[atariparty] Movie this year

[Bill Kendrick]

For showing a movie indoors, regardless as to whether we actually hold
Atari Party at the public library (which is my hope), as long as screeing
attendance is less than 200 people, it should be possible to rent a movie
from Swank for $150, this time around.

Now, as for what movie to screen.  Some possibilities:

  * Tron
    PG / 96 minutes / 1982
    (watched it last year)

  * Tron Legacy
    PG-13 / 127 minutes / 2010
    (prob not available on DVD by then; wikipedia shows UK
    release as late April, and no US confirmed release date)

  * Sneakers
    PG-13 / 121 minutes / 1992

  * Hackers
    PG-13 / 105 minutes / 1995

  * Cloak and Dagger
    PG / 101 minutes / 1984
    (benefit of having an Atari game as a plot element ;) )

  * E.T.
    PG / 115 minutes / 1982
    (video game tie-in!)

  * Superman
    PG / 142 minutes / 1978
    (video game tie-in!)


My top choice is Cloak and Dagger.  I remember enjoying it... it's a lot
less famous than ET or Superman, and it's short and PG.  The hacking movies
are from a decade AFTER the original Atari era, and are PG-13.
Neither ET nor Superman are video game movies... they were just big
blockbusters from the Atari era, which also got Atari games. :)


Any other suggestions or arguments?  And would anyone out here like to
help pay for this endeavour? :)

-- 
-bill!
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