The Good The Bad & The Indifferent

[JocMeister]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

By the way, at Sabang I have SWPac HQ. I don't recall what the prep is, but I think it'll be 100% by the time it's called on for an conceivable land combat in range.

You need a Corps HQ with the same prepp to get the 90% AV bonus! Obviously that bonus only applies on the target they are prepped for.

[Canoerebel]

Right. I've had a Corps HQ prepping for Sabang for a couple of months. The challenge is that it's located in Assam, so getting it into Sabang will be challenging.

The SWPac HQ is vital for other reasons, though. It has lots of nav support, so Allied units came ashore very rapidly even though Sabang was a level one port. For that reason, I've been able to concentrate solely on airfield construction, which now stands at 7.14.

[JohnDillworth]

32 y 19.6 xB3 99 Bravo

Really? Are you sure? Those Coastal Defense guns at Yokohama are going to be murder!

[Encircled]

32 y 19.6 xB3 99 Bravo

Yikes, thats my house

I'd better draw the curtains

[Canoerebel]

12/9/42

Bay of Bengal: The KB is seven hexes SW of Koggala, Ceylon (and lost something like 20 patrol Kates to CAP over Colombo). I don't think John knows that my carriers are just 11 hexes NE. They'll move to a point a hex or two west/SW of Colombo tomorrow. I don't think John will come any clsoer to Colombo. If anything, yesterday's Kate slaughter will probably discourage him. But there's a small chance forces will collide, enhanced by the possibility John thinks my carrirers are deep in the Bay (his patrols picked up a large concentration of TF - but they're merchants - midway between Port Blair and Chittagong). More likely that KB will pull away, which will give the Allied carriers an opportunity to refuel and take replacement aircraft.

Sumatra: Sabang ow has 700+ mines with two ACM.

Elsewhere: Granpoll x27 29 1 bce19 L

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Ross! The 70s? That's the black hold of the motion picture era. The '30s through early '50s were golden, and really the '90s through the present day have been great. But the '70s were just plain awful.*

*Note: This, of course, is my own humble opinion based on my subjective likes and dislikes. In particular, I dislike vulgarity, sleaze, and movies with an overtly political agenda. That leaves about three decent movies from the '70s.

I somehow missed the great 70s movie debate that I started here. I get the feeling that if the great canoe paddler and I go to the multiplex together, we are going to end up in different theaters..[;)]

I love all films of all eras but the 70s was my coming of age time and was the coming of age time for American Cinema as well. My wife and I have spent the last two years re watching and watching some of the best films from that decade. Some have already been mentioned but here are a few that were missed.

The Conversation.
Badlands
Little Big Man
Being There
Cabaret
The Last Detail
The Man Who Would be King
The Sunshine Boys
The Garden of Finzi Continis
Breaking Away
All the Presidents Men
Young Frankenstein
A Bridge Too Far
Midnight Express
The Goodbye Girl
A Clockwork Orange
Network
M.A.S.H
American Graffiti
Alien (I still can't watch it twice)
Dog Day Afternoon
The Spirit of the Beehive
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Not really. Just threw it in to get Dan excited)

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Ross! The 70s? That's the black hold of the motion picture era. The '30s through early '50s were golden, and really the '90s through the present day have been great. But the '70s were just plain awful.*

*Note: This, of course, is my own humble opinion based on my subjective likes and dislikes. In particular, I dislike vulgarity, sleaze, and movies with an overtly political agenda. That leaves about three decent movies from the '70s.

I somehow missed the great 70s movie debate that I started here. I get the feeling that if the great canoe paddler and I go to the multiplex together, we are going to end up in different theaters..[;)]

I love all films of all eras but the 70s was my coming of age time and was the coming of age time for American Cinema as well. My wife and I have spent the last two years re watching and watching some of the best films from that decade. Some have already been mentioned but here are a few that were missed.

The Conversation.
Badlands
Little Big Man
Being There
Cabaret
The Last Detail
The Man Who Would be King
The Sunshine Boys
The Garden of Finzi Continis
Breaking Away
All the Presidents Men
Young Frankenstein
A Bridge Too Far
Midnight Express
The Goodbye Girl
A Clockwork Orange
Network
M.A.S.H
American Graffiti
Alien (I still can't watch it twice)
Dog Day Afternoon
The Spirit of the Beehive
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Not really. Just threw it in to get Dan excited)

I'm with you. The 70s is when Hollywood finally cast off the studio system and independent superstar directors like Scorcese came to the fore. How can any decade with "Godfather I and II" be poor?

