What was the big movie from your era called ? and what was your favourite movie of all time....?
Mine was TOP GUN and my favourite of all time was Electric Dreams...
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mine was the sound of music,had to endure that twat about 20 xtimes,just to sit next to the next girl you wanted to [hold hands with]great way to get the gilrs soppy,ha ha superkalifractiouse and all that,chitty chitty bang bang was cool too,in my pondock ek se,naughty but good x
Hi Bobby,
So glad the sound of music was your best memory from O/M as it was mine too, think we knew every word of every song and the words to every scene by the time the film left......it's a film ive seen so many times over the years....cause it also brought back the memories of where i was when i first saw it O/M. i even went to austria a few years back to see the sound of music for myself.......but the reality didnt have the O/M magic.....when i went over to cape town last year i made a cd of all the old 1966 song as thats the last time nicolene verona sandy john dy and i had been friends in o/m and gave them a copy each ......the last song i put on there was ....so long farewell...from the sound of music ...they all thought it very fitting....and it brings tears to my eyes everytime i play it....stil...ha ha.
Also remember Mary Poppins coming there too.....such memories.......still 2 of my favorite films.....
will e mail tonight bobby.
xx
I think I'd have to say JAWS.
It is the movie that I have full memory off seeing at the old movie house, I got ticket in the third row from the front and it was very scary, I must have just been old enough to see it as it was age restricted. I have watched it again and again and still see myself hiding behaind my hands in the cinema.
I don't know whether I can remember a block-buster as such, but I do remember such films as "Pollyanna" and "The Parent Trap" with Hayley Mills, there was a very popular film which involved SA called "Sammy's going South" about a little boy (seemed big to me at the time!) who walked from Cairo to Cape Town to rejoin his family. But mainly Cowboy and Indian films. My favourite actor was Richard Widmark - still is today - although he is now in his 90's!!
We also had a lot of Doris Day and James Garner/Rock Hudson films.
For me, movie of my era has to be E'Lollipop - cried snot and trane right the way thru! Watched it again on TV about a year ago and still brought a lump to my throat.
Oops, forgot fav of all time - Shawshank Redemption - have seen it about 10 times and can watch it another 10 times - bugs me at the best of times, but when it comes to this movie i thank SABC for repeats - my ultimate actor Morgan Freeman takes one of the lead roles.
I remember going to the cinema every Saturday afternoon (was it that often?), and always used to love the Westerns. There was always a great cheer at the end when the good guys came. As we all spilled out into the afternoon sun the cowboys and indians would carry on in the the evening running back to 7th avenue or first avenue, depending where the parents were/
Gary
I remember glancing at the posters from the other side of the road and seeing "DIE HARD" - Bruce Willis movie. Don't know what the hell I was thinking of but thought it was Afrikaans. Told my mom wasn't going to the cinema because it was an afrikaans movie. how dum was i - still am..................
Gary, did'nt we first check in the Sportsman (that was closed) or the Hexen Kessel before heading home just in case our parents had lined the drinks up for the afternoon seeing as the pub was closed?
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er what is exactly "your era " 0-10 ; 10- 16
Quote from: Michael Alexander on September 21, 2007, 06:00:28 PM
What was the big movie from your era called ? and what was your favourite movie of all time....?
Mine was TOP GUN and my favourite of all time was Electric Dreams...
;D
Can't remember much re the movies we saw there as it was such a long time ago?
However............. I do remember being driven from a party in a van by Jimmy Martin the carpenter......... a big bloke called Lou? was with us................. and Lou and I became the first streakers in South West Africa!
Timed to perfection........we run past the cinema bare bollocky naked ...........just as the movie finished and the hordes let out.
My dad and two other blokes streaked through Casey's one friday night to protest the bar hours being changed, The idea was for one chap to drive the car, they would jump out the car run through the swing doors naked, run through to the Snooker room and out that door and hop back into the car that should be at the right position by then, only thing was Jan Mathee got wind of the operation and locked the snooker room door...so naked they had to run back out through the front doors, by this time their getaway car was way down the road, and to make matters worst the Cinema was coming out. A lot of disgruntled people got to see the streakers. The Next Morning, Big Dirk and a few SWAP members came to pay my dad a visit, he got off with a fine to a charity of his choice........ ;D
I'll ask him the names...
Cant remember what my favorite movie was or what I had actually seen, to busy elsewhere like under the seats robbing sweets,,,well, Greece, was not my favorite but, the only one I can remember. I kept singing the theme song all the way home. My favorite movie, but not from Omund cini, is Enemy of the State with Will Smith I know it's old like but I STILL enjoy it. And, Born Identity, with Matt Damon, boy what a man...
Matt Damon is almost as good looking as me ! Ahem! ;D
I think I need to get my eyes checked. I don't remember marrying a Matt Damon lookalike!
