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Floyd R. Turbo

(33,281 posts) Mon Sep 11, 2017, 01:35 PM Sep 2017

"Negative waves"

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"Negative waves" (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 OP

Oddball my hero TEB Sep 2017 #1

Great anti war movie lapfog_1 Sep 2017 #2

Yeah, it's good dumb fun gratuitous Sep 2017 #3

Carroll O'Connor as Major General Colt. Iggo Sep 2017 #4

Yup lapfog_1 Sep 2017 #5

Burning Bridges -- The Mike Curb Congregation Iggo Sep 2017 #6

A tanker has to suspend a lot of disbelief in order to enjoy this film. Aristus Sep 2017 #7

TEB

(15,651 posts)

1. Oddball my hero

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Mon Sep 11, 2017, 01:36 PM

Sep 2017

lapfog_1

(31,980 posts)

2. Great anti war movie

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Mon Sep 11, 2017, 01:50 PM

Sep 2017

But totally unrealistic for 1944 Germany.

Made in the late 1960s ( released in 1970 ) with, of all people, Clint Eastwood in the title role.

Don Rickles, Telly savalas ( "who loves you, baby" ), Donald Sutherland, and MicHale's navy and later love boat captain Gavin Macleod.

Great film.

"Make a deal! You know, a deal deal... Maybe he is a republican"

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

3. Yeah, it's good dumb fun

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 12, 2017, 12:11 AM

Sep 2017

A Friday night movie when you're too fried from work all week to really engage your brain. Nice scenery (courtesy of the former Yugoslavia), lots of stars and familiar faces, pretty good action sequences, a couple of guys who don't make it, and some good one-liners. What's not to like?

Iggo

(50,056 posts)

4. Carroll O'Connor as Major General Colt.

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 12, 2017, 03:31 AM

Sep 2017

Stealin' scenes in a movie full of scene-stealers.

lapfog_1

(31,980 posts)

5. Yup

Reply to Iggo (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 12, 2017, 07:57 AM

Sep 2017

The game is on!!!

Love the "burning bridges" theme song too

Iggo

(50,056 posts)

6. Burning Bridges -- The Mike Curb Congregation

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 12, 2017, 10:23 AM

Sep 2017

Mike Curb would later go on to be Lieutenant Governor of California ('79-'83) under Jerry Brown. And I just read he's also in the NASCAR Hall Of Fame. LOL...who knew?

Aristus

(72,523 posts)

7. A tanker has to suspend a lot of disbelief in order to enjoy this film.

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Sep 12, 2017, 11:37 AM

Sep 2017

I did enjoy it, but still...

No tanker ever says he rides a tank; he crews the tank.

The scenes where Oddball is setting up targets for the gunner are so not the way fire missions are conducted, it's funny.

I made it through the film once, and liked it, But I probably won't watch it again...

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