Scranlad

Favorite films

  • Jason and the Argonauts
  • Conan the Barbarian
  • The Bounty
  • Zorba the Greek

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  • The Last Waltz

    ★★★★★

  • Apocalypse Now

    ★★★★★

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    ★★★★★

  • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

    ★★★★★

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The Last Waltz

1978

★★★★★ Rewatched

The best alternative to watching eurovision.

Apocalypse Now

1979

★★★★★ Rewatched

Read the book 'Heart of Darkness' recently, ivory traders going down the Congo River. Great read, and when you read it with the atmosphere of this film in mind even better. Journeying down a river, the deeper the wilder it gets and the more unnatural and mad. The book started by talking of the Romans venturing down the Thames and encountering just that with the alien celtic tribes people. Winding rivers and winding minds. That is my dream, that is my nightmare.

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All Quiet on the Western Front

2022

★★★★ Watched

My great great Uncle William Albert Jones was shot in the head at Arras on Easter Monday 1917, there was an article on him in the 'Shropshire Star', it includes a haunting photograph of him stood outside the shop he worked at, in front of a recruitment poster. Possibly the one that made him sign up to the KSLI in 1915. He was only 21. His brother tried to get out the war by cutting his hand with his bayonet,…

Escape from Alcatraz

1979

★★★★½ Watched

Years ago I found out Clint Eastwood was my 10th cousin once removed. My Grandad once told me how he beat someone up in the Merchant Navy showers, in this film, Eastwood does the same. Definitive proof we are kinsmen! It must run in the family. If anyone could escape Alcatraz, it was my cousin Clint.