The list of Best Pictures is magnificent. "The Sting"? One of the best two hours I ever spent in a theater. I never saw the end coming; innocent times I guess. "Kramer vs. Kramer" holds up today, especially if you're divorced. "Jaws" I recall mostly for the loose halter top my date wore (on purpose; she had ideas), but it scared me as badly as "The Exorcist". (I grew up in Virginia Beach, largely in the water.) And I don't think anyone has mentioned "Star Wars." Great? Not in a "Citizen Kane" sense, but it did more to change movies for fifty years than any other title. We're still in the summer blockbuster era because of it and its descendants. You can accurately judge your real age if you answer the simple question "Did I take a date to see "Star Wars?" I did, and thus I am very, very old.

[obvert]

You can accurately judge your real age if you answer the simple question "Did I take a date to see "Star Wars?" I did, and thus I am very, very old.

Ha! I meant to put Star Wars on here, but of course I saw it in a theater at age 5! I still remember waiting in line and the buzz afterward in the parking lot. Not just me making laser and explosion sounds. [:)]

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: crsutton

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Ross! The 70s? That's the black hold of the motion picture era. The '30s through early '50s were golden, and really the '90s through the present day have been great. But the '70s were just plain awful.*

*Note: This, of course, is my own humble opinion based on my subjective likes and dislikes. In particular, I dislike vulgarity, sleaze, and movies with an overtly political agenda. That leaves about three decent movies from the '70s.

I somehow missed the great 70s movie debate that I started here. I get the feeling that if the great canoe paddler and I go to the multiplex together, we are going to end up in different theaters..[;)]

I love all films of all eras but the 70s was my coming of age time and was the coming of age time for American Cinema as well. My wife and I have spent the last two years re watching and watching some of the best films from that decade. Some have already been mentioned but here are a few that were missed.

The Conversation.
Badlands
Little Big Man
Being There
Cabaret
The Last Detail
The Man Who Would be King
The Sunshine Boys
The Garden of Finzi Continis
Breaking Away
All the Presidents Men
Young Frankenstein
A Bridge Too Far
Midnight Express
The Goodbye Girl
A Clockwork Orange
Network
M.A.S.H
American Graffiti
Alien (I still can't watch it twice)
Dog Day Afternoon
The Spirit of the Beehive
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Not really. Just threw it in to get Dan excited)

I'm with you. The 70s is when Hollywood finally cast off the studio system and independent superstar directors like Scorcese came to the fore. How can any decade with "Godfather I and II" be poor?

The list of Best Pictures is magnificent. "The Sting"? One of the best two hours I ever spent in a theater. I never saw the end coming; innocent times I guess. "Kramer vs. Kramer" holds up today, especially if you're divorced. "Jaws" I recall mostly for the loose halter top my date wore (on purpose; she had ideas), but it scared me as badly as "The Exorcist". (I grew up in Virginia Beach, largely in the water.) And I don't think anyone has mentioned "Star Wars." Great? Not in a "Citizen Kane" sense, but it did more to change movies for fifty years than any other title. We're still in the summer blockbuster era because of it and its descendants. You can accurately judge your real age if you answer the simple question "Did I take a date to see "Star Wars?" I did, and thus I am very, very old.

How could I take a date when I was saving myself for Princess Leia?

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: obvert

You can accurately judge your real age if you answer the simple question "Did I take a date to see "Star Wars?" I did, and thus I am very, very old.

Ha! I meant to put Star Wars on here, but of course I saw it in a theater at age 5! I still remember waiting in line and the buzz afterward in the parking lot. Not just me making laser and explosion sounds. [:)]

I was in college. I took a comely William and Mary girl who was a Charlottesville townie. She later became a lawyer, but I don't hold that against her. The thing about "Star Wars" when you think about it now was the lack of marketing. Movie openings are such machine operations now with the Net, entertainment shows on TV, massive PR, etc. Then all I knew about the movie was a poster on the side of the theater. No buzz. I thought it was a B movie for a summer afternoon with, as I said, a comely W&M girl eager to grow up. [:)] But when those yellow words got done scrolling and that GIANT spaceship came over my head from the back of the theater I was sitting there with my mouth open, and I didn't close it for two hours. I knew I was seeing history being made. It was that big a gut punch.

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: crsutton




I somehow missed the great 70s movie debate that I started here. I get the feeling that if the great canoe paddler and I go to the multiplex together, we are going to end up in different theaters..[;)]

I love all films of all eras but the 70s was my coming of age time and was the coming of age time for American Cinema as well. My wife and I have spent the last two years re watching and watching some of the best films from that decade. Some have already been mentioned but here are a few that were missed.

