#Gary Nelson

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Joseph Bottoms - The Black Hole (1979)

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Anthony Perkins-Yvette Mimieux "El abismo negro" (The black hole) 1979, de Gary Nelson.

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Freaky Friday pt1: Original, Jodie Foster/Barbara Harris (1976) v Remake 1, Shelley Long/Gabby Hoffmann (1995)

The original source material was a children's book; Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers (who was the '76 screenwriter)

You do not have to see both to vote, but it might have been helpful.

Feel free to share opinions or explanations with comments/tags/rbs

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Which version of this do you prefer?

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Freaky Friday (1976)

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Now watching:

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Movie Review | The Black Hole (Nelson, 1979)

Mindboggling that Disney funded and released a Star Wars cash-in this weird and slow and actually a gothic horror rather than a space opera that also goes full on psychedelic in its last twenty minutes. It's like a bunch of Disney execs decided to drop acid in a boardroom and say, "What if we made 2001 for the kiddies?" Unimaginable that they'd release something this idiosyncratic today. You think Bob Iger has ever dropped acid? You think Bob Iger ever let a weird thought pass through his head without actively suppressing it out of fear of the shareholders? Nah man, he's just got his finger on the button, a big red button that says "$$$". We have to go back.

Truth be told, this is pretty slow for around two thirds of its runtime, but in that final stretch it really goes off the rails. This was presumably made for children, but the bulk of the production design and special effects suggests it was made for those who watched 2001 zonked out of their minds, and the last few minutes feel like all your favourite prog rock and metal album covers all mashed together. And there are a couple of things that would be way too disturbing to put in the children's movie these days, but I guess back then filmmakers didn't care about sanding off the edges from these things or whether they'd accidentally traumatize an entire generation. I'm a grown ass man watching this in 2024, and let's just say I'm glad I came to it at this age.

This also has a pretty impressive cast, although the bulk of them don't have much to do. The only ones that do make an impression are Maximillian Schell playing the Most Interesting Man in the Universe, and Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens as the voices of V.I.N.CENT. and B.O.B., a pair of adorable wide-eyed levitating robots who it must be said compare favourably to their counterparts in Star Wars in some respects. V.I.N.CENT. especially distinguishes himself with his combat prowess, and without giving too much away, I must report that I was eventually quite moved by the two robots' relationship. You think anyone cried over C-3PO? You think anyone sympathized when R2-D2 started beeping and booping in his absence? Nah man, they've just got their finger on the button, a big red button that says "Kill C-3PO."

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Nighthawks (1981)

My rating: 5/10

Competently, even well-made, but man, the copaganda in this - there is actually a scene in this movie where the mentor figure outright states that the NYPD(!) isn't heavily armed or trigger happy enough. Yeesh.

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Freaky Friday

Gary Nelson

1976

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Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone - Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)

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Sam Elliott-Vera Miles "Se busca" (Molly and Lawless John) 1972, de Gary Nelson.

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Live version of Travel by Images In Vogue from the collection album Incipience 4: Live at LuvAFair October 6th, 1982, part of the Incipience 1981-1983 box-set

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Freaky Friday (1976)

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Gary Cole and Tim Matheson

A Very Brady Sequel 1996 | The West Wing 2005 | The Good Fight 2018