Donât normally like sci-fi but liking â3 Body Problemâ
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Fallout, Amazon
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Netflix âŠ
Ripley
(Limited Series)
Set in the 1960s and is in black and white which gave a unique look into the characters and settings along with what details your eye will see within the framework. The use of shadows and lighting is awesome. Reminded us of watching Hitchcock way back in the day.
If you grew up watching black and white, this will be a trip down memory lane on how we use to watch TV.
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I used to know a guy who absolutely refused to watch anything in black & white; not even Young Frankenstein.
I, on the other hand, have no such problem. In fact, I donât care if there is any talking; last I checked, I had well over 1000 silent films in my collection (many very short, so not as impressive as it seems).
For a while, I was watching them often enough that I could recognized the person playing the music, and in fact, got to see (or more accurately âhearâ) quite a few these people perform live.
Itâs all good. I donât think that I even think about it when deciding what to watch (and if I do, itâs probably because itâs B&W filmed very well)
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Weâre sci-fi/fantasy nerds and are really getting into 3 Body Problem. We read the trilogy several years ago and were thrilled to learn about this TV series; unfortunately, it appears that season 2 may not arrive until 2025 or 2026. We also enjoy regularly challenging our brains with science/astrophysics type programs like How the Universe Works which helps quite a lot in understanding some of the mind-bending physics concepts that underpin this type of science fiction.
At the very least, we figure this type of brain exercise may help ward off dementia for us oldies! 
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So was my dad!! Waist gunner/turret gunner; then panelboard engineer He was 19, maybe 20 when in Britain! These guys were so, so young!!(Except for a few of the pilots, the actors in MASTERS of the AIR appear to my aged eyes be about 14 years-old.)
He flew 52 missions(after watching the series, seems a miracle!). Half of those over âthe Humpâ between India and China and shot down once in Burma, which most of the crew survived-but it was close.
The only complaint I have: why do series/movies always focus on the officers? "Cause pilots were the glory boys?? My dad came home with the epithet, âWild Billâ attached to his name-and went by Bill the rest of his life.(Wasnât a William!) Iâd like to know why-or maybe I wouldnât.
Though when we kids begged, he told stories of WWII/Korean War and the Berlin Airlift that would make us laugh and cry-he never would share about " Wild Bill",
Thanks to those who recommended this series!!
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I am not currently nearly as huge a fan of TV as I once was, but I cannot deny that series like those continue to pique my interest.
Thereâs a reason why Roddenberry, in the original Star Trek series (âTOSâ in that fandom), making sure that the late Don Marshallâs The Galileo Seven character Lieutenant Bomaâs occupational specialty was astrophysics, made an impression on me when it was first aired.
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âŠmarathon airing on Travel Channel tonight.
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Watching the show, all I could think about was, âMy dad went through that?â Sobering and scary, I wonder how much it changed him. He was 23 when he enlisted. How could someone not be monumentally changed by that experience?
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Agree.
Masters of the Air was a realistic version of some of Dadâs stories. Reading several titles âThe Longest Dayâ or " SchweinfurtâRegensburg 1943: Eighth Air Forceâs Costly Early Daylight Battles", had realized before watching Masters that his stories were a sanitized version of the bravery horror/gore/sense of duty, suitable to an audience of 7-12 year-olds.
Parachuted into the English Channel, where they were rescued by the British Navy; the plane belly-landed on the nearest RAF runway! That was one of our favorites. A born story-teller, his teeth would chatter; wrap his arms around himself like a blanket as he talked abut hypothermia and how long AIR CORPS crews could stay in the âdrinkâ before freezing.
A humble man like many in the Greatest Generation, we were unaware Dad was awarded 2 Bronze Stars, till my momâs decease nearly 45 years after his!. Listed on his DD-2-14, along w/ his Purple Heart. Typically, never mentioned he was wounded during his âadventuresâ. Shocked usâand we never discovered those medals.
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Watched the whole season. Amazingly true to the source material. Canât wait for where it looks like season 2 is going.
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Ever hear No Bullets Fly by Sabaton ?
Following a successful air raid on the German city of Bremen, Charlie Brownâs American B-17 bomber, âYe Old Pubâ, suffered severe damage. When German fighter ace, Franz Stigler, was ordered to shoot it down, he risked his life to escort the bomber to safety instead of attacking.
