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| The Herald Sept 1987 |
The End.
Masters of the Universe
This was the last newspaper movie ad I collected. After ten years of movie ad collecting I think my heart had gone out of it by 1987. Either that or I traumatised myself by cutting out an ad for a Dolph Lundgren movie. But I never lost my love of science fiction (I kept my clippings after
all), I just became less obsessed with collecting stuff. At least until
my twenties had played out.
Maximum Overdrive
Stephen King's rather awful but funny directorial debut.
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| cut from the Sun Newspaper Nov 1986 |
James Bond Festival
The ad says 'important: cut out and save.' I did.. for 32 years.
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| cut from the Sun Newspaper March 1980 |
Howard (aka Howard The Duck)
George Lucas' awful disaster of a film (apart from Star Wars I to III). It bombed in the US, so they removed 'The Duck' from the title and the actual image of the duck from the poster in the hope that might help. It didn't.
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| cut from the Sun Newspaper Dec 1986 |
The Day After
Scary made for television movie The Day After, directed by Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II)
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| Cut from a newspaper 1983 |
The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
One of David Lynch's finest films. A moving tale told with Lynch's trademark weirdness. You could almost call it steam punk.
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| Cut from a newspaper February 5 1981 |
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
Stanley Kubrick's classic war movie
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| Cut from a newspaper October 1987 |
Gothic (Ken Russell)
Ken Russell's unique take on the Frankenstein story
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| Cut out from a newspaper May 1987 |
2010
I really wanted to love this film. I'd read the book, bought the soundtrack, the comic adaptation, the poster and the lobby cards....and yet it was so boring.
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| From either the Sun or Herald newspaper, Melbourne Australia, April 1985 |
Blue Velvet
A classic David Lynch film, if not THE classic David Lynch film.
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| From the Sun or Herald newspaper, Melbourne Australia, March 21 1987 |
Robocop
One of the truly great films of the 1980s. I await with apprehension the remake due in 2013.
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| From either the Sun or Herald newspaper, Melbourne Australia, September 19 1987 |
Alligator
I wish I'd seen this film, which was written by John Sayles who wrote arthouse favourites Matewan, Secret of Roan Inish and uh, Piranha (1978)
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| From either the Sun or Herald newspaper, Melbourne Australia, January 22 1981 |
Demon Seed
I never saw this film at the time but I had read the book, which at age 12 or 13, I found rather disturbing.
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| The Herald or Sun newspaper, 1977 (?) |
Superman (Christopher Reeve)
This will always will be the best Superman movie for me. I saw it by myself aged 14 at Melbourne's stunning art deco Capitol cinema, and most likely followed it with a walk up the road to Space Age Books to salivate over the latest scifi stuff.
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| From the Sun newspaper, May 17 1979 |
Meteor
This was the Deep Impact of the 1970's, and not a bad one too although the special effects were a little shaky.
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| From the Herald or Sun newspaper December 21 1979 |
Seakiller
Two Jaws rip-offs on the one bill! Actually Seakiller (AKA Beyond The Reef) was not a monster shark movie at all, it was just marketed that way because movie distributors know we're all stupid.
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| From either the Herald or The Sun newspaper, Melbourne Australia, December 21 1979 |
Angel Heart
Notorious at the time for the scene involving a naked Lisa Bonet and chicken blood. All a bit of a yawn now. Despite all the hoopla it was a great movie.
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| May 1987 |
On the back of the clipping:
The Never Ending Story
A highly enjoyable fantasy film from Wolfgang Petersen director of very gritty war drama Das Boot
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| December 1984 |
On the back of the clipping:
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Being a Star Trek fan I loved this film. I saw it on opening day in a cinema full of happy trekkers. Even my girlfriend liked it.
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| The Sun, December 18 1986 |
On the back of the clipping:
Static
A wonderful indie film that seems to have disappeared into obscurity. I remember the scene of a bus exploding and burning to a Brian Eno ambient track. It was very powerful.
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| August 1987 |
On the back of the clipping:
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The Time Guardian
Touted at the time as Australia's first big budget science fiction film. With Princess Leia in full 1980s outfit. Unfortunately it wasn't very good. At all.
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| The Sun, 3 December 1987 |
On the back of the clipping:
Eraserhead
David Lynch's Eraserhead was a regular at art house cinemas throughout the late 70s and 1980s. It was a must-see for film buffs and hipsters (1980s-style!)
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