Ready Room Movies?? Still Do 'Em??

[brownshoe]

The whole quote....



Where Do We Get Such Men?

“Where do we get such men? They leave this ship and they do their job. Then they must find this speck lost somewhere on the sea. When they find it, they have to land on its pitching deck. Where do we get such men?"

Rear Admiral George Tarrant in “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”

Plus one from me too. I've got the movie on disk, I'm gonna watch it tonight while I eat supper. (Mickey Rooney ain't bad in the movie either.)

Steve

 

[tomcatfan]

If you can't quote the Admirals speech at the end of Bridges at Toko Ri you have no love of Naval Air.

Never heard of the movie until this thread, actually bought it after reading it is a must for naval aviation, I hope to be a naval aviator myself(working on OCS package right now).

 

[Blutonski816]

Never heard of the movie until this thread, actually bought it after reading it is a must for naval aviation, I hope to be a naval aviator myself(working on OCS package right now).

Go and watch it... I don't care how you do it... buy it online, rent it, get it from a library (How I got it the first time I saw it)... just get your hands on a copy and watch it....

Note to self: get a copy of my own instead of bumming the one from the library every few weeks...

 

[tomcatfan]

Go and watch it... I don't care how you do it... buy it online, rent it, get it from a library (How I got it the first time I saw it)... just get your hands on a copy and watch it....

Note to self: get a copy of my own instead of bumming the one from the library every few weeks...

ordered a copy from amazon it'll be here next week, only $10, sweet deal if you ask me

 

[bluto]

Winter CAX, bitter cold, company grade in our own K-span. As diligent officers, we "procured" an extra one gun prior to pack up, complete with surround sound, projector screen and dedicated computer. Wired the whole thing to the ceiling. The PCO was designated months in advance and performed his duties in a truely exemplary manner, finding the classics as well as the more obscure works. 24/7 porn on either the big screen or an ancillary computer if showing an actual movie. Three kerosene heaters, appropriately fueled with procured jet fuel each evening, kept that place glowing white hot on the FLIR. Spare crates, wood built into a fully stocked bar, which kept the fire marshals off our backs for the two months we were there. Packed house every night. Good times.

 

[Catmando]

Either see the movie, or read Michener's great book.

It is a "must see/read" for anyone interested in Naval Aviation.

 

[hummole]

Just wondering if the current generation still makes a big deal of the evening "Roll 'em" in the Ready Room, or if that's sort of died off due to the myriad choices running on ship's TV around the clock, DVD players in staterooms, etc.

"Why, back in MY day" (sound of coughing and bones creaking) the Roll 'em was the social highlight of the deployment day. I was designated "Movie Officer" for my first whole cruise on CORAL SEA (1973). This was in the day of 16mm film and projectors and all that could go wrong with them (wrong reel, out of focus, burned out bulb, too much leader, SPAGHETTI!, not ready to roll when the Skipper's butt hit his chair, lights not going out simultaneous with projector going ON, etc., etc.). And rules abounded:
1. No one could make shadow puppets on, or say anything rude about "the CO's girl" (whoever he designated).
2. "XO's girl" was fair game for the worst kind of puerile behavior and comments...
3. Movies graded on a weighted system regarding how many of the following showed up and to what extent: body counts (AKA the mort count), T&A, trains, horses, bow ties, explosions, visible microphones in the scene, gladiators, yadda yadda yadda.

"Those were the days, my friend...we thought they'd never end..."

V/R, Spike (shadow puppeteer extraordinaire...)

You forgot how important it was to coordinate over the "Bitch Box" as was the case many times as you tried to coordinate running back and forth from RR1 to RR8 becuz you were showing the same movie since the one you got sucked because you were getting bitched out by the XO when the movie locker opened and you got stuck with "love story" again and you needed Spartacus or Used Cars, or Animal House. I bet 3/4 of the guys on deployment right now don't even know what a "Bitch Box" is....."All Ready Room Cag Ops!" "Ready one, Ready two, Ready......."

 

[Uncle Fester]

Naw. We gots walkie-talkies now. Harder to escape.

 

[zipmartin]

Go and watch it... I don't care how you do it... buy it online, rent it, get it from a library (How I got it the first time I saw it)... just get your hands on a copy and watch it....

Note to self: get a copy of my own instead of bumming the one from the library every few weeks...

Posted this on another thread awhile back but worth repeating. After a couple of cruises and then being in K-town instructing, "Bridges" came on TBS one Saturday afternoon ('82-'83?). My oldest son, who is now 29 with kids of his own, crawled up on my lap and watched it with me. Couldn't believe he stayed focused that long. He was about 4-5. At the end of the movie he said to me, "Daddy, I don't want you to fly off the boat NOOO MORE! I want you to fly off the BIG SIDEWALK!" Brought tears to my eyes. I now own it on DVD.