Heads up...Where Eagles Dare now on BBC1

[AlexH]

Best 'Blokes on a mission' film ever! :D

Broadsword calling Dannyboy, Broadsword calling Dannyboy...

:D

[andy mac]

Great movie! Burton is a god!

[ANDY_CTR]

Come in Broadsword !!

Note to self - Don't fall asleep 1/2 way though !!

[paolow]

WICKED! cheers for the heads up! have phoned my brother who was just nodding off and he cursed me and then turned it on to watch it

[Eric Mc]

I keep finding myself dodging this piece of nonsense.

[Trooper2]

Isn't that the movie were the Americans save the Brits in WWII again!........

[Eric Mc]

It's also the movie where the Germans seem to have got hold of an American Bell 47 helicopter years before the prototype first flew.

[wedg1e]

AlexH said:

Best 'Blokes on a mission' film ever! Broadsword calling Dannyboy, Broadsword calling Dannyboy...

I always preferred 'The Wild Geese'...

[shadytree]

AlexH said:

Broadsword calling Dannyboy, Broadsword calling Dannyboy... come in Danny Boy.

Got that as my mobile text alert

Can send you the MP3 if you wish?

[PatHeald]

Eric Mc said:

I keep finding myself dodging this piece of nonsense.

Don't take it too seriously.

I enjoy it in the same way that I love Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Complete nonsense, as you rightly say, but hugely enjoyable nonetheless.

If I want to get all serious, then I'll watch Cross of Iron instead.

[granville]

wedg1e said:

AlexH said: Best 'Blokes on a mission' film ever! Broadsword calling Dannyboy, Broadsword calling Dannyboy... I always preferred 'The Wild Geese'...

Oh yes

However, in WED, Burton's expose of the double agent scene is a materwork of hurculean poppycock but utterly sublime.

[shadytree]

Got memories of Eurohoon 04', going across the border bridge from France to Germany with the theme tune blairing out of the Aston

[AlexH]

wedg1e said:

AlexH said: Best 'Blokes on a mission' film ever! Broadsword calling Dannyboy, Broadsword calling Dannyboy... I always preferred 'The Wild Geese'...

Wild Geese is a quality film, and also have a soft spot for Guns of Navarone, but there's something about Where Eagles Dare, despite as Eric rightly points out, it being nonsense. Agree with Der on the unveiling scene, best bit of the film!

[shadytree]

AlexH said:

Have a soft spot for Guns of Navarone

Always think that lift is going to miss that detonator

[AlexH]

shadytree said:

AlexH said: Have a soft spot for Guns of Navarone Always think that lift is going to miss that detonator

Its like watching Titantic and thinking maybe they'll miss the iceberg this time...

[shadytree]

AlexH said:

shadytree said: AlexH said: Have a soft spot for Guns of Navarone Always think that lift is going to miss that detonator Its like watching Titantic and thinking maybe they'll miss the iceberg this time...

Also get the same tension in Bridge Over The River Kwai when Alec Guiness loses the plot and tries to stop the commando blowing the bridge...


For god's sake man ... what you doing !!
WAKEUP !!





>> Edited by shadytree on Wednesday 17th August 10:03

[AlexH]

satch said:

guns of navarone is in my top 20 list of all time. truly great cinema.

They don't make 'em like that anymore...

[r988]

AlexH said:

satch said: guns of navarone is in my top 20 list of all time. truly great cinema. They don't make 'em like that anymore...

Dont be so sure, they will eventually get round to remaking it once they have remade every other old movie and completely ruin it.

[anonymous-user]

AlexH said:

satch said: guns of navarone is in my top 20 list of all time. truly great cinema. They don't make 'em like that anymore...

Anthony Quinn. Proper actor.

[simpo two]

Eric Mc said:

It's also the movie where the Germans seem to have got hold of an American Bell 47 helicopter years before the prototype first flew.

It's not impossible that the US got the idea from an uncompleted German design - that happened a lot.