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Ishilove:
What a family.

Ishilove:
You have successfully dissuaded me from watching 'The Forgotten Kennedy.'

I never knew Kennedy even had an elder brother. It's like the man came, saw and disappeared. And was promptly forgotten.

Depressing.

catherineokezie:
Plz what's the title

UndauntedYOCA:
What's the name of the movie please?

SultanM:
what's the name of the movie?

Haywhymido:
pls, what's the name of that movie?

naptu2:
Young Joe, The Forgotten Kennedy. It's a 1977 movie.

naptu2:
Part 3

Movies

There were some movies that I watched in the 1970s and ‘80s that I hated with every fibre of my being. Most of these movies got you emotionally involved in their lead characters and took you on great emotional highs, only for the lead character to die in very tragic and gut wrenching circumstances. The only excuse for these movies was that most of them were biopics.

That movie called The Buddy Holly Story (1978) was eventually banned from my house and we laid a curse on anyone that would make the mistake of bringing it to our house again. After defeating adversity in the shape of country music, black music and his girlfriend’s aunt and after going through the breakup of his band and overcoming the fear of performing alone and just when the band was about to reunite, the damned movie ended the way it did. Gosh, it was heart-breaking!

Everybody was talking about this upcoming movie called La Bamba in 1987, so I went down to Cosmo and got the movie (we were members of Cosmo and VideoMart in the mid and late 1980s). The movie was wonderful. . . until I saw Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper in it. At that point I knew how the movie would end. At least I had time to prepare my mind for the way it would end. Maybe that’s why I don’t hate the film (it could also be because I love the song).

In 1990 we saw an amazing preview of a movie. We were in the mood for a good action film and this preview was all action. So we sent someone to Glowe and got the movie. It was called La Femme Nikita. O my God, was that movie terrible or what! That movie was incredibly boring. I was already sleeping 30 minutes into it. The movie was subsequently banned in my house.

Then there was “Young Joe, The Forgotten Kennedy (1977). The NTA repeatedly tortured us with this movie in the early 1980s. I couldn’t get over the explosion and I kept asking myself, “What would you do if you know that you are in a plane that’s going to explode and there’s nothing you can do about it and nowhere to run?”

Joseph P. Kennedy Jnr (1915-1944) was the eldest son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Snr. Both of his grandfathers were politicians, as was his father. Joe Jnr attended Harvard College, the London School of Economics and Harvard Law School. Joseph Kennedy Snr was determined that at least one of his children would become the first Catholic president of the United States and so he trained Joe Jnr for the presidency right from when he was a young child (Joe Jnr visited Germany on behalf of his father and spoke highly of Adolf Hitler). The military remains the best place to get the best management training and so Joe Kennedy ensured that his sons enlisted in the armed forces.

Joe Kennedy Jnr enlisted in the navy before he could graduate from Harvard Law School and he became a US Navy pilot. He was based in Britain and he piloted land based bombers on missions over Europe during World War 2. He had completed 25 combat missions and was eligible to return to the US, but he volunteered for top secret missions in Operation Aphrodite.

Operation Aphrodite was a US Army Air Corps secret operation that utilised radio controlled planes (drones) to attack Nazi targets in Europe. The bomb-laden planes could not safely take off on their own, so a crew of two would pilot the plane through its take off routine and until it got to 2,000 feet, then they would arm the detonators and activate the radio control system and then parachute from the plane while the plane was remotely guided to crash into the target.

Kennedy’s plane, along with 3 other planes (one of which was filming the mission), took off from an RAF airbase at 6pm on August 12, 1944. Their mission was to attack German submarine pens in the North Sea. The plane completed its first remote controlled turn at 2,000 feet near the North Sea coast and Kennedy and his partner removed the safety pin, thereby arming the bombs. Kennedy radioed a coded message to base (to indicate that the bombs had been armed), but two minutes later, before the agreed time for the crew to bail out of the plane, the bombs suddenly exploded, killing Kennedy and his co-pilot. Their bodies were never recovered.

abduleez1:
In other words: you, Madam Ishilove, kendrick9/Lamar and a few others were clamoring for a NEW Thread. FREE of the comic book arguments, political discourse and international affairs analyst and Trolls. You got your NEW THREAD. So why come back to the THREAD filled with Immature people?? Cos last time I checked, THEY are still very much available HERE.

I just can't help but wonder. No offense.


PS: I know say after THIS MY comment na transfer BAN dey wait for ME.

losprince:
That's what he does, he comes here, drops a post about some obscure movie and proceeds to report posts he deems to be "derailing".

The purpose, of course, is to make it seem like he is a contributor, therefore, jerking off his conscience into a state of blasé comatose.

abduleez1:
But BOSSMAN, I thought you peeps have a SPECIAL thread for your favorite content (movie reviews and ratings ONLY) without the usual derailers??

Ishilove:
It seems you binged on depressing movies back to back.

jeph19:
Title please

TheSourcerer:
A fire truck rushing to the scene of 9/11.



Well All of six the firemen in Ladder 118 died saving people in the World Trade Center.

TheSourcerer:
would be Amazing , you are one awesome dude!

TheSourcerer:
Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson, and Ritchie Valens pose for a photo before boarding a plane that would crash into a field in Iowa.


The musicians were traveling together for a tour and chartered the plane to get from Clear Lake, Iowa to Moorhead, Minnesota. The plane hit bad weather and went down, killing the three musicians and the pilot, Roger Peterson. The event became known as “The Day the Music Died.”

TheSourcerer:
Joseph Kennedy Jr, JFK's older brother, poses for a photo before dying in combat later that day.



A United States Navy lieutenant, Kennedy died during World War II. He was the oldest of the Kennedy children.

Ishilove:
I don't understand this

Ishilove:
Am I lying?

Ishilove:
So you are even keeping tabs

Proudlyngwa:
My own has passed 500 since yesterday.

Abeg I need your help.

Can you suggest some cool contemporary classical, I can use in a bar I intend opening and do you have any idea of cocktails that can be mixed and go well in Naija here, I mean cocktails that it is possible to get their ingredients from here

firestar:
What...?
THE Dan Foster?
The Big Dawg?!
...nonononononononooooo!!!


Naptu2, please say it’s not so!

Proudlyngwa:
so far we have more guitar than drum beats no problem