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No.23 Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:15 AM
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Did this 80's movie predict our current situation?
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 11:15 AM by No.23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ-IPb8AOZE
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:16 AM
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1. If that's another link to 'My Tutor,' I'm out of here.
I've already heard more than enough about that film's alleged prognostications to last me a lifetime.
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DailyGrind51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 07:38 AM
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18. After you see "My Tutor", see "Scorned" with Shannon Tweed!
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:19 AM
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2. more like this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=965Alxl5b_U
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:23 AM
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3. Hehe, that's hilarious!
:rofl:
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:58 PM
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13. omg!
how did I ever get this old and never knew about this?? Absolutely prescient! And RIP Harvey and John. Two freakin fantastic actors.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 05:45 AM
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15. If you've never seen it you have to rent it. n/t
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:24 AM
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4. The 80's predicted our current situation.
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newfie11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:27 AM
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5. Very interesting
Now the talk of getting rid of the dollar by Russia, China, etc. This movie is chilling.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:31 AM
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6. That is an excellent movie.
I recommend it to everyone who hasn't seen it.
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No.23 Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:20 PM
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10. Why don't you tell the good folk here at DU...
the name of the flick?

Since you're recommending it, that is.
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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 09:25 AM
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19. I believe these are excerpts from "Rollover" with Jane Fonda.
n/t
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:43 AM
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7. self delete
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 11:44 AM by lumberjack_jeff
great minds think alike
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:46 AM
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8. Shoot, I thought it was going to link to Red Dawn
Badgers!
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:50 AM
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9. we don't need no steenkin' badgers!
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Duke Newcombe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:51 PM
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11. I was thinking more like "Americathon"...
...except without the wealthy Native Americans.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078766/
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 05:49 AM
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17. 1979
Edited on Wed Mar-25-09 05:50 AM by Hissyspit
Kind of a mess as a movie, but I wish the soundtrack was available on CD. Great Beach Boys song.
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edhopper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:52 PM
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12. "Escape from New York"
Snake Pliskin, Baby!
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:01 PM
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14. I'd say the 80's as a whole is a prime contributor to today's mess
That's when we built the culture to allow all of the nonsense we'll be unraveling for decades.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 05:48 AM
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16. I never did see that. I remember it getting good reviews as a "sleeper," but then forgot about it.
I'll have to put it in my Netflix queue.
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