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Offline Nefarious

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Where do we get such men?
« on: January 17, 2008, 07:42:24 PM »
Just got done watching the Bridges at Toko-Ri. I ordered it from Amazon as it was part of the 4 for 3 DVD Deal. As I opened the box of DVDs I received today, I remembered the first time I ever watched the movie.

I remember it was on a Memorial day weekend where they play nothing but war movies on the TNT cable channel. I was about 12 or 13. I was sitting there flipping through channels when my dad walked in as the credits rolled and stopped me. "Oh, we have to watch this!". The next few hours or so I was mesmerized as my dad relived his childhood to the 1956 Academy Award winning special effects.

What a great movie. What a great book. As I look back, I wonder if this very movie/book was why my dad was a 20 year veteran of the US Navy?  Today as I watched, I nearly felt the water works coming as the end scene approached. I knew what happened but it had been so long since I read the book or seen the movie that I was rooting for Brubaker to make the Sea knowing the whole time the awful truth.

Damn. What a great piece of art.
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There must also be a flyable computer available for Nefarious to do FSO. So he doesn't keep talking about it for eight and a half hours on Friday night!

Offline Dago

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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2008, 08:29:53 PM »
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Just got done watching the Bridges at Toko-Ri. I ordered it from Amazon as it was part of the 4 for 3 DVD Deal. As I opened the box of DVDs I received today, I remembered the first time I ever watched the movie.

Where do we get such men?


The Screen Actors Guild supplies them.    :rofl
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2008, 09:32:13 PM »
Yeah that was a great movie. There are many great WW-ll movies. One of my all time faves is "The Bridge on the river Kwai".

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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2008, 09:34:43 PM »
It's not the whistling melody that always stuck in my head.  For some reason the French Horn's counter-melody always did.
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2008, 10:43:29 PM »
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Where do we get such men?


Iowa.
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« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2008, 05:44:01 AM »
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Iowa.


Lemme guess. Corn fed? :)
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« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2008, 07:06:06 AM »
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Iowa.


Brubaker was actually from Denver, Colorado.
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