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[horrie hastings]

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

My favourite Go Go

 

[Captain Apollo]

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

 

[Generalzod]

 

[Captain Apollo]

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

This one is for all those who have a ticket in tomorrows 100 million Powerball draw

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Absolutely LOVE this song!

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Brilliant song from an awesome movie. One of the main reasons the movie was so great was the original soundtrack composed by Wang Chung. Luckily when I went to see them live back in 1987 they played most of the songs from the film in their set.

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[horrie hastings]

In 1974 two block buster movies hit the screen, story wise putting the characters of both stories in peril and danger and having the public flocking to see what would happen to them. Both movies had great opening sequences which set the tone of the movies and were completed with great John Williams scores.

As a 12 year old in 1975 viewing these movies were exciting, 50 years on i still watch these films from time to time, in my eyes one still holds up really well , the other i watch and pick all the faults to pieces but both are still guilty pleasures to watch and both have great opening sequences and great music scores from John Williams.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

In 1974 two block buster movies hit the screen, story wise putting the characters of both stories in peril and danger and having the public flocking to see what would happen to them. Both movies had great opening sequences which set the tone of the movies and were completed with great John Williams scores.

As a 12 year old in 1975 viewing these movies were exciting, 50 years on i still watch these films from time to time, in my eyes one still holds up really well , the other i watch and pick all the faults to pieces but both are still guilty pleasures to watch and both have great opening sequences and great music scores from John Williams.

We occasionally visited the cinema as an extended clan. Could be the latest Bond film. Or something like Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno. I was 5 and 7 respectively for those two lavish attractions. Fledgling attention span, so both seemed rather long. Grateful for the intermission.

Plethora of big-budget all-star cast WWII films in the 50s and 60s. Disaster movies followed suit in the 70s. Trend probably started with Airport 70.

 

[horrie hastings]

We occasionally visited the cinema as an extended clan. Could be the latest Bond film. Or something like Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno. I was 5 and 7 respectively for those two lavish attractions. Fledgling attention span, so both seemed rather long. Grateful for the intermission.

Plethora of big-budget all-star cast WWII films in the 50s and 60s. Disaster movies followed suit in the 70s. Trend probably started with Airport 70.

My father thought i was to young at 9 years old to see the Poseidon Adventure by myself so i never saw it till many years later. It was only that our class at school did well in a fund raising event so were treated to a movie, it was either Earthquake or The Towering Inferno but as a lot of the kids had already seen Earthquake we went to see The Towering Inferno. From the first second when the helicopter was flying over the ocean then above the woods before disappearing into the clouds then re appearing with the Golden Gate Bridge in front i was hooked, i wanted to go and see it again right after it finished, I finally saw Earthquake about 6 months later, had lined up a few times to see it but it would sell out before getting to the ticket windows, all in all even at 12 i found it quite underwhelming compared to Inferno but the action scenes were tense during the quake and the aftermath, it even had the gimmick of sensurround to send rumbles through the theatre during the quake and after shock and the dam breaking but all it did was give people headaches.

I still watch both movies as have both on Blu Ray, i still get hooked into Inferno from the opening scene but Earthquake i sit and pick to pieces , i still enjoy it but there are unintentional laughs especially the elevator scene and also i find the pyscho national guard scenes when he shoots the looters dead and also the other scenes with Victoria Principal disturbing and uncomfortable viewing now.

Anyway i digress, i posted those two opening scenes because of the great John Williams scores, i think both are are very underrated and add so much to the tensions of both movies, he also scored The Poseidon Adventure which is not as well known score wise but still effective. You mentioned also Airport which kick started the disaster cycle, another movie i find gripping and still enjoy watching.

 

[flippikat]

Here's one from waaaay waaay back (mid 1970!).

Iggy & the Stooges giving a crowd of hippie kids their introduction to punk attitude.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Here's one from waaaay waaay back (mid 1970!).

Iggy & the Stooges giving a crowd of hippie kids their introduction to punk attitude.

This clip is from Midsummer Rock which featured the Stooges, Alice Cooper, Traffic, Mountain, Grand Funk Railroad. Moot point whether the crowd were hippies.

Attendees at Stooges and MC5 shows were a different breed. Mutual confrontation was commonplace. Few years later, a line in the sleeve-notes of Metallic KO gives a flavour - "The audience, which consisted largely of bikers, was hostile and Iggy as usual fed on that hostility, soaked it up and gave it back and absorbed it all over again in an eerie frightening symbiosis."

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

i find the pyscho national guard scenes when he shoots the looters dead and also the other scenes with Victoria Principal disturbing and uncomfortable viewing now.

That National Guard scene is inexplicably bleak. Not sure what level of aberration it registers since I've never watched Earthquake all the way through. Perhaps Hollywood was still eager to make a point about the Kent State Uni shootings. Neil Young did it far better.

When I dip into a TV screening, always seem to hit on the motorcycle stunt scene. Like BMX Bandits starring Evel Knievel.

Victoria's hairdo is a bit disturbing.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

My father thought i was to young at 9 years old to see the Poseidon Adventure by myself so i never saw it till many years later.

This made me think of the British Board of Film Classification system. Presume there was an equivalent in Oz. A typical disaster movie would be rated PG (Parental Guidance, which meant children of all ages were allowed in accompanied by an adult).

Even Jaws was PG. Some films, such as Saturday Night Fever, had different X and PG versions.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Tonight's 1976 TOTPs re-run showed the promo film of Bryan Ferry's Let's Stick Together.

Didn't Paul Hogan create a spoof where the Jerry Hall part was played by a lady with less slender measurements? Can't find anything on YouTube. Maybe it was a dream.