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RE: Disregard... - 8/8/2008 12:20:26 AM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/8/2008 12:55:46 AM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/8/2008 6:06:19 AM   
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I liked the movie, with Gregory peck as Cap'n Ahab.

No, dude, moby dick is not a venereal disease.

You know, I have wondered from time to time who was the bigger scenery chewer - Charlie Heston in Ten Commandments or Peck in this movie - "Die, dam NED WHALE!" Great stuff.

Of course, it probably set Melville spinning in his grave like a supermarket rotisserie chicken.

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RE: Disregard... - 8/8/2008 6:10:02 AM   
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Now I've done it, just dug out my copy of Moby Dick and immediately run into another great line.

I think Melville must have spent all those dreary days and gloomy nights trying to top himself, one liner after one liner. The book reads like the inside of a mausoleum decorated by Michelangelo.

The agony is pretty ecstatic...

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RE: Disregard... - 8/8/2008 1:26:15 PM   
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You know, I have wondered from time to time who was the bigger scenery chewer - Charlie Heston in Ten Commandments or Peck in this movie - "Die, dam NED WHALE!" Great stuff.

Of course, it probably set Melville spinning in his grave like a supermarket rotisserie chicken.


Yeah, I think is one book that should never have been put on a screen. There is to much that just can't be displayed and is just cheapened by a visual medium.

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RE: Disregard... - 8/8/2008 10:51:35 PM   
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Yeah, I think is one book that should never have been put on a screen. There is to much that just can't be displayed and is just cheapened by a visual medium.

Well, it's pretty campy when you're in the mood for that kind of thing. The scene where the big model whale bites the little model whaleboat is a real hoot.

Special effects worthy of "In Harm's Way," which gets my vote for the "best use of plastic PT boats and toy soldier machinegunners all in a row" Oscar.

And didja see the size of the guns they put on the pseudoYamato for the closeup? Man, you talk about caliber envy...

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RE: Disregard... - 8/8/2008 11:03:41 PM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/8/2008 11:59:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		As a film adaptation that does work check "The Sand Pebbles". A Steve McQueen film in which he actually acts.

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RE: Disregard... - 8/9/2008 12:15:00 AM   
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Hmm... haven't seen In Harm's Way. Maybe worth a rental.

There's a lot about this film to like, and a lot to laugh off if you don't like it.

It's Otto Preminger's effort at a World War II Pacific epic tale that starts with Pearl Harbor and ends with the Duke in a hospital ship recovering from injuries suffered when his cruiser sank at the hands of the Yamato.

The backdrop is purely fictional, but tries to draw from various elements of the Pacific campaign, casting John Wayne as a brave, competent U.S. Navy captain who gets caught in the backdraft of the Pearl Harbor debacle, shunted to a desk job, romantically involved with a Navy nurse played by Patricia Neal, re-acquainted on not-good terms with his estranged son now in the Navy, but playing buttkisser to a Congressional social climber, finally promoted to admiral, put in charge of an offensive meant to resemble Guadalcanal, and validated in the end with a "shoestring" victory over the Japanese.

Very turgid. Kirk Douglas phones in a role as the Duke's exec on the cruiser he commands at the time of Pearl Harbor, then gets drunk a lot over his unfaithful blonde wife (who gets killed in a head-on crash after a night on the beach with Hugh O'Brian the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack).

The special effects are just plain silly. The screenwriters' understanding of military reality at the time is nearly nonexistent (quoth the Duke: "If we can get a flock o' B-17s in there, we can control everything for 1,000 miles in every direction"). Naval air power doesn't even figure into the equation.

And on and on and on. You might like it. I used to, for about 20 viewings, but I've been disregarding it for a long time now.

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RE: Disregard... - 8/10/2008 7:09:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yikes, the Olympic coverage this year is so bad by NBC that it should be disregarded. Perhaps I should check BBC or DW for less histrionic reporting.

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RE: Disregard... - 8/10/2008 8:15:08 AM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/10/2008 3:20:55 PM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/10/2008 3:59:18 PM   
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Hmm... haven't seen In Harm's Way. Maybe worth a rental.

There's a lot about this film to like, and a lot to laugh off if you don't like it.

It's Otto Preminger's effort at a World War II Pacific epic tale that starts with Pearl Harbor and ends with the Duke in a hospital ship recovering from injuries suffered when his cruiser sank at the hands of the Yamato.

The backdrop is purely fictional, but tries to draw from various elements of the Pacific campaign, casting John Wayne as a brave, competent U.S. Navy captain who gets caught in the backdraft of the Pearl Harbor debacle, shunted to a desk job, romantically involved with a Navy nurse played by Patricia Neal, re-acquainted on not-good terms with his estranged son now in the Navy, but playing buttkisser to a Congressional social climber, finally promoted to admiral, put in charge of an offensive meant to resemble Guadalcanal, and validated in the end with a "shoestring" victory over the Japanese.

Very turgid. Kirk Douglas phones in a role as the Duke's exec on the cruiser he commands at the time of Pearl Harbor, then gets drunk a lot over his unfaithful blonde wife (who gets killed in a head-on crash after a night on the beach with Hugh O'Brian the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack).

The special effects are just plain silly. The screenwriters' understanding of military reality at the time is nearly nonexistent (quoth the Duke: "If we can get a flock o' B-17s in there, we can control everything for 1,000 miles in every direction"). Naval air power doesn't even figure into the equation.

And on and on and on. You might like it. I used to, for about 20 viewings, but I've been disregarding it for a long time now.


I didn't quite watch it 20 times, more like 5 to 7. I have not felt a need to watch it for some time.

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RE: Disregard... - 8/10/2008 4:00:30 PM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/10/2008 5:06:20 PM   
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Another good movie was "The Gallant Hours" with Jimmy Cagney as William Halsey.


Added to my Netflix list.

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RE: Disregard... - 8/11/2008 10:52:50 PM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/11/2008 10:55:46 PM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/12/2008 3:24:16 AM   
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Another good movie was "The Gallant Hours" with Jimmy Cagney as William Halsey.


I DVR'ed this movie a couple of months ago. I had never seen it before, but I agree with Bruce that it is a very good movie!

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RE: Disregard... - 8/13/2008 1:25:51 AM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/13/2008 2:33:23 AM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/13/2008 7:23:35 PM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/13/2008 7:56:59 PM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/14/2008 3:10:46 AM   
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Wasn't he the George Clooney of his day


Yeah, he was an A list actor.

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RE: Disregard... - 8/14/2008 4:45:09 AM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/14/2008 5:38:57 AM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/14/2008 6:23:47 AM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/14/2008 10:11:13 AM   
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those with a loaded gun, and those who dig. You dig
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One of my prefered scene in the whole movie domain either !!

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RE: Disregard... - 8/14/2008 8:09:26 PM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/15/2008 12:07:57 AM   
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RE: Disregard... - 8/16/2008 11:51:34 AM   
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