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One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:26 pm
by Lord Jim
(Daisy or RB will get this in a heartbeat...)
A couple of days ago, we had occasion to re-watch one of my favorites of the high production quality, hour long version
Dr. Who episodes:
"
Victory of the Daleks"
The TARDIS takes The Doctor and Amy to war-torn Britain in the middle of World War Two. Not only do they meet Winston Churchill himself, but the Doctor comes face to face once again with his greatest enemy of all.
In this episode the code names "Broad Sword" and "Danny Boy" are used....
For $10,000 dollars and
the car...
From
which late 60s era WW II movie were those two code names lifted?
(And as always, no Googling)
Re: One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:57 am
by Daisy
I love that episode... boy am I missing The Ponds already!
Bracewell's Ironsides ... I'm sure there is nothing more terrifying than being offered a cup of tea by a Dalek.
And of course the reference, without googling, I think was from Where Eagles Dare.
Re: One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 2:55 pm
by Lord Jim
I think was from Where Eagles Dare.
Right-o Daze...
One of my all time favorite WW II flicks...one plot twist after another...and of course, the essential element for any good WW II film... lots of machine-gunned Nazis...(Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood...who would have thought
they would make a great team?)
As Clint once wryly observed about the flick:
“Richard Burton and I killed so many Nazis in two hours, it made me wonder why the war took so long.”
- Clint Eastwood
unfortunately, I was fibbing about the 10K and the car....
Re: One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:49 pm
by Daisy
unfortunately, I was fibbing about the 10K and the car....
Tough ... I'm sending in the bailiffs!
Re: One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:09 pm
by Gob
Daisy wrote:I love that episode... boy am I missing The Ponds already!
The ponds?
Re: One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:11 pm
by Daisy
Amy Pond and Rory Williams.
Tut ... Don't you know anything Gob
Re: One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:36 pm
by Gob
Apparently not, as I'm none the fucking wiser.
Re: One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:01 pm
by Sean
This is what you've been missing Gob...
Re: One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:14 pm
by Gob
Ooh a tasty ginge, nice!
Re: One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:25 pm
by Lord Jim
I'm definitely an Amy fan,(I'm sorry Karen Gillian decided to leave the show; I thought that she and Smith had great chemistry) but as far as Rory is concerned, he always just seemed like a third wheel to me...
I don't think the show would have lost much if they had killed him off, or dropped him in a parallel universe....
Re: One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:32 pm
by Daisy
They tried that, several times... that was the running joke. He was like Southpark's Kenny ... even the weeping angels just let him live to death.
FWIW I loved Rory a lot. He grounded Amy and made The Doctor think about what he was doing.
Big year this year with the 50th Anniversary series, I'm excited for it!