70's obscure comedies? I liked "Roadie".

It starred Meatloaf and had appearances by the likes of Alice Cooper, Blondie, Roy Orbison and Hank Jr. along with many of their band members at the time. For what it's worth, Alice's guitarist at the time was Davy Johnstone, who only did a short stint with him and has been in Elton John's band for the better part of 50 years.

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Up The Creek (Tim Matheson and Stephen Furst from Animal House), Revenge of the Nerds 1 and 2, Hot Dog the Movie, and the Porky's trilogy are all GREAT classic 80's comedies.
The Great Outdoors with John Candy/Dan Ackroyd, Summer Rental and Wagons East with John Candy are more GREAT classic 80's comedies as well.
National Lampoon's Vacation... you can NEVER go wrong with Christie Brinkley in Lingerie along with a Ferrari !

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Kentucky Fried Movie and The Groove Tube were on semi-permanent residency at the 20th Century in Oakley. Never saw Tunnelvision. I feel it's my duty to add Hollywood Knights to my list.

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Hollywood Knights! Truly an awesome movie!
- classic Americana!

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American Graffiti is a really good one too.
Would be better with more Drag Racing and more Retching/Peukeing.
The scene with the chain yanking the rear axle COMPLETELY OFF the cop car is great.
So is the ripping off the arcade coin boxes.

Beverly Hilis Cop 1 and 2.

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Glad to see someone showed some love for "Silver Streak"... LOVE that movie and it's the first pairing of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (who went on to make a bunch of funny comedies together). Plus Patrick McGoohan as the baddie, along with Ray "My Favorite Martian" Walston, and "Jaws" from the Bond films a year before there was a "Jaws" (bet there's an interesting story behind that!) Richard Kiel as a metal-toothed baddie. Along with Ned Beatty and Len Birman as federal agents, Clifton James as a rural sheriff straight out of his performances in the Bond films "Live and Let Die" and "The Man With the Golden Gun", Scatman Crothers as the train porter, and Fred Willard as the bumbling railroad station official... It's *loosely* based on "North by Northwest" that starred Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. Of course Silver Streak is set primarily on the train-- lots of beautiful footage of the Canadian Rockies (it was filmed in Canada on their railways because AmTrack didn't want to cooperate because they felt it put them in a bad light) and F-units and streamliners with an observation dome car for those of you who like me love trains as well...

Most of you probably don't know, but my mom fell and gave herself a severe concussion the Monday after high school spring break, less than a week after the coronavirus lockdowns started here in Texas... she was in the hospital for three weeks, came home a week, was back in the hospital a week, and then home in hospice for about a week before she passed away May 7th. We were back and forth between our home in Fort Bend county (where my wife teaches and my daughter attends school at Travis High School, which of course has been closed since Spring Break) and the farm at Shiner where my mom lived. We went all streaming about a year ago, but Mom still had direcTV so I recorded a bunch of movies to watch on there when we were there... We spent a lot of time up there as Fort Bend county has nearly 2000 cases of the virus, whereas Lavaca county where Shiner is has only 6. We'd be here at Needville for a few days, and then back to Shiner, basically almost never left the house here at Needville, and didn't stop in between except for gas at Buccee's...

Anyway, one of the films I recorded was "No Blade of Grass" from the early '70's, about an outbreak of a plant disease that attacked the graminae family of plants, which is of course "all grasses", including rice and wheat and corn and sorghum and all the major cereal crops, grazing crops, etc. SO it triggered a worldwide food shortage and mass starvation, which culminated in China nerve-gas bombing most of its cities to depopulate them, killing 300 million to preserve their food reserves, and of course civilization falls apart in the US and UK, where the film was centered... it follows a family as they flee London just before it's "locked down" ahead of a nerve gas strike, as they flee across the UK northwards to the main protagonist's brother's farm in Scotland. As they flee civilization completely falls apart and basically they end up in a "Planet of the Apes" type war with a group of survivors at his brother's farm, having teamed up with their own group of survivors en route... It was a very interesting film...

Also watched "Def-Con 4" from the mid-80's, which was a Canadian post-nuke film about a crew on a military space station equipped with nukes as a sort of "flying missile base" of last resort, who survives an all-out nuclear war in orbit, only to be brought down by a mysterious signal that overrides their systems and brings them down in Nova Scotia, where they ultimately fall into the hands of local survivors, one of whom is a son of a military general who was supposed to deliver a helicopter load of satellite equipment to a submarine that was to evacuate some high-level people to a "survival station" in South America, which crashed in Nova Scotia en route to the submarine. In the months after the war, he discovered the existence of the survival station and intends to get their by boat, but he needs a piece of equipment from their spacecraft to decode the location, which is why he brought them down.

Anyway, enjoying the old Bonds (have ZERO interest in seeing a black WOMAN take over as "007", so this will be the first Bond film I've skipped in the theater since I was about 11 years old with "For Your Eyes Only"-- like "New Trek" and the Star Wars sequels, this modern stuff is UTTER SH!TE IMHO!) and I did finish the final season of the "Clone Wars" series that just wrapped up after it was abruptly cancelled in the wake of the Disney buyout of SW a number of years ago... I wasn't too crazy about the goofy episodes in the middle about the "sisters" that Ahsoka Tano "teamed up" with after she left the Jedi, but the final several episodes were really good, tied up a lot of the loose ends of the Clone Wars series and weaved it into the greater SW mythology, particularly with the events of "Revenge of the Sith" and the upcoming second season of "The Mandalorian" where Ahsoka is to turn up again, and the final scene in "Solo"...

"Picard" was SO gawdawful that I just couldn't stomach it any more after the fifth episode-- I kept HOPING AGAINST HOPE that it would get better, when it just got WORSE and WORSE and when you didn't think it could get any worse, it'd prove you WRONG... basically more no-talent hacks totally just sh!tting on everything that came before, just because they can, and not even for any good reason or even in any type of entertaining story or even morality play-- just poorly done ham-fisted libtard woke BS propaganda parading itself as "Star Trek" while being everything *BUT* Star Trek, and basically doing it's best to totally crap on everything Star Trek ever was... *SO* done with that type of garbage! I'll just watch the old Trek again and enjoy it, and wait for this new crap to inevitably crash-n-burn and maybe in a few years someone who actually KNOWS how to make an ENTERTAINING story will snap it up and start producing something worth watching again... I thought "Discovery" was bad, until I saw "Picard" and realized what a flaming pile of dog crap actually looks like LOL (BTW Discovery still sucks sweaty donkey balls).

Later! OL J R

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Sorry to hear of your mother’s passing. Condolences to you and your family. And under these current circumstances, I’m sure that had to make a difficult situation even more trying.

God’s blessings and peace to you and yours.

Earl

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Also in the 1970's were some barley watchable movies that weren't quite X rated, but were definitely for adults only.
Such as:

-Flesh Gordon
-Souperman
-The Sex Machine
-Some Like it Cool
-Gas Pump Girls
-Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
-Fritz the Cat (animated)
-The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (animated)
-Coonskin (animated)
-Heavy Traffic (animated)

I'm sure there were others but those are the only ones I remember.

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Fast Times At Ridgemont High was also a GREAT 80's comedy.

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