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I love Duel, I remember watching it's first run on TV back when.
I think Dennis Weaver's car was a Valiant, same thing as a Dart basically. Trivia: it was directed by Steven Spielberg. |
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So do I! I knew I was a tyke at the time, but hard to believe I was only 6. I was watching with my sister and her boyfriend, obviously being sat, so yeah, makes sense. It was a Tuesday Movie of the Week. Probably the best of the entire series, but that was pretty reliably good TV, a surprising number of those flicks could now be considered cult classics. And we got them for free every week. Those were the days. [sigh].
The only really good thing about 'Xanadu' was ELO. How can you dispute that considering how well the soundtrack album did compared to the film. The truth is I don't watch that many movies, but my favorite indie film still these many years later is 'Beautiful Thing', adapted from the play of the same name. It was filmed in 1995 and tells the story of two teenagers finding romance amid low-rent East London surroundings. It's one of the first films of its kind not to end with one of the protagonists jumping off a roof. It too has a great soundtrack full of Mama Cass songs. |
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Another favorite of mine from recent years is Donnie Darko. Watched it again a couple weeks ago.
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Yah, after star wars all of a sudden Duel was a work of art.... I remember they
re-released it in the city..... Duel was along the same lines as a older B&W film I believe was called "hot rods to hell" about a buncha kids terrorizing a family in a car in the mid 50's.... Saw it several times as a kid, not seen it in 20 years.... Old man trapped the terrorists one at a time and killed them off.... .
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I have Duel on DVD and I noticed that a part of the movie was cut out. It's the part where the truck push starts a school bus. They used to play it on regular TV all the time
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I haven't seen Maximum Overdrive, but I'll check it out eventually.
Cary Loftin can be seen in the DVD special features. To see his face in the film would have ruined the perception of a trucker gone mad as he didn't look intimidating at all. The closest look we get at him in the film is shortly after Weaver encounters the truck. A partial face view through a dirty windscreen, that's it. For the scene in which Loftin runs down the phone booth, a red flag was placed just off camera. If he didn't see Weaver exit the booth by the time the front of the truck reached that flag, he was to veer off. Weaver was adamant about doing his own driving and had to be flat-out refused for scenes that were considered too dangerous. That scene in which the Valiant pulls a 180 and the entire horizon as seen through the windscreen goes into a sharp tilt was real. |
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Well here's another one that came out from the woodwork; really bizarre for its day (1968); The Swimmer --Burt Lancaster. Yeah, OK I broke my own 30 year or less rule here.....
I just happened to find it surfing the DTV channels (I think it was on GET-TV). Remember this guy:? Soundtrack The Swimmer Soundtrack album by Marvin Hamlisch The score was composed by a first-time film composer, 24-year-old[1] Marvin Hamlisch, and was orchestrated by Leo Shuken and Jack Hayes. Of all things, they released on it on Blu-Ray earlier this year; go figure.... Tom (PK) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swi...lm%29#Response Last edited by powerking; 11-29-2014 at 11:18 AM. |
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So this thread won't end it seems.... I stumbled upon this rather bizarre movie: " The Virgin Suicides". Kathleen Turner never looked so bad in this 1999 film. It's a dark American drama written and directed by Sofia Coppola, produced by her father Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, and A. J. Cook
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The Gods Must Be Crazy #1. #2 not so good.
Vanishing Point. When that came out my father had a '66 SS396. I dont know what he was thinking but he let my brother take it to the drive-in. When the movie let out everyone raced away going like a striped baboon. We went down the street sideway, what a rush !! All nite all you could hear in town was screaming tires & motors. A miracle nobody was killed. So much for movies not influencing people..... 73 Zeno |
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Stretch of road by the drive-in was flat & straight for >.5 mile.
We measured out a 1/4 mile & would race when the coppers were busy. A friend just got a 1970 Chevelle w/ 454. Twas a balls out 1/4 mile car. We ran it over 100 & when he slowed down it felt funny. He had recap snows on the back & they were coming apart. I made sure I went to mass Sunday, it was a miracle we didnt wreck & I had to thank someone. 73 Zeno |
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Did you know that the Challenger turns into a dime-a-dozen first-gen Camaro just before the impact?
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I agree about "Duel" so much tension created for a low budget made for TV movie.
Can't leave out Godfather I, II and III Apocapolse Now: Robert Duvall's character Kilgore: " I love the smell of napalm in the morning ... " 12 Angry Men So many more .....
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Apocalypse Now. It's an imaginary Vietnam experience for kids who knew it was coming ever since the third grade but when you got to the end of the conveyor belt they shut it off. I've seen it many many times and it never gets old.
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A bit beyond 30 yrs old, but the ORIGINAL "Gone in 60 Seconds" I think was/is AWESOME.. The megabuck remake wasn't worth the time it took to watch it. I just wish Toby Halicki hadn't got himself killed...
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