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Post by George Armstrong Custer on Apr 24, 2006 15:32:36 GMT -6
......has been a very gracious thing.' Watching TDWTBO on TV as an adventure-loving kid I used to find these scenes the most boring. Now, having been married to my own lovely wife for 17 years, I find them the most moving........... Am I getting soft in my old age? Ciao, GAC
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Post by Tricia on Apr 24, 2006 16:22:48 GMT -6
Ick! All that mooshy stuff! Seventeen years? Wow!
Congrats from someone who's just logged ten years with a spouse who looks a little too much like GAC for his comfort! I keep telling him I can take him anywhere but the Res ... !
Regards, Leyton McLean and Spouse
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Post by George Armstrong Custer on Apr 24, 2006 17:22:22 GMT -6
Thanks Leyton! Our 17th anniversary was just two weeks ago - did I say we married young? Anyway I think my last post accords with what my wife told me to write! ;D Regards, GAC
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Post by Jim on Apr 24, 2006 18:08:30 GMT -6
GAC,
After being married for 34 years, you go back to thinking it's BORING!!!
Jim
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Post by George Armstrong Custer on Apr 24, 2006 18:37:56 GMT -6
Jim, For your sake, I hope your wife wasn't peeking over your shoulder as you wrote that! We'll gather she was if you're not on forum for a while. Ciao, GAC
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Post by El Crab on Apr 24, 2006 21:25:43 GMT -6
TDWTBO came out on DVD last year. My sister was nice enough to buy me a copy for Christmas. Its also on Turner Classic Movies from time to time. That's one of my favorite channels these days.
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Post by pjsolla on Apr 24, 2006 23:25:08 GMT -6
Bubbabod sent me an email. He said a judge friend of his told a courtroom he has been married for 23 very happy years. And 23 out of 34 aint bad!
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Post by pjsolla on Apr 24, 2006 23:27:05 GMT -6
And El Crab, Turner Classic Movies is one of your favorite channels because, THOSE ARE MOVIES!
PJS
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Post by El Crab on Apr 25, 2006 1:39:04 GMT -6
And El Crab, Turner Classic Movies is one of your favorite channels because, THOSE ARE MOVIES! Hey, good movies are good movies. Doesn't matter when they were made. Fox Movie Classics is also pretty good, but they have a lot of garbage on there. I just recently set up wishlists for the likes of Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Dean Martin, Jack Nicholson, etc. I've really been on an older movie kick lately (particularly 60s and 70s), and Turner has a lot of good stuff, in letterbox and without commercial interruption. And I love that they devote a month to certain actors or directors, so you can catch a lot of one person's work. I was able to catch several of McQueen's earlier works that way. I swear, I've watched so many movies in the past month, and over half of them were made before I was born. But what can I say? I think I was born too late, given I'm only 27 and my favorite movie is JAWS, favorite actor is Steve McQueen, favorite band is Creedence Clearwater Revival and I'm a huge Dean Martin fan. I like stuff from my lifetime, don't get me wrong, but there's so much good stuff from the years before I was around.
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Post by Tricia on Apr 25, 2006 8:35:08 GMT -6
GAC, After being married for 34 years, you go back to thinking it's BORING!!! Jim That's why they make Viagra ... or so I've heard! LMC
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Post by crzhrs on Apr 25, 2006 8:41:28 GMT -6
Some of my favorite movies are the ones from the 30s-40s-50s.
They were MOVIES . . . a means to escape . . . not to reinforce all the troubles and even horrors of daily life.
I do watch the current movies and many are quite good but if I had to pick I'll take the old movies when they had REAL stars.
As for TDWTBO . . . Flynn was the best Custer, not for accuracy but the why most pro-Custer people would want their Custer. Even I think Flynn was perfect for the part.
And the screen relationship between between GAC & Libbie was outstanding, especially the scene when Custer goes off to the LBH . . . I need a hanky!
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Post by pjsolla on Apr 25, 2006 9:17:50 GMT -6
Yes, current movies also have their share of "good productions".
However, I firmly believe that the movies of the late 30's thru the early 50's carried better because the actors had scripts that required them to act. So much of todays movies rely on special effects. Not that it's bad, but go sit in a movie theatre one day. If there is not a constant barrage of special effect, i.e bombs going off, major explosions., etc. the kids behind you just keep up with an incessant chatter and talking on cell phones. I don't need that.
Matter of fact, we only go to matinee's now. At night the movies are a horror. And here in NY it's $9 a pop in the evening. Screw that. I wait for a lot of them to come out and watch them on my own wide screen.
Anyhow, yes, some great moves are to be seen on Turner, etc. We could go on for hours about them.
PJS
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Post by Tricia on Apr 25, 2006 9:33:55 GMT -6
I finally broke down and got Netflix ... and we usually just order backlist stuff. So far, it has been worth the money and it's better than anything on television of late! And I've been able to get through "Deadwood" and "Six Feet Under" at my leisure.
Right now, my favorite Western is "Tombstone," and I won't even admit to when I first saw "They Died With Their Boots On," okay, it was only two years ago.
Regards, Leyton McLean
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Post by crzhrs on Apr 25, 2006 10:38:09 GMT -6
Tombstone? The one with Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday and Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp?
If so . . . then it was outstanding, especially Kilmer!
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Post by Tricia on Apr 25, 2006 10:52:45 GMT -6
Yep, that's it. Also had a young Billy Bob Thornton (let's hear it for a hometown boy) and ol' Chuck Heston ...
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