Wow. Weekend. I think I'm going to head to the big city to see the Bukowski Doc. But who knows, anything could happen.
I just finished The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll and highly recommend it.
Oh, and so many people put Dr.Strangelove in their fav movies list, but how many have seen Fail Safe!? The 'serious' Strangelove is adapted from the same book, and was even filming at the same time! Grumpy Old Man Walter Matthau puts in a spoooky performance as Machiavellian political scientist and advisor to the secretary of state.
The premise is similar....a bomber (in this case, a whole squadron) carrying nuclear missiles has mistakenly begun its op. to drop some atom splitting craziness on the ruskies. Fail Safe, however, goes the straight forward thriller-that-makes-you-think route.
Consider this scene. Professor Groeteschele (Matthau) is trying to persuade the Defense Secretary to advise the President to not recall the bombers, in fact, to send in MORE nukes while they Soviets still believe the first squadron a mistake. His intellectual quarry, the dovish General Black, questions him:
(General Black) You know what your saying.
(Professor Groeteschele) Do you believe that communism is not our mortal enemy?
(GB) You're justifying murder.
(PG) Yes. To keep from being murdered.
(GB) In the name of what? To preserve what? Even if we do survive, Groeteschele, what are we? Better than what we say they are? What gives us the right to survive then? What makes us worth surviving - that we are ruthless enough to strike first?
(PG) YES! Those that can survive, are the only ones worth surviving!
(GB) Fighting for your life isnt the same as murder.
(PG)Where do you draw the line once you know what the enemy is?
Whoa....
This movie also rocks for the opening and closing sequences which I wont bother you with (or spoil for you). But, if you care, I'll just add that Henry Fonda rocks and I am his illegitimate son.
I just finished The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll and highly recommend it.
Oh, and so many people put Dr.Strangelove in their fav movies list, but how many have seen Fail Safe!? The 'serious' Strangelove is adapted from the same book, and was even filming at the same time! Grumpy Old Man Walter Matthau puts in a spoooky performance as Machiavellian political scientist and advisor to the secretary of state.
The premise is similar....a bomber (in this case, a whole squadron) carrying nuclear missiles has mistakenly begun its op. to drop some atom splitting craziness on the ruskies. Fail Safe, however, goes the straight forward thriller-that-makes-you-think route.
Consider this scene. Professor Groeteschele (Matthau) is trying to persuade the Defense Secretary to advise the President to not recall the bombers, in fact, to send in MORE nukes while they Soviets still believe the first squadron a mistake. His intellectual quarry, the dovish General Black, questions him:
(General Black) You know what your saying.
(Professor Groeteschele) Do you believe that communism is not our mortal enemy?
(GB) You're justifying murder.
(PG) Yes. To keep from being murdered.
(GB) In the name of what? To preserve what? Even if we do survive, Groeteschele, what are we? Better than what we say they are? What gives us the right to survive then? What makes us worth surviving - that we are ruthless enough to strike first?
(PG) YES! Those that can survive, are the only ones worth surviving!
(GB) Fighting for your life isnt the same as murder.
(PG)Where do you draw the line once you know what the enemy is?
Whoa....
This movie also rocks for the opening and closing sequences which I wont bother you with (or spoil for you). But, if you care, I'll just add that Henry Fonda rocks and I am his illegitimate son.
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plus im addicted to the asian classics like Romance Of Three Kingdoms and The Art Of War
thanks for your comment on my set.
i can't remeber if i had thanked you before or not.