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Nov 22^nd, 2014 at 6:45pm

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Yeah, yeah. Classic movies. Ho-hum.

How about suggestions for your:

MARATHON FROM HELL

!??

Like THIS tasty entry:

THE FLYING SAUCER (1950). Way back at SF/22 our collaboration with quixotic classic film distributor Wade Williams procured us this tasty morsel of........very little! Reams of stock footage. A guy wandering around Alaska. And, wandering. Walking, flying and smoking cigarettes (at one point he muses about the pristine beauty of our 50th state and then casually pollutes it with a cigarette butt!). There's a lame Commie spy plot involved and then in the last 30 seconds of the seemingly endless flick we get to see.........The Flying Saucer! All in glorious 35mm film! Just think of all the great movies forever lost on celluloid, but there was this stinker!

EVIL L.A.

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Reply #1 - Nov 22^nd, 2014 at 10:51pm

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Ah yes, Flying Saucer, truly pointless and made only so there could be a film called "Flying Saucer" in theaters before the phrase faded into obscurity.

ALMOST as dull is SF7's Slithis (AKA Spawn of the Slithis.) One of those films made because someone knew someone who could make a cool monster costume. With a wooden lead actor and a creature spawned from "organic mud" both of whom were equally frozen faced.
It might be the dullest (non art) film to play the marathon, if it weren't for this guy.

For those of you who follow us on Facebook, forgive me for inflicting this on you again. But there is overacting and then there is this guy who literally woke up the entire theater crowd. Unfortunately he did not stay in the movie long and most marathoids faded back to sleep convinced he'd been just another bad dream.

Alas the audience at the marathon did NOT receive the Slithis Survival Kit mentioned on the poster

da EVIL Bunny has spoken

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Reply #2 - Nov 23^rd, 2014 at 3:02pm

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Roger Ebert pointed out that films should be judged by different standards depending on their aspirations and resources. To make a true turkey you have to waste a lot of resources.
So. In no particular order, my Marathon from Hell:
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Battlefield Earth
Highlander 2, The Quickening
Adventures of Pluto Nash
Waterworld
Lost In Space
The Core
Zardoz (Sorry camp lovers)
and for David the P.
Howard the Duck

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 #3 - Nov 23^rd, 2014 at 3:24pm

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Ebert makes a decent point there (I think that was why he and Siskel dropped their old 'Stinker of the Week' segment since they usually just beat up on low budget crapola). BUT, the Marathon has had its share of low budget "waste of resources", too (same goes for Ohio from what I've read).

pogo wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2014 at 3:02pm:

Roger Ebert pointed out that films should be judged by different standards depending on their aspirations and resources. To make a true turkey you have to waste a lot of resources.
So. In no particular order, my Marathon from Hell:
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Battlefield Earth
Highlander 2, The Quickening
Adventures of Pluto Nash
Waterworld
Lost In Space
The Core
Zardoz (Sorry camp lovers)
and for David the P.
Howard the Duck

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Reply #4 - Nov 25^th, 2014 at 2:20pm

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alphaville would be pretty hellacious

PANTS UP. DON'T LOOT.

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Reply #5 - Nov 25^th, 2014 at 3:08pm

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kirok wrote on Nov 25^th, 2014 at 2:20pm:

alphaville would be pretty hellacious

I just saw the new 4K restoration of ALPHAVILLE on the big screen.

THANK YOU for reminding me TO
recommend it for the Marathon, Kirok!

It's an EXCELLENT movie!

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Reply #6 - Nov 25^th, 2014 at 4:45pm

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it will be a snoozefest. it will get the dreaded clap off.

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Reply #7 - Nov 25^th, 2014 at 5:23pm

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kirok wrote on Nov 25^th, 2014 at 4:45pm:

it will be a snoozefest. it will get the dreaded clap off.

Philistines!

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Reply #8 - Nov 25^th, 2014 at 10:10pm

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L.A. Connection wrote on Nov 25^th, 2014 at 5:23pm:

kirok wrote on Nov 25^th, 2014 at 4:45pm:

it will be a snoozefest. it will get the dreaded clap off.

Philistines!

Art films from that era are pretty notorious for being kinda dull.

Oddly I remember trying to watch this film several times, it used to show up on Channel 56 Sunday afternoon movies.

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Reply #9 - Nov 25^th, 2014 at 10:41pm

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You want art, you got it.
From SF29, our sole excursion to the Dedham Community Theater comes this infamous film
A large international cast, every one of whom seems to speak a different language onscreen.
But the worst part was the film refused to end. I'm half convinced it's still running.
I found a DVD of it at a rental store sale which claimed it featured an even longer uncut version. How can something be longer than eternity!

Poster image stolen from Rosemary's Baby

It only LOOKS interesting.

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Reply #10 - Nov 26^th, 2014 at 11:15am

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L.A. Connection wrote on Nov 25^th, 2014 at 3:08pm:

kirok wrote on Nov 25^th, 2014 at 2:20pm:

alphaville would be pretty hellacious

I just saw the new 4K restoration of ALPHAVILLE on the big screen.
THANK YOU for reminding me TO
recommend it for the Marathon, Kirok!
It's an EXCELLENT movie!

   In your diseased opinion. In actuality, it's a stupid, boring, pretentious, incoherent piece of rancid garbage (like everything else made by the supremely untalented & worthless Godard) which will narcotize the audience into a stupor from which it will never recover.
   It never ceases to amaze me how many of the ever-dwindling people on this board are in awe of utter crap. Snowpiercer & Moonraker arent bad enough? Lets run The Postman, too.
   Jesus.

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

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Reply #11 - Nov 26^th, 2014 at 12:07pm

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Just like Tarkovsky's SOLARIS, Godard's ALPHAVILLE will likely remain in the marathon of the mind. Both are very good, but, aren't "Marathon movies". I know that, and so have the marathon programmers since the beginning.

But, to compare SNOWPIERCER and ALPHAVILLE to Costner's bloated disaster show's David's tiny narrow perspective on what constitutes a good movie more than anything.

David the Projectionist wrote on Nov 26^th, 2014 at 11:07am:

L.A. Connection wrote on Nov 26^th, 2014 at 3:37am:

There won't be many more movies shot and shown that way (a travesty, but, a sad reality for now).

Not true. Tarantino is shooting his latest in 65, & intends to release it fairly wide on 70mm.

I guess David's dyslexia is kicking in again. He seems to have read "many more" as "no more".

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Reply #12 - Nov 30^th, 2014 at 7:16pm

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as i've said many times before, badness does not preclude a movie from being shown at the marathon. i did see slowlaris at the harvard film archive with a packed house and the reaction was very positive.
if some people love alphaville and some people hate it, it should be shown.

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Reply #13 - Dec 2^nd, 2014 at 3:10am

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SLITHIS
might surprise folks who hated it at SF/7 all those years ago. One of our former Ohio Marathon guests, Carter, and I saw SLITHIS in a nice 35mm print a couple of years ago and were entertained (AND we did get our Survival Kits!) Is it a "good" movie? Nope, but, decent retro schlock. Of course, at SF/7 folks were lead to believe they were seeing a decent new film and that certainly wasn't the case.

DEMONLOVER
- Yes, there is a cut that is Fourteen minutes longer than the general release USA version! SF/41? Nah, it's an arthouse film that didn't work on its own terms, let alone at the Marathon (not nearly as bad as some would have it, though).

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Reply #14 - Dec 2^nd, 2014 at 8:50pm

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Tarkovsky's SOLARIS would be pretty painful at 2AM, but I think, if programed correctly, the Soderbergh remake may work nicely with our crowd.

Dinner break? What's a dinner break?

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