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Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:26 pm Post subject:

The marquee is hilarious!

Jerry Lewis' Fantastic Voyage is Way ... Way Out!
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 9:30 pm Post subject:

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Actually what it says is:

Fantastic Voyage

also Jerry Lewis in

Way . . . Way Out
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Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 7:09 am Post subject:

True, but I was alluding to a visual gag that was in the National Lampoon. I couldn't find the original picture but here's a fake-up from Pack Place:

( http://atom.smasher.org/pack/?l1=Tonight%27s+Movies%3A&l2=Alien&l3=Meatballs&l4=Escape+Frm+Alcatraz )

(The original was a drive-in theater marquee.)

The idea was to take movie titles and make humorous connections.
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Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 4:20 pm Post subject:

Another thing I miss was the clever advertisements:

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Rocky Jones · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 5:12 pm Post subject:

alltare · Quantum Engineer Joined: 17 Jul 2015 Posts: 351

Hey Butch-
Was Bob Dobbs actually in that ad, or did you photoshop him into it?

EDIT:
"Who is Bob Dobbs?", you might ask. Find out here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._%22Bob%22_Dobbs

Gord Green · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:22 pm Post subject:

Oh yes, you saw a movie from "when you came in" to "when you left", and you stayed as long as you liked.

I remember when I was about 13 years old and taking a bus downtown alone to see the movie THE MUSIC MAN. I went to the first showing and loved it so much I just stayed in my seat through the second showing....then the third....fourth.......People came in dressed in ties and jackets, ladies in dresses etc. I watched that movie until the last patron left and the curtain finally closed.

I walked out of the theatre into the dark...It was early day when I went in. I took the bus home and was in big trouble since it was 11:00 pm and I was supposed to be home for dinner at 5.

Going to the movies was a different experience in the 60's.
Maybe a better one.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:01 pm Post subject:

Gord Green · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 8:48 pm Post subject:

I may have told this story before, but when STAR WARS first came out (There was no "A New Hope" then!) I had gone to Toronto Canada to view it a week before it was shown in the US (I had read the novelization of it which had been published months ahead of the showing and couldn't believe that a movie of that fanboys dream could ever be made)!.

Upon release in the US I took my then 12 year old son to see it. He sat silently and unmoving through the showing (unusual for him!) and as the lights came up he looked at me with a sense of wonder in his eyes and whispered... "Can we see it again?"

I was awestruck by his immediate love for this film and said, "Sure".

We watched it again....and even though he's now almost 50 years old he still has a terrific love of all things Star Wars.

God...I love that kid!

I had the same experience with my second son on viewing INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM ...but that's a story for another thread!
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