Tuesday, May 27, 2008
7:29 A.M.
7:29 am - Picture Lock
A good omen!
7:29 = 7 & 11
Over Memorial Day weekend TCM was playing some fantastic films so Virginia and I watched a movie marathon:
Action in the North Atlantic - Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey (Must check out more Raymond Massey flicks)
Favorite line: "I was shippin' out when your buttons were safety pins"
Objective Burma - Errol Flynn - Terrific, suspenseful film (hmmm... Here's a recipe for Predator - Take a sizeable chunk of Objective Burma and fold in bits of Alien. Inject cast with anabolic steroids and roast with several megatons of nuclear warhead - yeah!)
Also watched Air Force by Howard Hawks. Mesmerizing dawn shots of B17 bombers and the usual Hawks genius for getting you to like characters the moment you see them. Amazing shot of the bomber crew looking down at Pearl Harbor on fire. Unforgettable scene but I tried twice to watch the rest of the film and fell asleep both times. Please don't take offense Mr. Hawks I still dig your movies.
A good omen!
7:29 = 7 & 11
Over Memorial Day weekend TCM was playing some fantastic films so Virginia and I watched a movie marathon:
Action in the North Atlantic - Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey (Must check out more Raymond Massey flicks)Favorite line: "I was shippin' out when your buttons were safety pins"
Objective Burma - Errol Flynn - Terrific, suspenseful film (hmmm... Here's a recipe for Predator - Take a sizeable chunk of Objective Burma and fold in bits of Alien. Inject cast with anabolic steroids and roast with several megatons of nuclear warhead - yeah!)
Stalag 17 - William Holden & Otto Preminger - fantastic as always and directed by Billy Wilder (I'm stunned I'd never seen this before - MASH wouldn't exist without Stalag 17 not to mention Hogan's Heroes)
Also watched Air Force by Howard Hawks. Mesmerizing dawn shots of B17 bombers and the usual Hawks genius for getting you to like characters the moment you see them. Amazing shot of the bomber crew looking down at Pearl Harbor on fire. Unforgettable scene but I tried twice to watch the rest of the film and fell asleep both times. Please don't take offense Mr. Hawks I still dig your movies.
Labels: Action in the North Atlantic, Air Force, Errol Flynn, Howard Hawks, Numerology, Objective Burma, Predator, Raymond Massey, Stalag 17, The Ticket, William Holden
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Damn, I think "Stalag 17" is the only one of those I've seen. They all look pretty cool.
# posted by 
: May 27, 2008 at 6:40 PM
: May 27, 2008 at 6:40 PM
I tried to finish Air Force again last night - didn't make it though. The sequence in Star Wars "Here They Come" is lifted straight from this film. It has great moments especially shots of the real planes but overall its a skimpy plot with the plane taking off and landing and taking off and landing and taking off.... zzzzzz
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