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

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Hey, Jav, yeah, I have next Saturday free (wife is taking the munchkin to see some old friends of hers, I wouldnt' know anybody there, so I'm bach'n it). Plan on mowing the yard (please rain...please please please!) in the morning, then catching a matinee double-header. "Act of Valor" is definitely on the list, and I hope "Red Tails" is still playing, I'd like to catch both of those.
 
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"Act of Valor" by far one of the best movies I have seen in a long long time.The talk about the acting hogwash for the most part I seen one character who was alittle dry but I bet that is life so be it.I tell you once the action starts it does not stop till the end and it starts 15 minutes in.The scene with the boats on the river in SA is amazing once those guys lay down a fire pattern in a V-formation :shock: two 3000rpm gattling guns :shock: frigg'in impressive!!!
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Javlin, Why pay to see a movie? Just visit me in Northeastern NC. With Black Water Choke, Cough, I mean Academi (latest incarnation) 10 miles up the road, we have automatic weapons fire 24/7 with intermittent IED detonations. My neighbors are wont to lay down frequent volleys of AK47 fire for effect on the indigenous squirrels and gophers. We also occasionally hear my libertarian neighbor firing his .50 cal Barrett at targets on his own back-yard range, that extends (unintentionally) into the next county. The local farmers think the coyotes are killing their cattle. They should check them for lead poisoning! On top of all that we have the reports of heavy ordnance being dropped by F-18s flying out of Oceana NAS and F-22's out of Langley AFB at their respective bombing ranges about 15 miles south of me... Come on by, we'll hang out on the back deck, toss back a few cold ones and listen to the music while watching the C-130's and local base helo traffic come in and out of Eizabeth City CGAS. Never a dull moment except when we have to wait for those pesky tornadoes to pass!
 
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Javlin, Why pay to see a movie? Just visit me in Northeastern NC. With Black Water Choke, Cough, I mean Academi (latest incarnation) 10 miles up the road, we have automatic weapons fire 24/7 with intermittent IED detonations. My neighbors are wont to lay down frequent volleys of AK47 fire for effect on the indigenous squirrels and gophers. We also occasionally hear my libertarian neighbor firing his .50 cal Barrett at targets on his own back-yard range, that extends (unintentionally) into the next county. The local farmers think the coyotes are killing their cattle. They should check them for lead poisoning! On top of all that we have the reports of heavy ordnance being dropped by F-18s flying out of Oceana NAS and F-22's out of Langley AFB at their respective bombing ranges about 15 miles south of me... Come on by, we'll hang out on the back deck, toss back a few cold ones and listen to the music while watching the C-130's and local base helo traffic come in and out of Eizabeth City CGAS. Never a dull moment except when we have to wait for those pesky tornadoes to pass!
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Yeah, that's good and all...but...do you have a bug zapper? It ain't a choir without a zapper.
 
Javlin, Why pay to see a movie? Just visit me in Northeastern NC. With Black Water Choke, Cough, I mean Academi (latest incarnation) 10 miles up the road, we have automatic weapons fire 24/7 with intermittent IED detonations.

Shoot I like to hit the range myself and make my own noise been a few months here.I hear they(state) are opening new range 30 minutes from my door give or take for $15 a year :).I am all in for that one.
 
javlin said:
Javlin, Why pay to see a movie? Just visit me in Northeastern NC. With Black Water Choke, Cough, I mean Academi (latest incarnation) 10 miles up the road, we have automatic weapons fire 24/7 with intermittent IED detonations.

Shoot I like to hit the range myself and make my own noise been a few months here.I hear they(state) are opening new range 30 minutes from my door give or take for $15 a year :).I am all in for that one.
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Bunch of great ranges nearby. One just South of Virgina Beach, about 40 minutes from home is my favorite. Very safe, $10 a session, multiple lanes of varying well baffled outdoor ranges from pistol at 25 to to rifle at 300 yards.

Last film/movie last night on turner classics 1929 silent film: Flying Fleet included great air sequences with many of the Langley conducting flight ops with her permanent deck park. Lots of Boeing F2B fighter and Dougas T2D torpedo bomber. It was silent yet had sound effects! as engines were turning. although made about 2 years AFTER Al Joelson's Jazz Singer, all Dialogue was in inserted slide type. Too bad.

The-Flying-Fleet - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com

Flying Fleet was one of the first script-writing efforts of Lt. Commander Frank "Spig" Wead, who came to Hollywood after the crippling accident that ended his naval career (Wead's life story was later romanticized in the 1957 John Ford picture The Wings of Eagles). Evidently, Wead's favorite story involved two military men who have a falling out over a beautiful woman. In this instance, six U.S. Naval Academy graduates argue over "dames" while attending flying school. Foremost among the cadets are Tommy (Ramon Novarro) and Steve (Ralph Graves, who showed up in several Wead films), while the romantic bone of contention is Anita (Anita Page). The rate of attrition amongst the six would-be flyboys is astonishing, and as a result only Tommy and Steve are able to complete the training process. In time-honored tradition, our heroes forget their personal problems when lives are at stake. The film is distinguished by its first-rate aviation scenes, superbly photographed by Charles A. Marshall. A silent film, Flying Fleet was released with a synchronized music and sound-effects track

Spoiler Alert: My one objection is that, of course the Naval Aviation Observer or in modern parlence the NFO (In this case evidently the Navigator In-flight Communications officer) perishes in a crash while the pilots survive. Why does Hollywood hate the non-pilot flying officer? e.g.: Flight of the Intruder, Top Gun. :mad:
 
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