Quote of the Day

[jeriendhal]

Torah! Torah! Torah! (1970) The heartrending story of three Hawaiian Hasidic Hebrew boys whose talmudic studies are interrupted by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. We follow the Jaunty Jews as they form their own kosher unit of the Marines and battle their way from island to island (but never on Shabat!) on their way to a showdown over Tokyo Bay, where … wait a minute. That was a typo up there. Sorry. Let’s start over …

-John Varley, in a review of Tora! Tora! Tora!, which has a slightly different plot...

Note: I'm slightly weirded out that james_nicoll watches this as a Christmas movie. But then again I always watch Gettysburg every 4th of July.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Uh, is the unnamed user supposed to be me? I watch it in December because the attack occurred on December 7th.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Yes, let me correct that. (always, always always get it wrong the first time.)

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Gettysburg is usually a Memorial Day movie at my house.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Would it make you feel better if I explained that Threads is one of my comfort movies?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

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No, not really, no.