In high school we thought this movie was hilarious. It was 1975 though and all we had were 3 TV channels, no internet, pinball machines and we had to talk on a land line in the kitchen. We played mostly outside, rode bikes everywhere and built model cars with glue that got us high. It was hilarious to us 70s high school hippies. We joked about it for weeks afterwards.
shareThank you for the intimate snapshot of what life was like for kids during that time. As I was born a few years later, life was quite similar (though we had full-colour arcade machines by then), but the films were not like Dark Star anymore.
shareAbout the same time my friends and I saw Dark Star we also saw A Boy and His Dog with a young Don Johnson and we thought that was a cool movie too. I also liked Soylent Green and Omega Man from the 1970s. Another favorite was Westworld. The 70s was a good time to be a teenage sci-fi junkie.
shareThanks, I'll check it out. I've been watching Miami Vice lately, so it'll be a thrill to see him at such an early stage in his career.
I can imagine about the '70s. I also love Silent Running, Sleeper, Logan's Run and later films. As I grew up in the '80s, a lot of sci-fi films from that era are also dear to me.
Did you get to see A Boy and His Dog yet? Just curious what you thought. I loved it as a teen but like all those old movies it didnt have the same impact on me as an adult.
I got married in '84 and the wife started popping out children so the only scifi I got to watch was Pee Wees playhouse or was that more of a horror LOL.
I did! It was actually quite odd, in my opinion. I stopped watching it after 20 minutes or so...
shareYeah its definitely a bit odd. I liked post apocalyptic movies back then and remember having a crush on the Susanne Benton which is probably why I have fond memories of the film. Omega Man is probably my favorite post apocalyptic 70s flick. I watched Soylent Green the other day and couldn't sit through it either and loved it as a teen.
shareThe Quiet Earth is my favourite of that kind of film.
shareThe first Mad Max 1979 movie was one of my favorites. I still remember watching it in the theater. I was driving a 1970 SS 350 Mucie 4 speed Camaro with a 12 bolt posi rear end all from the factory at the time and got in a few races and chases if you know what I mean.
If you want to read some interesting stuff go to the Imdb Mad Max 1979 trivia section. There is stuff like this -
Because of the limited budget, the biker gang was an actual biker gang (the Vigilantes), and they had to ride to the set each day in-costumeI also read somewhere that the film earned more than $100 million worldwide in gross revenue and held the Guinness record for most profitable film from 1980-1999. Incredible for a film that was shot in 12 weeks on a meager $350,000 budget. wow share
Being from Australia, I am well aware of Mad Max. :) An all-time fave and have done a lot of work illustrating the Ford Falcons and Holden Monaro seen in the film.
sharewow very cool. My Camaro wasnt the prettiest Camaro around but it was mechanically sound and very quick from 0-100. It didnt have hub caps and the paint was faded and scratched up so I called it the Road Warrior LOL. My fist car was a Plymouth Cuda and had a similarly worn body but mechanically sound and fast. I liked my cars that way back then. Thats cool you are an illustrator. There was a car magazine called CARtoons that I liked to read as a kid.
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