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Movies From Within My Lifetime
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Movies From Within My Lifetime
In this thread I will review 1 movie from every year since I was born. That would be 1969 to present. As of right now I have at least a movie to cover every year except for 2011. Which hopefully I will have covered by the time I get there. For most years I have plenty choices. I won't say what movie I will watch for each year until the time comes. As my mood changes too much from one day to the next.

I am expecting this to be a long running thread... this isn't something I expect to zoom through. But I hope to keep plugging at it till the finish line at year 2011.... before the end of the year 2011.

Wish me Luck!
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1969
The year of my birth... Being fairly new to anything pre-1980 there is a good chance at me watching something I never seen before.

My choices:
Titles in Italic are from my Unwatched Pile
- Attack of the Monsters
- Blood of Dracula's Castle
- Destroy All Planets
- Dracula vs. Frankenstein
- Easy Rider
- Nightmare in Wax
- The Over the Hill Gang
- Topaz
- The Wild Bunch
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Both Easy Rider and The Wild Bunch were industry changers. Why not try the one you haven't seen yet?
If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.

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I considered Easy Rider... but ended up deciding on a horror movie... for the reason I was just in the mood for a horror movie.
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Both Easy Rider and The Wild Bunch were industry changers. Why not try the one you haven't seen yet?


The Directors Cut 

And have Chinatown for 1974
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Some other recommendations off the top of my head from some decades.

The French Connection-1971

Badlands or The Long Goodbye-1973

Night Moves or The Man Who Would Be King-1975 (No this is not a disco film)

The Duellists-1977

Raging Bull-1980

The King of Comedy or Fitzcarraldo-1982

Local Hero-1983

Brazil-1985

Glory-1989

Awakenings-1990

Heavenly Creatures-1994 (directors cut)

Twelve Monkeys-1995

LA Confidential-1997

The Legend of 1900-1998

Battlefield Earth-2000 (Just cause it's so bad)

Children of Men-2006

There Will Be Blood-2007

Let The Right One In-2008

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-2009
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Title: Blood of Dracula's Castle
Year: 1969
Director: Al Adamson
Rating: NR
Length: 84 Min.
Video: Widescreen
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: N/A

Stars:
John Carradine
Paula Raymond
Alexander D'Arcy
Robert Dix
Gene O'Shane
Barbara Bishop

Plot:
A chilling, blood-curdling tale about a young couple that inherits an old castle but finds it already inhabited by a crusty butler, an obsessed killer and a couple of vampires, who kidnap and sacrifice young girls in order to live on and on....

Extras:
Scene Access

My Thoughts:
This movie is in the boxset Gorehouse Greats Collection that I bought a year or so ago. Granted I got the set very cheap... but the quality of this video is more then lacking. There was actually green, blue, red and white  vertical lines off and on through-out the entire movie! I sure hope that the other 11 movies in this set looks better then this one.

I got to say this movie didn't impress me all that much. First of all this is a vampire movie (plus some). And what do we get from the vampires? Sitting around the castle talking and drinking their blood from glasses. This movie looks to me like something that Mystery Science Theater 3000 would use for one of their shows. It would probably be more entertaining then the actual movie! Even with that said... there is some scenes here that peaked my interest... unfortunately when that was the case... they just couldn't keep up with it. Watching this movie from (as I said) the Gorehouse Greats Collection... I have to ask... where is the gore?  Hopefully the other movies in this set won't be so disappointing.

My Rating: 1.5/5
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1970
In this year... The first episode of soap opera All My Children is broadcast... An earthquake (Richter Scale 7.7 magnitude) at Yunnan, China... U.S. ground troops withdraw from Cambodia... Jimi Hendrix dies.

My choices:
Titles in Italic are from my Unwatched Pile
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes
- Black Brigade
- Blood Mania
- The Dunwich Horror
- An Evening with Edgar Allen Poe
- Flesh Feast
- How Awful About Allen
- Love Story
- M*A*S*H
- Over the Hill Gang Rides Again
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1969
In this year... The first episode of soap opera All My Children is broadcast... An earthquake (Richter Scale 7.7 magnitude) at Yunnan, China... U.S. ground troops withdraw from Cambodia... Jimi Hendrix dies.

