Posted on 08/27/2011 9:19:25 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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.
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.
:)
Vanishing point was a classic
Opposite side of the tracks... Psychiatric center.... 80’s NYC... punk/new Wave....
The ingredients of a cinematic masterpiece!
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.
Considering what walnut lumber costs, that there was some really expensive firewood!
“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.
We are talking back in the 70s and 80s. The firewood was expensive, it also is even better than oak for burning.
Didn’t much care what happened to either of them.
You too, huh?
CC
>>> 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.
I hate to disagree. Stupidity is the lack of one or more of God's gifts. Think about it.
oh, you must work for cnn.
‘Fraid so.
:)
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.
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
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....:)
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?
;]
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.
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”.
“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
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