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 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 4:26 PM   
 By:   Mulder76   (Member)

Die Hard would be a nice one to win. I would love to have seen You Only Live Twice on the big screen. Large-scale, classic Connery Bond.

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 4:37 PM   
 By:   davefg   (Member)

Adam, a very generous and wonderful offer. Thank you and Christmas greetings to you and yours.

1) Tell me which title you would like to win. You may put yourself in the running for one, two or all three titles.
I'd like to go for the Harry Potter Collection and Dracula please

2) If you could go to a theater and see ANY movie that you never got to see on a big screen in it's original run what would it be? An epic? An animated film? An old B&W horror or sci-fi flick from the thirties, forties or fifties? Anything at all. Your answer will make for some interesting reading for all who participate.

Michael Collins. When it was first released, I was too young to see it and as Michael Collins is one of my personal heroes I'd love to see it on the big screen!

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 4:37 PM   
 By:   Hedji   (Member)

Adam, you are the most generous member of this board. You do this every year, and it's such a great gesture of kindness. Thank you for the opportunity.

I will participate for the Harry Potter Box Set and Dracula please.

My movie of choice for a theatrical screening would be Horror of Dracula. I'd like to time travel back to 1958 and hear people gasp at the technicolor blood and cheer at Dracula's demise. I imagine that must have been quite a shocker to audiences who had the better part of 40 years to become accustomed to Lugosi in black and white and most of the horror or violence happening off screen.

But now as I write this, I would take a second time travel back to 1931 to watch James Whale's original Frankenstein to really hear the audience react in terror. We take it for granted now, but the stories abound of extreme reactions, fainting, screaming, etc.

It's all about audience reaction and seeing it with a crowd that can't believe what they're seeing.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 4:44 PM   
 By:   kindacute   (Member)

Thank you, Adam B., for the opportunity.

1) I'd like you to count me in for the John Williams's "Harry Potter"Box.

2) I'd have liked to see many films in the theater, but I just realized that, if I remember correctly, I have not seen any black and white movie ever on the theater. How great would be to see (Johnny Weismuller's) Tarzan, Abbot and Costello, Karloff, Lugosi, "Them!", classic noir with Humphrey Bogart, the Harryhausen pics getting into color... Not to mention each and every Hitchcock...

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 5:07 PM   
 By:   sotall   (Member)

Thanks Adam.

I already have or have on order all 3 of the titles. But I would like to win Dracula, Die Hard, or Harry Potter to give as a gift to my nephew who I am trying to get interested in film music. I have already given him a half dozen disks that were duplicates in my collection but nothing as big as these three.

I have been going to movies for 65 years so have seen just about all the big movies. But one that I would like to see that somehow I missed in the theater is Forbidden Planet. I have a 65 inch tv so it looks pretty good in my home but it really isn’t the same.

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 5:52 PM   
 By:   Steve H   (Member)

Thanks Adam
I would very much like to participate for the Harry Potter set.

A film I would very much liked to have seen in a modern cinema with huge screen and state of the art sound would have been The Towering Inferno. That would have been quite a spectacle!

Thanks again.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 5:59 PM   
 By:   HalloweenBorg   (Member)

1.) Please enter me for Die Hard, Dracula and Harry Potter

2.) I would go see John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness. Pure 1980s horror and dread. The movie has always scared me.


Very generous offer, best of luck to everyone and happy holidays!

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 6:09 PM   
 By:   dwirving68@gmail.com   (Member)

Adam, once again an amazing and generous giveaway. Thanx so much.

Please enter me for Die Hard

Star Wars at the Chinese Theater in July of 1977. Though it was released in May of '77, the energy it generated wouldn't peak until the early fall. To see it in a packed theater at a time before the multiplex would be insane.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 6:44 PM   
 By:   Chris Avis   (Member)

Thank you for your kindness, Adam!

Please enter me for Die Hard. I would love to see Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen for the first time at its original premiere. It's my favorite movie and I'd love to be with an audience seeing it for the first time.

