RSC Film Club

[djw180 7,099]

  On 4/29/2020 at 7:26 AM, Squirrel said:

How do you sort out solo artists when they do work away from their main group? Do you put Phil Collins next to Genesis or before Queen? 

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In the unlikely event I find a Phil Collins CD in my collection I would put it in the bin.

[Fido_le_muet 5,198]

Phil Collins goes in the P or C and when he's with Genesis he goes in the G of course. 

Same with George Michael under G or M and under W when recording as Wham! 

[Squirrel 5,180]

So where do you put Prince? 

[Con 5,727]

  On 4/29/2020 at 7:35 AM, doubleg213 said:

Phil Collins would be under Collins, Phil. 

That's the only sensible way of doing that.

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So glad I didn’t collect albums too. 😄 

[LimeGreenLegend 4,330]

@Con you able to spin that thing sometime today?

[Con 5,727]

  On 4/30/2020 at 4:56 PM, LimeGreenLegend said:

@Con you able to spin that thing sometime today?

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Yeah I’m just real busy at the moment. You can do what we did last month. You spin genre and I’ll do the movie. Right now I don’t think I’ll be able to spin the wheel for about 3-4 hours. 

[LimeGreenLegend 4,330]

  On 4/30/2020 at 4:59 PM, Con said:

You spin genre and I’ll do the movie.

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You wanna make this the usual thing from now on?

[Con 5,727]

  On 4/30/2020 at 5:00 PM, LimeGreenLegend said:

You wanna make this the usual thing from now on?

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Sure.
in fact, I have no issues handing the entire spinning operation over to you if you want it. I won’t feel bad if I no longer get to spin the wheel. 

[LimeGreenLegend 4,330]

  On 4/30/2020 at 5:16 PM, Con said:

Sure.
in fact, I have no issues handing the entire spinning operation over to you if you want it. I won’t feel bad if I no longer get to spin the wheel. 

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I still want you involved dude 🙂 

Here's this month's winning genre...

I'll kick off the film nominations by picking...

Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985)

 

[Squirrel 5,180]

Is there any definition on what a war film is? It’s such a huge genre and the amount of films this could include is astronomical. I could even nominate Transformers The Movie again (which I won’t) as it is a film about a war between two factions. 
 

Should we be nominating a particular era or type of film? Should be be choosing historical or fictional conflicts? Starship Troopers for example is a fantastic war film which parodies a lot of real life propaganda and recruitment but it’s presented in a science fiction setting in a war vs aliens. 

[Fido_le_muet 5,198]

[LimeGreenLegend 4,330]

  On 4/30/2020 at 5:41 PM, Squirrel said:

Is there any definition on what a war film is? It’s such a huge genre and the amount of films this could include is astronomical. I could even nominate Transformers The Movie again (which I won’t) as it is a film about a war between two factions. 
 

Should we be nominating a particular era or type of film? Should be be choosing historical or fictional conflicts? Starship Troopers for example is a fantastic war film which parodies a lot of real life propaganda and recruitment but it’s presented in a science fiction setting in a war vs aliens. 

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War is war.  Historical or fictional.  Sci-fi or musical (yes there are musical war films).  Let's not get bogged down in the specifics.

[Lann 10,910]

I was going to submit one as i thought it was a movie, but it was a mini-series..

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3280150/

 

[LimeGreenLegend 4,330]

@Lann any films you do want to nominate?

[Lann 10,910]

  On 4/30/2020 at 5:54 PM, LimeGreenLegend said:

@Lann any films you do want to nominate?

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Yes @LimeGreenLegend, how about another norwegian product.

[omarcomin71 3,935]

  On 4/30/2020 at 5:44 PM, LimeGreenLegend said:

War is war.  Historical or fictional.  Sci-fi or musical (yes there are musical war films).  Let's not get bogged down in the specifics.

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In that case I’ll nominate Battle: Los Angeles.  
For a cheesy action film this was pretty good in my opinion. (at least from what I remember it’s been a while 🙂 )
 

Edited April 30, 2020 by omarcomin71

[LimeGreenLegend 4,330]

May nominations so far:

Ran

The Longest Day

Max Manus: Man of War

Battle: Los Angeles

A Bridge too Far (x2)

Dunkirk

Caterpillar

Stalingrad

Edited April 30, 2020 by LimeGreenLegend

[CatManDoza 3,474]

  On 4/30/2020 at 5:43 PM, Fido_le_muet said:

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b*stard! That was my choice lol

I can't decide between 3, I'm gonna go foooooooooor a bridge too far. 

 

[LimeGreenLegend 4,330]

  On 4/30/2020 at 6:37 PM, CatManDoza said:

b*stard! That was my choice lol

I can't decide between 3, I'm gonna go foooooooooor a bridge too far. 

 

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The Longest Day and A Bridge too Far are both based on books by the same author, and both films star Sean Connery.  Both are also excellent.

[djw180 7,099]

It has to be A Bridge Too Far from me as well - for me one of the greatest films ever made.

Edited April 30, 2020 by djw180

[djw180 7,099]

  On 4/30/2020 at 6:40 PM, LimeGreenLegend said:

The Longest Day and A Bridge too Far are both based on books by the same author, and both films star Sean Connery.  Both are also excellent.

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I never knew Cornelius Ryan wrote the book for The Longest Day as well. I may have get it. I've read his The Bridge Too Far book a couple of times.

Edited April 30, 2020 by djw180

[LimeGreenLegend 4,330]

  On 4/30/2020 at 6:49 PM, djw180 said:

I never know Cornelius Ryan wrote the book for that as well. I may have get it. I read his The Bridge Too Far book a couple of times.

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He has another famous WW2 book called The Last Battle, about the battle of Berlin.  I don't think that's been made into a film.

[CatManDoza 3,474]

  On 4/30/2020 at 6:40 PM, LimeGreenLegend said:

  Both are also excellent.

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Correct

[Squirrel 5,180]

I do love a Bridge Too Far. Could definitely watch that again. 
 

I won’t add a third nomination for it though. I’m going to go for a film that does have personal meaning to myself as my Grandad was one of those involved in the actual battle the film commemorates.

Christopher Nolans Dunkirk. 

[JuniorChubb 3,360]

I’ll just wait for @doubleg213...