A Boy and His Dog (1975) BIGGEST TURD and DISAPPOINTMENT...

I don't think it's complete garbage, it has its moments. The dog is pretty winning. The novel is not amongst Ellison's written works that I rank very highly anyway, so I didn't go into the film expecting much and therefore wasn't disappointed; it's pretty much standard issue 70's era big-screen SF hokiness, not much worse than a lot of what was being churned out at the time.

But "Damnation Alley" had "Sound 360"!!!

Actually you might. I was the projectionist at the Hyatt Theatre in Burlingame, Ca. when the sound engineer from 20th Century Fox came by to set up "Sound 360"...he left without doing anything. Dolby optical stereo was new, but Sound 360 used four track magnetic prints. These had right, left, center and surround tracks. Sound 360 had a center track, but the surround track was separated into right, left, and rear. The Hyatt had no rear speakers. The engineer left the setup alone. So the intended rear track played to the right and left of the house. The other tracks played behind the screen. I'll bet this was the case in many theaters that played this embarrassing film, that Fox had shelved intending to not release. They changed their minds when "Star Wars" was such a massive hit.

However, it did have one excellent scene, the one where a retaliation missle strike is launched.