Just a heads up for those of you who get Turner Classic Movies, they'll be showing two classic war films today, The Bridge on the River Kwai @ 1:00pm EST and Lawrence of Arabia @ 4:00pm EST.:D I watched Bridge on the River Kwai a long time ago and never have seen Lawrence of Arabia before (but I do have a book about him called Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr, it's really a good read)

I have never watched "Kwai" sort of never got the chance to then about 6 or 7 years ago I saw a documentary about the actual UK and Commonwealth POWs that the film was based on.They where disgusted by how inaccurately it(the movie) portrayed them and the conditions.After hearing that I refuse to even watch it.

Lawrence of Arabia is pretty good not 100% accurate no movie is creative license and all I just have a tolerance point that "Kwai" violates.

I'll be watching the comedy show on Sky Sports, Sunderland v Man City in the League Cup Final :)

I really miss TCM, after all those time I saw it broadcasting the same movies, on and on. Miss Ice Station Zebra as the first film of the night!

ANd how is the comedy show,? It has to be good since it's british comedy!

TNT back in the 80's and 90's used to show old sci-fi flicks from the on Saturday nights.I used to love watching those.

Jarhead

Pretty good movie. Was disappointed that not really any of the actual war was in the movie...but still worth the watch.

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Great movie. Stanley Kubrick always does good stuff. I'm slowly working my way through his movies. A Clockwork Orange is up next.

A Clockwork Orange

What a bizarre movie. It was interesting and enjoyable...but bizarre nonetheless.

You could easily tell it was Kubrick movie...but the plot and acting really make it stand out from the rest.

Really stands out from all the rest of all FILM for that matter. But well done. :yep: I liked it.

I bet the book is good too.

People say that the book is far better, at least since it is more "hard" than the movie. Alex is 15, the duo girls of the scene are 12 and raped (I think), not the comical sex scene of the movie. And the slang is far more intense.
But the movie a great masterpiece, the soundtrack is wonderful!

One of my favorite movies is "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Course, the movie really leaves out the plot in the book, that Brick and Skipper were involved in a gay relationship and Brick felt trapped in a loveless marriage.....refusing to have sex with Maggie.

I read about it on Wikipedia...I should read it at some point..but I have SO many books already

It's wonderful until they sit you in a chair and prop your eyes open.... :03:

:haha:
It is so nice when people are kind to us!:D

All is Lost with Robert Redford lost at sea.
Very good in my opinion, slow, quiet and something different for a change.

Contagion with Kate Winslet and Matt Damon.
A movie about a pandemic incident that is kinda eye-opening... and it has Kate Winslet.

Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman, that annoying Cuba-Goody-Boo guy, God himself (Morgan Freeman) and the mighty Motaba virus that makes you bleed outta every hole in ya body.
Yup, that one as well... gotta love it!

I like Gwyneth Paltrow...

Good movie anyway. I saw that one for free in theaters when it came out. I didn't go in expecting much but I liked it.

I do like Outbreak, good pacing and tension, and Hoffman, Freeman and (you forgot) Donald Sutherland!! Directed by Wolfgang 'Das Boot' Petersen too!


Now, for a recommendation from me.

Waterloo (1970)

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A collaboration between an Italian producer with a Soviet director, and my goodness is it a tour de force. It was said that with the 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalrymen that director Sergei Bondarchuk was in command of the seventh largest army in the world at the time. :haha:
It stars Christopher Plummer is an enigmatic Wellington, and Rod Steiger as the best Napoleon Bonaparte I have ever seen. There are a few historical inaccuracies here and there, and a few events are skipped over or abridged, but generally speaking it's as accurate as they come, and with no CGI it's stunningly made.

If you have any interest at all in the Napoleonic wars, watch it. :yep: