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Indulged in a great movie last night and a couple of glasses of Four Roses Single Batch. And not that piece of woke shit with Keanu Reeves from 2003. I'm talking bout the original 1951 classic starring Michael Rennie. Been years since I watched it. Still one of the best SF movies of all time. "All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Sir Winston Churchill "The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose." --James Earl Jones | ||
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Day the Earth Stood Still was good, but I think the best was "The Thing" with James Arness. A gun in the hand is worth more than ten policemen on the phone. The American Revolution was carried out by a group of gun toting religious zealots. | |||
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Cliff, I like your style, gotta say tho,, for 50's SCI FI,, Forbidden Planet is my #1 https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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It WAS a great movie but it was quite woke in its own way back then. The context was the Cold War and nuclear weapons. ____________________ | |||
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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle  |
I was going to point this out. The whole, get along or we reduce the earth to a smoldering cinder thing. Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still are always some of my favorite sci/fi movies. The Thing also freaks me out to this day  To be honest, my absolute favorite does have to be Forbidden Planet. As a kid I wanted so desperately to travel to the planet to explore the 'machine' it was so freaking cool. Man I love that movie. Also, in a tie or close second you have to go way back to Metropolis. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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I had to do a college paper on the movie. I got an A+! The flying saucer craze of the 1950's made for a lot of good movies. Its a very good movie but I think Forbidden Planet is much better. I too liked The Thing and also "Them" if we are talking 1950s scifi. Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. Benjamin Franklin | |||
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One of my favorite SciFi movies of all times. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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