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Post by stefano on Aug 4, 2010 22:37:34 GMT
I can remember watching The Great Escape as a kid totally unaware of its tragic ending. Escapees crawling through tunnels, Motorcyclists jumping barbed wire fences and jumping out of moving trains. It was really exiting until the Machine gun fire, the list of names on the screen and then the tears. Great film other than the total inaccuracy of that Canadian airforce guy with the annoying baseball when he was in the chiller and then his exploits on a motor cycle! No Canadians were in the prison camp and the motor cycle incident never took place. Good film though and yes the machine gun shooting towards the end was dramatic and totally unexpected ... and that bit was true. The Americans (I know they are not Canadian but same principle) seem to want to make every film connected with the 2nd World War an American victory. They did manage to join in in 1941, but I have seen films depicting American pilots flying during the Battle of Britain in 1940 (maybe that is where our present Prime Minister got confused in a recent speech!) and also the Enigma code machine being captured and decoded by Americans! (total nonsence of course). John Wayne seemed to be the only person involved in Operation Overlord!! A very devious race of people who subjugated the Native Americans but then 250 years later willingly collected money for a terrorist organisation in the British Isles on the grounds that we had taken over their land. Bloody Hypocrits! The only thing that stopped that was terrorism in their country, probably didn't realise during their throwing money into collecting tins the damage that a bomb or an Armalite can cause. Discuss  |
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Post by keyberrygull on Aug 5, 2010 7:13:08 GMT
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Post by stefano on Aug 5, 2010 7:33:23 GMT
Now assuming that most war films ended in tragedy, it was only a few years later that Escape to victory reached the Boxing Day TV schedule. The expected tears of sadness turned to tears of joy when Micheal Caine, Pele, Bobby Moore, Ossie Ardilles and Co (along with the whole Ipswich town squad) were swept from their feet and smuggled off the pitch to safety at the end of that one.  .... and what a brilliant goalie Sylvester Stallone was!  |
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Post by tufc01 on Aug 5, 2010 9:33:59 GMT
I’m not really the best person to put forward films that are sad/I cried at because the list would be way to big, and include films like Lion King, Love Actually to name just a couple. However the ones that made be Blub like a baby are; Beaches Champ Green Mile And more recently and perhaps the worst of all, was The Bridge to Terabithia.That should carry a health warning, there is one scene which is unbearably sad. |
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Post by merse on Aug 5, 2010 10:24:53 GMT
.... and what a brilliant goalie Sylvester Stallone was!  Must be the shortest arsed little midget to have ever gone between the sticks.........................he must have used the "Willie Carson On A Milk Crate" technique!  |
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Post by keyberrygull on Aug 5, 2010 13:10:30 GMT
Can ayone guess the names of the 14 players who get a mention in the titles at the end of Escape to Victory?
Four Englishmen plus A Scotsman, American, Dane, Pole, Belgian, Norwegian, Irishman, Brazilian, Argentinian and Dutchman.
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Post by capitalgull on Aug 5, 2010 13:45:24 GMT
Can ayone guess the names of the 14 players who get a mention in the titles at the end of Escape to Victory? Four Englishmen plus A Scotsman, American, Dane, Pole, Belgian, Norwegian, Irishman, Brazilian, Argentinian and Dutchman. I think there are more than 14... England: Russell Osman Bobby Moore Mike Summerbee Laurie Sivell (Germany) Robin Turner (Germany) Kevin Beattie (stand-in) Paul Cooper (stand-in) The last two played in place of Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone Scotland: John Wark USA: Werner Roth (Germany) Denmark: Soren Lindstedt Norway: Hallvar Thoresen Belgium Paul van Himst Ireland: Kevin O'Callaghan (keeper who gets his arm broken so Stallone can play) Brazil: Pele Argentina: Osvaldo Ardiles Poland: Kazimierz Deyna Holland: Co Prins It is one of my favourite films of all time and one I am happy to sit down and watch just about every Christmas ;D |
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Post by chelstongull on Aug 5, 2010 14:18:31 GMT
I can't believe some of the films that some of you guys actually admit to seeing -
Love Actually
Beaches
The Champ
Watershit Down
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Post by capitalgull on Aug 5, 2010 14:25:11 GMT
I can't believe some of the films that some of you guys actually admit to seeing - Love Actually Beaches The Champ Watershit Down Spelling error or more Chelston sarcasm???  |
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Post by chelstongull on Aug 5, 2010 16:20:14 GMT
I can't believe some of the films that some of you guys actually admit to seeing - Love Actually Beaches The Champ Watershit Down Spelling error or more Chelston sarcasm??? more? |
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Post by keyberrygull on Aug 5, 2010 16:22:55 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Can anyone guess the names of the 14 players who get a mention in the titles at the end of Escape to Victory?[/glow]Four Englishmen plus A Scotsman, American, Dane, Pole, Belgian, Norwegian, Irishman, Brazilian, Argentinian and Dutchman. It is one of my favourite films of all time and one I am happy to sit down and watch just about every Christmas ;D Do you know the name of the ref Capitalgull? He was a homer alright. Was it Jarnail Singh  |
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Post by tufc01 on Aug 5, 2010 17:22:22 GMT
I can't believe some of the films that some of you guys actually admit to seeing - Love Actually Beaches The Champ Watershit Down I will add a couple more; No Reservations World Trade Centre especially at the end, very poignant, when this film finished at the cinema no one moved, no one seemed to want to leave. It is also the quietest I have ever seen a cinema. |
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Post by Budleigh on Aug 5, 2010 17:51:03 GMT
Quietest I've ever heard a cinema was at the end of George Clooney's 'Batman & Robin'.
Because every other bugger had done the sensible thing and left!
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Post by lambethgull on Aug 5, 2010 18:07:19 GMT
I assume your tongue is in your cheek, Stefano, but I think it's a bit of a stretch to blame the alleged 'deviousness' of a 'race' for the treatment of Native Americans, the raising of funds for Irish nationalist groups and the telling of porky pies in the cinema. As for the Irish, their irritating squabbling and ensuing feuds over a few thousand square miles of damp farmland is of almost zero significance in the global scheme of things. It is a testament to the rhetoric of all concerned that this truth has never been credited as being the main reason why peace eventually prevailed.
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Post by stefano on Aug 5, 2010 20:01:09 GMT
I assume your tongue is in your cheek, Stefano, but I think it's a bit of a stretch to blame the alleged 'deviousness' of a 'race' for the treatment of Native Americans, the raising of funds for Irish nationalist groups and the telling of porky pies in the cinema. As for the Irish, their irritating squabbling and ensuing feuds over a few thousand square miles of damp farmland is of almost zero significance in the global scheme of things. It is a testament to the rhetoric of all concerned that this truth has never been credited as being the main reason why peace eventually prevailed. One should never assume of course although it is a definite maybe! . Sylvester Stallone only proved the main point in Escape to Victory. The definite hero of the film ... a 4'2" American goalkeeper! It's only a pity your last sentence isn't true. I don't mean the bit about 'the reason', it's the bit about peace prevailing. Try telling that to the residents of the Ardoyne, Shankill, Falls, the Markets, Bogside, Creggan, Ligoniel, Oldpark, or Andersonstown. Only don't stand too close if you do! |
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