I do enjoy Gettysburg, but the Confederates on trampettes in Pickett's charge always make me laugh.

Just got back from town with a mega result -well I thought so anyway. Reading through these Film posts I realised I hadn't got a copy of Gettysburg or Gods and Generals so in town I popped into the local CEX shop. Found Gettysburg straight away...£2. Bargain, thinks I. Went to pay and the bloke said that'll be £1, please. So I got over four hours of film for a squid. Still looking out for Gods and Generals though. Well chuffed.

Two hundred and forty minutes for a Pound.  Spooky!  One old ( or real, depending on your point of view!) penny for each minute. Infredibke value!

Mollinary

Nice thread. I have always liked action films especially war films from when me and my dad used to watch them on a Sunday afternoon in the 60's. I have always had a liking for Errol Flynn action films as well.

So this is my list of action/war films that I will watch when they come around.

All quiet on the Western Front (digitally remastered original version)
The Light Horseman
Cross of Iron
Paschendael
Battle of Warsaw (last 30 minutes)
Black Hawk Down

The Wild Bunch
The Sea Hawks
They died with their boots on
The charge of the light brigade
Fort Apache

Cheers 

You Sir, are a gentleman of good taste and discernment!

Not sure my Ex would agree. 

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 26 September 2014, 07:16:04 PM

Spartucus - just for the spectacle - and the fact I was allowed to stay up late as a kid to watch it in the days before video recorders

I'm watching Sparticus now on something called 'PickTV' - it's not how I remember it . . .

Martyn
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Anyone remember Taras Bulba with Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis?  Quite fun, and now becoming somewhat relevant regarding the Ukraine?  Scratch that last remark - it is just fun, Hollywood tosh - but fun! 

Mollinary

How did Tony Curtis get these historical roles - "Taras Bulba", "Spartacus", "the Vikings", and of course "the Black Shield of Falworth".

In every film, he sounded like he'd been dragged in fresh from the streets of New York.

"Yonder lies the cassle of moi fadder." 

Lovely stuff.

Curtis was pretty awful in one of the film versions of  The Count of Monte Christo as well . Though he was good in Lobster Man from Mars

Except.... http://www.snopes.com/quotes/signature/tonycurtis.asp

though in fairness Heff's comment of "...don't tell anyone, it makes a great movie story" is kinda true too.

Taras Bulba was awful. Yul Brenner; great casting. Tony Curtis; err not so great.

I remember going to the pictures when I was 12 to see Taras Bulba. Never seen it since. Re. Gods and Generals: The Battle of Fredericksburg is the best bit of the whole film, but where did they put the flip between side one and side two; right in the middle of the battle, I ask you. Bit of trivia, the troops crossing the pontoons over the Rappahannock had to be re-filmed as it was done on a lake. Someone set up the wind machine, to make the flowing river effect, so that the Union troops looked as though they were crossing from south to north. 

Had a bit of a ageist moment last night. Put Gettysburg on the diddly after Ma Subs went to catch some flies, (you gotta love Tom Berenger's beard and Jeff Daniels tache, even though they are accurate), and settled down with a cup of tea. Just at the end of the fight for Little Round Top the diddly stopped.Then there was another short film of the battle narrated by Leslie Nielson...then Main Menu.  I've been done out of 50% of the ruddy film was my first thought! I sat there for a couple of minutes then thought right, those shysters at CEX  are going to get it tomorrow. Opened the diddly to put it back in the case...and instantly realised it was two sided. Tried the second side and behold -Gettysburg Part Two! My name-calling was very inventive, quiet but inventive. How I manage to use anything technological sometimes amazes me.

Quote from: Subedai on 29 September 2014, 09:02:55 PM
Had a bit of a ageist moment last night. Put Gettysburg on the diddly after Ma Subs went to catch some flies, (you gotta love Tom Berenger's beard and Jeff Daniels tache, even though they are accurate), and settled down with a cup of tea. Just at the end of the fight for Little Round Top the diddly stopped.Then there was another short film of the battle narrated by Leslie Nielson...then Main Menu.  I've been done out of 50% of the ruddy film was my first thought! I sat there for a couple of minutes then thought right, those shysters at CEX  are going to get it tomorrow. Opened the diddly to put it back in the case...and instantly realised it was two sided. Tried the second side and behold -Gettysburg Part Two! My name-calling was very inventive, quiet but inventive. How I manage to use anything technological sometimes amazes me.

Nah, Sub,  they do it deliberately to confuse us wrinklies. 

I had the same problem bought and watched it when it first came out. A few years later went to watch it again, watched up until little round top. Then  spent 3 days looking for the second disc before remembering it was two sided