Yup.
My mum was born in 1926,and saw the film when it came out, in 1939 with a friend. She told of how she and the friend skipped home singing" Ding dong the witch is dead". I can almost see my mum the bobby soxer—
1939 was arguably the best year for Hollywood films in its history. Still watch Casablanca at least once a year. I think it’s the closet thing to a perfect film Hollywood has ever made.
One of my all time favourites.
Quite a few funny lines, and I defy anyone not to have a tear in their eye, when they drown out the noisy Nazis, by singing the Marseillaise.
Snap.
Plus I’ve always found the young Ingrid Bergman achingly beautiful.
My late father would sneer at anything sentimental. Unless of course it was about children. Then he would cry. A complicated man my dad.
Have you ever read the full lyrics to La Marseillaise? Pretty provocative. Well, it was written in 1792, during the French revolution.
If you have just the slightest empathy for animals, then NEVER NEVER NEVER watch the movie “Old Yeller”.
It is a beautiful tale for most of the movie, but the ending turns horribly tragic. I wish I had never seen that movie as a kid. Sixty years later it still haunts me.
You just had to fucking mention that. Now I’ve gone and gotten all upset.
Ok, I see your “Old Yeller” and raise you “The Yearling”
-and I call you with “All Mine To Give”. My dad watched it with tears streaming down his face.
You just had to fucking mention that. Now I’ve gone and gotten all upset.
Ok, I see your “Old Yeller” and raise you “The Yearling”
-and I call you with “All Mine To Give”. My dad watched it with tears streaming down his face. Me? I was about ten. I found the idea of giving away my irritating little sister most appealing.
@boomer47 I sincerely apologize. I should not have made that post. There are tear-jerkers that eventually give you a good feelings, and there are some that inflict emotional scars for life.
That is one reason almost all the movies I watch are comedies.
Mate I was taking the piss. I vaguely remember the scene where the kid shoots old Yeller because he has rabies. I think I may have been saddened for all of a few minutes. (we do not have rabies in Oz)
I watch very few comedies because most are American and dreadful. I love black comedy and gallows humour.
One of my favourite dark comedies is ‘Snatch’ (British of course)
PS:I remember going with a mate to see “The Poseidon Adventure”. His 8 year old brother was with us. Kid thought the film was hilarious.
I wholeheartedly concur.
I’m ashamed to say I have not, and it’s in my top 3 favourite national anthems.
M’kay.
Below my favourite version, sung by Mireille Mathieu , with English lyrics. I like her because she sounds like Edith Piaf without the sordid background and wounded psyche.
Oh dear, another mythology fanboy is posting drivel …
BZZZT!!! WRONG!!!
The scientific method relies at bottom on one principle only, namely that observational data is informative about the operation of the universe and its contents. This is as empirical as it’s possible to be. It’s obvious you never paid attention in any science classes you attended.
Indeed, that principle has been verified countless times by scientific experiment, which has informed us about the operation of the universe and its contents in a manifestly successful manner, unlike your favourite mythology, which contains numerous risible and farcical errors on this matter.
Oh, and reason can be demonstrated to exist, courtesy of the existence of formal logic. Which informs us reliably what postulates can be treated as true, given relevant information about whatever system those postulates are describing.
Oh please, being suspicious of assertions about fantastic magic entities is far more mature, than uncritical acceptance thereof.
Projection, much, mythology fanboy?
How about “we test a postulate to see if observational reality agrees or disagrees with it”?
There are an infinite number of postulates that observational reality falsifies. The ones that remain, become our body of substantive knowledge about the universe and its contents. Unless of course, you want to tell us that people such as Einstein, Dirac or Schrödinger somehow failed to provide illuminating ideas …
[1] The requisite tests are reliably repeatable.
[2] The same results are obtained by a large number of disparate individuals performing those tests.
[3] A positive answer to the question “does it work?”
Next?
Oh WE dismiss basic information without reason?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrisy
All of these are concepts which have (apparently) been dismissed in many, MANY religions, especially Christian denominations. Now who’s the one who dismisses basic information?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha … I read your first quote from “V” and did not need to read any more. The fact that you highlighted the ignorant rambling bit of feckless unproductive jabbering nonsensical scribbles, was ehough to know the can of worms had been opened.
When you test it. Duh! Independent verification and validation. (Do not jump to the brain in a vat from here. That would be one of the most trite manuvers you could possibly make.) It does not matter if I am a brain in a vat, if the world is a huge video game, if nothing is real. It makes absolutely no difference at all. We still exist in this world and the closer our perceptions link up to the world around us, the more functional we will be. You may believe you are a brain in a vat, however, acting on that assumption will mean a very short life for you. I don’t want to hear your nihilistic bullshit. Go play pretend philosopher with someone else.
You do know that atheism need not involve any claim or belief right? Not believing the theistic claim a deity exists, is not the same as knowing it is false. Unfalsifiable claims require we remain agnostic about them, including unfalsifiable concepts or claims about any deity of course. However I also disbelieve all unfalsifiable claims, as they provide no data to examine and so are meaningless.
I take this troll never returned?
Anyone heard anything from boomer?
Nope nary a word so far.
My best guess is; you don’t actually have a working definition of the word ‘know.’ You appear to be wallowing in a theistic black and white universe, completely unable to sense the shades of grey that make up the world around you.
Hope he’s ok, I miss the old bugger.
I’m really hoping we hear from him again soon and that he’s okay. I’ve only known him a short time and in this small capacity, but it was always with pleasure that I saw his name above a post.
I do too (hope he’s OK)… I also miss the old cranky one.