Man alive, I saw 'Hooper' in July, maybe early August of 1978 in Long Island at age 17. I was earning my private pilot license that summer and the whole conglomeration was one grand time! Few moments in my life were better.
Wow they sure don't make movies like those anymore! Lots of great ones that I will never forget, now if somebody will invent a time machine so we could re-live those good ol days.... Kids today don't know what they're missing....😊 You never cease to amaze me Fred, watching your channel is a great blast from the past! You're the best vlogger on RU-vid without a reasonable doubt! 👍
There sure were a lot of Rated R movies advertising on TV when we were growing up. We had a more twisted childhood than I recall. Loved the Porky's ad especially.
I do remember the films that came out after PG13 was implemented were simply films that used to get an R rating for just a couple of bits of language and shots of someone in their underwear or something innocuous in today's culture.
Ah yes,back when you could walk in a theater anytime,instead of waiting for the crowd to come out at the end,& you could stay for the next showing.BTW,the 1st hour of "Murder By Death" is one of the funniest hours on film.The 2nd hour went downhill fast.More good memories Fred.
That, and I heard "showing at a theater or drive-in near you" as well. I went to quite a few drive-in movies, long ago, but are there any more drive-in theaters?
Glad to hear some are still cooking. The weather is perfect for drive-ins here in California, but demand just petered out in the 1980's. I know of only one drive-in in my county, and it is only used for swap meets and car shows.
I can name three that I go to in PA: Becky's in Walnutport, Shankweiler's in Orefield, and the Circle on Business Rt. 6 in Dickson City. Great places to see movies.
I remember so many of these trailers. The chase scene, in "Gone in 60 Seconds" is one of the greatest of all time! And that yell from Dom DeLuise is stuck in my head forever. Thanks Fred.
This was mesmerising. I wish I was born in those times and could see those films fresh. Today's movies are all about left-wing propaganda and virtue signalling. Thanks keep em coming
I had seen almost all of them, seriously. Except for two, American Pop, and Heroes. The bulk of the others were moderate to very good, but those two, looked really good. Thank you for posting !!
me too. I am honest when I say I hate the internet and the smartphone era. It has spread stupid ideologies to people and is the cause for this crazy world we are living in. I remember we used to have to talk to each other to find things out. I'd have to call my uncles and aunts and cousins if I didn't know the name of a song, or whatever. I don't know, the world was so much more wholesome in general.
ahh yes here in australia back in the 1970's and early 80's the routine was slide presentation short feature intermission and the main feature and the session times 11am.2,5 and 8PM
Fred, a great one. Thank you for including Sorcerer, one of my favorite films with a soundtrack from one of my favorite bands. An extremely underrated film. Got goosebumps when I heard the Tangerine Dream music. I probably saw about 90% of these films in the theater. A great time for movies.
Film historians say it was the last great period of American film making. I love Tangerine Dream and of course their score for Thief is fantastic. As for Sorcerer, I agree: Underrated. Didn't make a big splash in 1977 because, being Friedkin's Exorcist followup, people were confused by the name. But I saw it twice at the theater.
I just added "The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu" to my DVD collection a couple of months ago. Yes, I saw it in the theatre when it first came out, and yes, it was unfortunate that Peter Sellers died before it was released (after having just made a huge new impression on the word for "Being There"), and yes, it was pretty silly. But I had to get it for the scene where Sellers and Helen Mirren duet on the song "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow".
The scene in question, with a bit of lead-in context, can be found here at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iBAZ_DQk0C4.html It's a real song, a big hit in 1895, and unfortunately they only do the chorus and not the whole thing.
I remember when a R movie rating was only at the movie theater or drive-in. Now you can't turn the television on without seeing what was once considered not safe for children viewing. I feel sorry for todays youth!
4:23 I always thought J.D. Spradlin played the sleazy big oil man/lawyer/politician role perfectly. It turns out there is a good reason for that. Before he became an actor he was a lawyer, big oil man, and political operative. He put "a very particular set of skills" to a good use.
A great compilation of trailers that remind us of a time when Hollywood was largely fueled by cocaine! Some great films but a lot of B movies that are only great because they were so bad, they're good.
Wow! Thanks so much for this compilation! American Pop Murder By Death The Scars Of Dracula / Horror Of Frankenstein Foul Play Private Benjamin Galaxina Gone In 60 Seconds Hardcore The Formula The Driver The Dunwich Horror Heroes Logan's Run The Eiger Sanction The Electric Horseman High Anxiety One On One Hooper The Fog Love At First Bite The Fiendish Plot Of Dr. Fu Manchu Semi-Tough Never A Dull Moment Porky's The First Deadly Sin Popeye The Fury Funny Lady Rolling Thunder Saturn 3 Sorcerer Firestarter Stir Crazy Stripes Superman II The Black Hole Raiders Of The Lost Ark The End
@@FredFlix you're welcome fred since my phone is so messed up Some of your videos wont let me make a comment. On them still cant still amazing. My friend
I actually saw The Fog because it was in my mom's VHS collection (Mom being a HUGE horror fan) -- it was pretty good! And of course the Indiana Jones movies (at least the first three ones) were super timeless; Raiders of the Lost Ark is a classic! I love any comedy with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in it because it's guaranteed to be superb, and I would have loved to have seen The Driver and the original Gone in 60 Seconds! Private Benjamin with Goldie Hawn is another timeless classic, mostly because Hawn is pretty amazing; she helped sell the otherwise pretty cheesy First Wives' Club, which in lesser hands would've been AWFUL. Murder By Death I know because Truman Capote was in it, so I'd be interested in seeing that movie. All these movies either predate me or were released when I was no older than two or three years old, but a lot of them appeared to be pretty damn awesome. How I wish movies were like that these days!
Plenty of movie trailers from the '70's+. I remember most of them. Too bad I did not see most of them! (They just were not my taste at the time.) Of the ones I did see, such as Popeye, The Black Hole, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Logan's Run, Raiders I thought was an "A" movie. I would rate Black Hole a "C" and Logan's Run a "B." Even though Robbin Williams was the star of Popeye and there was lots of production value, I would give it a "C" -- mainly because I could not understand what he was saying most of the time! (He took Popeye's mumble a little too far for my ears to decode.)
So very many talented performers in so very many forgettable films. Or, as Theodore Sturgeon proclaimed, 90% of everything is crap. It's a wonder the film industry survived on the few diamonds in the bunch.
