bunkerbuster1
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Sat Feb-09-08 03:44 PM
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Having just watched "J-Men Forever", a thought occurs |
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I'll preface by saying that I'd never watched this odd film from the Firesign Theater's Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman until last night, but I figured that based on my love for Mystery Science Theater's riffing on crappy old movies, I'd enjoy it. And enjoy it I did.
Here's the odd thought. J-Men Forever was released 28 years ago.
At the time of J-Men Forever's release, the Republic movie serials they were parodying as having been hopelessly square, ancient even, weren't a whole lot older than that.
So yeah, I watched, and I laughed, but in retrospect I'm not sure I was laughing at the antiquity of the Republic serials being lampooned, or the antiquity of the lampooning itself.
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Sat Feb-09-08 03:49 PM
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1. Used to see it regularly in the early 80s, probably on TBS as cable was narrow then. |
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Our family joined the J-Men Forever cult. Wayward daughter was pretty young but would manage to stay up to catch part of it most weekends. Probably explains the wayward part. :shrug:
We were in a western time zone, so we didn't have to be up as late as Atlanta residents to watch in those days.
VERY funny film and a nice spoof of Refer Madness type propaganda films from my wayward youth.
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Sat Feb-09-08 03:59 PM
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2. I think I read that it popped up often on USA Network's "Night Flight" |
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Edited on Sat Feb-09-08 04:00 PM by bunkerbuster1
I only vaguely remember that series.
As for your wayward one...that'll learn ya to let yer little girl stay up late!
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Sat Feb-09-08 04:06 PM
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3. oh man, I remember Night Flight!! |
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It was the best. More weird shit was shown on that "show" (wasn't it like a 2 or 4 hours block of television?) than I've ever seen on a cable channel. It was very good for me to have that as teenager in a not-exciting city in the pre internet days.
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Sat Feb-09-08 04:09 PM
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4. I don't recall ambling over to USA Network often on our cable system, but... |
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I'm pretty sure I have an old VCR recording of Wild in the Streets that'd been aired on Night Flight.
Which is probably a pretty damn funny movie, still, if you've never seen it.
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Sat Feb-09-08 04:13 PM
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5. That kid was a night owl in the womb. No hope for early to bed. |
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Would rather raise 'em smart than naive anyway ;)
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