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Old 11-07-2014, 05:45 AM
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Hey Jon, I think Duel is one of the most underrated films of its time. Definitely a favorite over here!
No kidding, many think that Spielberg's first film was The Sugarland Express.

The car was a red Valiant, and I believe two trucks were used. Much of the footage of the truck was shot close to the road to make the truck look like it was going faster than it really was. Cary Loftin, the film's stunt coodinator, also drove the truck. He was praised for how safely he drove while making it look dangerous.

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Old 11-07-2014, 08:50 PM
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I didn't know that! Cool. In a way, parts of Duel reminded me of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, based on a Stephen King book, as you know.
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Old 11-07-2014, 09:09 PM
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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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Old 11-07-2014, 09:19 PM
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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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Old 11-29-2014, 11:03 AM
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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:?

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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....

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Old 12-08-2014, 01:01 PM
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Two Lane Blacktop, 1971, starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird and Warren Oates.

I first taped it on Speed Vision's lost Drive In in the late 90's, and didn't really get it or like it. I didn't watch it again until last year and then it clicked with me.Now it's one of my favorites. Got the collector DVD set. I notice something new every time I watch it.

It was a major film company movie made for $850,000 but it plays like an indie movie.
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Old 01-10-2015, 02:25 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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Old 01-13-2015, 02:51 PM
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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.....

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Old 01-15-2015, 10:30 PM
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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.....

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Hahaha, gotta love it. Can't do that these days with slammed Hondas.
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Old 01-17-2015, 09:17 AM
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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.

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Old 01-18-2015, 04:15 PM
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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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Old 01-27-2015, 08:33 AM
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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 ... "
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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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Old 04-27-2015, 07:53 PM
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I love Duel, I remember watching it's first run on TV back when.
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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