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Passenger Information >> Boarding Deck - Forward Section >> SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's http://sf.theboard.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1696430694 Message started by L.A. Connection on Oct 4th, 2023 at 9:44am |
Title: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by L.A. Connection on Oct 4th, 2023 at 9:44am
On Facebook, it was announced yesterday that one of the Themes for 2024's SF/49 will be:
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999 No films were listed, but it said that a "couple of films" from that year will be selected for the Marathon. THOUGHTS? SUGGESTIONS?? |
Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Oct 11th, 2023 at 6:38am
what was that movie about the millenium with tom sizemore and raiffe finnes? what was it called? it was made a few years before the millenium and it was set in the millenium. the name escapes me but it would be a good tribute to tom sizemore. i remember his toupee got ripped off his head during the final fight scene. if that helps.
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Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by Caleb451 on Oct 11th, 2023 at 11:09am
Strange Days directed by Oscar winner Katheryn Bigelow.
Solid flick. |
Title: Strange: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like Post by L.A. Connection on Oct 11th, 2023 at 1:07pm Caleb451 wrote on Oct 11th, 2023 at 11:09am:
Strange Days was shown at SF/22. And, it's from 1995. Any 1999 thoughts? |
Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by Caleb451 on Oct 14th, 2023 at 9:23pm
I'd love to watch the pilot episode of Space:1999
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Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Oct 15th, 2023 at 2:09pm
i saw half of this. it looked really good.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_113_act |
Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Oct 15th, 2023 at 2:15pm
i saw half of this. it looked good. it has a cameo by that loud mouthed magician guy. not penn gillette. the other one who has a solo act and he throws cards.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_113_act |
Title: End: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by L.A. Connection on Oct 16th, 2023 at 12:05am
I like UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD but it's pretty long.
Even the 'cut' version is 2 hours and 40 minutes. The longer cut is 3 hours The Director's cut is 5 |
Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Oct 18th, 2023 at 2:40pm
what are you? a man or a mouse?
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Title: Re: End: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by David the Projectionist on Oct 18th, 2023 at 9:48pm L.A. Connection wrote on Oct 16th, 2023 at 12:05am:
Ya think????? 1. It's from 1991, not 1999. 2. The idea of running movies from 1999 isnt the greatest. 3. Considering the precipitous decline in audience attendance, by all means choose some over-long, boring, wafer-thin-plotted onanistic exercise in self-indulgence that will take up nearly one-fifth of the Thon's running time so as to permanently chase away anyone new who might be interested in showing up. Brilliant! 4. And, even better, lets run a BluRay because not only is a print not available, who could possibly object to paying out a high ticket price to watch something in a theatre that he/she/it could also run the exact same way at home? Genius! 5. Heres a concept: lets run some movies that people might want to see, and not -- oh, lets pull a title or two out of a hat -- crap like UFOria & Future Kill. Wouldnt that be something? 6. Dont give up your day jobs, guys. ::) |
Title: Day Job: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like Post by L.A. Connection on Oct 19th, 2023 at 12:05pm David the Projectionist wrote on Oct 18th, 2023 at 9:48pm:
Those ideas and bookings were done by folks who's DO this as their "day jobs"! :-X |
Title: Re: Day Job: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like Post by David the Projectionist on Oct 19th, 2023 at 9:07pm L.A. Connection wrote on Oct 19th, 2023 at 12:05pm:
Programming bad/boring movies? ;) |
Title: Day Job: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like Post by L.A. Connection on Oct 19th, 2023 at 11:51pm David the Projectionist wrote on Oct 19th, 2023 at 9:07pm:
Those are YOUR words. It's not folks here on the messageboard that chose those two films or the 1999 theme 'twas folks who do this as their 'day job' |
Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by UncleTim on Oct 23rd, 2023 at 10:04am
Also Future Kill may not be Citizen Kane but as an audience we had a ton of fun with it at last year's marathon.
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Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Oct 24th, 2023 at 6:14pm UncleTim wrote on Oct 23rd, 2023 at 10:04am:
if you want to choose an exemplar, it would be more appropriate to evoke alfred hitchcock's "vertigo" because it has usurped citizen kane and is now number 1 on the bfi list of greatest movies of all time. |
Title: Re: End: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Oct 24th, 2023 at 6:33pm David the Projectionist wrote on Oct 18th, 2023 at 9:48pm:
Dave, in case you hadn't noticed it is the year 2023 and the current flavor of the month is in fact a three hour movie. i like prints but i suffer no ill effects from a blue ray and your economic argument does not hold water because blu ray, craptastic fatures, increasing atendance fees and inflations impact on sno caps and popcorn have not deterred marathon attendence. i conservatively estimate that the audience has increased and new blood has been added to the marathon over the last ten years and the last ten years coud be characterized as the blu ray decade. call me a phillistine but the concept of appealing to the masses is far from a high ideal. i found the half cheers and half boos responce to "the man who fell to earth" to be a group thought provoking experience. p.s. the election was stolen |
Title: BFI: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by L.A. Connection on Oct 25th, 2023 at 9:28am kirok1 wrote on Oct 24th, 2023 at 6:14pm:
VERTIGO has now been usurped to. The greatest is now Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) |
Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Oct 26th, 2023 at 7:23pm
oh God! i thought we were done with frenchy cutesy. i got the trailer on imdb and thought, he must be joking. but it's true! a frenchy cutesy has been made #1 on the bfi top 100 list. this looks like the most boring piece of sh!t ever to be put on celluloid!! and it's 3 futting hours long. holy sh!t. what is the message? life sucks?