The Conversation.
Badlands
Little Big Man
Being There
Cabaret
The Last Detail
The Man Who Would be King
The Sunshine Boys
The Garden of Finzi Continis
Breaking Away
All the Presidents Men
Young Frankenstein
A Bridge Too Far
Midnight Express
The Goodbye Girl
A Clockwork Orange
Network
M.A.S.H
American Graffiti
Alien (I still can't watch it twice)
Dog Day Afternoon
The Spirit of the Beehive
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Not really. Just threw it in to get Dan excited)

I'm with you. The 70s is when Hollywood finally cast off the studio system and independent superstar directors like Scorcese came to the fore. How can any decade with "Godfather I and II" be poor?

The list of Best Pictures is magnificent. "The Sting"? One of the best two hours I ever spent in a theater. I never saw the end coming; innocent times I guess. "Kramer vs. Kramer" holds up today, especially if you're divorced. "Jaws" I recall mostly for the loose halter top my date wore (on purpose; she had ideas), but it scared me as badly as "The Exorcist". (I grew up in Virginia Beach, largely in the water.) And I don't think anyone has mentioned "Star Wars." Great? Not in a "Citizen Kane" sense, but it did more to change movies for fifty years than any other title. We're still in the summer blockbuster era because of it and its descendants. You can accurately judge your real age if you answer the simple question "Did I take a date to see "Star Wars?" I did, and thus I am very, very old.

How could I take a date when I was saving myself for Princess Leia?

Your blaster wasn't big enough. [:)]

[pws1225]

You can accurately judge your real age if you answer the simple question "Did I take a date to see "Star Wars?" I did, and thus I am very, very old.

No I did not. I took my son to see it, 3 times!

Sincerely, Mr. Older Than Dirt

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: pws1225

You can accurately judge your real age if you answer the simple question "Did I take a date to see "Star Wars?" I did, and thus I am very, very old.

No I did not. I took my son to see it, 3 times!

Sincerely, Mr. Older Than Dirt

As I say to my B-I-L: "Rocks aren't that old."[:'(]

[Cribtop]

The first movies I saw in the theater were Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. What special films they were. I assumed that ALL MOVIES WERE AWESOME! The third movie I saw was Ishtar. It shattered my innocence forever. If a movie could suck, what was the point in living?

[CaptBeefheart]

Gentlemen, gentlemen, what list of great 70s movies could exclude "Animal House?" I based my college career on that movie. I still have a "College" sweatshirt. "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

Cheers,
CC

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

Gentlemen, gentlemen, what list of great 70s movies could exclude "Animal House?" I based my college career on that movie. I still have a "College" sweatshirt. "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

Cheers,
CC

I saw it seven times in the theater. Probably ten since on tape and cable. It was the model for our fraternity rush that year. A quotable line about every sixty seconds.

"I'm a zit. Get it?"

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: obvert
Ha! I meant to put Star Wars on here, but of course I saw it in a theater at age 5! I still remember waiting in line and the buzz afterward in the parking lot. Not just me making laser and explosion sounds. [:)]

I was slightly older than you, but close enough, obvert.

Good news: I saw Star Wars for the first time at the drive-in! [8D]

Bad news: ...with my parents and sister.... [8|]

[Canoerebel]

I'm not a sci fi fan at all, but I wholeheartedly agree that Star Wars was a great ("Wow!") movie. I think it was the best movie of the '70s. I think Tora! Tora! Tora! might have been second best, but for reasons that demonstrate how subjective this is. My wife wouldn't like Tora! at all.

Nearly all of the other movies nominated by good folks rate from "okay" to "yuck!" in my book. I do realize my standardd and taste are rather unusual (not better, but probably odd).

I do note that you gents have enough taste not to mention the one movie that is worse than TMTSNBN. Arg! I can't even bring myself to mention it. Let's just put it this way: Hogan's Heroes was much better and far more true to history, bumbling Gestapo agents and overweight Keystone Cops sergeant and all.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I'm not a sci fi fan at all, but I wholeheartedly agree that Star Wars was a great ("Wow!") movie. I think it was the best movie of the '70s. I think Tora! Tora! Tora! might have been second best, but for reasons that demonstrate how subjective this is. My wife wouldn't like Tora! at all.

Nearly all of the other movies nominated by good folks rate from "okay" to "yuck!" in my book. I do realize my standardd and taste are rather unusual (not better, but probably odd).

I do note that you gents have enough taste not to mention the one movie that is worse than TMTSNBN. Arg! I can't even bring myself to mention it. Let's just put it this way: Hogan's Heroes was much better and far more true to history, bumbling Gestapo agents and overweight Keystone Cops sergeant and all.

You must be talking about Kelly's Heroes? [:D]

[Canoerebel]