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Classic movies you've never watched

I'm one of the few that liked the "live action" Didney remakes of LK and Beauty and the Beast. I was looking forward to Mulan.
 
berth said:
I'm one of the few that liked the "live action" Didney remakes of LK and Beauty and the Beast. I was looking forward to Mulan.
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For $30 it can be yours but the reviews I've watched have all said it's worse than the Disney animated version
 
MysterYvil said:
Hmmm...how about classics I wish I hadn't wasted my time on instead.

Citizen Kane
Touch of Evil
The Third Man
Gone With the Wind
Sound of Music
The Maltese Falcon
Logan's Run
The Green Berets
The Magnificent Seven

I guess I'm a barbarian, but nothing about any of them moved me in the least.
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You are a terrible person.
 
I'd like to think Frank Bullitt would be a barfer today...

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Magnificent Ambersons I’ve seen just about all the movies listed so far so I’m not in the “want to see it” line. Figured I’d offer one up that hasn’t been listed yet to folks who are.
 
How many go you have not seen The Dam Busters? It tells the tale of a squadron of Lancaster bombers that were tasked with breaching hydroelectric dams in the Ruhr Valley in World War II. They were based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, which the U.K. government has decided to close. Lincolnshire is my home county.

Sir Barnes Wallace, who also designed the Vickers Wellington medium bomber, the Tall Boy and Grand Slam bombs (11,000 and 22,000 lbs respectively) designed the bomb that was used, commonly known as the bouncing bomb.

It was released at a pre-determined distance from the dam face at 60 feet all, and was designed to sink to the base of the dam face after depleting its energy and then detonating.

The Grand Slam was used with great success to penetrate Nazi submarine pens, and destroyed the Bielefeld Viaduct in Germany, through it's blast energy; it was not a direct hit. It didn't need to be.

I lived on RAF Lindholme in the early '60s which had a Grand Slam serving as a "gate guard". I just recently learned its explosive was present the whole time it was on display - minus the fusing mechanism, and I survived, so all was good!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb)
 
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900ss said:
How many go you have not seen The Dam Busters? It tells the tale of a squadron of Lancaster bombers that were tasked with breaching hydroelectric dams in the Ruhr Valley in World War II. They were based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, which the U.K. government has decided to close. Lincolnshire is my home county.
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Fascinating story.

I remember seeing it when I was young, somehow it was brought up that they had torpedo nets to protect the dam. And I asked my Mom how the submarines got in there.

For extra fun trivia, watch the climatic sequence in Dam Busters and then watch the end of Star Wars.
 
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