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One of my classic DVD's I watch once a year is "Das Boot". That is easily the BEST submarine movie ever.

In the last 5 or 10 years they made a series loosely based on the movie. It was awful. Most of the series takes place on land. ON LAND! WTF?! I suffered through the sex, sabotage, and barely any submarine scenes in the first season and said, "No more!" I don't think they made a season 2 either. It must have gotten terrible reviews.
 
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67_LS1 said:
We still have the Xfinity DVR box in our family room where we watch most of our TV but switched to streaming (Roku sticks) in our bedroom. We’re experimenting with streaming and I can say already that streaming doesn't offer near the user interface as Xfinity. I’m not sure my wife is going to ever be able to grasp all the steps required to switch between the different streaming services required to just watch basic TV. Our plan is to drop cable (in two years when they try to jack our rates again) all together if we can get all of our favorite TV without hassle.
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I agree 100%. The experience is different and it is a change from the cable norm.
The wife and I did the same, streamed only for a month before the switch to see how it went.
We decided there were some cable channels we wanted so we tried YouTube TV. YouTube TV has all the channels that we wanted. We are very happy with the switch and the wife caught on to the differences, which I thought might not have worked but it did.
We used Frontier for internet and they had a special price for YouTube TV. We saved over a hundred bucks a month for the same services.
Take a look at the cable bill close up, we had a hurricane catastrophe fee, local channel fee, box rental per tv, HD service for the boxes when everything is HD anyways. Junk fees that never stop.
 
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catzodellamarina said:
One of my classic DVD's I watch once a year is "Das Boot". That is easily the BEST submarine movie ever.

In the last 5 or 10 years they made a series loosely based on the movie. It was awful. Most of the series takes place on land. ON LAND! WTF?! I suffered through the sex, sabotage, and barely any submarine scenes in the first season and said, "No more!" I don't think they made a season 2 either. It must have gotten terrible reviews.
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I do like the old war movies but lately I have been watching a lot of war documentaries with real footage of real heros.
I do like the Band of Brothers series.
Gunsmoke is one my favorite old shows. Vanishing Point, the original Gone in 60 seconds and of course Bullitt are some of my favorite car shows.
 
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Older war movies are the best. Tora Tora Tora, Midway (original), 30 Seconds over Tokyo, Run Silent Run deep, Sink the Bismark, Band of Brothers are some of my favorites. Das boot is great, just bought the Das Boot mini series which is basically the movie with alot of extra footage and is around 6 hours long but is fantastic! Wife bought me the movie Downfall for christmas which is newer but has become one of my favorite war movies. Favorite car movies are Vanishing Point, original Gone in 60 seconds, Bullit, Smokey and the Bandit, Leman, Ford vs Ferrari. Just couldn't ever get into the Fast and the Furious movies.
 
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Have saved in my list on some streaming service "Eat My Dust" and "Original Gone in 60 Sec". Was wanting "Corvette Summer" too but can't find it available. I just watched the classic "Battle of the Bulge" a couple weeks ago. Next is another movie I own: "A Bridge Too Far". One of my all time favs is "The Eagle Has Landed". When my dad was in the Navy, I saw it (free) at the base theater probably 10 times. I also saw Led Zeppelin "The Song Remains the Same" 13X. No wonder I grew up to be a guitarist in a rock band.
 
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67_LS1 said:
We just delt with Comcast/Xfinity yesterday. After our two year deal was over they raised the rates. We went in saying we wanted to drop everything except internet and we’re going to stream only. They dropped $75 over our existing plan just like that to keep us from streaming only. So two more years with them anyway.
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I think if more people went that way they might re-consider their price gouging ways. I have a neighbor who stays with comcast till they raise the rates and won't concede any longer then switches back to verizon until they do the same.
So its like 3+ years and then 3+ years with the other.
 
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catzodellamarina said:
so, due to the snow,I had to watch "Battle of the Bulge" with Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Charles Bronson. These movies are so much better than the cheap made, newer CGI war movies that look like SciFi Channel /Sharknado quality.
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That's a great movie and follows what actually happened pretty closely although it gets some of its facts hollywooded up but its a movie not a documentary so we have to put up with some of that stuff.

www.imdb.com

WW2 Movies in Chronological Order

My favorites WW2 movies in order when they took place
www.imdb.com www.imdb.com

Here's a great list I didn't know I could look up
 
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Made a choice last night between two movies I had never seen: a John Wayne movie and a car movie.
I chose the car movie. Boy was I wrong.
The movie was "Roadhouse 66". A good guys vs bad guys theme with Willem Dafoe and Judge Reinhold. Featured cool classic cars (included a Chevelle and an El Camino) but other than that, pretty disappointing. Don't bother with it.

Tonight its John Wayne or maybe A Bridge Too Far.
 
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