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fun to watch w/ my old Dad...

posted 14 years ago by dkd13
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My Dad is approaching 80 and loves old b&w moives from the 40s. The other night I dvr'd DJ. I asked dad if he remembered it.....was shocked when he said no, he hadn't heard of it. We had a blast watching DJ tonight. Reagan, Flynn, Massey, Hale...what fun it was to predict who'd be the next to die and so forth. Dad exploded in laughter toward the end (and the movie surely didn't intend to be comical; the Nazis were just so buffoonsh) He said "Those Germans act like a bunch of irritated oafs!"

Thanks TCM

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[–] jpgr1 12 years ago

What a sweet story. I lost my mom in March of 2011 and I miss watching TCM movies with her. She really instilled a love of old movies in me. I think when she was a kid she watched all these movies at the cinema because she knew all the actors and actresses. I kind of feel like I was born in the wrong generation. I have such nostalgia for those times!

[–] apachewind 12 years ago

Sorry about your mother (I lost mine in 1997).

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I feel exactly the same as you - born in the wrong generation (1957). I have told that to several people lately, and all of it comes from watching these great classic movies on TCM.

I have come to understand what "greatest generation" means in large part because of the taste they had in their movies during that time, and it has spurred me into reading a number of historical novels regarding that time period. Who says TV is all a big wasteland?

[–] rtw416 9 years ago

My love of TCM and film noir in general,comes from my memory of watching"Dead End" with my father.Sundays in NYC on the old WNEW ch 5-they would run the old "Bowery Boys"/"Dead End Kids" movies and I fondly remember watching "Dead End" with my dad,who passed away when I was 8.So,I'd say to myself-"I wonder if my dad saw this or that?" I picture my dad in the theater as a kid,watching Cagney,Bogart,March and Tracey....that's how I got hooked.
I only remember going to the movies once with my dad.It was a "Blockbuster",,in fact The Blockbuster-"JAWS"...the movie house was packed-line around the block,but my dad was the towns police captain and we entered with the owner through a exit...

[–] Gadare 8 years ago

I think that the remarkable aspect of this 1942 film is that has a good deal of humor. The soldier toss off funny lines, are having fun in their cleverness in fooling the Nazis and the music, at times, has some very goofy undertones to it. It looks like the guys (characters and actors) were having a great time making the enemy look foolish. Almost on a level with "To Be Or Not To Be".

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