IMMP
The Inter-Millennium Media Project, where a GenX dad subjects his Millennial son to 20th century media.
We found 10 episodes of IMMP with the tag “70s”.
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126: STAR BLAZERS - Live from NDK 2023
September 4th, 2023 | 55 mins 23 secs
70s, animation, kids, live, scifi, tv
Recorded live at Nan Desu Kan 2023 in Colorado, this special episode takes on STAR BLAZERS -- the Americanized version of Leiji Matsumoto's SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, and the object of Matthew's first anime fan geek-outs with his middle school friends, way back in the 1970s.
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124: SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT
August 7th, 2023 | 51 mins 1 sec
70s, action, comedy, movie
The IMMP Summer Road Trip continues with SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, the 1977 classic about an intrepid truck driver (Jerry Reed) and his buddy (Burt Reynolds) hauling bootleg beer one step ahead of the law (Jackie Gleason).
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123: THE GUMBALL RALLY
July 24th, 2023 | 52 mins 26 secs
70s, action, comedy, movie
Summer is time for road trips. And for the IMMP that starts with the odd, stylish 1976 action comedy THE GUMBALL RALLY.
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116: THE STING
April 17th, 2023 | 40 mins 11 secs
70s, comedy, drama, movie
Psst. Hey. Yeah, you. You look like a smart guy. Can I interest you in what might be the best grift movie of all time? It's 1973's THE STING.
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112: THE GREAT HOUDINI(S) Starring Paul Michael Glaser
February 20th, 2023 | 46 mins 40 secs
70s, biopic, drama, movie, tv
In the early 1900s, Harry Houdini became the world's greatest entertainer by escaping every type of captivity. In the mid 1970s, ten-year-old Matthew was captivated by THE GREAT HOUDINIS, starring Paul Michael Glaser of Starsky and Hutch fame. How will Ian escape this TV biopic?
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106: Ralph Bakshi’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978)
November 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 1 min
70s, animation, fantasy, movie, tolkien
More than two decades before Peter Jackson made the world believe that New Zealand is Middle Earth, animator Ralph Bakshi gave us an ambitious and deeply weird adaptation of Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
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105: THE HOBBIT (Rankin Bass, 1977)
November 14th, 2022 | 44 mins 12 secs
70s, animation, kids, musical, tolkien, tv
Tricksey hobbitses! In this episode Ian and Matthew discuss Matthew's junior high Tolkien obsession, and specifically the 1977 Rankin Bass animated version of THE HOBBIT.
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103: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder
October 17th, 2022 | 1 hr 4 mins
70s, comedy, halloween, horror, movie
After the 1931 Universal Adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN -- 43 years after -- Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder revisited the material with ... a parody? A sequel? Both? Something more? Ian and Matthew try to figure it out as they talk about YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
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099: LOGAN’S RUN
August 22nd, 2022 | 52 mins 39 secs
70s, drama, movie, scifi
For late August 2022, Matthew chose to show Ian the 70s sci-fi feature LOGAN'S RUN.
For reasons that will become clear.
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098: Mike Nichols’ THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN
August 8th, 2022 | 44 mins
70s, drama, movie, scifi
Is "marine biology techno thriller" a genre? If so it applies to this episode's subject, THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN.