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Rollercoaster (1977)
A Suspenseful Slice of 70's Films
I kinda miss the "Irwin Alllen" disaster era of movies. Although "Rollercoaster" wasn't made by him, it contained the genre. When I saw this film in the theatre I didn't realize or appreciated the living legends in the cast. Hey, it was 1977 and I was like...14 and "Star Wars" was the word on the street. Now, looking back in hindsight, I know better. I mean, Fonda AND Widmark (even though they were also in "The Swarm" tsk-tsk) on the big screen was a treat. After recently watching this film as an adult, I can honestly say... it was great! Now, I really appreciate the Hitchcock-edge suspense, crisp cinematography and fine editing. Not to mention the chilling score done by composer Lalo "Mission Impossible" Schifrin. FYI: the title soundtrack is called: "Apple Turnover" by Lalo himself. I echo the user who wrote that this is "In The Line of Fire" in an amusement park. Especially the film's high point stand-off scene when Timothy bottoms is surrounded by authorities holding the detonator to the bomb planted on the last car of the coaster. It has that same height of dialogue suspense when the FBI jams the detonator's frequency the way Eastwood said: "Just one thing...aim high" to Renee Russo in "In The Line of Fire". GREAT EDITING!!! If you were to play that "ITLOF" scene side by side when Richard Widmark says: "Take him!" "Take the son-of-a-bitch...we jammed his frequency," you'd definitely see the similarity. Maybe "ITLOF" director Wolfgang Peterson was inspired by "Rollercoaster" for that Eastwood scene. But that scene in "Rollercoaster" was more intense because it happened just as the riders were going through the loop which was all the film's hype...the first loop roller-coaster! A big thing back then. A special edition re-mastered DVD release would be nice today. We could all watch it in our OWN sensurround. THX!!!
Bizarre (1979)
Hilarious!!! I miss it!
The sketches on this show were edgy for it's time. I saw most of the series when it aired on syndicated TV. They would bleep out the obscene words with a loud "honk" car horn sound which made it even funnier! The Bigot Family sketches always cracked me up. Even though it was a "racey" sketch it always ended with Byner as the Irishman saying "but we still love each other". Another one of my faves was the McDrive-thrus. Every show had a different one like: McJoke- in-the-Box, McSex-in-the-Box, & McCheech & McChong-in-the-Box. Super Dave was also great. He was like a human Mr. Bill. This needs to be out on DVD...soon!