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Yep, agree... and similarly, as Douglas Bader was able to successfully pilot fighter planes having had both of his legs amputated, there is no excuse for any other multiple amputee not to do the same. Edit.... and it seems we now do have an excuse as the Saints are trailing by 5 goals (and on further investigation, I have learned that there are no multiple amputees currently flying missions anywhere).

Metropolis is excellent. Amelie I like a lot, but you should check out Jeunet's more recent efforts, MicMacs and The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet. They are very very good, particularly the latter.

I was going to post something similar NB! I remember getting that somewhere in SE Asia (the box was the same but with green trim). The reason I picked it up was because the name had just recently changed and clearly on the label it had, as a nod to political correctness "Darkie is now Darlie".

You mean these (which I mentioned above)?

In fact it was the name of a candy cigarette... there were Fags and Big Boss Cigars.

I went to school with a guy name Pizzey who had a really bad stutter... wonder if they were related.

Hard to get the head around, but definitely interesting in the mood they create... I like him more for Michael Nyman's soundtracks. Belly of an Architect, Draughtmans Contract and A Zed and Two Noughts were others that were rather inaccessible for me.

Yes, when I was going (1972) they ran the Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen as a series - showing one episode before the main feature each week. It was fantastic.

Among the films that left me with enduring impressions from the 60's and 70's were: Wages of Fear Juliet of the Spirits 8 1/2 La Grande Bouffe Lawrence of Arabia Mutiny on the Bounty (Marlon Brando) How the West Was Won A Hard Days Night Forbidden Planet Day the Earth Stood Still Earth vs the Flying Saucers The Wild Bunch Images & Nashville (Altman) ... I was a regular at the Trak Cinema Friday night "Supper shows" back in the early 70's... pre Valhalla, they were showing the best of the non mainstream cinema available at the time.

That just reminded me of something from my dim darl past. I used to do salaries for the repat hospital at Heidelberg back in the 70's and on the list there were the following three names: Hardstaff, Kink and Kong. (I guess you had to be there). Sorry, I just thought I would provide a distraction from the training element in this thread.

Barry Lyndon is one of the most well crafted films ever made... every scene has been carefully composed to resemble a work of art (as in painterly classical art). It is a stunning film. Dr Strangelove is one of the best anti-war films ever made - I saw both it and the original Fail Safe within months of each other when they first were released which really messed with my head at the time. And then we have A Clockwork Orange, Lolita (depressing) and The Shining... all brilliant films. In my opinion, the only films coming out of the UK or USA that came close to them at the time were both made by the same director Lindsay Anderson... "If" and "O Lucky Man".

Why on earth did you do that?? I watched Box Trolls last night and have to say I was pleasantly surprised... very stylish and great artwork.

Yes Rob, Steve Cummings (vocalist) and I went to Swinburne together in 1972 and I know Andrew Pendlebury through various other people and parties around Melbourne in the late 70's (not to mention that Andrew's father was the head of the art school at Swinnie when I was there doing Graphic Design). I'll give you a call when I get down there.

One of Steve Martin's better films.

I have the entire Miyazaki catalogue on DVD and BluRay.

Fibular Bells by David Oldfield (former One Nation member and Hanson lover - literally)

Zeffirelli was more your classical director while Polanski could go off on some pretty weird tangents (particularly in the years just after the Manson Family murder of Sharon Tate). Thought he really lost the plot though in his version of Macbeth... give me Kurosawa's Throne of Blood any day of the week.

So we can discount the comment on the MFC Supporters page on Facebook?: "VINEY OUT - Julian De Stoop (Fox Sports News) has reported Jack Viney is out for the next four to six games after scans revealed a small fracture in his leg after the GWS game. A massive blow to the Dees midfield, with Nathan Jones, I hear, also a chance to miss."

Also saw a comment that Nathan Jones is a chance to miss this week (on the MFC Supporters FB page).

The way I see it, WADA is simply waiting to get involved, and if that happens, then withholding a judgement on Dank is not going to help the AFL at all. Karma can be a terrible thing and I get the feeling that the AFL and more particularly Essendon, are going to experience a veritable tsunami of karma.

I agree... mods, can this post please be nailed to the top of this forum?

Not entirely correct... he was "acquired" as a #2 forward at a time when we still had Clark who was always going to be the #1 forward. Unfortunately Clark never got back on the park (for us) and so Dawes became our defacto #1 forward. Now that we have the likes of Garlett and JKH (and even Kent) to pick up the crumbs around the packs and the loose balls in the forward half, and now that Watts is attracting probably the third defender, we probably rely less on Dawes as a classic goal kicking forward, but more on him busting packs to feed those crumbers... let Hogan take the strong contested marks and kick the goals..

I disagree... reading that, it certainly appears that the AFL tribunal are being deliberately obstructive.

GWS I don't mind, Collingwood and Freo may as well have not bothered and I'm not sure what's going on with the Saints jumper... ours and Essendon's are both well designed and I would think meet the brief of representing the ANZACs.

I like that a lot... nicely understated.