1970?
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Thank You Bob! I knew I missed something when I quoted the other one (the things I do to save some typing!) 
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Pete, you always have the best ideas!  I may have to copy this sometime. 
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Thanks... but this one I actually stole from a friend. 
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Title: Love Story
Year: 1970
Director: Arthur Hiller
Rating: PG
Length: 100 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono, French: Dolby Digital: Mono, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Ali MacGraw
Ryan O'Neal
John Marley
Ray Milland
Russell Nype
Katharine Balfour

Plot:
Everyone loves "Love Story!" One of the most romantic movies ever made also remains one of the most enduringly popular. This heartfelt 1970 tale of the love of a lifetime — the most successful Paramount movie up to that time — received seven Academy Award® nominations (including Best Picture) and won one for Francis Lai’s magnificent score.

As filming was underway on "Love Story," the filmmakers knew they had something special — so special that Eric Segal was simultaneously shaping his best-selling novel from his own screenplay. Stars Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw each received Academy Award® nominations and became overnight movie sensations for their poignant portrayals of a young couple who cross social barriers, marry and ultimately face the greatest crisis of all.

Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
I will admit... I was a little hesitant choosing this one right now as it isn't my normal fair that I enjoy. But more then one person wanted me to review this movie.... so thought I would give it a go. I found I really have mixed feelings about this one. The story is a good one for the most part... even though they had to make things go a little quickly to fit everything in. But that is OK... I can handle that. The main problem I had with this one is that all the characters are just unlikable. I couldn't relate to any of them. I main guy in this one I found to be stubborn to the extreme. Really pig-headed. And the main girl I found to be awful snobbish for someone coming from such a poor background.... the way she acted... the way she talked... pretty much everything. The did improve on her... but to me it was no more then too little.... too late. And I really didn't like the supporting characters any more then the main characters. But despite all that it has a good story... and I did find myself being drawn in. Especially towards the end... which without going into too much detail hit a little too close to home for me.

My Rating: 3/5
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1971
In this year... sitcom All In The Family debuts.... Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.... Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars.... Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.

My choices:
Titles in Italic are from my Unwatched Pile
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes
- Dirty Harry
- Duel
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes
- If Tomorrow Comes
- Lady Frankenstein
- Legacy of Blood
- Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
- The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
- A Tattered Web
- Web of the Spider
- The Werewolf and the Vampire Woman
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From my collection, if I were to partake in this adventure:
1934
Blue Steel/Hell Town (John Wayne).... Charlie Chan in London .... Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) .... Dames (Joan Blondell) .... Evelyn Prentice (William Powell, Myrna Loy) .... Four Frightened People (Claudette Colbert).... The Gay Divorcee (Fred Astaire).... It Happened One Night (Clark Gable).... It's a Gift (W.C. Fields).... L'Atalante (Michel Simon, Dita Parlo).... The Little Minister (Katharine Hepburn). .... The Lost Patrol (Victor McLaglen).... Man of Aran (Colman "Tiger" King, Maggie Dirrane) .... The Man Who Knew Too Much (Leslie Banks).... Manhattan Melodrama (Clark Gable, Myrna Loy).... Les misérables (Harry Baur, Eclipse Series 4) .... Murder at the Vanities (Carl Brisson).... Search for Beauty (Buster Crabbe, Ida Lupino).....The Old Fashioned Way (W. C. Fields).... Operator 13 (Marion Davies, Gary Cooper) .... Red Ensign (Leslie Banks).... Sadie McKee (Joan Crawford).... The Scarlet Empress (Marlene Dietrich, The Criterion Collection) .... The Scarlet Pimpernel (Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon).... Spitfire (Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young).... The Thin Man (William Powell, Myrna Loy).... Thirty Day Princess / Kiss and Make Up (Cary Grant).... The Three Stooges: Curly Classics .... Treasure Island (Wallace Beery).... Twentieth Century (John Barrymore. Carole Lombard).... You're Telling Me! (W.C. Fields)
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Just a few from 1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Caine Mutiny, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dial M for Murder, On the Waterfront, Rear Window, Them!, Elephant Walk.
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