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70s Movie
Blind Eye Jones

Posted on 08/27/2011 9:19:25 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones

Does anybody remember a teen movie from the early 70s about two kids hitching up, one involved in a robbery with a gun, a car and maybe Steve Miller music (like Take The Money And Run or The Joker). It was a B or C movie and looked colorful (Hawaii or California). It might have also had the word Rose in it. If anybody can remember that far back and remember the movie title -- you are truly amazing!


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To: boop

Race With the Devil is one of those movies that no one ever seems to talk about, but which everyone of my generation has seen and remembers it.


41 posted on 08/28/2011 1:48:15 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (``Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it``-Pope John Paul II)
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To: Darkwolf377

I feel the same way about “Gargoyles”.

Scared me silly when I was young.

I watched it a couple months ago and was bored stupid halfway through.

I found myself rooting for the monsters, this time.

I never get tired of Donnie Darko, though.

Seriously trick flick.

:)


42 posted on 08/28/2011 1:57:12 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: Darkwolf377

Vanishing point was a classic


43 posted on 08/28/2011 2:14:25 AM PDT by sopwith (don't tread on me)
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To: sinanju
LMAO!

Opposite side of the tracks... Psychiatric center.... 80’s NYC... punk/new Wave....

The ingredients of a cinematic masterpiece!

44 posted on 08/28/2011 2:52:29 AM PDT by MacMattico
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To: Salamander

I really liked Donnie Darko, but shut it off halfway through the second time. Strange, because I was REALLY bowled over by the first one.

If you’re really adventurous, take a look at an ultra-ultra cheapie called Primer. I think it was made for $10,000 (no, I’m not kidding) and at least at one point it had a website up discussing the science involved. I wish more people would see it, because with no special effects at all it managed to be a real mind-expander of a scifi flick.

In terms of 70’s flicks I finally caught up to Idaho Transfer, directed by Peter Fonda. Other than having one of the very worst endings of any movie I’ve ever seen it is a great time travel movie that isn’t an action movie, but a slow descent into—well, you’ll have to see it. It’s another example of how a sf movie about ideas can be more powerful than a boatload of effects.


45 posted on 08/28/2011 2:54:54 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (``Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it``-Pope John Paul II)
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To: calex59
when the old trees quit bearing the farmers cut down the trees and sold them for fire wood and never replanted.

Considering what walnut lumber costs, that there was some really expensive firewood!

46 posted on 08/28/2011 3:43:32 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Defiant

“Those movies got nothin’ on any movie with “One Tin Soldier” in the soundtrack.”

Billy Jack?!!!

Ah, the Vet turned vigilante genre of the early ‘70s. My HS boyfriend loved those movies. I sat through all of them, several times over.


47 posted on 08/28/2011 4:21:47 AM PDT by ProfoundBabe ("Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other." - OW Holmes)
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To: Sherman Logan

We are talking back in the 70s and 80s. The firewood was expensive, it also is even better than oak for burning.


48 posted on 08/28/2011 5:02:51 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Salamander
The only thing in the flick that affected me was when that beautiful Charger got smashed.

Didn’t much care what happened to either of them.

You too, huh?

CC

49 posted on 08/28/2011 5:09:36 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Wisdom comes from experience. Experience comes from a lack of wisdom.)
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To: sinanju; ProfoundBabe; Darkwolf377; Defiant

>>> Let’s not forget 1980’s cult classic “Times Square”.

Times Square was a wonderful film and spectacular soundtrack. The opening credits with Robin Johnson walking though Times Square, and then playing guitar along with the theme by Roxy Music grabbed me more strongly then about any other film I can think of. Perfect meld of music and motion.

The producer made this movie primarily to push that double-album. He didn’t have much faith in the film itself and so a nice little gem slipped through his hands. That’s how Robin Gibb wound up singing the closing titles. Disco slipped into all the New Wave.

I believe this was Tim’s first movie filmed after Rocky Horror. The producers could only afford to have him for about three days of filming. Everything he did was packed into that brief span.

The Nikki/Pammy relationship was filmed more explicitly, but that was edited down for release so as not to discourage the album sales. The director now says these scenes are now “missing”.

>>> Billy Jack?!!!

