Super Sweet Movie Discussion Thread

[DA SWO]

HH6 and I just got back in from watching 12 strong, we both enjoyed it.
Yeah, some timeline mistakes, but overall a good movie.
We will probably add it to our DVD collection when it is available.

 

[Florida173]

What's a DVD?

 

[TLDR20]

What's a DVD?

A thing privates wasted money on from 2003-2009

 

[Ooh-Rah]

A thing privates wasted money on from 2003-2009

See also CD. Circa 1990

 

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See also CD. Circa 1990

VHS 1995

 

[Deleted member 2517]

Finally have a free, long weekend. Planning to see as many of the Oscar bait movies playing around here as I can. “Shape of water” and “the Post” today and “phantom thread” tomorrow. If anyone hasn’t seen “Three Billboards” you need to fix yourself.

 

[CDG]

VHS 1995

My dad will still buy VHS tapes from garage sales/thrift stores. Drives my mom insane. Lol.

 

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still have a pretty big VHS collection

I did as well up until recently. Unfortunately I have turned into such a high definition snob that I cannot bear to watch anything on standard definition, much less anything off of the VCR.

 

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[Topkick]

I still have a pretty big VHS collection, and I, like your dad, add to it with $1.00 purchases. My Blueray/VHS player sitll works great.

I still have my favorite, cheezy 80s/90s movies on VHS. Commando, Terminator I&II, Top Gun, Uncle Buck, Plains, Trains, and Automobiles, etc. They are always there if I cant find anything else to watch.

 

[RackMaster]

My dad will still buy VHS tapes from garage sales/thrift stores. Drives my mom insane. Lol.

So does mine. He has more VHS than Blockbuster did before they died. lol

 

[Kraut783]

Finally got around to watching The Foreigner, with Jackie Chan. Thought he did a good job, enjoyable movie.

 

[SpitfireV]

You are talking to a guy who remembers the first television set coming in the house. It was a RCAblack and white with a picture tube about a mile long. The screen was pretty small, 8-10" IIRC. There was only one channel. It was pretty much the same story at The Farm. The problem there was the tax we had to pay to legeally recieve the signal. We had several sets there and the tax alone cost more than the TV sets CONUS.

The first "Color TV's" simply had a thin lite blue tint along the top ov the set and a green one along the bottom. That lasted about a couple of months until the Real Color TV's were hitting the homes.

I can put up with the inconvenience of VHS for the sake of nostalgia. Yeah, Jesus Christ had his picture in my highschool yearbook, he was a couple of years ahead of me.

We used to have a broadcast fee too (I forget the proper name of it) but they got rid of it because noone paid it because it was basically unenforceable. I remember a couple of guys coming over and telling mum she had to pay it because we had a TV and her getting in a massive argument with them over it. Resulted in their expulsion in the end.

 

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We used to have a broadcast fee too (I forget the proper name of it) but they got rid of it because no

 

[Topkick]

HH6 and I just got back in from watching 12 strong, we both enjoyed it.
Yeah, some timeline mistakes, but overall a good movie.
We will probably add it to our DVD collection when it is available.

Yeah, 12 Strong was a good movie. I cant speak for the accuracy, but the actors did a good job of carrying themselves like soldiers.

 

[Devildoc]

This move is fucking funny as...but you tend to laugh at the inappropriate, it's definitely not Oscar Wilde.

I just found out it was filmed in my state. Huh. Who knew.

 

[Devildoc]

Godfather Trilogy is now playing on NetFlix....that is all.

'The Godfather' trilogy is coming to Netflix

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In the mid-80s my mother won a VHS gift box set of the trilogy. Came with a book about the movies and some other doo dads. I wore the hell out of the videos (though I didn't care much for #3).

 

[Fl_Ag]

Yeah, 12 Strong was a good movie. I cant speak for the accuracy, but the actors did a good job of carrying themselves like soldiers.

I read the book twice last year - I highly recommend it. The movie was definitely Hollywood-ified but I really enjoyed it, and as with every other movie based on a book, you're not going to be able to cram in the level of detail to do the story true justice. My only real complaints are that they downplay the level of importance of the CIA operatives and there's no mention of the Air Force CCT on ODA 595, MSgt Decker. That said, I'll probably go see it again sometime in the next couple of weeks.

 

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