Getting ready to watch Tora! Tora! Tora!

Prisoner_Number_Six

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Thu May-01-08 10:40 PM
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Getting ready to watch Tora! Tora! Tora!

One of the great WWII flicks (about the attack on Pearl Harbor). Another WWII flick I have lined up is Mister Roberts. Great stories about the last necessary war ever fought.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066473/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048380/

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Critters2

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Thu May-01-08 10:41 PM
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1. TCM, dvd, what? nt

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Thu May-01-08 10:46 PM
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3. Torrent downloads.

Takes a while to download one, then watch it and delete it. Same as TV.

Welcome to the high speed internet. :headbang:

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OmahaBlueDog

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Thu May-01-08 10:44 PM
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2. Tora3 is much better than Disney's Pearl Harbor

I'm sure you know the producers originally wanted Akira Kurosawa to direct the Japanese sequences, but he bowed out.

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Thu May-01-08 10:51 PM
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4. I never have decided how that would have turned out.

Probably pretty good, considering Akira's other works. The Seven Samurai was a seminal work, remade in America as the classic western movie The Magnificent Seven...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa

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OmahaBlueDog

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Thu May-01-08 11:19 PM
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5. If you can get past the subtitles, he's an incredible story teller

Edited on Thu May-01-08 11:20 PM by OmahaBlueDog

... and damn, can he film. The only other two directors I think shot film that well (purely visually) were David Lean and John Ford.

Kagemusha is really good... Ran is spectacular.

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Sacajawea

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Thu May-01-08 11:33 PM
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6. "Rotten. Rotten. Rotten."

That was Gene Shalit's review (on TV), not mine. Don't mean to rain on your parade, but whenever I hear about Tora x 3, I think of what Shalit said and it makes me laugh.

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