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Seeing all the old actors I grew up watching turn old and pass reminds me that I am getting old. I plan on being the only inmate in my nursing facility playing AE.

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ORIGINAL: kaleun

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Seeing all the old actors I grew up watching turn old and pass reminds me that I am getting old. I plan on being the only inmate in my nursing facility playing AE.

We might need them to stock Windows 7 computers in nursing facilities.

My plans include a massive coronary at 79 (My father is 82 and has Alzheimer's)

I'll have four eggs, sunny side up and a large T-bone, rare.

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ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

Yeah, I watched it over and over when I was a kid.

In Sensorround or some such. Vibrated the seats and shook my brain from it's moorings to my skull.

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ORIGINAL: Miller

Just found out the guy who played Adm Nagumo in Midway died a couple of weeks ago. Not many of the main cast from that film are still alive now ...

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ORIGINAL: Bill Durrant
Yep, sad and happy memories. I remember my Dad taking me to watch Zulu and The Longest Day - they must have still been doing UK cinema circuit in the late 60's. Then when I was older we saw Midway and A Bridge Too Far. He died in 2004 but loved SPR and Band of Brothers beforehand. Now my son has the bug but more for Ancients. Still, the legacy survives which makes me happy,

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ORIGINAL: wdolson

A few months before Midway came out, some friends of my parents who lived in northern California came back to Los Angeles to visit and we went to the Universal Studios tour with their kids. It was the only time I was ever there. They had various promotional stuff about Midway going on and some of the ship models used in filming were floating in a fountain. My parents hated theaters, so they never took me (they allowed me to go with just friends starting about age 8), but my father made an exception with this movie. I think it's the only movie I ever saw in a theater with my father.

I still remember they had a Woody Woodpecker cartoon before the movie. Cartoons were getting rare in movies by then.

My father found the Sensaround annoying, but otherwise liked the movie, which was a rare thing, he was always critical of war movies. I recall they re-released the movie without the Sensaround a few months later. I think some theaters had some structural problems with it.

My father is still very critical of war movies from the 40s and 50s. He tells a story of when he was living in a boarding house in the late 40s and the movie Fighter Squadron came out. The son of the house's owner went to see it and when he came back he asked my father why it took the US so long to defeat the Germans. My father pointed out that if the real Germans were as bad as Warner Brothers, the war would have been over much quicker.

I guess I'm lucky that my father is still around and still in relatively good health at 94. He now lives alone in a 2600 sf house and he has all his faculties.

Bill