Episode Two: What Ever Happened to the Church of Marilyn Monroe?

We're going to start this party by smashing all of our instraments and
spitting out the 1975 Classic : "Tommy" (a Rock Opera by "The Who").
This is perhaps the Best film from Ken Russell who also Directed
Altered States (1980), Gothic (1986), and The Lair of the White Worm
(1988).

Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is scarred for life when his M.I.A. father
returns from War to find his wife with a "New Man". This New Husband
(Oliver Reed) kills Tommy's father in front of little Tommy.

Tommy's Mom (Ann-Margret in an Oscar Nominated Role) convinces Tommy
that: "You didn't hear it. You didn't see it. You never heard
it...not a word of it. You won't say nothing to no one. Never tell a
soul...What you know is the Truth".

I was nine years old and I had been told about this film by a Hippy
teacher. I had convinced my Mom to bring me to see it...BUT halfway
through the film The Acid Queen (Tina Turner) is recruited to "Fix"
Tommy's ailments with an "Iron Maiden" laden with Heroin. I So
Vividly remember my poor mother dragging me out of the theatre "In
Shock"!

The soundtrack is Fantastic, and there are some Great scenes with
Super Young Stars like Elton John, Eric Clapton, and the Who...But it
is "Ann-Margret" slipping around in 300 gallons of beans in sauce
while riding a Giant Pillow that makes it all worth your time.

Episode One...

I'm a nerd if you look at it one way. A connoisseur if you look at it another.  The subject of my obsession? American movies from the 1970's -

*Star Wars (1977)

*Phantasm (1979)

*Apocalypse Now (1979)

*King Kong (1976)

*Alien (1979)

*The Exorcist (1973)

*Jaws (1975)

*Dawn of the Dead (1978)

*Saturday Night Fever (1977)

*The Omen (1976)

*Rocky (1976)

*The Godfather (1972)

*The Godfather II (1974)

*Animal House (1978)

*M*A*S*H* (1970)

*Close Encounters (1977)

*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

*Dracula (1979)

*Westworld (1973)

*Soylent Green (1973)

*Marathon Man (1976)

*Escape From Alcatraz (1979)

- and I've been looking for a site or blog that educates me, and let's me hangout among similarly focused individuals, but I haven't found one so I'm starting my own.

This site will explore my favorite movies from that time - sometimes they are important because they were seminal to a time and place of my youth and sometimes they are important because they are just great fucking movies.

We will get to such movies as:

*Rollerball (1975)
*Deliveracce (1972)
*Taxi Driver (1976)
*One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
*Midnight Express (1978)
*The French Connection (1971)
*The Getaway (1972)
*All the Presidents Men (1976)
*Logan's Run (1976)
*Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
*Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
*Clockwork Orange (1971)
*Up in Smoke (1978)
*The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)...and Many More!

I have many favorites and will explore why they were important then and what they mean to me now. I look forward to a mutual admiration commentary and a lively debate. There is so much to discuss and admire and explore and in the words of Captain Brody, "We're gonna need a bigger boat." Here's your boat people - let's get down to business.