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HeartoftheNight
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 Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject: question about names of old movies |
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Okay, umm, I was wondering if anyone knew these names to some old movies. I know a little about them and hopefully that's enough.
1) One is this really old movie, black and white I'm pretty sure. Its about this guy that gets his arms and legs blown off, blind, deaf, can't talk. I've heard mentions of it in several places but never caught the name. Clips were alse featured in a Metallica video, I believe.
2) This other one is still old, but has color. Umm, these scientists/doctors get shrunk to miniscule size in a sub and then injected into this dudes bloodstream. They have to go, like, kill this tumor in the guys brain I think. Anyhow, they come out of his eye in a tear drop, or something like that. Clips were featured in a movie about some of doctor stuff, not sure what, hasn't played for a while.
I know its not much to go on, but if anyone has ANY idea, please, pretty please, with banana split on top, tell me? Make it a douple banana split with extra chocolate and nuts. With a side of fudge sunday.
Another thing, I know this is way off topic, but does anyone know of a good book of Irish myths and legends, and history as well? Same in Scottish?
Anyhow, ta
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure about one.
Two sounds like Fantastic Voyage. I think Raquel Welch was in the original. There was a remake with Dennis Quaid in the 80's.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Haleth wrote: | I'm not sure about one.
Two sounds like Fantastic Voyage. |
Yup: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060397
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Eruanna
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject: Movie |
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The first movie, I think, seems like "Johnny Got His Gun."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/
I am not a film expert, but that is what pops into my head--when it is not crowded with scantily-clad elves...that is. 
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Are you looking for a book to buy for reference on Scottish / Irish folklore or do you need a famoous one to 'name' if you get me?
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Yeah, it's "Johnny Got His Gun". I don't think it's really that old (but that might be just my age ), they happened to film it in black and white. The Metallica song "One" is based on it ...
"My land has taken my sight, taken my speech, taken my hearing, taken my arms, taken my legs, taken my soul ... left me alive in Hell."
Or something like that ... the worst part is that "Johnny" is based on a true story. Everytime I hear this song, I can't help but shiver. It's raw.
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| Thuriniel wrote: | Yeah, it's "Johnny Got His Gun". I don't think it's really that old (but that might be just my age ), they happened to film it in black and white. The Metallica song "One" is based on it ...
"My land has taken my sight, taken my speech, taken my hearing, taken my arms, taken my legs, taken my soul ... left me alive in Hell."
Or something like that ... the worst part is that "Johnny" is based on a true story. Everytime I hear this song, I can't help but shiver. It's raw. |
"Johnny Got His Gun" was made in 1971. To find out more about it you can follow this link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/
When Metallica did the song "One" and then the video. I have to say it scared the snot out of me. It's one of those videos that once you watch it, it will never leave your mind. |
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You guys should read some of the conversations on imbd about Johnny got his Gun, very informative. Don't think I will be watching it, Saving Private Ryan was depressing enough. I gathered from the converstions on imbd that the book that the movie was based on was based on a real life WWI soldier. He lived for 15 years after being wounded... 15 years, no sight , no hearing, no voice, no smell, no arms, no legs...
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This should give you an idea of what the movie's like, it was horrifying.
Ican’t remember anything
Can’t tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel a scream
This terrible silence stops me
Now that the war is through with me
I’m waking up I can not see
That there is not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god,wake me
Back in the womb it’s much too real
In pumps the life that I must feel
But can’t look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I’ll live
Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god,wake me
Now the world is gone I’m just one
Oh god,help me hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God help me
Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell
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HeartoftheNight
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thanks, everyone for the feedback. I've been wondering about those two movies for ages. My whole family had the names on the tips of their tongues, but no one could ever quite name them.
And to the question that SpaceWeavil, (I believe) I need a ah book to read about the Irish/Scottish folklore and history. I've been surfin' around on the internet, but its so hard to find out if they're any good or not. I want something that isn't too ... dry.
Anywho, once again, thanks everyone. 
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Eruanna
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject: Celtic lore... |
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| HeartoftheNight wrote: | thanks, everyone for the feedback. I've been wondering about those two movies for ages. My whole family had the names on the tips of their tongues, but no one could ever quite name them.
And to the question that SpaceWeavil, (I believe) I need a ah book to read about the Irish/Scottish folklore and history. I've been surfin' around on the internet, but its so hard to find out if they're any good or not. I want something that isn't too ... dry.
Anywho, once again, thanks everyone. |
http://www.shee-eire.com/Sheehome.htm
The Sidh Eire site is a good site to have fun searching Celtic myths. Lots of pre-Christian stuff. I like the tale of Aeofe the Warrior Maid! (Me and my warrior maids...Dernie...I love ya...)
Go to the menu on the left and look at myths. They even have the fairy folk. I tend to group the fairy folk with the elves (gush!!)
It is worth a look, too.
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SpaceWeavil
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| HeartoftheNight wrote: | thanks, everyone for the feedback. I've been wondering about those two movies for ages. My whole family had the names on the tips of their tongues, but no one could ever quite name them.
And to the question that SpaceWeavil, (I believe) I need a ah book to read about the Irish/Scottish folklore and history. I've been surfin' around on the internet, but its so hard to find out if they're any good or not. I want something that isn't too ... dry.
Anywho, once again, thanks everyone. |
If you want one not only based on Irish mythology (which most of them are) the ones I tend to use are Celtic Myth & Legend by Mike Dixon-Kennedy, and European Myth & Legend by the same author (he also has written an Arthurian one, which is equally good. They're more like encylopaedias than just straightforward stories but they have a lot more obscure stories and characters than the standard books, and they're not at all dry, unlike a lot of the Victorian books on the subject.
I would expect you should get them on Amazon, and they should be fairly cheap, since I got them from a bookshop on Holloway Road for less than a fiver each.
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the first time i ever saw the One video it was at about...4 in the morning.....and i was watching The Rock Show w/ Scott Ian from Anthrax....i sat up and watched it b/c i was just getting into Metallica then...
I didn't go to sleep for an hour after i saw it. |
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