What Is The Last Movie/Show You Saw? (1 Viewer)

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After 13 years I finally broke down and have cable. So I am now able to watch what most of you guys talk about.

I just watched "The Monuments Men". Nice movie but just a level above 'Windtalkers". Good character development but no plot development. Everything appeared disjointed and not much was explained. Here they are in Belgium in February and the very next scene its April in Germany! What happened in the 3 months. Even the climax at the end was predictable and boring. While I won't say it was a bad movie (i.e. "Pearl Harbor", "Flyboys", "Miracle at St. Anna",etc.) its a nice way to spend an afternoon.

I watched a second movie on my PC as I now have unlimited data. "Red Tails" and I could only make 15 minutes of it. OMG what trash! A locomotive explosion that the P-40 flies through just 5 feet above!!! And the opening sequence had me yelling at my monitor! I know of NO Bf 109 that had a yellow stripe on the rudder with the swastika painted over it. And the B-17 formations were horrible along with the attacking tactics used by the LW. Bad, bad, bad.........
 
The High and the Mighty-A fine proto-Airport type flying film. I saw it first run at the theater in 1954 and it still looks great.
 
A few episodes of " The Vikings " -I've seen worse historical dramas
 
Recently have watched...
Goodluck Girl full series,
Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? full series,
Martian Successor Nadesico full series OVA,
Highsshool DxD full series,
(2nd series should be dubbed by the end of this month ..allegedly)
Black Bullet full series,
Jormungand full series,
(think of Black Lagoon with less swearing more strategy, arms dealers instead of pirates, but with as much graphicality and still aimed at adult viewers - no sex, but adult themes of military, death and weapons, with humour, Noah, the young new soldier on the team)

Appleseed Alpha movie
(a prequel if you will to Ex mechanica, from before Denuan Briarios get to Olympus or meet Hitomi, improved animations, even better music and some nice funny lines. Two or three times physics animations seem mismatched - like they skipped something in theory on the storyboards, and it feels slightly flat compared to Ex Mechina. Briarios's voice actor, David Matranga sounds very CSI 'Ginger' Agent like as he ages)
 
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JFK-I don't buy many of Garrison's assertions but the first half of the movie is very good-the second half sorta drifts off into slumber land.
 
Full schedule of war movies on a local movie channel (This! TV):
The Secret Invasion - The Secret Invasion (1964) - IMDb
Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956) - IMDb
Anzio - Anzio (1968) - IMDb
The Devil's Brigade - The Devil's Brigade (1968) - IMDb
Cast a Giant Shadow - Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) - IMDb
Run Silent, Run Deep - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052151/
Sahara - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036323/
The Caine Mutiny - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046816/
From Here to Eternity - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045793/

And on the Movies! network, also war movies:
Morituri - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059470/
What Price Glory - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045323/
Hell is for Heroes - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056062/
The Enemy Below - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050356/
Stalag 17 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/
Hellcats of the Navy - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050500/
 

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