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Title: War movie overload!
Post by: BlueJ1 on November 10, 2006, 09:22:59 AM

AMC is doing a 48 hour marathon of classic war movies. It started last night at midnight EST.

Heres a list in order of whats showing starting now.
-Sink the Bismark!
-Halls of Montezuma
-To Hell and Back
-The Green Berets
-Patton
-Green Berets
-The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
-The Desert Rats
-The Glory Brigade
-To Hell and back
-Twelve O'Clock High
-Patton
-A Bridge Too Far
-Tora Tora Tora
-The Enemy Below

Obviously missing a few of the bigger classics. But nonetheless some good ones.

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: dmf on November 10, 2006, 12:00:32 PM

I like the old Black and White ones

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: JB88 on November 10, 2006, 05:16:32 PM

"god help me i love it so."  - george c. scott, patton

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: DREDIOCK on November 10, 2006, 05:38:08 PM

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Originally posted by dmf
I like the old Black and White ones

Me too.

"Battleground"

And

"the Story of GI Joe"

Are probably my two favorites

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: bsdaddict on November 10, 2006, 05:39:40 PM

ooh!  my tivo's gonna be busy for a while!

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: rpm on November 11, 2006, 10:37:49 AM

AMC does this every Vet's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, ect. They have a very good library of films, but I enjoyed AMC more when it was unedited and commercial free.

I'm really dissapointed in TCM for not showing their best warfilms this weekend. They have the rights to some great WW1 films including Hell's Angels.

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: BlueJ1 on November 11, 2006, 10:49:25 AM

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Originally posted by rpm
AMC does this every Vet's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, ect. They have a very good library of films, but I enjoyed AMC more when it was unedited and commercial free.

I'm really dissapointed in TCM for not showing their best warfilms this weekend. They have the rights to some great WW1 films including Hell's Angels.

This Vet's day seems to be very low key compared to past. Seems to me it used to be that every channel showed atleast some kind of war related movie.

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on November 11, 2006, 12:02:07 PM

TCM is showing war movies this weekend, or at least today. I'm watching "The Longest Day" on TCM now. Several others are coming up, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" and "Kelly's Heroes" as well. AMC is repeating theirs often. At least two plays for several.

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: rpm on November 11, 2006, 01:04:07 PM

Hmm, my bad. They must have started at noon today. Looks like it's just 6 films, not all weekend.:(

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: dmf on November 11, 2006, 01:27:00 PM

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Originally posted by rpm
AMC does this every Vet's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, ect. They have a very good library of films, but I enjoyed AMC more when it was unedited and commercial free.

I'm really dissapointed in TCM for not showing their best warfilms this weekend. They have the rights to some great WW1 films including Hell's Angels.

I have a dvd recorder hooked up to the cable tv line :) they say you can't record from teh cox dvr box to a dvd, but you can record from the cable line before it goes into th dvr box :)

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: dmf on November 11, 2006, 01:28:23 PM

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Originally posted by rpm
AMC does this every Vet's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, ect. They have a very good library of films, but I enjoyed AMC more when it was unedited and commercial free.

I'm only 24 I don't remember anything on tv unedited.

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: BlueJ1 on November 11, 2006, 02:10:47 PM

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Originally posted by dmf
I'm only 24 I don't remember anything on tv unedited.

Not to long ago AMC used to be unedited like rpm said. Alot less commercials and you'd get alot more background info on the movie being shown.

Im only 19 and remember this being the one of the only channels being unedited before prime time.

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: BlueJ1 on November 11, 2006, 02:21:43 PM

Another heads up. Anyone with Showtime they are showing some war movies. Both WWII and Iraqi Freedom

-The Guns of Navarone
-The Eagle Has Landed
-Battleground:21 Days on the Empire's Edge (Iraq war)
-Home Front (Iraq War)

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: DREDIOCK on November 11, 2006, 08:51:00 PM

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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Not to long ago AMC used to be unedited like rpm said. Alot less commercials and you'd get alot more background info on the movie being shown.

Im only 19 and remember this being the one of the only channels being unedited before prime time.

I know TCM is like this but I remember those things always being my main complaints about AMC edited to death and too damn many commercials

One of the things my son and I always found amuising was the way AMC edited "on Golden Pond"

they left "SOB" in but edited out "BS"

Mind boggling

Title: War movie overload!
Post by: rpm on November 12, 2006, 12:54:58 AM

AMC abandoned unedited, commercial free programming in 1998. Before that it was just like TCM. They started with commercials between the movies for about 6 months, then went to their current programming.:(