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X-Men: Days of Future Past
"The Blob" (1958)
X-Men: Days of Future Past
"The Blob" (1958)
I really enjoyed that film. I thought it was very well done.
Some Charlie Chan films~ Dark Alibi (1946) with Sidney Toler; The Chinese Ring (1947) with Roland Winters; and about half-way through Dangerous Money (1946) with Toler.
I watched 'The Wicker Man' in tribute to the late great Christopher Lee.....well worth watching for any fans, definitely better than the Nicholas Cage version!
12 O' Clock High
John Lofgren Monkey Boots Shinki Horsebuttt - $1,136 The classic monkey boot silhouette in an incredibly rich Shinki russet horse leather.
Grant Stone Diesel Boot Dark Olive Chromexcel - $395 Goodyear welted, Horween Chromexcel, classic good looks.
Schott 568 Vandals Jacket - $1,250 The classic Perfecto motorcycle jacket, in a very special limited-edition Schott double rider style. Fury. I found it somewhat overrated. An okay WWII tank flick with harrowing battle sequences, excellent production, and good performances. But pretty darn depressing and disturbing. No question, it's a grim story, but it seemed a little more relentlessly downbeat than it had to be.
I am not speaking to its accuracy re history, which I could see is outstanding, just my response as a viewer. It didn't move me in the way the best war films often do.
Interesting.
Tankers have said the film was spot on except for the short range tank battle. I wonder if this is an effect of Hollywood; that we expect to be uplifted with some moral message (or something) whereas the reality of war (for all I know) is a depressing, relentless series of soul sapping events.
And then you die.