Cheers,

Chris

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 7:08 PM   
 By:   Osman Portifoy   (Member)

Merry Christmas to you Adam.

Please enter me in Die Hard and Harry Potter.

I would like to see the LOTR:Fellowship of the Ring on the big screen. I love the sword and sorcery epic. I have also read the books by Tolkien several times. Unfortunately, I had to wait for that one on DVD before I saw it.

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 7:28 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

Put me in the running for Harry Potter and Die Hard, please. smile

Boy, this is a beauty of a question. There are so many classics I would have loved to have been there for during their original theatrical run, either because they were released before I was born or when I was too young to see or appreciate them. I sure would have loved to see Jaws in a theater in the summer of 1975 (I was just turning one when it was released), just to experience the frisson of the audience reaction in an era when special effects weren't taken for granted and Spielberg was young and hungry. I saw the film for a 40th Anniversary screening three years back, and while it was a blast to see that with a big crowd who all screamed and laughed in the appropriate places, it's different when the movie is question is now a "period piece" that can only be appreciated through a pop-culture prism of decades' worth of sequels and rip-offs and spoofs. Oh man, to have seen that when people honestly had no idea what to expect... eek big grin

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 7:33 PM   
 By:   WillemAfo   (Member)

1. Harry Potter

2. While I would love to see Lawrence Of Arabia in its original format, I think it would be wonderful to see:

STAR WARS
or
GOLDFINGER

Seeing them on the big screen with audiences for the first time would be great to experience the collective joy and amazement at what was happening on the screen. I want to be there for all the laughing, all the gasps, all the cheering. I had seen it before, but when I watched it in a film class on a big screen I immediately got why it had so much of an impact - it's so graphically BIG and BOLD that it just captures your attention!

The more I write I think it would be Star Wars. That really would be magical to experience for the first time with audiences of the time smile

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 7:35 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

JAWS was a best selling book so audiences had some idea
But
RAIDERS? Holy shite. We knew NOTHING going in. There was no pre-publicity. And that title gave no clue..
So, you can imagine the thrill of that opening scene!
Brm

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 8:00 PM   
 By:   George Komar   (Member)

Please enter me for DRACULA (a film which, incidentally, I've never seen).

OK, this is betraying my age, but I'd love to have seen THE ROBE in its initial CinemaScope run, if only to witness the reaction of the audience to the first widescreen epic, and also, of course, to have heard Alfred Newman's iconic score in stereophonic sound.

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 8:12 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

This thread isn't making me feel old...it's making me feel lucky!
Lucky to have seen so many of the films mentioned in first run
smile
Brm

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 8:17 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

JAWS was a best selling book so audiences had some idea

Still, to experience the reaction of the very first audience to Williams' score, before it became an indelible "fear" signature of pop culture? That must have been something.

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 8:58 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

JAWS was a best selling book so audiences had some idea

Still, to experience the reaction of the very first audience to Williams' score, before it became an indelible "fear" signature of pop culture? That must have been something.


Yes. It was scary as hell. The whole film was great. But not something totally fresh like that opening of RAIDERS. For me at least.
Brm

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 9:13 PM   
 By:   johnonymous86   (Member)

Oh man I gotta throw my hat in the ring for all three! Thank you for this opportunity!

I think the movie I would most want to experience FRESH in the first run would be Raiders of the Lost Ark. Although The Good The Bad and The Ugly would be a close second.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 9:27 PM   
 By:   Mike_H   (Member)

Dracula and Harry Potter please! smile

Man, I'd love to have seen either THE DEEP or THE TOWERING INFERNO. I grew up with both of these films on tv during the 90's and then followed by laserdiscs, DVDs, and now Blu-Ray. I've probably watched each one over one hundred times. Just to be able to experience the visuals and music in a huge theater would be fantastic. I believe that INFERNO might have had a 70mm run as well?

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2018 - 9:55 PM   
 By:   spanosdm   (Member)

I'd like to enter for the Harry Potter box and Dracula, please.

I'd have loved to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom on the big screen!

Thanks for your generosity!

 
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