Post by mikef6 on Mar 26, 2017 20:03:53 GMT
Saw “High Noon” (1952) several times at the drive-in as a child (my father’s favorite movie). Although just about everything about it enthralled me, but it was the claustrophobic, un-western, brutal, almost realistic fight between Coop and Lloyd Bridges in the stable with them grappling with each other and rolling under the horses hooves that always fascinated me.
“D.O.A.” (1950) was an early thriller seen as a very young lad. It’s plot was so complicated that I couldn’t figure it out until I saw it again on TV (this was, of course, before home video) about 20 years later. The unforgettable image from that first viewing was when the doctor in the emergency room turned out the light and held up the glowing test tube to demonstrate the poison in Edmund O’Brien’s body.
When “Ghost Busters” (1984) came around, I already had a family with young children. Seeing it at the theater was a family event. The revelation of the “monster” coming to destroy the world is probably the loudest, most explosive belly laugh of any movie of the 1980s – and maybe the ‘90s as well. I’ll never forget the deafening roar of laughter in the theater. Maybe this moment would be on my kids’ (who are no longer children) list if they were to have one.
“D.O.A.” (1950) was an early thriller seen as a very young lad. It’s plot was so complicated that I couldn’t figure it out until I saw it again on TV (this was, of course, before home video) about 20 years later. The unforgettable image from that first viewing was when the doctor in the emergency room turned out the light and held up the glowing test tube to demonstrate the poison in Edmund O’Brien’s body.
When “Ghost Busters” (1984) came around, I already had a family with young children. Seeing it at the theater was a family event. The revelation of the “monster” coming to destroy the world is probably the loudest, most explosive belly laugh of any movie of the 1980s – and maybe the ‘90s as well. I’ll never forget the deafening roar of laughter in the theater. Maybe this moment would be on my kids’ (who are no longer children) list if they were to have one.