Red Dawn and Crew

I remember when they opened up the then "new" movie theater in the city where I grew up. Originally our city had held the record for the first drive-in movie in the country, so when Sumner Redstone of Viacom fame decided to redevelop and build up his then Showcase Cinema business his first of many mega-plex movie theaters was in our little beach front city. I think I was eleven years old when they (National Amusements) opened that theater. We snuck into see "The World According to Garp," with Robin Williams which you had to do a lot back then, because there wasn't a PG-13 rating yet, and none of us were 13 in the first place. Usually this was done by getting someone's parent to buy the tickets for you, or standing outside the theater to ask some other left over 70's freedom loving person to buy them for us, but we always got to see every movie we wanted to one way or another.

Later that week we got to see "Tron," which I think was sold out, or I got voted out by my pals, I don't remember exactly. I'm amazed to think now that it was now over 25 years ago that we began spending so much time at that movie theater, where we would soon see others like the one I caught most of just today, "Red Dawn," the great eighties movies that highlights so well the reality of the Cold War my friends and I were brought up in. That film with the young Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze, and a host of other actors that would later make up crews for movies like,

"The Outsiders, and Dirty Dancing," really captured the essence of the cold war fear scenarios that weaved their way into our young psyches. I think myself and all my buddies hoped for and wanted the day when we might see Russian Troops parachuting in front of our school. We were ready. This movie made us believe, and showed us how. But by the time it came out in August of 1984 we were now 13 years old, not eleven like when the theater opened and we weren't in the fifth grade anymore like we were when they probably began writing that movie, but I can assure you when school opened that September, I wasn't the only kid looking out the east windows of the Paul Revere School onto the baseball field, hoping.

What I Did for Love

I noticed this somewhat silly film as I was flipped through the on-screen guide tonight while watching the Super-Tuesday results coming in from around the country, and I remembered that I saw this film a year or so ago. The movie came off as a little "B-ish" for me, but I liked how they did a decent job of bringing attention to some of the ways and methods of the environmental elite in their pursuit to move the boundaries of land ownership from helping working people, families, and industry. Since that same issue has effected my own life, I take interest in it enough to possibly even see it again sometime.

Death Wish

Charles Bronson; this guy's movies so capture the 70's. Well, he acted in a lot of films, so at least the Death Wish film, as controversial as it was, captured those days. Today I caught Death Wish II before the Superbowl. There's a Death Wish Marathon on AMC today, but I couldn't handle the overload. I saw Death Wish, the original, a few weeks ago. One at a time s'enough for me.

Make History Patriots.

The In-Laws

Michael Douglas - kind of stupid, but still a little funny.

Brainstorming -

I love movies. I so miss the days at Unicorn when there was always good friends around, and movies on the television. Those were great days.

Man - I'm sore, being sick sucks.

I've thought about brainstorming films I've seen. Maybe it's a ridiculous idea to try to keep a record of the movies we've seen, but lots of people keep records of the books they read, and heck with easily accessible technology like that available with these blogs, maybe anything is possible.

There is of course movies like those I saw as a kid.

Jaws, Jaws II, Jaws III, ad infinitum,

Rambo, ( ?)

Rocky, Rocky II, III, IV, V - all on the big screen.

I also really enjoyed the Matrix movies of the late nineties.

The Matrix, II, III -

Halloween, and that terrible series that we were all willing to shell out for.

Friday the 13th, and that whole round.

And heck, there's ( Chitty, Chitty Bang Bang,)

( Mary Poppins, )

( The Love Bug ) and

( Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.)

Lara Croft, Tomb Raider

I never really had much interest in seeing this genre of films in Angelina Jolie's career, but I'm sick the last couple of days, and there isn't much else to do besides watch the boob tude, rest, and sweat out this fever. I'm not really into these kind of films in fact, they're everything I don't really enjoy, and they're about topics that if I were writing film would be the exact topics I'd like to write against. Maybe one day. We need to get our inspiration from somewhere. I know what I want to write, and it's coming along. There's just so much stuff I want to get out. That's the real challenge.

Brubaker

Starring Robert Redford - 70's movie takes on a good look at corruption and horrible depth men will go to for personal gain, - even in a prison where this film was set.

He loses his job for doing it well. I can relate to that. A great film about corruption.