Guns of Navarone watchalong Thursday 18th 9pm GMT

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    "I'm watching" Suicide squad" on TV, a movie a about The Shetland Gang with mostly real SOE agents playing. themselves. It's a lot like the boat part of Guns of Navarone!
  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent
    Perhaps after Where Eagles Dare and Force 10, we should continue the Alistair Maclean theme with Ice Station Zebra?

    I watched When Eight Bells Toll yesterday (which is available on YouTube) which very much has a sort of alternate Bond feel, with Anthony Hopkins in the lead. It's not amazing (certainly no Eagles Dare) but pretty decent fun for a Sunday afternoon.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    emtiem wrote:
    I watched When Eight Bells Toll yesterday (which is available on YouTube) which very much has a sort of alternate Bond feel, with Anthony Hopkins in the lead. It's not amazing (certainly no Eagles Dare) but pretty decent fun for a Sunday afternoon.

    Haven't seen it for years- I'll have to watch it again.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Candidate for a watchalong?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    It's been many years since I've seen 'When Eight Bells Toll' and it would be fun to do a watchalong of a young Anthony Hopkins playing an action man.

    I've been stocking up, a bit, on my Maclean reading.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    Is there an 80's version of this? "Raiders of the lost ring" , perhaps? :D
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Shatner as Sam? Didn't see that one coming.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    I still say John Hurt for Legolas. Don't think of the older man, think of how he looked in the 60s.

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    Quinn for Gimli is a masterstroke. Perfect choice!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    edited February 2021
    "I don't want to play your stupid game - I want to play MY game and everyone else should join me!"
    Based on this mature consept, here is the 80s LOTR, or

    Raiders of the lost ring

    Frodo - Michael J. Fox or Ian Holm
    Gandalf - Sean Connery
    Saruman - Max von Sydow
    Legolas - Jonny Depp
    Aragorn - Daniel Day Lewis or Liam Neeson
    Galadriel - Michelle Pfeiffer
    Boromir - Ruther Hauer
    Gimli - Kurt Russel
    Arwen - Emmanuelle Beart
    Gollum - Ben Kingley
    Grima Wormtongue - Joe Pesci or Christopher Walken
    Faramir - Kevin Costner
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    That would be fun too, but mostly fun and almost certainly not good. I think my version could potentially be pretty good.
    I would really like to see Kurt Russel's Gimli and especially Jonny Depp's Legolas :D
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