Comments on: Alamo Drafthouse to Recreate the Summer of ’82

By: manjiscud

manjiscud — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:41:10 +0000

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

By: patrik

patrik — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:05:52 +0000

I know Siskel & Ebert didn’t like Blade Runner, well Ebert liked the special effects but that was it. He has apparently warmed to it though.

Here’s their review.
http://blastr.com/2012/02/1982-siskel-ebert-review-1.php

By: PlanBFromOuterSpace

PlanBFromOuterSpace — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:33:59 +0000

Didn’t “The Thing” and “Blade Runner” kind of gain their popularity later on? I know they came out in ’82, but they didn’t really make much of an impact THAT year.

By: patrik

patrik — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:26:28 +0000

Is that a serious question? If so then yes, yes it is that good.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:53:00 +0000

Well, I haven’t seen BLADE RUNNER. Is it really that good?

By: Ovenball

Ovenball — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:39:48 +0000

You are taunting us with this Alamo Drafthouse business. Taunting us. The closest I’ve gotten to this place in the last year is watching Top Chef: Texas. Now I have to walk around all day today, thinking about this cool thing that I can’t go to. Great. Taunting us.

By: Lior

Lior — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:45:40 +0000

I don’t know if it’s the greatest summer, but it’s definitely one of the strongest ones. I was a little too young in 1982 to attend or even watch some of these films (the only one I saw in real time was ET), but it’s an amazing line-up. I would put any summer of the 80’s against what we have today and the 80’s will win every time. It’s not just nostalgia, people, check out the movies: Ghostbusters, Episodes V and VI, the Indiana Jones trilogy, Die Hard, War Games, The Goonies, Back to the Future Trilogy… I can go on and on and on… almost none of these films were based on comic books, novels or earlier films, not were they sequels 20 years after the fact (the Die Hard “series” has become a joke). They were ORIGINAL.

Too bad we don’t have something like Alamo Drafthouse in Toronto anymore. The Bloor was the closest, but now it’s been mostly relegated to documentaries. I know there’s the Underground cinema, but I have yet to be there…

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:06:35 +0000

What about the Summer of ’69…

By: Falsk

Falsk — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:49:45 +0000

I dream of the day a Drafthouse opens within a reasonable distance of Philadelphia…

By: Big Hungry

Big Hungry — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:41:18 +0000

I wish Alamo Drafthouse was in Cleveland Ohio!!!!!!!!!!

By: Indianamcclain

Indianamcclain — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:30:11 +0000

I wasn’t born but the summer of 89 seems pretty cool. Btw I will be going to the screenings of The Thing, and E.T.