Saw Jaws last summer in a packed theatre who freaked the eff out at all the right spots. It’s in my top 10.

also: I really need to see Dirty Dozen again

oh, good point: I think they where on previous Simon and Garfunkel albums but some where re-recorded for the movie soundtrack. So, a movie with a soundtrack from one artist, specifically for that movie, is an even narrower sub-species. Princes Batman, Badly Drawn Boy’s About a Boy, and didn’t Tom Petty write a…

good shout. I forgot about Miles and didn’t know that about Scorpio Rising.

nah, the one with Buck Turgidson, Paulie Cicero and Charles Bronson’s wife.

“blood in the water...”

Was this the first movie to have one artist provide all of the music? (apart from the soundtrack composer, of course)
Also: Mike Nichols first 4 movies are quite brilliant. All that, while he was on Broadway directing Odd Couple, Little Foxes, Plaza Suite... That’s a helluva run.

And then there’s the dolphin movie...

the difference between Jaws and Star Wars is that Jaws feels like a movie from 1975, but Star Wars doesn’t feel connected to it’s era at all. Jaws (and THX 1138) looks and feels like classic 70's movies (include The Graduate) but Star Wars look is oddly disconnected from the movies that directly proceeded it. Perhaps…

“The last time Marvel used a major milestone to establish a new character—Voyager, the greatest Avenger we’d never heard of—the results were a little less than extraordinary, and hopefully this time around, the new hero or villain will actually leave a mark on the comics.”

...and they had worked together on (now ironically titled) Usual Suspects...

Even if Evens has handed over the shield, I expect to see at least one of those scenes in the next Captain America movie.

and you know it’s coming. They tell you! And yet...

left my laptop under my seat once. Was halfway home before I realised. Turned around, made it just before they closed the place up, found it just where I left it.

I think we went to the same screening - I saw it at a midnight screening, and you’re right, the walk home alone after, reliving the whole movie was almost as terrifying.

the fake ending. People around me actually stood up and reached for their coats.

there was a lot wrong with that movie, and you just mentioned the top of the list.

second this - the transmissions where brilliant.

Anyone here old enough to see American Werewolf in London in the theatre? There’s a dream/fake out jump scare that I won’t spoil... but the entire cinema jumped. The change of tone, with Jenny Agutter’s slight flirtation, really sells it. Wow, Landis really knew what he was doing, once upon a time.

the first reports in the UK made it sound like dystopian sci-fi. The news reports calmed down very quickly, because we where on the verge of mass panic.

god, I remember that happening. Hearing a BBC news reader announce that a massive radioactive cloud was drifting across Europe was... sobering...