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Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by UncleTim on Nov 2nd, 2023 at 9:06pm
Getting back to suggestions along the theme, I thought of a few movies set in 1999 that haven't played the marathon to my knowledge and might be fun:
Destroy All Monsters - Who doesn't love a big epic kaiju movie and it'd be a nice way to acknowledge Godzilla's 70th anniversary. Class of 1999 - Violent schools with rampaging cyborg teachers. Silly and fun. Prince of Darkness - Yes it's horror but sci-fi as well with telepathic messages from the far off year of 1999. It still remains one of John Carpenter's most underappreciated films. Virtuosity - Another silly but fun one with Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, and a hilariously goofy conception of what virtual reality was supposed to be like. Thoughts? |
Title: Sharks: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like i Post by L.A. Connection on Nov 4th, 2023 at 12:09pm UncleTim wrote on Nov 2nd, 2023 at 9:06pm:
Some offbeat picks there. How about DEEP BLUE SEA? |
Title: Re: Sharks: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like i Post by UncleTim on Nov 5th, 2023 at 8:26am L.A. Connection wrote on Nov 4th, 2023 at 12:09pm:
I think that would be a great choice. I wasn't a huge fan of it but I bet the audience would have a lot of fun with that. |
Title: Others?: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like Post by L.A. Connection on Nov 15th, 2023 at 12:46pm
Any other ideas - not necessarily related to 1999. I doubt there will be more than 2 or 3 films from that year
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Title: Re: Others?: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like Post by UncleTim on Nov 15th, 2023 at 11:31pm L.A. Connection wrote on Nov 15th, 2023 at 12:46pm:
A few more fun and interesting ones that as far as I know have never played the 'Thon: The Core - Big silly Irwin Allen style disaster is always a good time. The World's End - While not as celebrated as Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz, it's just as brilliant. Krull - Borderline whether one considers it more fantasy than sci-fi but it has travel to a different planet so I think it counts. Dredd - Because it didn't get a fair shake in theaters and Karl Urban is awesome. Ikarie XB 1 - Stark, fascinating space thriller that might be interesting due to its acknowledged influence on Stanley Kubrick for 2001. This one has played the 'Thon in its mangled dubbed version way back in SF3 but the original version is better. |
Title: Ikarie: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like Post by L.A. Connection on Nov 16th, 2023 at 2:02am UncleTim wrote on Nov 15th, 2023 at 11:31pm:
IKARIE has been discussed. It did play the festival. It's simply one of the best SF films of the 60s DREDD has been mentioned and I've long asked for KRULL myself |
Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Nov 16th, 2023 at 7:21pm
i'll drag out my worn out and tattered list of choices that are hopelessly doomed to not play at the marathon:
what's so bad about feeling good? a virus induces feelings of well being in nyc. the federal government is called to stop the spread. starring mary tyler moore and a very funny scene involving surgical masks. the man in the white suit. alec guiness invents an indestructible cloth. star trek five. spock's half brother (was going to be played by sean connery God would i have loved to see that) find's God. critics panned it. fans followed the critics like lemmings. i think it is a great installment and very funny. give it the marathon test. the core really sucks. don't do it. the abominable snowman. with forrest tucker. sasquatch often gets confused with the abominable snowman yeti never complains. team america . marionettes spoof. hilarious. way way out. jerry lewis. this may really suck but in a good way. |
Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by UncleTim on Nov 19th, 2023 at 11:18pm kirok1 wrote on Nov 16th, 2023 at 7:21pm:
Ooooh, Abominable Snowman would be a great choice!! |
Title: Abominable: SF/49 A theme announced: Post by L.A. Connection on Nov 20th, 2023 at 12:22am
It is on Blu Ray, now that we don't have to worry about getting proper film prints or DCPs .
Not sure about rights issues. |
Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Nov 24th, 2023 at 1:01pm
how can you not show this:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120157/ |
Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Nov 26th, 2023 at 5:03pm
and once again i ask for "cloud atlas"
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Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Dec 21st, 2023 at 2:31pm
how is it that it has been announced that there are 13 movies at the marathon but there is no information on any feature titles?? bueuller...bueller... bueller...
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Title: Re: SF/49 A theme announced: 1999 Party like it's Post by kirok1 on Dec 21st, 2023 at 2:32pm
there is a black and white print being released in january?? can we get it?
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