Archie Zietman Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I have just watched the film "American Beauty" and it is the most amazing film I have ever seen. I don't know how to describe it, but it is one of those things in life which is so amazing so awe inspiring so everything that it just surges you with life like an electric socket, until you are shivering from the sheer energy and exhilaration of it, and it stays with you afterwards. If everyone in the world had to watch one film, this would be it. Archie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strine Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Mmmmm, Archie are you saying you like it or are you saying it's a good flick. Frankly my dear many reckon GWTW is a good film but I have never seen the ending on account of gravity attacking the eyelids and I've made many attempts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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blacksmithtech Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strine Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Or "Gallipoli" to deepen your Australian spirit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Thomas Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 For sheer pathos, drama, comedy, tragedy, superb acting, cinematography, epical coverage, and social significance, it really is hard to beat the Clifton Ralph videos. I was on the edge of my seat the entire movie... all 10 hours or so. I can't endorse this saga enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GobblerForge Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 How can you argue with the timeless clasics. The Green Berets Gone With The Wind Bridge over the River Kwi {how do you spell that} My favorite for sheer laughter- The Whole Nine Yards with Mathew Perry and Bruce Willis Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Thomas Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 blacksmithtech: The Clifton Ralph power hammer videos are available for rent through the ABANA library. I'm pretty sure you can buy them directly from Clifton Ralph, but you'll have to call or write to him. The last I heard, he doesn't do computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 I thought back and tried to figure out what film I had seen the most times averaged over 20 years to avoid sudden fads and I came up with "Lion in Winter" I still try to see it at least once a year. Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mills Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Gallipoli- excellent and heartbreaking Not particularly historical but a good representation of the USMC is Heartbreak Ridge How about Chariots of Fire? There is amazing. As well as Cinderella Man. We Were Soldiers The Passion of the Christ For fun I really enjoy Quigley Down Under And then there is The Shootist for some more ideal values. Mr Smith Goes to Washington and Harvey The Cowboys- LOOOoooVE that Roscoe Lee Brown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leah Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Last of the Dogmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 The Shoes of the Fisheman Going My Way The Hunt for Red October Man from Snowy River Valdes is Coming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWooldridge Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 "The Wind and The Lion" (Sean Connery flick) "The 13th Warrior" "Quigley Down Under" "True Grit" "Saving Private Ryan" "Star Wars" (all of 'em) And anything by Akiro Kurosawa...especially "Sanjuro" and "Yojimbo" Jr. - I truly LOVE "Valdez is Coming" ('What you got in dat ting?' 'Something for rabbits...') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strine Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Man from Snowy River Surprised and glad to hear it Jr. But boy, did it take them a while to tilt all the trees back for the final scene though. How about the poem? Have you heard it recited...with feeling? Personally I prefer "The Man from Ironbark" as my alltime favourite Banjo effort. Maybe it's cos I haven't found my razor since I misplaced it thirty years ago :oops: Sorry I digressed. Any Chips Rafferty film especially Bush Christmas. To watch it on Chrissy Day has become somewhat of a tradition in this household. G'donya Snow. You're the star of the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mills Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Hotel Rwanda there are some other good ones that I have forgot about that made the list Valdez, Man from S River Will have to look into the ones you have mentioned Strine tho it is unlikely I'll find them this far north ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Hale Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Leave us not forget,"I walk the line:" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandpile Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Me being what I am. Cowman, horsetrainer, father and grandfather. I have to go with the one John Wayne made with all the kids. I can't think of the cooks name off hand, but he did a superb job in carrying the kids. One of the kids in the that movie went on to be a nine times world champion roper. I caught mustangs back when I was young and REALLY liked The Man From Snowey River. The other movie that this same young man made was PHARLAP or something close to that and he was just as impressive in it. Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strine Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Sandpile, It was Tom Burlinson. But then he went on to play a bloke called Frank Sinatra in I don't know what the film was called. Why he bothered I do not know, I reckon Sinatra can't sing to save himself :? You folks would not agree I'm sure. Oh, and you might have chased a few mustangs but Tom/(Jack Riley) was chasing "brumbys". Since there's a bit of unexpected interest in this phillum here's a thread to what it was based on.http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/P/PatersonAB_Banjo/verse/manfromsnowyriver/snowyriver.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I think it was called "The Cowboys" Sandpile and the cook was Roscoe Lee Brown, and I liked it real well, tear jerker ending, but a good one, one of the few that the duke died in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandpile Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 SHRINE, I am in your debt. Many thanks for the hours of enjoyment that I will have reading the Banjo mans story telling. When as a young and very foolish man, I too did not know how to pull the slack from a set of bridal reins. In the different places, that we gathered horses it seems that they still make idle talk of when the bunch I ran with were running the broomtails. They let on like I was the one to go to the front, but in reality, it was the horse that I was blessed to have at that time. He would stay on his feet in the roughest of pursuit. Always striving to go to the front and bend the loose horses to make them go inside the drift fences that we had set up. He was truly a courageous animal. I saw him run with out a spur or quirt, until he was blowing a red mist from his nostrils. If this was before he got the wild bunch headed and I pulled him up, he would fight his head in an attempt to stay in the chase. A man is blessed only once in three liftimes with a horse of this caliber. Two of my co-horts, from long ago, called after seeing the Snowy River film. Saying that it reminded them of my old horse flying off a N.M. mountain.Grin. Sure glad he did not go down. Thanks again Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mills Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Yep Strine that was good reading. Afterwards my wife went out and found the movie, we watched it again. Funny, 20 years ago he seemed to be just a guy who had some hard luck, not a headstrong kid that needed some growing. I wonder when that changed? :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mills Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 :lol: I think we kinda hijacked 'ol Archies post, didn't we. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerald Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Jeremiah Johnson The Shawshank Redemption Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McCoy Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Fun to review some of the older threads ... my votes go to The Enchanted Cottage The Searchers Seven The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Silent Running The Vikings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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