Ah...."Sensurround". I'm 54 and I remember seeing it advertised heavily on TV and in the newspapers for films like "Earthquake", "Meteor", "Battlestar Galactica" and of course this one. Right around the same time I was a kid growing up in SoCal and we went to Magic Mountain when The Revolution was all the hype. We went on the ride while the sun was still up and then went back near closing when the crowds were thinning out enough to the point where they just let us stay on and re-started the ride for us about three more times. Never forgot it. This flick turned up on HBO a few years later when I was about 12 and it made me think of that day. Then I find your reaction video and of course the memories came flooding back. Thanks so much for the trip back in time. I'd like to speak to the management.
This flick gave them a lot of exposure, and a lot of people even assume that they're some fictional group created for it (I think that's what THESE two even thought, going by their visible response to their introduction). But no, they're an actual group who span five decades (1972 to present), have subsisted on a persistent cult following, and are more influential than most people are aware.
Yeah Sparks - great group! This flick gave them a lot of exposure, and a lot of people even assume that they're some fictional group created for it (I think that's what THESE two even thought going by their visible response to their introduction). But no, they're an actual group who span five decades (1972 to present), have subsisted on a persistent cult following, and are more influential than most people are aware.
Timothy bottoms played a great smooth-talking psychopath who is who is cunning, brilliant and cold-blooded as they come. The last few minutes are terrific. The roller coaster itself gets revenge on the evil one.
A good follow up to this movie is "Two Minute Warning"(1976). You guys should watch the Airport movies. Airport(1970), Airport 75, Airport 77, and Airport 79 which will have you bent over laughing.
One of the very 1st movies to use "Sensurround" which used high levels of bass to give the feeling of vibrations, during the coaster rides. It was also used on "Earthquake", if you can imagine. It really worked, I remember seeing it opening day. USA bicentennial year. Filmed during the grand opening of "The Revolution" at "Magic Mountain".
Love this movie. I was ten in 1977 when it came out and I was at Kings Dominion around the same time. The writing is so good. I finally got to ride the Revolution coaster in 1992. That loop is huge. Glad you liked it.
His motive was that the big parks that he was targeting were taking business from his family’s amusement park and his mom and dad were struggling to keep it open. this was cut from the movie as they thought it would make the audience sympathetic to his cause.
Sparks were actually pretty big in the UK (though an American group). They caught the tail end of Glam, and then got a second wind during the New Wave era.
I actually liked this movie a lot - I just saw the full movie before I saw this reaction. It's very well-paced and very well-made. I'm impressed with all of the extras and even many of them had lines in the background which made this movie more realistic. I would love it if they would have let us know WHY he did this, even if it was just for the money. I thought the ending was appropriate for the unnamed man (billed at the end as "Young Man"). I'm surprised this didn't get good reviews when it came out, probably because people thought it would just be a typical disaster movie, which it wasn't supposed to be at all.
Somehow I saw that movie when I was really little and the coaster crash near the beginning was the only part I've remembered forever....gave me a life long phobia of coasters...
Wow, this movie is a deep dive. I saw it in a drive-in double feature with The Car (1977). That first park was filmed at Ocean View Park in Norfolk, Va. I remember when they filmed there after the park shut down. And I worked at Kings Dominion as a teenager - this movie brought back so many memories. Thanks for digging this up.
I went and saw this in the cinema as a kid. That first over-the-top and plummet-down-the-slope? With the Sensurround, you really felt like you were on one. Which I found amazing because I'd never ridden one! A good trip down Memory Lane.
Trivia:the baddie was originally going to lose his legs at the climax,but this,like the opening crash was much toned down to get a lower cinema certificate 🎩
Very “hitchcockian” story, with the audience knowing who’s the murderer since the begining, hyping the suspense factor. Even the use of strings in the soundtrack reminds a little a Bernard Hermann old score. Remember seeing this at a theater in the late 70’s. Still a good movie! 🌟✌️
They apparently deleted a scene that explained his motivation. That thought it would be more intriguing as a mystery. Also, the motivation might have made him too sympathetic of a character for a villain. It has something to do with his parents being ruined by an amusement park, or something.
That final looping rollercoaster…it’s my favorite! It’s 47 years old and still a major FUN RIDE! The Revolution at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California! Side note; in the 1983 “National Lampoons Vacation “ with Chevy Chase, they ride the Revolution in the conclusion of that movie as well. Magic Mountain was used as “Wally World” in that film.
Ah the 70’s big star disaster thriller genre. This one came out during its peak. Timothy Bottoms kind of gives me young Richard Gere and Han Solo vibes for some reason:)
That bigass rollercoaster is the Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion. There was a time where you could ride the cars backwards, and it was scary as hell. The cars only had the lap bar which seemed really sketchy even in the 80s.
Hey Mrs Mr Movies wanted to say , you two have a unique and exciting channel. Love that you never overreact and your reactions and commentary etc . I like that we never got a motive, it leaves it up to the audience. I ve seen Helen Hunt as a teen in old TV shows and of course know her from Mad About you and Twister but yeah she really looks young here. Next Disaster movie rec . The Towering Inferno, The Poisedon Adventure .
