This looks like the sports betting bookies' room at Casesar's Palace in Vegas now...
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.
Netflix has it.
That’s not a recent photo of her. It looks like it was taken in the ‘90s.
This looks like the sports betting bookies' room at Casesar's Palace in Vegas now...
“No bucks, no Buck Rogers!”
Teacher: "Can anyone tell me who came up with the idea of reproduction without sex."
Kid: "Your wife?"
I love “The Right Stuff” although (of course) it could not measure up to Tom Wolfe’s book. Great to see Gordon Cooper (RIP) get the attention he deserved, although my fave scenes were at the beginning about Yeager.
Interesting. Never did see that.
(And Jason Robards was in that one, too?)
Badham, of course, directed one of my top ten "desert island" films:
Love the Right Stuff. Inspired me to read Tom Wolfe. In a strange display of my own personal weirdness I didn’t get around to actually READING Right Stuff until a good 20 years after seeing the movie. Read all of Wolfe’s other stuff, picked up new books the minute they came out, just never got around to reading the book that spawned the movie that made me a fan of his. Until I spotted it in a used book store one day and realized that silliness.
After the atomic wars, the American diet will consist primarily of equine carrion and Baby Ruth.
It’ll be really interesting to see how commercial theaters ultimately transform with all the digital stuff out there. I don’t buy the view that home theaters will kill movie theaters. I see the former as more of a catalyst. Sort of like what happened decades ago with the advent of TV.
They both were. Hold on to your hat here...Dabney is a man. Yup. Ally is..was..the pretty young thing.
I find this humorous because for the longest time, I thought her name was Dabney Coleman. I read the credits on the poster, and saw "Dabney Coleman" and assumed that was her name.
Rather embarrassing when talking about what actresses you have the hots for with you buddies, and you tell them its a guy. Oh lord, the looks on their faces when I said that. LOL
The big thing right now it’s doing is giving them a revenue stream other than Hollywood releases. Sure so far they aren’t terribly exciting but it’s a new thing and excitement costs money. If these cheap ones succeed they’ll get more money for bigger events. And actually U2 was a big event, I hate the band but they’re very popular.
The smart money is the Super Bowl. The NFL can be a pain to work with but if they can make the NFL happy that’s a serious cash cow.
And then of course there is the eventual possibility of ending prints. Prints are on the way out already, even non-satellite hooked up digital screens don’t get prints, but the satellite thing could be really hastening it. Film can are going to join filmstrip on the ash heap of history.
Hey for a second there, I thought you were WOPR! ;-D
Why would anybody want to go see WarGames? It's on five nights a week on cable, LOL
And possibly Matthew Broderick, the way his career's been going :)
Silly me didn't think it would translate well! LMAO!
For sure! LOL!!!!
Mr Ed Alert: Did Sarah J. really think nobody would notice???
Boston Herald | 7/16/08
Posted on 07/17/2008 12:40:51 PM PDT by llevrok
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I don’t know about that for sure... the other night, Journey to the Center of the Earth was playing at the local theater in 3D, hence taking up the theater’s only digital projector, and they were running a Glen Beck show in another theater that definitely did NOT have a digital projector, and I remember a few months ago they were showing an anime thing in two theaters, and neither of them were digital (cause that was when I went to see Narnia in digital).
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