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At your recommendation, I watched several of the Sabaton videos. The one w/ Franz Stiglerâs daughter at the end made a particular impression. This episode of the â â â â pilot(Stigler) escorting the American plane was mentioned in MASTERS during one of the pilotâs bar scenes.
Back in the late 60âs when anti-war rhetoric was virulent , asked my dad, who had turned into one of the MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG guys how he felt about being a murderer- as a member of a bomber crew. I had wounded him-which was my snide, adolescent purpose, .
His face turned red up to his scalp, swallowed a couple of times but replied calmly enough:
None of us thought of it as murder, except for the German crews who in the early war, machine-gunned the Allied crews whose chutes had opened. The Germans stopped later, needed all their ammo to stop our bombers
There was⊠honorâŠ,in the air. We could die so easy up there-and not just from bullets.(His stories had become more realistic as his offspring aged. We now all knew about the crewâs 3 weeks in the Burmese jungle including an amputation, starvation and disease.)
They were shooting at us, we were shooting back, It was our job to kill more of them and get the plane home. There werenât enough crews or planes. The civilians bombed were working to support their military, planes or ball-bearings or growing food. Same as here. Murder, noâhe looked at me as if I was as stupid as a rock-IT WAS WAR.
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Weâre now gonna watch Band of Brothers in its entirety and The Pacific.
I swear I won-t say another word about my Dadâdead over a half- century. This thread have been patient while I reminisced! So thank you.
Masters of the Air cut too close to the bone for comfort!
If you havenât been to the D-Day Museum(Now the National World War II Museum) in New Orleans(home of the Higgins Boats inventor and where they were manufactured on the edge of the Mississippi. His invention transported the D-Day soldiers to the shores of Normandy. I recommend it. Plenty of audio-visual effects. Even reluctant museum goers, like children/teens, are impressed!!
A brick can be purchased in memory of a loved oneâs military service w/ name/rank and date of service. . .
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A couple of nights ago, we were in the mood for a movie, but wanting a break from the Marvel stuff.
Ended up watching Disneyâs âJungle Cruiseâ, starring The Rock and Emily Blunt.
Very stupid. Very corny. Very bad jokes (this is Schwarzer Falls, named after the famous explorer, Albert Falls).
But a heck of a lot of fun.
If youâre looking for light fluff, but some only mildly violent action, and if you enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean, a good one to check out. (and surprisingly for a Disney film, thereâs an actual curse word spoken; but itâs in German, so I guess itâs okay).
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@TEXASEXILEBOOKS I havenât been to the D-Day Museum in New Orleans but I have been to the one in Normandy. The tour also included a visit to Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery. The size of the American Cemetery and the number of graves is astounding. If youâve seen âSaving Private Ryanâ the film only shows a small piece of it.
Re: Higgins Boats. During the tour I learned that not all the Higgins Boats pulled up as close to the shore as possible. A number of boats stopped short of the beach and the men stepped out into deep water. With all the gear they were carrying, they sank right to the bottom. It was very sad to learn this.
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Iâve been watching âMr. Bates vs the Post Officeâ on PBS. The program is based on an actual incident.
From Wikipedia: âThe series is a dramatisation of the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted privately and publicly for theft, false accounting or fraud due to a faulty computer system called Horizon.â
The words that really jump out at you are, ââŠdue to a faulty computer systemâŠâ
Where have we seen this problem before? Hmmm.
The show is fascinating yet frustrating to watch when you think of all those honest, hard-working people who were falsely accused of theft. The âevidenceâ of theft was based on faulty data from the Horizon computer system.
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I think this movie is marvelous.
If you* can locate it, watch Disneyâs documentary The Making of Disneyâs Jungle Cruise. (c2021) It describes how integral the original theme-park attraction was to Walt Disneyâs vision of Disneyland in 1955. Plus the multitude of seemingly impossible-to-overcome obstacles.
One interesting factoid: The African Queen (1952) with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn was one of Waltâs favorite movies. And he borrowed âthe lookâ (think about the cap) and the attitude of Bogart for the cruise captains.
*I saw it on Disney+ â and then had to go back to watch the movie again, the second time with a deeper understanding and appreciation.
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@SallyAnne @Picks_by_Nisha I waited a long time before I watched âJungle Cruiseâ and found it to be very entertaining. Sometimes you just need a film that takes your mind away from the worries of the day.
According to IMDB, Jungle Cruise 2 is âin developmentâ.
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