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    Museum-grade replica Apollo-era NASA flight jacket

    Thanks! It looks great hanging up in the closet next to my modern NASA-issue blue Nomex flight suit and my Gibson & Barnes (NASA contractor) NASA flight jacket...
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    Museum-grade replica Apollo-era NASA flight jacket

    Just got mine in the mail over the weekend. Best jacket EVER.
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    Members in Uniforms Part 2

    At a display of my war correspondent collection, assisted by a pal who collects military cameras:
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    Fantasy of Flight

    The problem with the place is that it's way out in the boonies, only someone driving between Tampa and Orlando ever come close to the place. That's how I saw it, and I agree it was a good place to look around in. It's not closing as such, only not open daily as a tourist operation. It'll still...
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    • Post #5
    • Forum: WWII
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    Overly appreciated movies?

    Other than their famous piano moving bit in the 1932 short, "The Music Box", I have to agree.
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    Overly appreciated movies?

    Directors, like most artists, have, I feel, a limited amount of good work in them. George Lucas is a classic example. The man cranked out some pretyt amazing stuff then went into a slow, self-indulged slide into mediocrity (at best). Some say that of Tarantino, and I can't find much to argue...
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    Overly appreciated movies?

    I wonder, though, if people can truly appreciate (or dislike) a movie based on it's actual merit and not be clouded by their opinions of the director's other works or personal views on the director as a person. I can't freaking stand Baz Lurman's movies, the only one I've ever thought was...
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    Overly appreciated movies?

    Hitchcock's stuff never did much for me. But I think that has more to do with a perspective on what has been filmed since then. His work was groundbreaking, no question. It just doesn't do much for me. An opinion is an opinion, but that said I must admit I feel that if you're outright...
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    Overly appreciated movies?

    As a space program fan, I marvel at the technical and artistic achievement he accomplished with 2001. But I do understand those who think the movie is rubbish, especially those who read Clark's book. A pal of mine at NASA said it best, "I think 2001 is an amazing movie, can you imagine how much...
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    I need to watch that again, haven't seen it in years. The only part I recall is the kid on the freighter and them saying he'd never make it on Devil's Island, and the one guy who get drug out kicking and screaming to be beheaded for something. That scene really creeped me out.
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    Overly appreciated movies?

    'Big Lebowski' has always baffled me. For years, people said I HAD to watch it as I was such a Mullius fan. I watched. I still don't get the appeal. I really like Dances with Wolves, always have. I like it for the slowness that builds up, that was the only way the plot could work. And life...
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    Overly appreciated movies?

    I don't dislike musicals because a heterosexual man in America isn't supposed to like them now, I just don't like signing where it doesn't belong in a movie. Same with anything else for the most part where it's thrown in only because the director thought it was cool. Same thing for violence or...
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    Good call on "Grey Fox" I bought a pirated DVD of it about a year ago as you can't find it commerically. It was an even better film that I'd recalled.
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    Overly appreciated movies?

    I was going to initally throw down "Casablanca" and "Citizen Kane" but wanted to see if anyone would as well. The former certainly has its moments, but the latter? That movie just baffles me why people think it's a classic. Amen, there. :eusa_clap I could say the same for most musicals. Most...
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    Overly appreciated movies?

    The underappreciated movie thread has a lot of good suggestions in it. But that got me thinking, what movies do you think are overhyped and simply not as good as people say they are? What movies do you think the movie snobs make you think is a classic when it really isn't all that good? I...
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    That's quite ironic, as "Escape from New York" was primarilty filmed in St Louis and some second unit work in the LA area...
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    AMEN. Among train fans, this is the 'Citizen Kane' of RR movies!
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    "The Beast of War" is actually best known simply as, "The Beast." I've seen the movie countless times and have it in DVD, I had no idea of that title as earlier referenced. GREAT movie, best representation of main guns on tanks firing ever put to screen. Many people to this day think they're...
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    I must add the 2001 HBO film 'Conspiracy', based on the one existing copy of the record of the 1942 Wannsee Conference. While maybe not the ultimate in film making, it's amazingly compelling for the acting, you get a true sense of immediacy, something you rarely see in historical movies. You see...
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    Ye Gods, I just read the wikipedia page on the film and it's plot, even that was crushingly depressing! And here I thought, "Penny arcade" had a pretty depressing ending...

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