Last Seen 70s/80s Movie

[urgeok]

BASEketball ...

not all of the jokes worked but it was still funny as hell ..

[ItsAlive75]

Originally posted by urgeok
BASEketball ...

not all of the jokes worked but it was still funny as hell ..

How odd..

I just watched Team America: World Police for the third or fourth time and I still love it.

Trey Parker acts, writes, directs and produces. I'll say it again, I still think he's the smartest man in Hollywood.

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak
The rather groovy "42nd Street Forever: Horror on 42nd Street" Grindhouse trailer compilation.

That looks really good. I was looking at a monster movie comp like that today. Can't remember what it was called (Umbrella entertainment brought it out).

Eaten Alive....... really dig this film at the moment. I wanna go back in time and try and seduce Marilyn Burns ;)

[Elvis_Christ]

What was the deal with 42nd Street? Where/what was it ect?

[MoonLit Meadow]

JAWS

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally posted by Elvis_Christ
What was the deal with 42nd Street? Where/what was it ect?

42nd Street/The Deuce is the strip/area of New York that was at first the home of Burlesque theatre and razzle dazzle cinemas and then in the late 60's the area became more run down and became the home of the Indy Cinema.
Dozens of cinema's would line the street ,with those big white marque frontages that over-hung the street (See "Taxi Driver") and gaurdy lobby advertising.

The cinema's would show the more risque stuff like cheesy horror, the upcoming Euro imports and Sexsploitation films.

As the great ear of the 70's arrived the are became even rougher and was filled with pawn Shops, Pawn Shops, fast food joints, gun shops etc etc crammed in between the cinema's.
Prostitution, petty crime were starting to florish, but the cinemas were now packed with the classic Grindhouse (as the cinemas were called) fare that would not get a mainstream release outside of the dying Drive-Ins.

This was rough cinema going with a capital R, but supposedly it was an experience never forgotten.
The audiences were ghetto and nornally rabid appreciative and sometimes just damn scary.

As the 80's came in many of the cinema's had become simple porn houses, hard drugs and crime had spiralled and sadly 42nd Street was starting to drown. tghough some great treats could still be found on the screens.

Eventually, as things got even worse, the area was the victim of the bulldozers and it was gutted of everything and became what it is today...a haven for Disney, overly expensive restaurants, tourist traps and very mainstream cinemas showing all the same films.

Something DID have to be done, but it was a cklean-up that was needed not simply a catch-all wrecking ball that wiped away decades of history and wiped away the heart.

[ChEEbA]

Not a movie, but....whatever.
I just watched the pilot, and the following 2 episodes of
"Freaks and Geeks". I'd seen SOME of this show before, like a couple years ago, but only at really shitty times that seemed subject to change week by week, so yeah...
Pretty decent show. The acting is good, the storylines aren't overly complex, a nice mixture of comedy and drama. The "geeks" are so convincingly pathetic, and funny, as for the "freaks", well...they just seem like "the normal ones" to me...Alotta awkward situations goin' on, and this show captures the "80's feel" more than the cheap spinoff stereotype peice of unfunny shit that is "that 80's show" - THIS show does it right. It's a little like the wonder years, a little like growing pains, and pretty damn quirky. Too bad it's yet another quality show that died an early death.

You can buy the complete series on dvd now, I'd reccomend a look.
The first 8 minutes of the pilot episode can be viewed here:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frea...s/trailers.php

- B

[Deposable]

I seen "a dirty shame" tonight. Great fucking John Waters movie. I always laugh my ass off at his movies.

LETS GO SEXIN'!

[alkytrio666]

Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
the Blair Witch Project gets a perfect 10, Jason Lives gets an 8 and the Fog gets a F'n 5

I retract my previous statement from the Batman thread, this is in fact the most I've ever had to stress this...

''TO EACH HIS OWN''

I guess, yah to each his own. 'Cause to me The Blair Witch Project is one of the most stunning and original horror flicks ever made and The Fog was just a typical with a mask on. It was alright, but it didn't do much for me. And it really pissed me off when that lady at the radio station just fept screaming for someone to get her son out of the house. I got really annoyed. But it was alright, I liked the whole church scene with them coming out of the fog.

[The_Return]

Yesterday, I watched:

Romeo Must Die- It came with our DVD player that we got like 3-4 years ago, and I never bothered to watch it until yesterday. It was a decent action flick, alot better than I though it would be.

Contagion- Ive been meaning to sell this to blockbuster, cause the 1st time I watched it, I thought it was a piece of shit. I wanted to watch it again before I sold it to make sure it really was that bad....oh god it is. Terribly written, boring plot....Jeffery Combs couldnt even save this garbage pile [Although his scenes were better than most of this poor excuse for enterainment]

Big Fish- Well, I love this movie. Not the 1st time I watched it, I had some friends in who dont like horror [:eek:] and they wanted to watch a movie. Definatly one of the best non-horror movies I have