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Reply #60 - Nov 1^st, 2012 at 9:12pm

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Welcome, Tim!

ESCAPE FROM NY has somehow 'escaped' being booked, despite the efforts to get it shown. A lot of the other suggestions sound ok. What is NATURAL CITY?

And, keep posting!

UncleTim wrote on Nov 1^st, 2012 at 7:36pm:

New to the boards so I don't know if any of these suggestions have been brought up for previous years and shot down for various reasons but here are a few ideas:

For the recent film pick, if there's no heavy objection to found footage there's Chronicle, which at least found new things to do with it.

Otherwise, Duncan Jones' Source Code was pretty good as well and I heartily agree with showing John Carter as I really think the opinion is going to turn around on that one eventually and it's a lot of fun.

For some random older suggestions that haven't (as far as I can tell) played at the 'Thon before (although there might be some good reasons):

The Thirteenth Floor
Time Crimes
Demolition Man
Mimic
The Final Countdown
The Fountain
Escape from New York
Natural City

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Reply #61 - Nov 1^st, 2012 at 11:06pm

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L.A. Connection wrote on Nov 1^st, 2012 at 9:12pm:

Welcome, Tim!

ESCAPE FROM NY has somehow 'escaped' being booked, despite the efforts to get it shown. A lot of the other suggestions sound ok. What is NATURAL CITY?

And, keep posting!

Thanks!

It's a South Korean film, obviously inspired by (some might argue outright ripping off) Blade Runner, about a man's attempts to find a human body to house his beloved android's mind before she expires. Despite the familiarity of the plot it has some interesting twists on the concept and some nice visuals.

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Reply #62 - Nov 2^nd, 2012 at 8:49pm

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R_F_Fineman wrote on Oct 31^st, 2012 at 5:35pm:

Believe it or not, the original "Creature From the Black Lagoon" has never played the thon! I understand that a 3-D print has been making the rounds. Happy Day!

It would depend entirely on which type of print it is (more on that in a moment).

Jon wrote on Nov 1^st, 2012 at 12:25pm:

Saw both in the early 80s at a Brattle double-3D-bill. Would like to see it again.

As I explained in a now long-gone post that vanished into the electronic ether when this board went belly-up, there are a number of different ways to project 3D on film: single strip with two images, dual projection, & anaglyph. Anaglyph sucks, & I would fight against showing any film in that miserable process.

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Modern 3D is better

This is not technically true; in fact, it's so untrue it's exasperating. Do you have any idea how digital 3D works? I'll bet not. If you did, you wouldnt be saying things like that.
Youve probably never seen 3D film properly projected. It's very easy to screw up, believe me.

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Can we get the latest "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in 3D? Silly script and performances, yes, but 3D is OK just for its own sake sometimes.

   Currently, the big house in incapable of projecting 3D, either in film or digital. Because of technical limitations which I'm not going to try to explain here, we will never be able to show digital (or "modern," as he puts it) 3D in the big house.
   We might, at some point in the future, be able to set things up to project film 3D, though. It would be a huge expenditure (we would have to hang a new, separate screen; so we would need a frame, the rigging, & the screen, all of which equals a large outlay of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$), but it could be done.
   Dont hold your breath, however. Grin

Grin

I have seen the future, and it is sucky digital....

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Reply #63 - Nov 3^rd, 2012 at 11:09pm

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we need a movie that will get a song stuck in the marathoner's heads for a week. last year it was mothra: MOTT OO ROY AH. MOTT OO ROY AH. before that it was the repoman riff. any suggestions?

PANTS UP. DON'T LOOT.

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Reply #64 - Nov 4^th, 2012 at 12:08am

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kirok wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2012 at 11:09pm:

we need a movie that will get a song stuck in the marathoner's heads for a week. last year it was mothra: MOTT OO ROY AH. MOTT OO ROY AH. before that it was the repoman riff. any suggestions?

How about The Green Slime?

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Reply #65 - Nov 4^th, 2012 at 11:50pm

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On Facebook, Garen says he's found a nice print of DEMONLOVER!

Dare we?

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Reply #66 - Nov 9^th, 2012 at 10:52pm

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Hello all.

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Reply #67 - Nov 9^th, 2012 at 10:53pm

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I'm new here.

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Reply #68 - Nov 9^th, 2012 at 10:54pm

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I need to post three times before i can post a picture for that funny countdown that you guys do.

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Reply #69 - Nov 9^th, 2012 at 11:54pm

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Welcome to the board.

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Reply #70 - Nov 12^th, 2012 at 5:08pm

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How about,Whisperer In The Darkness.
It has a deliberately retro feel. For a fannish movie it's pretty good.
Would also like to see The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey It's one of the few films that I've ever seen which juxtaposes Science Fiction content with the feel for real culture shock. Also fantasy with realism.

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Thars only two possibilities:Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are,or we're the most intelligent life in the universe.Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought-WaltKelly

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Reply #71 - Nov 12^th, 2012 at 6:24pm

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NAVIGATOR has been on my list since - oh, about, 2 weeks BEFORE it got released in this country! (saw it at a Film Festival) And, yes, there is a 35mm print.

Director Vincent Ward went on to make WHAT DREAMS MAY COME and he was the original writer/Director on the underrated ALIEN 3.

pogo wrote on Nov 12^th, 2012 at 5:08pm:

How about,Whisperer In The Darkness.
It has a deliberately retro fee. For a fannish movie it's pretty good.
Would also like to see The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey It's one of the few films that I've ever seen which juxtaposes Science Fiction content with the feel for real culture shock. Also fantasy with realism.

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Reply #72 - Nov 12^th, 2012 at 7:48pm

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L.A. Connection wrote on Nov 12^th, 2012 at 6:24pm:

NAVIGATOR has been on my list since - oh, about, 2 weeks BEFORE it got released in this country! (saw it at a Film Festival) And, yes, there is a 35mm print.

Director Vincent Ward went on to make WHAT DREAMS MAY COME and he was the original writer/Director on the
underrated ALIEN 3.

I've heard about this movie but never got the chance to see it, would like to see it at the 'thon.

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pogo wrote on Nov 12^th, 2012 at 5:08pm:

How about,Whisperer In The Darkness.
It has a deliberately retro fee. For a fannish movie it's pretty good.
Would also like to see The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey It's one of the few films that I've ever seen which juxtaposes Science Fiction content with the feel for real culture shock. Also fantasy with realism.

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Reply #73 - Nov 25^th, 2012 at 1:58am

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Checking the list, I see that both La Jetee and 12 Monkeys have played the Thon, the latter as recently as #31. Still, it would be nice to see the two shown together.
Jetee predicted a world wide plague, long before AIDS. And 12 Monkeys took a genuinely scary film and turned it into something rarely seen in our genre, a work that is genuinely contemporary, with a message, but not didactic.

Thars only two possibilities:Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are,or we're the most intelligent life in the universe.Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought-WaltKelly

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Reply #74 - Nov 25^th, 2012 at 5:33am

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After both La Jetee and 12 Monkeys, we could play La Puppe to complete the trilogy.

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