Thread started by sinaphile at 08.5.09 - 12:43 am

So Joe Dante, director of such fine films as Gremlins and The Howling, is doing his guest programming bit at the New Beverly Cinema starting tomorrow (which includes LOTS of guests and AWESOME shit). On Sunday he has scheduled one of my ALL-TIME favorite films, Miracle Mile. This movie is rad because it can *also* have a ride built around it where you can basically go & visit all the places they go to IN THE MOVIE.
So I was thinking about doing that before I hit up the theater.
Anyone else in for a ride based on a crazy & awesome apocalyptic piece of insane cinema? If so, lemme know. I'd love to have company. If not, please check out the New Beverly's calender (http://www.newbevcinema.com/calendar.cfm)... there's great shit happening, and Joe Dante is a super nice guy, and his programs are always rockin'.
Hope to see some of you there!!!!



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Depressing movie with a foreboding tone all the way through it.

I popped in "The Postman" right after watching this one for the first time to get me out of that "ugh" mode.




bentstrider
08.5.09 - 4:24 am

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one of my favorite films for twenty years. flawed, but brilliant.



kurtz
08.5.09 - 8:16 am

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Yeah....but I love it. *shrugs* what canya do? I like dark shit some times....And I don't think it's that depressing actually, but that's just me. Plus I love the "LA-ness" of it...and now that I ride? EVEN BETTER....Plus, the movie that they're showing with it at the New Bev? Matinee? NOT AT ALL like Miracle Mile. Seriously. I PROMISE. :) :)



sinaphile
responding to a comment by bentstrider
08.5.09 - 9:11 am

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Ha, that movie is on its way to me right now in netflix. I love that movie. I just got done watching Tommy lee Jones in Volcano.



thegodofthor
08.5.09 - 9:22 am

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If anything, they should at least add a nod to a scene from the movie in some "Day After" type movie.
A scene featuring a roving band of scavengers fighting against a thinly stretched Nat'l Guard/ remnants of LAPD.
Someone gets thrown by an explosion and into the cockpit of the partially-submerged Bell 206 in the tarpits.



bentstrider
responding to a comment by sinaphile
08.5.09 - 11:41 am

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Dude- come out to the New Beverly on Sunday night & meet the director & Joe Dante & see it on a big screen! And come for a ride beforehand! I'm gonna go even if no one else wants to go. I'll take pix of my damn self by Johnny's & the Tar Pits!! :D



sinaphile
responding to a comment by thegodofthor
08.6.09 - 1:43 am

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