[atariparty] Movie this year
Stephen Matthew Helms
mythocelt at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 21 11:22:43 PST 2011
Sorry not good at typing on the phone. Meant to add cloak and eager does involve video games and a cart.
Sent from my iPhonenv
On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:1AM, Stephen Matthew Helmsle <mythocelt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My vote is for cloak and eager as well as it do
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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!
>> Sent from my computer
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