Digital screening? Sorry, I'm only familiar with 3 strip Cinerama :)
Posted on 07/18/2008 11:13:37 AM PDT by qam1
Think of some of the movies you really want a chance to see on the big screen. The Wizard of Oz? Lawrence of Arabia? Star Wars? Would you ever, ever put War Games, the 1983 Matthew Broderick thriller, on that list? No, me neither.
But, lucky us, we will have the chance to see War Games in theaters this summer—on July 24, the movie will screen for one night only in select theaters across the country, thanks to NCM Fathom, a company that specializes in special theater events. It’s the 25th anniversary of the movie, and the Fathom website boasts that never-before-seen interviews will be part of the July 24 screening, along with—brace yourselves—exclusive footage from the sequel. War Games: The Dead Code appears to be one of those direct-to-video sequels starring a bunch of people you’ve never heard of, so I guess we can at least be thankful they’re not remaking the original. Yet.
Honestly, I like the idea of bringing back a classic movie and turning it into a one-night-only event. Not that War Games is what I immediately think of when I think “classics,” but it’s a fun movie with a lot of nostalgia power behind it that could bring 80s kids to the theaters in droves. Here in New York, outdoor screenings of movies like Back to the Future and Goonies draw huge crowds, but of course, those are free. So dig up your Matthew Broderick pinups, cue up the old Macintosh Lisa computer, and get ready to cause havoc with some of the most primitive computer technology ever seen in the movies.
Too bad she's so old now.
“The Day After.” The movie that warned us that after a thermonuclear war, everyone will look like Senator Alan Cranston (according to a National Review quip).
That's what I have now. Upgrading to a 300 bps acoustical modem next week!
It was part of a larger group of films about the then fast growing PC craze and how ‘computers can do anything man!’(Tron, Superman 3, Electric Dreams). The screenwirters later created ‘Project X’, another Matthew Broderick film about a goverment/military project gone wrong.
It’s also part of director John Badham’s ‘When Technology Attacks’ Trilogy (the others being Blue Thunder and Short Circuit).
>>Lawrence of Arabia?
Actually, this was remastered, restored, along with half an hour cut from the original commerical version and released limitedly in full 70MM glory around 1989.
Magnifico!
And Ally Sheedy is hot.”
was....
I can remember taking my girlfriend to see Wargames at a theater in a Chicago suburb.
As the movie let out, a loud thunderstorm over Lake Michigan was raging.
Lots of distant booming and backlit clouds.
A very cool special effects add on, courtesy of mother Nature.
You are speaking only for yourself, aren’t you?
I’m pretty sure it was Dabney Coleman, not Ally Sheedy in War Games. Ally was pretty hot though. And funny as hell playing that freak in The Breakfast Club.
Ok, so she hasn't had all the plastic surgery like fellow brat-packer Demi Moore, but she's still pretty good looking.
There were the “government gone evil” plots, but there was also a trend to inject video games into all kinds of SF movies. Whether they be Tron or A View To A Kill (Bond).
What did I learn watching ABC’s broadcast of The Day After? That there will be far fewer commercial interruptions after the bomb drops.
Now that’s a movie I would like to see again. DARPANET meets KREMLINNET.
And with war breaking out in Europe, they have a Brigadier General on Looking Glass. Yeah, right.
The good news about Fathom events is they aren’t running off of prints. Fathom pushes these things from their harddrive (or where ever they’re running it) to the satellite feed which then gets picked up by the theaters. They might not have the brightness up far enough but the process up to that point is out of the local theater’s hands. It’s a neat system, though so far it’s only been used for some fairly lame stuff like a Celine Dion concert, a U2 concert, and WarGames.
The Soviet loving dupes were used by Andropov to scream and howl against the Gipper’s placement of nuclear missiles into Western Europe, where they could hit Soviet targets.The left made movies like this back then openly implying that the dangerous US would cause or even wanted, a nuclear war. They never did admit they were wrong, and now they bring back their flawed thinking as nostalgia.
Ironically it was in this period of Soviet history, that THEY almost launched a Mutually Assured Destruction attack on the United States of America and our allies. The cause? A faulty "response" signal received on Russia's side. The man receiving the signal to launch dismissed it saying that there was nothing in the political climate to suggest that we had just launched an all out attack on Russia. He was repremanded and much later he was celebrated for not killing us all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov (September 26, 1983)
And I know that wiki isn't great for all details or biases, this at least gives people a name with which to start more in depth studies if they want.
If this is digital projection, then it may not have the bulb problems of a conventional projector. Someone else mentioned seeing Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen in it’s late 1980s reissue. It was a condition of the screening agreement that the projector be properly calibrated and tested; bulb brightness was a part of that.
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