Movie Rentals to Un-Bore Yourself

[tfbncc]

I think the 80's was the wrong decade for the release of 1941. If it had come out in the 90's after the Desert Storm, it may have done better. It's still one of my favorite movies.

[Jered]

Picked up 1941 on DVD. Love it.

[Evyl Robot]

The original The Day the Earth Stood Still
Forbidden Planet
Lawrence of Arabia
Seven Samurai
North by Northwest

Heck, there are lots of good ones! It's rainy today, and that always makes me think of the old ones for some reason.

[Greg]

The original The Day the Earth Stood Still
Forbidden Planet
Lawrence of Arabia
Seven Samurai
North by Northwest

Heck, there are lots of good ones! It's rainy today, and that always makes me think of the old ones for some reason.

If we're getting away from 80's comedies, then this thread is going to get out of hand.

[randy]

If we're getting away from 80's comedies, then this thread is going to get out of hand.

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

[workinwifdakids]

If we're getting away from 80's comedies, then this thread is going to get out of hand.

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

From Fred - back when I still loved him.

[Greg]

If we're getting away from 80's comedies, then this thread is going to get out of hand.

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

From Fred - back when I still loved him.

That's from Red October, isn't it?

[Jered]

The original The Day the Earth Stood Still
Forbidden Planet
Lawrence of Arabia
Seven Samurai
North by Northwest

Heck, there are lots of good ones! It's rainy today, and that always makes me think of the old ones for some reason.

If we're getting away from 80's comedies, then this thread is going to get out of hand.

Pray we don't alter it any further.

[308Mike]

Stripes (1981) with Bill Murray and Harold Ramis. If you've been in the military, or been raised around the military culture, this will hit home in a big way.

And if you've been in the Marines, will certainly help you understand WHY the Army is SOOO screwed up (other than the Special Forces/Ranger/Airborne types - who tend MUCH more to be professionals instead of turds marking time and drawing a paycheck instead of unemployment. Which is WHY when called to battle, they complain thinking they only joined to be a warm body, NOT a warrior. You hear things like: "I joined for the college money, NOT to go to WAR!!!"

Take a look at this:

Marine Corps Reporting Increase Of Recruits
Newly Enlisted Marines Reporting To Boot Camp In 6 To 9 Months

POSTED: 10:05 am PDT October 24, 2010
UPDATED: 1:40 pm PDT October 24, 2010

SAN DIEGO -- Thanks to a glut of recruits, newly enlisted Marines are waiting six to nine months to report to boot camp, up from about three months two years ago, it was reported Sunday.

Whether headed to Camp Pendleton or Parris Island, S.C., the Marine Corps is scrambling to absorb all the men and women joining the ranks, the Los Angeles Times reported.

At a recent Pentagon news conference, every branch of military reported meeting enlistment goals. But the Marines are convinced that other factors are also influencing the surge in numbers.

"I want to be part of the best," Justin Zeek, 20, of Springfield, Ore., said when asked why he joined the Marines rather than another service.

Experts agree that when the economy slumps, enlistment rises. Ronald Krebs, a political science professor and military expert at the University of Minnesota, told The Times the economy and the d 1/4winding down of the war in Iraq are the dominant factors in the recruitment uptick.

Krebs also said the Marines "have done a great job of branding themselves as the most proud and distinguished service branch with the greatest esprit de corps."

About 20,000 young men graduate from 12 weeks of boot camp at Camp Pendleton annual. Women are trained separately at Parris Island.

No branch of the military emphasizes its history and heroes as much as the Marine Corps.

At the boot camp processing center in San Diego, recruits are greeted with posters showing a veteran Marine and the caption, "You are part of a storied tradition. Be there for the next chapter."

The next chapter begins with a haircut.

At boot camp, recruits will be deprived of television, the Internet, music, movies, iPods, cellphones, home cooking and romantic companionship.

Zeek waited eight months before getting a slot a boot camp, attending monthly "pool functions" organized by Marines to make sure recruits stay in shape and are not overtaken by regrets or last-minute appeals from apprehensive parents.

At the sessions, recruits do sit-ups, pull-ups, and other exercises, learn about Marine heroes and review Marine terminology.

With a surge of recruits, the Marine Corps can be choosy.

"These are quality kids," Maj. Gen. Robert Milstead, commanding general of Marine Corps Recruiting Command, told The Times. "We can be very selective these days."

It is not uncommon for recruiters to reach their monthly quota within the first few days of the month, said Master Sgt. Alfonsa Hightower Jr., head of the basic recruiter's course at the San Diego base.

"Moral waivers," which allow the Marines to accept recruits with criminal records or other problems, are declining. In fiscal 2007, the Marine Corps accepted 552 recruits with waivers for felony arrests. With three months remaining in the fiscal 2010, just 46 recruits have received such waivers.

"We're not just looking for anyone to fill up spaces," Hightower said. "We are not entertaining a lot of things that we would have five or six years ago."

Moral Waivers are both good and bad. We NEED to make sure we keep people in the ranks who KNOW how to fight, know and UNDERSTAND violence - we're NOT talking about people applying to be Community Organizers or Councilors here. What we REALLY want are WARRIORS/FIGHTERS, not a bunch of pansies, kiss-asses, political wanna'-be's, and political suckheads who are nothing more than leaches gloming onto something much more powerful and important than they are. Nothing but a bunch of parasites.
Thos who are willing to fight are always going to be at the fringe of society, but are useful warriors none-the-less, and we NEED to keep them in our ranks, and some allowances NEED to be made for these reasons.

We can't allow, and do NOT want a military full of metrosexuals, cross-dressers, and transvestites, plus gang-bangers, white-collar swindelers, con-men, and deadbeats.

Warriors know who they are, and perform the same way regardless of circumstances (like honorable men/women), which specific traing CAN bring out of them and demonstrate it to others. We NEED these men and we MUST continue to cultivate them in our military, epecially at a time when much is being done to weed out any and all "criminal elements" when they are at their best during preiods of combat. We NEED these people.

And when peace comes again and there are no more combat assignments (which these folks seem to keep fighting for), we NEED to use them to train the next groups of gung-ho warriors, build the combat mind-set, and keep OUR military top-notch. We NEED and MUST HAVE these people. This is NOT something you can create in a classroom or training similator. We NEED to do whatever we can to maintain these folks and keep them in our ranks.

If we don't, it will surely show up during our next time of combat. We have a LOT to lose by not doing so, and EVERYTHING to gain by taking care of these combat veterans.