Full metal jacket

[Bold Seagull]

"I bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose"

All filmed in and around London....Kubrick blew up half of the old Beckton Gasworks!

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[Woodchip]

You boys have some homework to do.
We'll set it for you, there will be detentions all round for not completing.

Sorry sir. Please forgive me.

 

[Everest]

Sorry sir. Please forgive me.

Wimp

*sticks 2 fingers up to detention*

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

It wasnt filmed anywhere near where the olympic stadium is.

They missed the opportunity of a lifetime by not shooting a remake in Croydon last summer.

 

[albion534]

They missed the opportunity of a lifetime by not shooting a remake in Croydon last summer.

Woulda been applauded worldwide for its heroic director risking his life to enter the depths of hell

 

[Stat Brother]

I'm going to be lynched I never seen the godfather, not sure why, just never taken my fancy

Ditto on both counts.

May be my next Lovefilm pick.

Same here.

I'll also have to admit that I've never seen FMJ all the way through.

Ok chaps a quick scan of the tv guide tells me, you 3 have missed the 2 best/greatest films on terrestrial this week.

So what you're left with is:-
A clockwork Orange - Not to everyone's tastes and in fairness not brilliant.
But it is very much a film film.
You'll remember so many other films, made since that you thought were original and realise ACO did it first, getting banned help the film, no end.

No Country For Old Men - The Coen Brother's have made so many good films, this is one of their very best.
History will put the Coen's on a pedestal, and therefore this film will also be seen in the same light.

 

[Woodchip]

Clockwork Orange is immense.

 

[skipper734]

It wasnt filmed anywhere near where the olympic stadium is.

Ok. ok. Seven or eight Kilometres away. Never let a good story get in the way of the truth.

 

[Stat Brother]

Wimp

*sticks 2 fingers up to detention*

I'm no supply teacher, sonny.
Expect a blackboard rubber to come flying your way.

 

[jakarta]

Probably not the most exciting anecdote but I worked on the Beckton Gasworks site in the late 1990's as it was being demolished and renovated and we had to stop work on a regular (weekly was usual) basis to get rid of unexploded Luftwaffe bombs - some of which were 500Kg!

Obviously a lot of bombs were lobbed that way during the Blitz and I guess they were a fair way below the ground on the whole but if one had gone up in the vicinity I'm sure it would have been adios muchachos for the Cast.....

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I'm going to be lynched I never seen the godfather, not sure why, just never taken my fancy

Same here. Never seen FMJ all the way through either - always catch the middle bit, never the beginning or end.

 

[Stat Brother]

Back on tonight, chaps.
Set your video's.

 

[Woodchip]

Watching it now.

 

[Stat Brother]

Watching it now.

and?

 

[Woodchip]

Not bad. Rate Band of Brothers a lot higher.