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Ghosts of Marathons Past - Earlier Films, Years (Read 73826 times)
Reply #60 - Jan 19th, 2018 at 5:16pm

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Perhaps those reviewers would like Motivational Growth as well?



L.A. Connection wrote on Jan 19th, 2018 at 11:50am:
Believe it or not, it has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes (of course, only 5 reviews). Lile wrote on Jan 19th, 2018 at 12:05am:
L.A. Connection wrote on Jan 16th, 2018 at 11:38pm:
I noticed that the running time has now been shaved by 13 minutes to 99. Censorship or mercy??

https://www.laemmle.com/films/43533






Probably the latter, I can’t imagine anyone would even watch this, never mind caring enough to want to censor it.


 
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Reply #61 - May 4th, 2024 at 11:23am

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Today, George Lucas inspired one of the seminal 70s Spoof Shorts: HARDWARE WARS

Shown at SF/4 and SF/30
 
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Reply #62 - May 4th, 2024 at 2:09pm

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I'm pretty sure the preview they showed at SF3 (?) was the first most of us had heard of, or seen anything Star Wars.
The mylar posters they were giving out in theater 1 go for many thousands of dollar now. Wish I had gotten one.
 

Dinner break? What's a dinner break?
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Reply #63 - May 5th, 2024 at 8:29am

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Caleb451 wrote on May 4th, 2024 at 2:09pm:
I'm pretty sure the preview they showed at SF3 (?) was the first most of us had heard of, or seen anything Star Wars.
The mylar posters they were giving out in theater 1 go for many thousands of dollar now. Wish I had gotten one.



It was at SF/2 that the Star Wars promo reel was shown and posters given out. Also shown was a preview of Ralph Baskshi's Wizards (under the title 'War Wizards')
 
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Reply #64 - Jun 8th, 2024 at 2:06pm

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today we get stoned with...
THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1955). This programmer has a unique monster that brings it up a notch from the its contemporary creature feature movie crowd. Shiny rocks from outer space descend upon a small town. When mixed with water they grow and become deadly to the human touch (Hmm. did M. Night Shyamalan see this?).
Based upon a story co-written by Jack Arnold, Jack Sherwood's film was one of a series of sci-fi films from Universal's B unit and shares the isolated locale setting of others such as IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE and TARANTULA (each directed by Arnold). MONOLITH was largely shot near Lone Pine, California.
The veteran cast includes Grant Williams, Lola Albright and Les Tremayne with brief uncredited roles for William Schallert, Troy Donahue, Eddie Parker and narration by Paul Frees. The compilation soundtrack includes library music from Henry Mancini, Herman Stein and Irving Gertz. The special effects by Clifford Stein are quite good. 
Everybody now, how about a chorus of Bob Dylan's Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" (aka "Everybody Must Get Stoned") !

The Monolith Monsters isn't legally available to stream, but it does pop up on certain websites. It airs on Svengoolie from time to time. It's on DVD and Blu Ray.

MONOLITH MONSTERS played at 1979's SF/4 at the Orson Welles. I remember the punchy middle of the night crowd shouting: “Wash Those Rocks! Wash Those Rocks!”
 
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