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#1 Post by BackInTex » Mon May 04, 2015 7:13 am

you are flipping channels while your daughter is at the kitchen table and not paying attention, having her head down doing something on her laptop. You stop on MGMfilms with an obscure scene of two men in fedoras on a street somewhere in Europe, with some orchestral music in the background. She lifts her head, looks at the TV and says "Hey, The Great Escape! Are you going to leave it there? They are about to die. This is the worst part!"

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#2 Post by Vandal » Mon May 04, 2015 8:01 am

Be thankful you're not fifty shades proud.
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#3 Post by tlynn78 » Mon May 04, 2015 1:14 pm

Vandal wrote:Be thankful you're not fifty shades proud.

LOL.
Awkward family dinners at the Don Johnson/Melanie Griffith homes, I'm thinking...
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#4 Post by elwoodblues » Mon May 04, 2015 1:21 pm

This is an actual conversation I heard in which the name of Steve McQueen came up.

Young person: Who is Steve McQueen?

Older person: He was the one who rode the motorcycle in The Great Escape.

Another young person: What is The Great Escape?

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#5 Post by Pastor Fireball » Mon May 04, 2015 2:26 pm

My oldest sons can recognize the news theme to "The Howard Beale Show" from Network. It's not exactly The Great Escape, but I'm not really into war films. I've watched Patton many times, but that's about it.
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