Remember, there is only one true Billy Jack movie. The rest are counterfeits. Billy Jack first appeared in “The Born Losers”, a motorcycle gang movie where Billy Jack just back from Vietnam very reluctantly gets pulled into saving a young woman terrorized by the gang. The film was directed by Laughlin and written by the young lady who also portrayed the movie’s heroine. No pacifist, he just wants to be left alone.

When they decided to go back to the well and make it a series, the writer who invented the character was forced out. Laughlin’s wife took over and Billy Jack was re-imaged into a schizoid granola eating vigilante peacenik with a body count higher then Billy the Kid.

So “One Tin Soldier” doesn’t really count. Accept no Billy Jack substitutes.


50 posted on 08/28/2011 5:15:51 AM PDT by tlb
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To: Darkwolf377
"(``Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it``-Pope John Paul II)"

I hate to disagree. Stupidity is the lack of one or more of God's gifts. Think about it.

51 posted on 08/28/2011 5:37:59 AM PDT by OldEagle
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To: Darkwolf377
Lots of sources, look it up.

oh, you must work for cnn.

52 posted on 08/28/2011 5:50:56 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: Celtic Conservative

‘Fraid so.

:)


53 posted on 08/28/2011 5:59:57 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: tlb

I totally agree with your post.

[and Patti Smith’s “Pissin’ In The River” was the best scene/song in the show, for me]

I LMAO at your Billy Jack crtiqiue.

OMG was my dad disappointed when he took us to see “Billy Jack”.

He -hated- hippies.


54 posted on 08/28/2011 6:04:20 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: Darkwolf377

It scared the snot outta me.

My family was big on going camping and forever after that, I was nervous wreck every time we pulled into some backwater campground.

One of the few flicks that hasn’t lost its power as I got older.

Also, I’ll happily watch any biker-sploitation flick ever made, no matter how bad.

[most of which feature the hopelessly cracked Bruce Dern]...;D


55 posted on 08/28/2011 6:25:49 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: calex59

Wow!

We had the Gettysburg series of films made near here and hillbillies just don’t get impressed easily.

They were filming Jeff Daniel’s schoolhouse scene in an abandoned LOWES building beside Staples and I went to get paper one day and there were a bunch of Hollywood stars wandering around. [Daniels, Sheen, etc] and I didn’t even bother to drive over to the edge of the parking lot for a closer look.

The only reason I watched Gettysburg, with Sheen’s psychotic portrayal of Lee was because our friend Huey [an amputee] had a bit part as a wounded Confederate.

The scene where they’re overlooking a burning Fredericksburg was filmed back at Blair’s Valley Lake [really!] and it was weird to think they were all just standing beside that not-much lake and everything else was CGI-ed in, later.

They covered the streets of downtown Martinsburg WV with 2 feet of dirt, filmed a bunch of scenes and never used them.

Was that ever a mess....:)


56 posted on 08/28/2011 6:34:22 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: Darkwolf377

DM/CL sort of seemed to be Easy Rider without the bikes.

Same nihilistic/anti-establishment tone...but with a weird chick with swollen lips....LOL

[but lord I loved that car]

Has anybody mentioned The Warriors, yet?

;]


57 posted on 08/28/2011 6:38:29 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: ProfoundBabe

Yeah, that was it. I saw it again years later, and I could not believe how bad it was and that I didn’t know how bad it was when I first saw it.


58 posted on 08/28/2011 8:39:11 AM PDT by Defiant (Calling all citizens from all over the world, this is Captain America calling.)
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To: Salamander

They have filmed many movies in this area. Patrick Swayze starred in one movie made here in town. Way back in the 50s they made a movie called “Come next Spring” in this town also and the old movie series “The Grey Ghost” was filmed in this county. Those are just a few of the movies. They filmed one where they put dirt all over one of the streets here also, made a big mess but they cleaned it up later. Back in Wisconsin on my brother’s small farm they filmed the Billy Bob Thornton film “A simple Plan”.


59 posted on 08/28/2011 8:54:26 AM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59

“The Grey Ghost”?

The one about the supernatural Reb played by Corbin Bernsen?

I LOVED that movie.

*Him* I’d have driven across the parking lot to see.

[for Sam Elliot, I’d crawl naked across a parking lot covered in broken glass, rusty razor blades and road salt]

LOL


60 posted on 08/28/2011 9:00:47 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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