JCC The JCC Watches Movies! (this Friday night... STREET FIGHTER: THE MOVIE!)

Usually 7 PM pacific time, I think.

 

Thanks. Damn, that's late. Hope I can stay awake. I'm in there now if anyone wants to chat.

 

Playing in one hour!

 

I am so in.

 

Does no one enter before the start time?

 

@Boba_Fett_2001

 

Is this no longer a thing?

 

The host (me) won’t have home Internet until the 21st.

 

We could watch a low def movie

 

The 1st edition of JCC WATCHES MOVIES: LIVE! was a great success. The chosen movie was Neil Breen’s Twisted Pair.

 

No invite? You bastards.

 

Very art house. Really turning conventions on their heads.

 

WE ARE BACK!

This weekend we'll be watching a movie that actually was a big hit back in 1973 but that has somehow become relatively obscure.

I wonder why!

It's BILLY JACK!


(okay, it's hapkido, not kung fu)
Content warnings, something I'm going to start doing from now on whenever possible

Half-white, half-Navajo Billy Jack lives in an Indian reservation protecting the Indians, the stallions, and the students of the Freedom School, a peaceful art school run by Jean Roberts and where the students can choose their own destiny. When teenage girl Barbara, is retrieved by Sheriff Cole, she tells that she is pregnant and her father beats her up. Sheriff Cole and the local doctor ask Jean if she can lodge Barbara, she welcomes the traumatized teenager. But her father, together with the corrupt and powerful Mr. Stuart Posner and his coward son Bernard Posner, initiate a campaign to damage the school and humiliate the students while Billy Jack fight to control his temper against the bigotry and violence of the locals.

Mediocre martial arts, heavy-handed late-60s morals, and extremely confusing characters! That's what you pay me for! Be there or be square!

 

On the bloody morning after
1 tin soldier rides away

 

Billy Jack rides tonight!

 

One hour to go!

 

We doing this again tomorrow night?

 

Happy Halloween, my favorite pagan friends!

You are hereby invited to JCC Watches Movies' traditional Halloween Creeptacular Session!

Tonight, the chosen sacrifice to the gods of wasted celluloid is... KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE!



When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the townspeople, no one takes them seriously. Why? The aliens all look like circus clowns, use weapons that look clown-like, and all have painted-on smiles. Only a few of the young people in the town realize the danger and of course, no one believes them. Armed with an ice cream truck they WILL try and rescue their friends.

The Chiodo Brothers, responsible for the special effects of many, many horrible-wonderful movies, direct their first and only movie! A creepy and goofy kult klassik that you aboslutely need to see! Get ready to get #honkpilled!

Be there or be honk honk square!

 

We are going in 90 minutes!

 

If only I wasn't going to haunts

Well, enjoy the cotton candy

 

Starting in 10 minutes!

 

Guess what. WE ARE BACK!

We have seen bad Jaws knockoffs... but never an actual shark knockoff! Time to remediate that!

THE LAST SHARK!!!!!



James Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area.

Okay, not a very exciting summary but... what if I told you that this was made by the director of our beloved 1990: The Bronx Warriors? Or that the movie was so close to Jaws that Universal Pictures actually sued the producers and distributors for copyright breach and had the film pulled from theaters?

Be there or be (chomp!) square!

 

my saturdays are busy now, but should free up in a couple weeks if this can become a regular thing again!

 

The thread has finally jumped the shark

 

We can do it! *fist pump*

Reminder: tonight, 10pm East, it's time to go back in the water....