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Where did everyone first see this movie at?

posted 17 years ago by grinermike
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I saw this movie at the drive-in with my girlfriend in 1977. The drive-in was cool because if your a partier,as we were , the stoner you got the better this movie got. Not that you had to be stoned to enjoy it then or now but it did add to the experience. You could hear people in other cars laughing their asses off all through the feature. In 1979 I became a theater manager of a dollar house and we packed them in with this movie for a couple of weeks. In 1981 I went to work for another theater chain ,also a dollar house, and again showed KFM and AGAIN packed people in to see it. People loved this movie at the time and ,as all the posts here show ,they still do, and it sold lots of tickets. I still have the original poster for this movie from that time and if you see it on ebay for cheap then buy it. This poster in good condition is now worth $150.00 to $200.00 depending where you see it listed for sale. People sell all kinds of posters on ebay well under their true value. What fond memories.
"Lets meet our guards"
Guard #1 Long Wang
Guard #2 Hung Well
Guard #3 Enormous Genitals!
The popcorn you are eating has been pissed in!
Moscow in flames,missles heading for Washington...film at 11.
Thats some classic stuff. Or as Larry the Cable Guy says" I don't care who you are. Thats funny right there"!
Where did you see it/ with who/ and what year?

[–] Hey_Sweden 12 years ago

I just saw it for the first time tonight on DVD. It may have taken me a long time, but at least I finally watched it.

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[–] killerquean 12 years ago

Hmm, back in the days of the double feature (lol, two movies, one ticket) some joker billed this with a movie about the ballet dancer, Nijinsky (or it was Valentino, with Nureyev). That used to happen at 2nd release theaters. The skits are politically incorrect because the source material was "okay" to audiences. Not many blacksploitation/theater porn/badly dubbed martial arts flicks are film festival material these days.

It's a lampoon of everything that was awful about mass entertainment in the Seventies. It came out before VCRs, pay per view &C.

It can still be a hoot, but you pretty much had to be there to get the punchlines.

[–] markb63 12 years ago

At the Canarsie Theater in Brooklyn as a double feature with "The Groove Tube" sometime in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

[–] allenblank 12 years ago

I talked my father into a midnight show of the film on Labor Day 1977. He goes to me who's in this film, I told him Donald Sutherland, seeing his name on the movie ad. When Sutherland show up in "That's Armagedon" my dad let me had it. "that's his big part", he said. But then by the end of the film and the Eyewitness News sketch came on he was loving the film.

[–] StrandedinLaLaLand 12 years ago

On t.v. after so many years of being denied because I was too young.

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[–] mnienkerk 12 years ago

one of the first movies i ever rented... around 1985, or so. i think i was about 7 or 8 yrs old.

i loved it!

[–] Woodyanders 11 years ago

I first saw this film on VHS in the late 80's; I rented the video from a local mom'n'pop place that's long since gone out of business.

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[–] AlbertTheFlasher 11 years ago

First saw KFM on video back in the mid-80s, when I was 16. I now own the Anchor Bay DVD.

[–] omoxus 11 years ago

I early cable TV.

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