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Post by amalric on Jun 13, 2008 7:34:55 GMT -5
GT - Revell!? Oh wow, that takes me back! My first ever model was a USAF jet plane, can't remember which one, but I later moved on to tanks and armoured vehicles moreso than planes. Remember how when you're young, glue seems to get everywhere? And then when you're older, you can build it almost faultless, with moving everything, and paint it and decorate it 'authentically'...and that may sound a little sad, but that was fun! Tom Baker was the Doctor Who of my youth, and a darned good one ~ I actually had a Tom Baker/Doctor Who doll when I was a kid, and it was a deadringer for Petrocelli, if you can remember that show..!
Grashyewl ~ ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is another favourite of mine. I love the Errol Flynn films - perhaps because he lived that reckless lifestyle he looked the part.
STAGECOACH, METROPOLIS (just so out there for it's time, and years ahead), SAVING PRIVATE RYAN are all up there ~ I can remember being astounded by some of the scenes in SPR, the knife fight in particular.
Oh, and another b/w classic: TWELVE ANGRY MEN (1955), with Henry Fonda and a whole host of brilliant character actors ~ Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, Ed Begley, Jack Klugman... One of the best courtroom (without actually being set in a courtroom) dramas ever.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 13, 2008 7:56:22 GMT -5
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (1998) is always fun to watch for some reason, I used to read Rolling Stone back in the 70's and 80's with his stuff. I never really read an entire book though. Speaking of weird literature, that reminds me of when I was in high school and I was in the college level English class and I wrote some weird story about a D&D character of mine's descendants and the teacher who was in her 60's at the time gave me this book to read:  I have yet to read anything closing in on this experience. From the fact that it was presented to me by a conservative seeming teacher to the fact that I actually "got" the story. Weird. |
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 13, 2008 8:24:02 GMT -5
Anything with Bela in it, I can watch over and over again. Theres just some charm which makes him likable even as a "bad guy". I'll say the same for Vincent Price. You would be hard pressed to find anything by those two that I couldn't watch over and over again.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 13, 2008 8:29:42 GMT -5
Same for Charlton Heston although, I have to add, that minor roles and cameos aren't worth it regarding the other two as well with the exception of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) in Bela's case. That cameo is probably the best cameo of all time if you can even call it that!  |
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Post by amalric on Jun 13, 2008 8:46:27 GMT -5
Ahhh...I loved FEAR AND LOATHING, and it was a better adaption than I thought they would manage. I was a big HST fan, and have most of his books in addition to F&L: The Great Shark Hunt, F&L: On the Campaign Trail, Hell's Angels, Better Than Sex, Generation of Swine, and so on. Mad genius. I once sat in a bar in Geneva, Switzerland, and wrote "I AM LONO" all over the tabletop in pen. Of course, I was very, very drunk. And I can't believe, speaking of Chuck Heston, that we haven't mentioned BEN HUR yet ~ is the chariot scene the most famous flim clip of all time? |
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Post by Scott on Jun 13, 2008 9:02:38 GMT -5
My dad and I used to build models all the time, primarily military kits. A fairly large scale stuka dive bomber was probably my favorite, but it’s hard to say, the Yamato was cool too. I had a lot of monster kits too. A few cars, but wasn’t really a fan. I used to have this model kit subscription and would get them in the mail every month.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 13, 2008 9:51:17 GMT -5
Yeah, HUR is a great watch even though some bits of the film have to be taken with a grain of anachronistic salt. For instance (as most wargamers learn) slaves weren't trusted to man oars on warships which usually was a professional job. In regards, to models, this recently came up when I had a drunken dissertation of the monster movies that I loved as a kid. Probably going to continue tonight BTW! Anyway, I had the CREATURE from Aurora as well as KONG and GODZILLA. They all came with optional Glow-In-The-Dark heads. My psycho dad insisted that I'd break it so he would take models away from me and return them in finished form. So I had all kinds of stuff that i wasn't allowed to build. "THE MONITOR" (my great great grandfather a second generation German American (from Berlin) Adam Neder was "ship's carpenter". I have no proof of this though or what that meant. His dad died of a venereal disease while serving for the U.S. in the Spanish American War. That unfortunately I have evidsence of! ), THE MERRIMAC, ENTERPRISE 1701, an APOLLO rocket, the lunar lander, various military vehicles, planes and cars. The only ones that I was allowed to build were snap together. My favorite was the Aurora PREHISTORIC SCENES and in particular the Saber-Tooth with switch out optional legs. Heres the layout for them that connected them all together:  Speaking of that, my favorite "toy" was this dinosaur set:  Although my cavemen were red and the dinos were various colors with the interlocking (pre-lego) cave rocks being an inky blue in color. Plus there were multiple duplicates of all of the above including the cave rock pieces. |
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Post by Scott on Jun 13, 2008 10:55:18 GMT -5
I had a couple sets of that 'toy'. I remember the rocks being a different color too.
