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03-09-2008, 11:41 AM
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One more movie thread
We've had a lot of movie threads lately and I thought I would start one more.
In this morning's Washington Post there is, strangely enough, a review of a movie made almost 40 tears ago, "Medium Cool". http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022900913.html It's reviewed as being an inspiration for "Chicago 10" a new flick. I saw Medium Cool in 1969 when it was released and it was one of the movies that helped change my view of the world (it helped "radicalize" me as the popular saying of the time went). It and "The Strawberry Statement" (1970) are movies which I think captured perfectly a moment in time that I understood and felt part of. So what movies represent a part of your life or time? Papa T
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03-09-2008, 12:20 PM
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03-09-2008, 12:22 PM
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I think if we're talking about movies that identify with the times of our youth, then probably The Breakfast Club would be one that would be along those lines for me.
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03-09-2008, 12:55 PM
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Good one, Woodman! That one reminds me of my high school days too. I would have to say "Woodstock" and "Thelma and Louise". The 1st because I moved to So. Cal. in the hippie era and music was such a big part of my life then (and still is), and the 2nd for girl power/freedom themes as I was going through a really horrible divorce when that movie was released.
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03-09-2008, 03:04 PM
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"Behind the Green Door"?
Seriously though Tony, I can't pinpoint that "one" movie that did it for me. For pure enterainment value, watching Star Wars for the first time as a 10 year old was amazing. I'll try to think of some movies when I was growing up, but right now nothing is coming to mind.
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03-09-2008, 03:21 PM
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I do remember watching 2001: A Space Odyssey when it first came out. (Dad was babysitting, and dragged me along because he really wanted to see it ... I was 8 at the time)
Munching my way through a mega-pack of Milk Duds, I remember the apes/monolith scene, and later the baby floating in space ... and wondering "What the f*ck?" Fast forward to college, I was so excited to go see it again, because NOW I really would understand what the f*ck it was all about. Miss Collegiate came out of there, still shaking her head in bewilderment, 12 years later ...
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03-09-2008, 03:40 PM
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Hahaha, the first time I saw it was at the drive-in (a place you used to watch movies from your car
) in the rain on peyote. Watched it the night of the Millenium - both of them in fact and after countless viewings have came to the conclusion it is about mankind having to realize we don't have all the answers. And what was with that blue food...Quote:
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03-09-2008, 04:10 PM
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I was working in a small theatre that showed that film. It had quite an impact on me. I believe our next film was "Z"..another powerful film for me. Last edited by Babaloo; 03-09-2008 at 09:40 PM.
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03-09-2008, 04:14 PM
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Soylent Green
 with Charlton Heston (1973)"The year is 2022. New York City has become overpopulated with 40 million people and pollution has caused the temperature to be risen and all natural resources have been destroyed, leaving 40 million people starving. The Soylent Company has create a new food product, Soylent Green. In the overpopulated and polluted New York City, police detective Thorn is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of an corporate official of the Soylent company, William R. Simonson. Thorn's investigation into Simonson's murder leads him to uncover a conspiracy in the Soylant company and the Soylent Green food product itself, where Thorn uncovers the horrible truth about Soylent Green. " Nick
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03-09-2008, 04:54 PM
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SPOILER: When Thorn discovers that he is too late to stop Sol's suicide, he begins to cry. Charlton Heston was really crying he was the only person on set who knew Edward G. Robinson was dying of cancer. His death scene was the last day he worked in his life; he died just nine days after shooting wrapped.
Some trivia that I just found today. Nick
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03-09-2008, 08:09 PM
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03-09-2008, 08:25 PM
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'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'
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03-09-2008, 09:35 PM
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I went with my dad to see a showing of Modern Times with Charlie Chaplin, in Edingborugh, Scotland We are not that old, of course, but it was part of a series of old films. I remember being very touched by it.
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