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Chris C 
"Four words, never backwards."
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 Posted - 07/05/2007 : 20:12:06
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The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (yes, I know...)have asked in the latest issue of their magazine for suggestions for flms that feature materials, metals or mining in the plot.
Examples given include:
The Graduate (plastics)
Superman (kryptonite)
The Plastics Inventor (a Donld Duck short)
I've come up with:
Terminator/Terminator 2 (shape changing metals)
Alien 3 (the lead smelting works)
Goldfinger
Blood Diamond
Flubber
Gold (Roger Moore movie about gold mining)
The Core
The Gold Rush
Has anyone got any more?? |
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tortoise 
"Still reviewing, but slowly."
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Posted - 07/05/2007 : 21:44:54
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The Man in the White Suit
LOTR
Billy Elliot (well, mining does come into it...) |
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 07/05/2007 : 21:46:17
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October Sky
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Claim
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Harlan County U.S.A.
Mother Lode
I think you'll find a rich deposit of them the more you look. |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 07/05/2007 : 22:06:54
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King Solomon's Mines
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Matewan
Brassed Off -- well they're redundant miners
The Full Monty - and they're unemployed steel-workers
Flashdance - Jennifer Beale's other job is a welder
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Edited by - BaftaBaby on 07/05/2007 23:39:06 |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 07/05/2007 : 22:07:02
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Iron Man
Snow White & Seven Dwarves
Conan the Barbarian
To Live & Die in LA
The Fountainhead
The Shawshank Redemption
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Stalean 
"Back...OMG"
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Posted - 07/06/2007 : 01:17:08
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
How Green Was My Valley
Star Trek: Nemesis
The Indian Fighter
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Edited by - Stalean on 07/06/2007 01:45:48 |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 07/06/2007 : 02:09:33
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Demonstrating The Action Of The Brown Hoisting And Conveying Machine In Unloading A Schooner Of Iron Ore, And Loading The Material On The Cars (1900) |
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Shiv 
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 07/06/2007 : 15:47:39
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Beanmimo
"August review site"
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Posted - 07/06/2007 : 16:22:47
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Green Ice
Delicatessan
Them
Armageddon |
Edited by - Beanmimo on 07/06/2007 16:24:22 |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 07/07/2007 : 07:16:31
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Shoot the Sun Down
The Flintstones!
His Majesty O'Keefe - the islanders quarry this special rock which they worship
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GHcool
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 07/07/2007 : 08:58:55
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quote:
Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Demonstrating The Action Of The Brown Hoisting And Conveying Machine In Unloading A Schooner Of Iron Ore, And Loading The Material On The Cars (1900)
LOL! 
The Iron Giant ("Fe Fe Fe fun!" - Salopian)
X-Men - Magneto has strange powers over metal, Wolverine has some kind of metal skeleton and metal claws.
GHcool's Least Favorite Mining/Metal Movie: Battlefield Earth ...
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"Terl [the John Travolta alien character] is head of security for the Psychlos and has a secret scheme to use the humans as slaves to mine gold for him. ... Jonnie Goodboy [a human character] figures out a way to avoid slave labor in the gold mines. He and his men simply go to Fort Knox, break in and steal gold. Of course it's been waiting there for 1,000 years." - Roger Ebert in his original review of Battlefield Earth
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TitanPa 
"Here four more"
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Posted - 07/08/2007 : 08:50:17
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Small Time Crooks |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 07/08/2007 : 09:56:24
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The Corn is Green
Harlan County U.S.A.
Harlan County War
Salt of the Earth
Germinal
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 07/08/2007 : 11:23:19
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quote:
Originally posted by tortoise
The Man in the White Suit
If that works, then what about The Pajama Game? |
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 07/08/2007 : 12:06:44
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A few more:
The Deer Hunter (the boys all work in a steel mill)
The Colditz Story (building a wooden glider)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Pale Rider (troubles in a western mining town)
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tortoise
"Still reviewing, but slowly."
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Posted - 07/09/2007 : 12:56:19
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quote:
Originally posted by ChocolateLady
quote:
Originally posted by tortoise
The Man in the White Suit
If that works, then what about The Pajama Game?
Well, The Man in the White Suit centres on the invention of a special fabric that never wears out and never even gets dirty. So it's very much about a particular material. Whereas The Pajama Game seems to be primarily about a labour dispute, that happens to take place in a clothing factory. |
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Material world - help needed.