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Post by GT on Jun 13, 2008 10:56:19 GMT -5
I've still got my dinosaurs, but not the cliff and trees! I have some old plastic dinosaurs that were in Nabisco products and Fritos corn chips back in the mid-60's also! What I really, really wish that I had save were these "Yellow Submarine" decals that were in Honey & Rice boxes back in 1968--my two oldest sisters and I ate tons of that cereal to get the decals and then we stuck them all over everything! Mom and Dad got real tired of Flying Gloves and Blue Meanies! ^__^
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 13, 2008 13:18:50 GMT -5
Istill have my cheapo bulette dino but the one that I liked out of that cheap set that I called "Pecker" basically an orange humanoid -like dino with a pointy nose disappeared.
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Post by stranger on Jun 14, 2008 9:13:23 GMT -5
That was a great set. I had several, my pieces were blue, red, yellow and brown as they were all newer than the one pictured. I also noticed I had at least two other dinos not included in the picture, they may have been added in the seventies.
If you want sticker shock try buying a set of those now. I looked for a set for my son, lets just say he can settle for the new dinos.
As for the Bulette, I mentioned on DF a while back that I recently lucked into what amounted to about two dozen of them. ;D
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Post by amalric on Jun 14, 2008 10:33:55 GMT -5
GROUNDHOG DAY (1993), with Bill Murray. That cracks me up every time!
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Post by Scott on Jun 14, 2008 10:41:24 GMT -5
I was actually looking for that dino set om EBay recently. Didn't find it though.
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Post by stranger on Jun 14, 2008 11:13:35 GMT -5
I was actually looking for that dino set om EBay recently. Didn't find it though. Search for: dinosaur marx They show up regularly when I look for them this way. |
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Post by Scott on Jun 14, 2008 11:28:21 GMT -5
There are some there, but not the exact set.
The Marx Iwo Jima playset that I was so fond of as a lad was there.
Only pieces of the Guns of Navorone set, though.
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Post by stranger on Jun 14, 2008 11:44:31 GMT -5
There are some there, but not the exact set. The Marx Iwo Jima playset that I was so fond of as a lad was there. Only pieces of the Guns of Navorone set, though. I had the navorone set as well. I have to check to see if my brother still has the mountain. |
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Post by amalric on Jun 15, 2008 15:01:41 GMT -5
From recent movies, I must admit I can watch MR & MRS SMITH, with Brad and Angelina, over and over ~ there's just some great lines, beautifully thought-out and performed stunts, and the car chase - in a people carrier of all things - is just great.
SCHOOL OF ROCK with Jack Black, is just absurd, but worth if for the music alone.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 16, 2008 11:00:15 GMT -5
This weekend I watched THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) for the umpteenth time and this fits the bill for classic. The mysterious cowboy rises the film to a cerebral level of cross genre interpretation and in further watching pushes you to extrapolate the roots of the film. That is a great concept. Its definitely begging for a sequel.
On the other end, I watched UP IN SMOKE (1978). What a hoot that I get out that film. Stacy Keach's best part hands down. That film I believe is serendipitous. The comedy was already there previously on the albums but the film made it rise to a different height. "Its fucking vodka, man!" There other ventures just seem derivative compared to this first one though.
Another film that I had never before seen SWINGERS (1996). I have to say it seems dated now having never seen it but it wasn't a bad film at all. Kind of a romance although from a male perspective. We were talking about IRON MAN recently and someone insisted that I watch the director's first venture.
I was at the beach for most of the weekend no, not Rockaway this time! I was at Jones Beach out in Long Island. I look deep fried.
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Post by Scott on Jun 16, 2008 13:58:27 GMT -5
The Big Lebowski is definitely one I can watch anytime.
I was 8 or 9 years old and I went to see Up In Smoke at the movies. I went to the late show with my mother and my uncle. I think I was the only kid in the theatre full of stoned stoners. I was already pretty familiar with the material from the albums. My mum gets embarrassed about that if you bring it up.
Another film memory I have was when I saw Conan the Barbarian. It was my mother, a friend of hers, my little sister, my best friend, and me, and we went to see some other, more family friendly, film. My friend and me saw that Conan was playing too, so we asked if we could see that, my mom was like, 'no, no, no, no', but we wouldn’t give up. Finally, her friend says she'll take us, just to shut us up. She was a little, older Italian lady, and I think the movie traumatized her.
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