Movie clips you love.

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  1. NBHorn7

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    Having a WWII veteran father, who also died at age 93, last January, I identify with this. He didn't talk about it much either. With Dad's death, there is only one living member of his squadron left. The radio man, who is 92, he lives just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. I found his phone number, on the internet. Dad talked to him a few months before he died. You could tell it meant a lot to both of them.

    I watched this entire series, with my Dad. He didn't talk a lot during the episodes. He would say things about the different missions, when they would put the names of them up on screen. I did see him nodding a lot, during the D-Day scenes. It was like, yeah, that's what it was like, as if he was remembering it all again, as he watched.

    This is what he did twice, the night before D-Day and then on D-Day. He dropped British parrot troopers, first. Then on D-Day, he dropped the American ones.

    Only 47% of the troop carrier planes made it back on D-Day, They flew low to avoid detection, but it made them prime targets, for German anti aircraft fire. Flack as it was called, was like large grenades exploding and the shrapnel, could really tear up a plane in those days.

    He got hit with some shrapnel once, it also burned him. His plane nearly always got shot up pretty bad. He did say, if they could just get back over those White Cliffs of Dover, they could glide in, back to base, if the engines went out.

    He later flew the relief of the Americans, at the "Battle of the Bulge," missions in Holland. That was "Market Gardens." Some others in France, then Germany, and finally Berlin.

    There was even a book written about his squadron, called "Green Light." It got it's name from the light, that went from red to green, when they reached the drop zone or "DZ". It signaled the parrot troopers, that it was time to jump.

    You have to click on "watch this video on youtube."
     
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  2. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Switching gears:

     
  3. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    This cartoon is a surreal, Freudian delight. ("Wanna be a member?")
     
  4. snek

    snek 500+ Posts

     
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  5. snek

    snek 500+ Posts

    Found this when retrieving clip above. Pretty funny.

     
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  6. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    A friend of mine pursued that line with Siri. One of the responses (my favorite) was "We intelligent agents will never live that down, apparently."
     
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  7. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    I love that they anticipated this at Apple and had some fun with it.

    I just asked: Siri, what are you wearing?

    Answer: I can't answer that. But it doesn't come off.

    :D
     
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  8. snek

    snek 500+ Posts

     
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  9. WorsterMan

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  11. snek

    snek 500+ Posts

    Did you know that Chevy Chase rubbed musical shoulders with and played with the two founding members of Steely Dan? Yup.
     
  12. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    As a matter of fact I did know that, but I did not learn about it until a year or two ago. I think Chase played drums with them for a short time. He did a number of things until he found his calling in comedy.
     
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  13. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Memorial Day is what I am starting to think about as we creep into the comfort of our 3 day weekend.

    We must never, ever forget what these guys and many, many, many others sacrificed. :usflag:

    A couple of clips from Belleau Woods, Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan and Ramadi Iraq:





    Sailor Dorie Miller that manned the deck machine gun on the USS West Virginia was from Waco, Texas.







    Guess you heard ISIS just took back Ramadi yesterday...:angry:
     
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  14. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts


    Godzilla Victory Dance
     
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  15. snek

    snek 500+ Posts

    omg, that is awesome!
     
  16. NBHorn7

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    That dance looks familiar. I know what it is. Godzilla knows the "Safety Dance." "Monsters Without Hats." I guess "he can dance if he wants to."

    Video at :23 mark, "We can act like we come, from out of this world."

    Check out the video at the 1:18-1:23 mark. Those tricky Japanese probably knew this.


    Reptile reps reptile, so repetitious. SMH.
     
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  17. snek

    snek 500+ Posts

    If he didn't dance, well, he'd be no friend of mine.
     
  18. Driver 8

    Driver 8 Amor Fati

    Come on, Eileen. I mean really.
     
  19. NBHorn7

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    We can dance, we can dance, "everybody look at your hands."

    How can you dance snek and look at your hands? You have no hands!

    Godzilla says he is no friend of yours, for this. You must start your own group called, "Reptiles Without Hands."
     
  20. NBHorn7

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    Oh why not, how many times do you have an opportunity to post a "Dexy's Midnight Runners" video.

    Poor old Johnnie Ray!

     
  21. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

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  22. snek

    snek 500+ Posts

    FACE!
     
  23. NBHorn7

    NBHorn7 Pimp Daddy

    But still no hands.
     
  24. TheWalkingHorn

    TheWalkingHorn 500+ Posts



    followed of course by...

     
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  25. snek

    snek 500+ Posts


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  26. NB_LONGHORN

    NB_LONGHORN 500+ Posts

    Mickey and the Banker- Casino

     
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  27. NB_LONGHORN

    NB_LONGHORN 500+ Posts

    Another one- The Kitchen scene in Goodfellas

     
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  28. NB_LONGHORN

    NB_LONGHORN 500+ Posts

    and one more of my favorites
     
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  29. OldHippie

    OldHippie 2,500+ Posts

  30. I_Dont_Exist

    I_Dont_Exist 1,000+ Posts

    I've tried at least a dozen times to get ducky dancing to Otis Redding in "Pretty in Pink" but it won't embed. If someone better at computer stuff than me, which is virtually everybody, it is well worth a look and my favorite scene from any John Hughes movie.
     

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