Tweet by Joel G. Robertson “Sometimes that [Dude] he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about [The Dude]… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes.” — paraphrasing Quint (Robert Shaw) in Jaws. Cinematic Luddites The knee-jerk reaction of many retro-movie lovin’ geeks to CGI is… blech! I’m guilty of it…
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Everyone Has a Forgotten Flick… What’s Yours?
Tweet by Joel G. Robertson “Everyone has a forgotten flick, it seems.” — Ian Sowers Ian said the above to me in an email recently. He was referring to the fact that, after his own contribution (read it here) to the “What Forgotten Flix Are You Thankful” For?” series, he’d received several comments from his own readership regarding their favorite…
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Tweet by Joel G. Robertson (and a whole lotta friends!) The contributions in this final segment run the gamut from exploitation to a movie that’s only a couple years old, but all the films have one thing in common– film fans who are thankful for them. And before you question a “recent” release being on a site called Forgotten Flix,…
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Tweet by Joel G. Robertson (and a whole lotta friends!) No ballyhoo from me, let’s just dig right into the steaming meat sauce and sour cream and onion potato chips with this second segment of movie thankfulness featuring Dale, Ian, Jeremy, Jona, and Kimster! DaleLloyd.com by Dale Lloyd (aka VivaVHS) Wolf Lake (1978 – Released in 1980) Wolf Lake is…
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What Forgotten Flix Are You Thankful For? (Segment I)
Tweet by Joel G. Robertson (and a whole lotta friends!) For this pre-Thanksgiving (in the States anyway) Mall Twin Musing, I thought I’d ask several of my movie blogging, podcasting, and filmmaking friends to share with you what ONE forgotten flick they are most thankful for and why. The movie could be old or new, it just has to be…
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Is There Value in Movie Nostalgia?
Tweet by Joel G. Robertson “Like stumbling into a 1980s dream…” That quote came from fellow blogger Kimster (whose own blog That’s What She Said is definitely worth following). She was referring to this site and why she liked it. I read that line over and over thinking about what it meant. About what all this means. You see, when…
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An Apology To Frank Darabont, Or How The Walking Dead Made Me Eat Crow
Tweet by Joel G. Robertson Okay. Here’s the deal folks. This post is not about a forgotten flick. Hell, it’s not even about an older, well-known flick. It’s about the filmmaker Frank Darabont and his involvement with two recent entertainments, The Mist and The Walking Dead. Sometimes these Mall Twin Musings will feature commentary about modern movies and television and…
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Discover How You Can Save the Movies You Love
Tweet by Joel G. Robertson Like you, I’m a movie fan. A HUGE movie fan (I think film geek is overused, but it definitely applies). I’m launching Forgotten Flix as a community for you, the movie fan, to celebrate the movies you love. I want you to share your movie memories and experiences with me and the rest of film…
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Tweet by Joel G. Robertson 29 days and counting until the official launch of the Forgotten Flix blog, a place where I will be waxing poetic (okay, maybe not “poetic,” but I will occasionally use iambic pentameter) about movies both old and new, trying to increase awareness of those diamonds (and cubic zirconia) in the rough that the popular culture…
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So, what, pray tell (my obnoxiously foo-foo way of saying explain) is a forgotten flick?
Well, that’s easy enough. A forgotten flick is simply any movie you remember but no one else does. I find that the older I get the more often this is happening. Most often it’s when I’m talking to some young whippersnapper and goes something like this:
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Tweet by Joel G. Robertson That’s right! You’ve either landed here by design or mistake. No matter, if you’re seeing this post you’re too freakin’ early! We’re just cranking this bad boy up, but don’t you worry your pretty little head. The official launch date of the blog is October 31, 2010. And the Forgotten Flix podcast will be launching…
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