Posted on 12/22/2022 3:38:52 PM PST by simpson96
I remember the Mad Magazine parody “The Poop-Side Down Adventure.” I thought it was hilarious. And I’ve, to this day, never seen the actual Poseidon Adventure movie.
That movie (Poseidon) was so blaringly popular, I vowed that I would never pay to see it.
I’m the type, where, if 9/10ths of everybody is shouting how wonderful some popular entertainment is, I don’t make plans to watch it, at least not for a few years.
Vestiges of the contrarian or rebel in me who doesn’t want to conform. I never watched a full episode of Friends while they were on either.
noticed that too. very cool.
I lucked into seeing a 35mm print at Yale (which they acquired) a few years back, and it was breathtaking. This scene especially. Unmatched clarity and depth of shadow and color. These 35mm showings should be a regular occurance.
I saw this movie back when it was first released!
Years later I was watching the Sylvester Stallone movie DAYLIGHT(1996)
I suddenly realized who was going to be killed off next and how it would be done, It was just a rewrite of The Poseidon Adventure under the New York harbor.
Yes, it was MAD. I was 19 at the time and still buying a copy each month as I thought it was so funny. Do you remember from the same year, "True Fat" a satire of John Wayne in True Grit?
Now I understand the look of the portraits of the times before photography.
Today your cellphone can record in the dark using just the ambient light. I also have a Wyze security camera that can see in the dark almost like it is day and in color and it cost about $35. My fancy Canon R6 can display the color of a gas nebula like Orion nebula in the viewfinder which is not as good as what can be recorded.
I hear you. I’m also a contrarian. With a few exceptions.
I remember hating station wagons. Now they don’t make them anymore (because nobody wants them) and I decide to buy a Ford Flex because it’s not all angles and swoopiness - just a square box with four doors and a tailgate. Basically a station wagon.
I watched Friends because I like sit-coms, but never a second of Dallas. And don’t give a Kardasian one second of my life’s attention.
I did watch Horse Feathers.
I don't know what they have to say,
It makes no difference anyway,
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I'm against it!
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