdrawals with all the surgeries and health issues I've had so it was terrible to watch the guy going through them.

Bb

watching a Western called Gun the Man Down with James Arness. Its pretty good but the real kicker is Angie Dickinson


Yea, no shock, she's always been a beautiful woman but she you can't stop looking at in her in this movie

She’s got you flustered , Ron.

I don't blame Arness for that

Still a favorite of mine...

I think a lot of you morons don’t understand the point of this thread.

Children of Men. 2006. On Prime right now.

Clive Owen and Julianne Moore.

Clive Owen must assist in protecting the last baby and mother on earth in a violent, infertile world for the continuance of mankind.

Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 92 by critics and an 85 by audiences score.

That looks good. Free on Prime?

Thank goodness there will at least be black folks in the future, eh?

You should see them on the meme thread!!!

The Great Indian Wars is on Prime.

Documentary on the wars with the American Indians. Starts you off in the 16th century and takes you all the way to the end.

Ordinary Men on Netflix.

They gloss over things a bit too quickly but it is pretty good. Explains how quickly Joe Schit the Ragman can end up doing really messy work for his government.

Added it to my watch list. Thanks.

settling in with Major Dundee tonight. Its the original version, not the extended one.

Heston is tailor made for that role though

Reading about it.....

The production of the movie was very troubled. Peckinpah was often drunk on the set, and was supposedly so abusive towards the cast that Heston had to threaten him with a cavalry saber in order to calm him down: he even charged Peckinpah on horseback at one point, leading the director to panic and order the camera crane he was working on to be raised fast. Peckinpah also fired a large number of crew members for very trivial reasons throughout the shoot. Columbia studio executives feared that the project was out of control, and that Peckinpah was too unstable to finish the picture, so they cut the shooting schedule of the film by several weeks. Heston gave up his entire salary for the film in order to keep Peckinpah on the project – a gesture rarely equaled in Hollywood history. However, while the studio said it forced Peckinpah to wrap up shooting very abruptly, Heston alleged that towards the end Peckinpah simply became drunk and wandered off the set leaving Heston to finish directing the final scenes himself