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  • Like it’s 1978

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    There goes another year-based movie marathon done and dusted (following: 1967, 1968, 1977, 1985, 1986, 1987). I was pretty excited to jump into 1978, as a lot of the movies I watched were pretty nostalgic for me. I ended up watching nine films (listed below), which I think acted as a good round-up of the type of popular films…

  • Like it’s 1977

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    Well, following my 1985, 1967, and 1986 movie marathons, I’m now done with my journey back to 1977. Just like for 1967, I kept it to down to 10 films, and it was pretty easy for me to come up with the list of films to watch — I immediately came up with all 10…

  • Suspiria

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    My first taste of Dario Argento was watching Phenomena earlier this year (yeah, I know, kinda silly that it took me so long) as part of my 1985 movie marathon. I ended up not liking that movie at all, but even then I knew that Suspiria was considered his true classic. Well, it is indeed,…

  • Smokey and the Bandit

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    I was really expecting not to enjoy watching this — I knew that I loved it as a kid, but I was sure it would feel too corny and probably unfunny to me now. Lo and behold, I had an absolute blast watching it again. Sure, a lot of it is nostalgia — and finding…

  • The Kentucky Fried Movie

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    Look, this was never a good movie, but as a kid, it was a pretty crazy movie to watch, and that’s probably more because of the nudity (boobs galore) than for the comedy. As a kid I loved the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker stuff (Airplane, Top Secret, Naked Gun, etc.) and this is pretty much a proto version of…

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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    When I started watching this I wasn’t really feeling it, and immediately was thinking that it was going to be a bit of a slog to get through. Sure, I had fond memories of enjoying it when I was a kid, but I hadn’t re-watched in ages. Then, after about the first half hour, I…

  • Pumping Iron

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    This is it, the film that gave us Arnold Schwarzenegger. As famous/infamous as this documentary is, I’d never seen it, and so didn’t really know much of what to expect (other than the famous scene where you see Arnie smoking a joint after he wins the title). I did enjoy this, although you have to…

  • Exorcist II: The Heretic

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    As I start winding down my 1977 movie marathon (when I started, I immediately picked the 10 movies I was going to watch), this is definitely one of the weirdest of the bunch. The original Exorcist is of course a classic (but to be honest, one that I haven’t revisited in years), and I think…

  • Saturday Night Fever

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    I’m definitely taking my time with my 1977 movie marathon (maybe it should be called a 1977 “crawl” instead), as I have to be in the mood. A couple of weeks ago I watched Saturday Night Fever for the first time in forever, and it made me realize that, I think I really like disco…

  • Slap Shot

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    Continuing with movies from 1977, this is one of those classics that I really loved as a kid — I mean, I am Canadian after all, and it’s not like we get a lot of movies about hockey. Watching it again now (for the first time in ages), it still has all those classic/fun moments…