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Title: Where do we get such men?
Post by: Nefarious 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.
Title: Re: Where do we get such men?
Post by: Dago on January 17, 2008, 08:29:53 PM
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Originally posted by Nefarious
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
Title: Where do we get such men?
Post by: Rich46yo 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".

                      Good luck getting the whistleing out of your head now.
Title: Where do we get such men?
Post by: DiabloTX 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.
Title: Where do we get such men?
Post by: MrBill on January 17, 2008, 10:43:29 PM
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Where do we get such men?


Iowa.
Title: Where do we get such men?
Post by: culero on January 18, 2008, 05:44:01 AM
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Originally posted by MrBill
Iowa.


Lemme guess. Corn fed? :)
Title: Where do we get such men?
Post by: Nefarious on January 18, 2008, 07:06:06 AM
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Originally posted by MrBill
Iowa.


Brubaker was actually from Denver, Colorado.