Writers Levinson and Link were best known for TV mysteries (they created _Columbo_ and _Murder, She Wrote)_ while director James Goldstone had a more checkered career, filming this between the campy _Swashbuckler_ and Irwin Allen's volcano dud _When Time Ran Out._ George Segal chose to publicly trash the film days before its release, which probably played a bit part in the downward spiral of his career.
Like Earthquake and Midway before it, this movie was released theatrically in Sensoround. Basically the bass would be kicked up in the sound mix and would make you shake.
48:44 George Segal was in a ton of things! His final role was Pops on "The Goldbergs" and he was Jack Gallo on "Just Shoot Me" (1997-2003)... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Segal
When I was 10, in 1976, our family went to visit relatives in Southern California. THIS time, we decided to visit this new amusement park called Magic Mountain. Now anyone conscious in 1976 knows it was the Bicentennial. You might also remember that we kinda over did it. 🙄 So off we went and on the way, we kept seeing billboards for the hot new roller coaster - The Revolution! Mind you, the very word "Revolution" had a loop in it on the billboards. But that was lost on me, a 10 year old who was afraid of roller coasters. Instead, I was convinced that "The Revolution" was a boat ride through scenes from the American Revolution a lá Pirates of the Caribbean. No, seriously, I really believed that! And I continued to believe that I was headed for a historical boat ride until I was seated in the FRONT ROW of the world's first roller coaster with a LOOP! 😮 I Surrvived, barely. I also learned that not everything had to be be Bicentennial themed 😂 .
Nothing's better than those "warnings" given at the beginning of movies back in the day. "If you have a heart condition please consult your physician before viewing this movie". Lol. Such great power of suggestion. Theatres running The Exorcist did something similar, don't recall the verbiage tho. There was also news footage of people all over the country fainting during the movie and being carried out. PR campaigns back in the day were hilarious.
I love this movie! Has a bit of a Columbo vibe to it - no wonder since it's a Levinson/Link feature. Lalo Schifrin wrote tons of music for the dramatic score and the rides, most of it is still unreleased.
This was the third movie in the miracle of Sensurround, after 1975’s “Earthquake”, where ultra-bass speakers in the back of the theater would rumble the seats during the action scenes….IF they were adjusted correctly. They usually weren’t, leading to management complaints. (I only caught the last one, a cheap 1978 reissue of the Battlestar Galactica pilot: Ultra-bass was supposed to be inaudible, but if it wasn’t, those sitting back got a right blasting. 😖)
I saw this movie in the theater with the Sensurround speakers just one row back and one seat over from where I was sitting in the rear of the theater. The (very loud) rumbling was very much like that of a genuine roller coaster. Fun time. And a pretty cool movie, to boot.
I think this is an incredibly underrated movie. I think it's tense, with good acting. Timothy Bottoms did another movie called The Paper Chase, about the struggles of a law student. It sounds boring but I thought it was very watchable. This movie feels to me like Jaws, except the shark has been replaced by a mad bomber.
Yeah, The Paper Chase managed to vividly evoke the pressures of an elite academic program while also managing to make legal work seem intriguing without resorting to courtroom flashiness. The actor who played his professor in the film surely deserved his Academy Award.
Years ago (May 1972) the Youth Group I was in was camping near Great Yarmouth (UK) and we had gone there for the day. We went to the amusement park and spent 10mins persuading the girls to go on the rollercoaster as it was quite safe. Driving back to the camp we had the radio on and there was a news story about a rollercoaster accident at Battersea Park Funfair in London. The wooden coaster train came off it's tracks, 5 children died and another 13 people were injured.
Core memory unlocked! My Family saw this in the cinema back in ‘77 I was 8. I also had and still have bad motion sickness. I spent the drive home and sometime afterwards throwing up all over the place from this movie 😂😩
The amusement park in Virginia is Kings Dominion and is the sister park to Kings Island here in Mason Ohio. Reminds of how much has changed. No more monorail through wildlife, sky ride which was great when you didn’t want to walk to the other side of the park. The Brady Bunch actually filmed an episode here at Kings Island and they rode the double roller coaster. It’s called The Racer (very imaginative) but now one goes backwards.
I probably shouldn't be posting this, but if you're curious... "Eddie Parnassus" was the bomber's name. (I once had a copy of the Dell paperback novelization by Burton Wohl.) 😉
One of the movies released in Sensurround along with Earthquake and Midway. I think there may have been another as well. I remember the room shaking and funny thing was so many women were sitting in the front row!
Yes, "Rollercoaster" along with "Earthquake" and "Midway" are the prime examples of a once cutting edge but now dated quirk of sound design known as Sensurround, which in an era long before the likes of "Irréversible" and "Paranormal Activity" used infrasound and low bass frequencies played with volume and frequencies to give theatre goers a much more authentic experience.
So, other people have mentioned Sparks (they did songs for Valley Girl too) . Well, Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) did a documentary on them and it turns out that Sparks was a last minute replacement in this film. Originally the band was supposed to be KISS. However, they pulled out of the project to do "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park" instead. Which was not exactly a career highlight either. It was also filmed at Magic Mountain at about the same time.
