tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post3081145464235187815..comments2024-03-18T10:29:46.055+00:00Comments on Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff: The Early ShowsKen Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-1733507118884120372015-11-07T11:46:31.832+00:002015-11-07T11:46:31.832+00:00Good choice of movies Ken, D. A. F was on tv last ...Good choice of movies Ken, D. A. F was on tv last friday, re Enter the Dragon, you<br />can get double dvdwith all violence restored, including the bit where O'Harra ' <br />Lee's real life bodyguard Bob Wall, attacks with broken bottles, Lee was injured<br />in the scene, halting filming for a few days.<br /><br />There is a certain pleasure in watching a terrible movie with your mates, you can all compete with put downs or 'slaggin' the movie onscreen, sort of creativity...<br />You may remember in St Johns on Marcellus day, can't remember if he was a Saint<br />or just a 'Blessed' , we all got 5 boiled sweets and a trip to the matinee<br />On the four years we were at St Johns, I remember they showed the same movie twice.<br />Konga, a 'King Kong ' ripoff starring later Batman Butler, Michael Gough' absolutely<br />terrible movie, but proving your theory true I still remember it fondly, it's still regularly repeated on 'The Horror Channel, not quite the same tho when your not surrounded by a hundred or so unhappy under 12's and a few of us budding film buffs <br />Hope you're keeping well Ken <br />GH <br />seoirse mac enrinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-26881825843393707482015-11-07T11:26:23.583+00:002015-11-07T11:26:23.583+00:00The pictures were a big part of my childhood too, ...The pictures were a big part of my childhood too, Ken. I hardly ever go nowadays and it’s not just because I have a decent-sized flat screen TV in my living room. The magic’s gone. The last time I went to see a film—Star Trek Into Darkness if I’m not mistaken—I went on my own and I was either the only one in the place or maybe there were a couple of others. (I’m pretty sure I was alone.) And that was sad. Now I’m not exactly a gregarious individual or even that sociable but there’s definitely something social about the pictures. And especially the matinees from my childhood; they were events. Nowadays I want to sit there in silence and enjoy the spectacle but when you’re a kid you’re looking for something more interactive. And as we couldn’t interact with the screen we interacted with each other. I have a huge amount of respect for the manager of our local cinema because a roomful of rowdy sugar-fuelled kids cannot have been easy to control but it was his empire and he was king (er… emperor). <br /><br />I’ve seen all the films on your list at the pictures apart from Enter the Dragon. Not one hundred percent sure I’ve actually seen it at all. Never been a big fan of martial arts films. My highlights would include The Jungle Book (1967), Planet of the Apes (1968), Oliver! (1968) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) which I liked or maybe it was Diana Rigg I liked. (Here’s an oddity I’d never heard of before, her 1973 series for NBC; Mary Tyler Moore it is not.) Looking at the list of films released in the mid-to-late sixties and early seventies I’m surprised the see the number I can’t remember going to see at the pictures but the number I have seen (whether on the big or small screen) is impressive. I’m sure if I looked at lists of films released this decade I’ll hardly have seen any apart from most science fiction films; that tends to be my go-to genre these days. <br />Jim Murdochhttp://jim-murdoch.blogspot.ie/noreply@blogger.com