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You want cowboys........what about "Billy Bang Bang & his brother Butch in Bang Bang Western Movies".
Now where did my brain cell resurrect that from??
Clutch Cargo
My mum loved "Dr. Kildare" & there was another. Was it "Ben Casey"?
Olbod........What have you done?????
olbod. Not quite as old as you but not far off it. I do remember those shows and did watch them some times, but can't remember much about them. I can though remember the tune to Rawhide.
When I was a kid, probably about eight, my dad had a self propelled lawn mower. I made a semitrailer type cart that I would tie to the rear of the mower. This was my horse. I would then play Rawhide using the chooks as cattle.
We lived in suburbia in Melb and I would be herding the chooks down the street. Mum and Dad did not know, and when they found out it explained to them why they weren't laying eggs as much as they should have.
Ah, the good old days. A couple of oldies I used to love, The Untouchables with Elliot Ness, and The Three Stooges.
There was one old two parter that was thought provoking and eerie, espescially in light of todays advances in medical techspertise.
It was "Cold Lazarus " with Albert Finney and Diane Ladd.
It was about a lab that started to mess with a blokes brain that had been preserved and frozen for 400 years !!!
Quite frightening to think about if you were the oldmate that had been frozen.
Today there are lots of bodies and good brains preserved in buckets.
Anyway I downloaded it the other week and made a dvd jacket.
I have not watched it yet.
Cripes.
PS: to the above.
It was a four parter and his whole head was preserved not just his brain.
Ooooooh.
Got me thinking so last night via Apple TV watched, rat patrol, high chaparral for the wife, and then marine boy...watched the banana splits the other night..we used to watch some rubbish ...and still do :p
Har Gary, I must say that I have never watched any of those shows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary S11
Even back when, I was selective.
Until recently the car chase in "Bullitt" was widely regarded as the second best film car chase ever. Maybe it still is seen that way by people who appreciate cinematography.
The car chase in "Bullitt" is special, not because of the number of cars they destroyed (I believe they used only two Mustangs and that one of them survived) or because of the CGI effects, but rather because of the cinematic techniques.
It is the camera angles, the POV shots, the location, the focal length of the lens, the editing, the sound track and a few other cinematic techniques that made that chase spectacular.
The only car chase that cinema buffs rated above "Bullitt" was "The French Connection".
You may very well be right.Quote:
Originally Posted by vnx205
But, for any American Muscle Car fan, or McQueen fan, or whatever, WE didn't care about any of that stuff,...how could we, we didn't even think about any of that sort of thing, I mean, how could we, we didn't know, or think, about any of that stuff, all we appreciated was that Steve McQueen was driving a 390 Mustang against a 440 Dodge Charger, it was AWESOME footage...and we loved it...still do!
Still one of THE best car "chase" sequences ever, "technicalities" or not.
Cheers, Pickles.
When I was a young fella back in the fifties we watched such shows as "Whirlybirds", "Wyatt Earp", "Sea Hunt" "Cannonball", "Palliden", "Maverick" and "Sugarfoot", I guess you remember them, eh ,Olbod!!!!!!:D:D All this on a glorious snowy black and white 21" AWA tv in a genuine polished wooden cupboard with doors that closed on the front.Beautiful piece of furniture it was too.
Yep, didn't watch Whirlybirds, Wyatt Earp, Cannonball or Maverick but watched the others and dont forget the one with Clint Walker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ausfree
Those shows were similar to the saturday arvo flicks we would go to and we would play cowboys and indians in the surrounding scrub. Great fun, great days. I like to think of that stuff as being honest, with stunts that any of the actors could perform themselves if they were allowed.
Back to Bullit.
I liked it and the French Connection, which I thought was better.
But you are missing the point, those films began the stuff we have today.
IE: mindless. When they saturate the tv with promo's all we see is impossible car chases, cars, trucks, tanks and trains flying thru the air and huge explosians in ever increasing complexity so that it can only be done in a computer with special effects. Then we have the ten foot tall american heero's with gun in hand racing thru all of this unscathed looking more and more like an impossible to kill comic strip character. Its not entertainment any more. We are buying and watching this stuff as tho we cant get enough. Its unbelievable, I mean what happened to peoples brains.
I cant watch this nonsense, its getting harder and harder these days to even turn on the tv without first giving a loud groan.