I definitly remember my all time favorite
Do you also remember the film by Jamie Uis " Beautifull People "
At the end of the film the audience stood up and gave ovations
The end was with the music of the Nutcracker Suite, i never forget.....
george i too remember that film,do you have a copy,i would willingly pay for a copy of that,all about the mad anticts of the animals,please get in touch if you have a copy,kind reguars,bobby smith
I tend to agree with Darryl on this one, depends which Era one was feeling, if I recall correctly those backseats of the "bioskope" had there own "Era"! ;D
@ Bobby Smith
If it comes in TV and i am here i try to record it
About 25 years ago i made a recording on a Beta Recorder ( long time ago now scrapped) then i copied to VHS, quality is very bad since i had not PC that time to digitalize. Lots of my Videos have faded. Now DVD is the answer, but they sometimes dont last
Mike, I think the choice of charity once again would have been Casey's! Sh..t, this stuff makes me laugh.
I wonder what bloody fine my dad would have given himself if someone had come to lay a charge against him for his more than soft snoring (after a lekker kuier with Jan Matthee at the pup) during The Hindenburg. He only woke up at the end of the movie during the final scenes where the air-ship and a whole lot of people were on fire. Gave a huge fart - made all the people around us laugh - then said: "Ag, dit was nou 'n kak fliek!"
During Dr. Shivago he also caused a moerse unpopular pole for himself when he started handing out tissues to all the crying tannies around him. I know for a fact that tannie Haaspaai (Hilda) Laubscher, tannie Linda Coetzee (rooi Andries's wife who was a nurse at the hospital), and my mom gave him a good uitkak after that - they reckoned he was seriously not funny and unsensitive.
Ja, ou big Dirk was one of a kind - miss the old man a lot - he passed away in May 1999.
Come to think of it - did'nt Hugo van Rooyen open a "drive-in" in somewhere in 1983 when he drove his bakkie through the wall of the flieksaal? Ask Adriaan about it - I'm sure he will remember it too.
I remember the black and white Tarzan movies that used to show at the Saturday matinees. The boys used to run out of the movie doing their best Tarzan cries!!
Remember before every movie they used to show a serial. In my time it was SHAZAM! After every Saturday matinee we used to go home and re-enact it with the Laubschers. There was always a fight over who would be SHAZAM. It was usually Kevin and he would climb on the fence, make-believe he was prssing a button on his belt and try to fly off the fence. The Laubschers also taught me to jump off the roof of the house with an umbrella. Those were the days......
Mike I remember the streaking incident, it was the talk of the town. Does anyone remember this weird spanish guy who had this hairy chest and used to wear his shirt open to the buckle and posed on the round-about outside caseys?
On the Kannie Worrie Farewell video , I noticed A guy that had a moustache and wore his shirt open past the halfway mark on his chest, looked like he was outta place and should have been in Corsica or somewhere else...
shave
You have all mentioned many films I remember from my time. Western, Beautiful People, Jaws and son on. Remember seeing many movies with the "Rat PacK", James Dean, Jerry Lewis, cheap eastern movies and last but not least Robert Redford and Paul Newman in "The Clou". I think it's the name in English. It's been on German tv often enough now. Butch Casidy and Sundance Kid was a restrictid movie I only saw on German tv in the 80s. Jody Foster in Bugsy Malone and of course John Travolta in Greace ect.
We always dreamed of going to the evening movies, costing more and being restricted.
What I found astounding was, many movies banned in SA or ristricted pg18 or even pg21 you would see uncut on tv here.
Do you still have pg21 in SA? In Germany you are grown-up at the age of 18 and hve all the rights of an adult.
There's still age restrictions in SA, pathetic, I was on leave a few weeks back and wanted to watch a movie with my two girls while mommy was shoppping the mall, even with me, with my kids at 10h00 on a tuesday morning they would'nt let us in to a PG10 movie...... I bring my kids up in a liberal manner, and do not hide the truths in the world from them, I do not allow them to startswearing or being abusive etc, but rather to have an open mind, who are the cinema's to dictate to me what my kids can and can watch... anyone want to debate,
talking of old movies, I just got a copy of Paul Newman and Robert Redford in THE STING on my USB flash and am looking forward to watching that classic again....
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Hi Michael. Maybe the sting is the movie I meant.
Are Michael Moore movies banned in SA?
Georg
No, in fact I think they are encouraged, this part of Africa is not a state of the uSA.....
Watch the movie, WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR! , released by SONY last year... makes you angry...
madashell
I find it strange that we can allow our kids to watch anything on TV, and that is much worse than I've seen at the movies. Reminds me of my "laat lammetjie", he grew up with 3 teenagers so was exposed to all sorts at an early age. One day he asked me what SEX was? I replied that it is when a boy and girl have a smooch. A while passed and one day we were having an Saturday afternoon snooze when he came running down the passage shouting that his older sister was having sex. His father nearly had a heart attack and needless to say, I then had to explain to my son what sex really was. My husband said what would I have done if he had told his teacher that his mom and dad have "sex" every morning and evening when dad goes to the farm and comes home again. Never thought that far. :36_2_35:
Hahahha, :emot19: nice one Florrie, big smile on my face now... :36_2_35:
Mike, thought you might appreciate this one too, plse just excuse the language. My husband is a boer and swears a lot. Jarren (the laat lammetjie) refused to speak Afrikaans until one day when he was six years old, having supper, a fly was bothering him. He said: Huistoe!. I said: Jarren, do you know what you are saying? He said: Yes, I am speaking Afrikaans. I said: Yes, but what does it mean? He said: It means f...off.