Trying to remember the name of an 80's movie
07-31-09 | 10:47 PM
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Trying to remember the name of an 80's movie
Need help with this one and only have vague memories to go off of. The movie poster was almost all black, a silouhette of a building or tower. some sort of dragon or gargoyle type monster on the top. thought it was a one or two letter title. keep getting xtro stuck in my head, but it is obviously not that. it had to be in the 80's because i was pretty young when i saw it. any ideas?
07-31-09 | 10:52 PM
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Need help remembering the name of an 80's movie
Hoping someone out there can help me. The movie poster was almost all black/very dark. Silouhette of a tower or a building. a dragon or gargoyle type monster on the top of it. i was thinking that the title was a one or two letter title, but i've searched most of those and come up with nothing. it had to be in the 80's because i was really young when i saw it. only saw it once and now can't remember what the heck it was called. anyone know?
07-31-09 | 11:03 PM
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Re: Trying to remember the name of an 80's movie
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08-01-09 | 07:42 AM
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Re: Trying to remember the name of an 80's movie
Q was never meant to be a crowd-pleaser. (Crowd-pleasers were never Larry Cohen's stock-in-trade.) It was a quirky monster movie with Michael Moriarty as an unsympathetic small-time criminal protagonist who plays jazz piano. Nobody was rooting for him. If the monster had eaten him, nobody would have cared. If Cohen had wanted a hit, he would have directed JAWS 3. Look up his credits.
When I saw Q it was back in the days of movie marquees, those things that jutted out from the building over the street, so you could see the big letters telling you what was playing from a block or two away. At the end of a film's run, some theater employee had to climb a ladder and change the letters to announce the next film playing. (Films usually played a week at neighborhood theaters.) I saw Q at a twin-plex (a single screen theater that was cut in half to create two theaters) and the movie playing in the other theater was ET. So the marquee read:
1. Q
2. ET
The shortest night the guy who changed the letters ever had.
When I saw Q it was back in the days of movie marquees, those things that jutted out from the building over the street, so you could see the big letters telling you what was playing from a block or two away. At the end of a film's run, some theater employee had to climb a ladder and change the letters to announce the next film playing. (Films usually played a week at neighborhood theaters.) I saw Q at a twin-plex (a single screen theater that was cut in half to create two theaters) and the movie playing in the other theater was ET. So the marquee read:
1. Q
2. ET
The shortest night the guy who changed the letters ever had.
