What have you been watching?

Watched a Documentary this morning about Project Habbakuk, the proposed aircraft carrier that was to be made of a mixture of ice and woodpulp. Most of the doc focused on a dive team examining the remains of a large shack made of wood and filled with the mixture (Called Pykrete) that was used by the Brits and Canadians for testing on a remote lake near the Alberta/British Columbia border.

 

Strange one that Phantom, I remember well thinking it was a joke when I read Churchills memoirs and the pages concerning the ice aircraft carrier project....Amazing stuff.

 

I watched Raid on Rommel last night... I didn't like it too much.. kinda boring... unrealistic I suppose.. I don't think it was a true story...

 

With all the swine flu in the news I decided to get this one off my shelf dust it down and sit back and enjoy the classic film...

THE ANDROMEDRA STRAIN

 

I've been watching Sgt. Bilko from the Phil Silvers show. I find it very funny. Also watched Generation Kill, Quantum of Solace and Hancock. I'm planning to watch Anzio, Brothers in Arms (for the 20th time. never gets old), The Devils Brigade, Bataan, Back to Bataan, Flying Leathernecks, They were Expendable, Pearl Harbor, Tora Tora Tora, Midway, and many more. Gonna take me a couple of months probably, but it will be worth it.

 

I watched "Smokey and the Bandit" again last night for the umptenth thousandth time, and I never tire of it. Some of the one-liners there will live on forever. Great movie, and I highly recommend it if you have never seen it at all or in it's entirety.

A couple of days ago, I had the opportunity to watch "Decision Before Dawn." That was a really good movie. I missed the first 10 minutes of it, so I must get it in my que on Netflix. Also, "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" and "The Whoopee Boys" were viewed again.

 

I watched two movies over the weekend.

The first one I watched as "Battleground", about Bastogne.

The second was "The Steel Helmet", about the Korean War.

Both were excellent movies.

Next up this weekend is 'Too Late the Hero."

Previously, I watched "Twelve O'Clock High" and "The Train" - both were good movies too.

Netflix is great

 

Bury my heart at wounded knee

I tried to watch valkyrie but after about 20 minuets into the movie i just couldnt get into it

 

My son and I enjoy watching the Dogfight series on the History channel. For christmas I bought him the first series, and I think the second series was just released a few months ago.

 

I've been watching Band of Brothers on "Blu Ray"...........insane graphics. The down side is that the Airdrop into Normandy looks too much like a video game.

Brad

 

I agree, the drop scenes had much to be desired. The drop scenes from "A Bridge Too Far" was the best. The producers of BoB could have had thousands of volunteers in re-enactment groups who'd work for minimum wage to be in a production like that. And they'd bring their own uniforms and equipment too. The rest of the series was great, although I've never had the blue-ray experience yet.

 

Blue Ray+ 46" plasma w/ surround sound = PTSD. Being friends with a single guy: Priceless

 

I'll bring the beer and cracklins....

 

With WW2F off the net, I found my Enterprise DVD set + I watched the Patton 360 episodes too. Nicely done...imo

 

Saw Valkyrie for the first time. A lot better then I thought it was going to be. Not a great film by any means but a good film. I actually found the ending rather sad, just thinking how close they came to stopping Hitler. Brave men.

 

Watched the following over the past few days:

Dogfights: The Hunt for the Bismarck on DVD

Battle of San Pietro, The Shores of Iwo Jima, and William Wyler's Memphis Belle (Part of a 6 disc set containing films made during or immediately after the war).

Bloody Italy on History Television.

 

Been watching Patton 360 on History Channel as well. Prior to that enjoyed the Enterprise 360 series.

 

Blade Runner the Directors Cut...I'm am so glad I did not rush out and buy this at full whack when it went on sale a few years ago. Extra footage was no more than a minute.

 

I have a question concerning the movie I saw last week, "Decision Before Dawn." Has anyone seen it? My question is of the two German POWs that volunteered to help the OSS (I guess) locate the 11th PZK, the one that was code named "Happy", the Luftwaffe corporal, was always on edge when going through checkpoints. The MPs or whoever would ask for his papers, and they'd check them against a list of names they had. If Happy was a POW, even for a short time, and was parachuted in behind lines by the Allies, how did his name show up on the watch list so soon? I always wondered how the German MPs or the Gestapo got ahold of names like that so soon. Was it just in the movies, or were they that good? Just wondering.

 

lately i have been watching
the desert rats
the dam busters
battle of britain
u571
the last panzer