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This supposedly took place in 2018. Not that far away. (Though it seemed so when I was a yoot and first saw this movie.) How close are we to this world?


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BTW: When I say Rollerball, I mean the 1975 version starring James Caan, not that unfortunate sequel. Same thing with Planet of the Apes. Planet of the Apes stars Charlton Heston.

ALSO: The 1970 movie version of Waterloo, with Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte, and Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington, is viewable online in its entirety on YouTube. I hadn't seen it for at least 10 years. I know this forum has a lot of history buffs; IMHO this film is worth watching if only for the recreation of the Charge of the Scots Greys.

JAMES
 
Way ahead of it's time. National bankruptcy is occurring, but we have yet to conquer disease and likely won't by 2018 and the good life may well be over for quite a while. But it was and is a great film.
 
That was a fun movie. It also brings to mind "Soilant Green" and "Logan's Run" of the same era.

I sure would like one of those pistols that they were playing with at the party in Rollerball.:jump:
 
Heh, I got the entire collection of MAD magazines on DVD's as a gag gift from a relative one year.
I'll have to dig that one up.
 
Great movie!

Of course all good sci-fi movies and stories are a reflection of the times they were made or written in.
 
Jagdflieger said:
That was a fun movie. It also brings to mind "Soilant Green" and "Logan's Run" of the same era.

I sure would like one of those pistols that they were playing with at the party in Rollerball.:jump:
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They're remaking Logan's Run in 3D. I'm always nervous when a film studio does a remake (I figure it's a cost-cutting measure because they probably already own the intellectual property) but Alex Garland is supposedly writing the screenplay. He wrote 28 Days Later, which I did like. If I were doing the casting Michael York would play Old Man. I wonder who'll play Jessica 6. I hope it's not some starving-to-death Hollywood starlet. Jenny Agutter had good flesh on her. She's still very attractive. I saw her not too long ago on MI-5.

JAMES

PS Jadg, what rifle is that in your banner?
 
stuartcox said:
Where can I find that? I used to buy the German edition of MAD, just great!:jump:
edit: Found it at Amazon... Mad 50 years+
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I guess I had it longer than I though, these are on CD-Rom. LOL.
Still works on Vista on the laptop.

"Rollerbrawl"...LOL Issue 181 March 1976

I love the MAD prediction that all sports seasons will grow longer and longer, and eventually Playoffs in the future will all overlap to the same day and cause mass rioting...

Anyway, kinda disappointed that Netflix doesn't have this available on streaming.
I'd love to watch the original Rollerball again, now.
 
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