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WOW!!! this one snuck up on me! Damnation Alley-

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Monday, August 29, 2011 01:54
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Saturday, July 23, 2011 11:30 AM

CHRISISALL


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004VT9JMG/ref=ox_ya_os_product

I been looking for this for like, EVER! A missing piece of cheese from my teenhood!

Needless to say, I ordered it in a microsecond.


The laughing Chrisisall



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Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:20 PM

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER


Definitely seems like a great offer, if only to see JMV before he really started taking a nosedive. Plus you can't miss out on George Peppard :D

"The revenge of the beaten comes in refusing to fall." -- Mal, in "The Losing Side - Chapter 45" by jetflair

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Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:32 PM

CHRISISALL


JMV was relatively okay until after the first season of Airwolf. I can't even watch the second or third seasons.

Sad.


The laughing Chrisisall


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Saturday, July 23, 2011 1:54 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Chris, is there ANYTHING you won't buy on DVD?


Sometimes I worry about you. ;)

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Saturday, July 23, 2011 1:58 PM

CHRISISALL


Ummm... CIS....


The laughing Chrisisall


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Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:03 PM

MOOSE


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
Chris, is there ANYTHING you won't buy on DVD?



DVD? Bah, Damnation Alley rates the BluRay!!!




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Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:11 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004VT9JMG/ref=ox_ya_os_product

I been looking for this for like, EVER! A missing piece of cheese from my teenhood!

Needless to say, I ordered it in a microsecond.




HELL YEAH!!!
I just got my copy the other night, great transfer.
I gave up hope after Anchor Bay announced this about 9 years ago, and never released it. Big props to Shout Factory. They did a fantastic job with this. Side note: Fox predicted this would be a blockbuster hit, and Star Wars would be a flop in 1977.
Great eye Chrisisall, thought I was the only one left that remembered this film. 70's greatness it seems is popping up everywhere nowdays...see my other thread.

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70's TV FOREVER

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Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:37 PM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Moose:

DVD? Bah, Damnation Alley rates the BluRay!!!


They got that too.


The laughing Chrisisall


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Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:42 PM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
Ummm... CIS....


The laughing Chrisisall








Cartoons - http://cirqusartsandmusic.blogspot.com

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Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:45 PM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by OPPYH:

Great eye Chrisisall, thought I was the only one left that remembered this film.

JMV in all his surfer- boy glory.
With Jerry Goldsmith tunes.
And bugs.
What's not to like?


The laughing Chrisisall


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Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:48 PM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:



Sumthin' funny here, Som?
Killer cockroaches are nothing to sneeze at, my friend!



The laughing Chrisisall


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Saturday, July 23, 2011 3:05 PM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Ha,ha!

Roaches are cool!




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Saturday, July 23, 2011 3:09 PM

CHRISISALL


It's all fun & games until someone loses a life.



The laughing Chrisisall


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Saturday, July 23, 2011 3:14 PM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Ha!!! This is quite inspiring. I wonder if it's time to revive the ATOMICALLY altered BUG genre:




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Saturday, July 23, 2011 7:16 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Oh nasty, how ironic that I am replaying Fallout 3 at the moment, damn pesky radroaches, heh.

As for "rating the blu-ray", I just picked up that horribly animated, rather disjointed Bakshi version of LoTR, on Blu-Ray, for $9.99 - mostly for the soundtrack, which exists nowhere else due to oddball licensing issues.

I'm not 100% sure, but I THINK the truck from DA was held onto and preserved by someone... yep.
http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/landmaster/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmaster

It also seems it wouldn't be too hard to make a model of it, cause I know you Chris, you're already thinkin it, ain't ya ?

-Frem

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Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:31 AM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

It also seems it wouldn't be too hard to make a model of it, cause I know you Chris, you're already thinkin it, ain't ya ?




Nahhhh.


http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/landmaster/DCP07137.JPG

Hmmmmmmmmm


The laughing Chrisisall


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Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:23 AM

CLJOHNSTON108


Oh, man, I rode/drove past the Landmaster parked in front of Jeffries Automotive Styling for about 20 years!
Always wanted an R/C model of it!

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/landmaster/

I was so happy when I found that somebody had made a 3D model of it in SketchUp...
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b6b6cd5554120e3915e
f67262e67a5dc&prevstart=0


But lookit this one somebody made in Lightwave!


Just noticed the total lack of shock absorbers!



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Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:36 AM

CHRISISALL


I take it you already have the DVD/BR of it?



The laughing Chrisisall


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Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:46 AM

CLJOHNSTON108


Haven't seen it on the store shelves yet (or a torrent).

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Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:48 AM

CHRISISALL


You no buy on Amazon-y?


The laughing Chrisisall


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Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:49 AM

CLJOHNSTON108


Don't use credit cards.

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Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:58 AM

CHRISISALL


That is wise.


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Saturday, July 30, 2011 2:52 AM

KANEMAN


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004VT9JMG/ref=ox_ya_os_product

I been looking for this for like, EVER! A missing piece of cheese from my teenhood!

Needless to say, I ordered it in a microsecond.


The laughing Chrisisall


Saw that at the movies as a kid...loved it all most as much as the popcorn fight with the old cats behind us.



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Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:43 PM

CLJOHNSTON108


Finally broke down and shelled out the $18.99 at Amoeba!
(Couldn't wait any longer for it to show up in the Under $5 bin )
First thing I'm gonna watch is the "Landmaster Tales" bonus featurette.
EDIT: Well, that was painful! As were the other two. Go ahead and skip 'em.

And I love DVD Verdict's review...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/damnationalley.php

Quote:

So, Reason the First for Damnation Alley's nigh-inexplicable persistence is the fly-in-amber aspect of its anachronistic feel and style.

Reason the Second? OMG OMG OMG THE LANDMASTER!!!!!!!





The real star of Damnation Alley is unquestionably the Landmaster, the 100% real all-terrain 12-wheel articulated megatruck that carries Our Heroes from the desert Southwest to upstate New York. This isn't a model, or a set-dressed Winnebago—it's a gosh-darnit honest-to-goodness real live vehicle of the awesomesauce variety. It's a sweet ride that will tickle the fancy of your inner 6-year-old boy every time it comes on screen. (Remember, though. that if a stranger who isn't the Landmaster tickles your inner 6-year-old boy's fancy, you should tell a policeman or other grown-up immediately.)

The Landmaster, which I guess is technically a practical effect, is the one special effect that actually came off well in Damnation Alley. Which is a good thing, since its construction consumed a good chunk of the film's budget. ($350,000 to be precise.) Unlike many large-scale Hollywood practical effects of the Seventies (I'm looking right at you, Bruce the Shark…), the Landmaster proved to be reliable from a mechanical standpoint, and was a frequent visitor to Southern California sci-fi conventions for years after the film's release. (Apparently, it's owned by a private collector in the San Francisco area these days.) Most important, though…it's just cool as heck.

The Landmaster's acting is, of course, impeccable and beyond reproach. As for the rest of the cast…


Here's some video of the Landmaster being restored:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8104897017454705561

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Monday, August 29, 2011 1:54 AM

DJD


Loved Damnation Alley . Loved the book. There's even a pretty good song by Hawkwind of the same name

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