I was in a twin theater watching another movie. Rollercoaster was in the other theater. During the Sensurround segments of Rollercoaster, I couldn't hear a GD thing in my theater. Prob the reason Sensurround didn't last long. As far as I remember there were only two Sensurround movies released.
This film was just before Segal's box office popularity began to wain.Like that others 60s-70s star,Elliott Gould,by the time the 80s dawned his career was more tv based (unlike today doing tv was considered a step down in your career)🎩
I saw this in our local theater when it came out. I did not see it in sense-a-round but I DID see Midway (1976) in that special sound. Rollercoaster was fun, not great but fun to see in a theater. This was the disaster movie era and this was a late comer to the party.
Revolution was one of my favorite coasters when I was a kid in the 80’s. It’s still fun but it’s basically a family coaster now. It’s famous for being the first modern vertical looping coaster. The first corkscrew loop was built a few months before a few cities over at Knotts Berry Farm. I rode all these coaster when I was a kiddo.
Ryan Reynolds does look like Timothy Bottoms, who should have been a bigger star. The film was co-written by "Columbo" and "Murder, She Wrote" co-creators, Richard Levinson and William Link. Director James Goldstone directed the "Star Trek: TOS" pilot. So, the film has a bit of a TV vibe. 32:06 Steve Guttenberg is uncredited here as a messenger. 32:48 Demerst is played by veteran voice actor, Michael Bell ("G.I. Joe", "Rugrats"), who has worked on a bunch of Hanna-Barbera produced animated series that Helen Hunt's dad, the late Gordon Hunt, worked on as a voice director. 48:59 Katey Sagal's dad, Boris Sagal, directed some episodes of the original "Twilight Zone" and "Columbo". To TV fans, George Segal was a regular on "Just Shoot Me" and "The Goldbergs" (his final acting gig). His movies include "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf", "The Owl And The Pussycat", "King Rat", "Where's Poppa?", "The Hot Rock" (my favorite of his), "The Terminal Man", the original "Fun with Dick and Jane" and "Carbon Copy" (Denzel Washington's first film).
I say that Mr. Segal did some of his best work in the project he joined after this one - namely, *Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?* alongside radiant Jacqueline Bissett and mountainous Robert Morley. He really seems to be enjoying himself! 😎
I saw this movie in the theater. In Sensurround! Not only that, but King's Dominion was a frequent visit by our family. I've been on all the rides they showed. Rebel Yell was one of the fastest coasters in the country at that time.
George Segal starred in another 70s film that I really enjoyed, 1975's Russian Roulette. And Timothy Bottoms was in the great 1973 film The Paper Chase. My favorite amusement park ride is probably the Beast, Kings Island, Mason, OH, which is touted as the longest wooden roller coaster in the world.
Against all odds Kiss of Death (O.G) The last wagon The long ships Night and the City Are some of my favorites. Fun Fact: they modeled the Joker, from his character in Night and the City.
Good review!!! Was 14-years old when this movie came out and saw it a few times in the theater just because of the "Sensurround" effects - same as for the 1976 movie "Midway". Have NOT seen this movie in decades and other than the "rollercoaster" stuff, totally forgot what this movie was about. Yep - can remember those rollercoasters of yesteryear with just the LAP BAR as a safety device. Have not been on a rollercoaster since about the late 1980s at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany - think that one actually had the shoulder bars and seat belt combination (space-age back then). Few 1970s disaster movies to consider: Two Minute Warning Black Sunday (kind of goes with the current events in a certain place on Earth PLUS it has the Super Bowl in it!!!!!!) Airplane (+ all the 1970s sequels to this movie) Earthquake The Cassandra Crossing Grey Lady Down
They did the same Sensurround thing with the "Blockbuster" movie.... / Earthquake (1974) / ( You should check it out ) It was better suited for a movie like Earthquake, and the shaking feels real.. cuz it is ! It's like a very deep base speaker .... was very cool, and yes, a few people left the movie . About 30% screamed like crazy because they had no idea what was going on !😮
So as a roller coaster obsessed kid my brother had me watch this when I was 5 or 6 and it’s still my favorite movie and the reason why I love roller coasters
I love this movie, saw it when it came out in Sensurround which really added to the immersive experience of the POV shots on the coasters. Also saw the films "Earthquake" and "Midway" in Sensurround and it was a pretty cool effect.This is a fine movie with good writing and and a great cast that still holds up pretty well. Thanks Guys and shout out to Markus for this one!
I’ve ridden two of those roller coasters. The one in Pittsburgh was the Thuderbolt in Kennywood Park. They have a big sign saying it was used in this movie.
Regarding HF "living room" chair I think office chair-especially for bosses-were less minimalist than they would become later.BTW,we never learn the baddies name or motive🎩
I only know about this movie because Sparks are all my time favorite band (well, second to Bowie.) So that’s the only segment I’ve ever seen of this film
Ah...."Sensurround". I'm 54 and I remember seeing it advertised heavily on TV and in the newspapers for films like "Earthquake", "Meteor", "Battlestar Galactica" and of course this one.
Right around the same time I was a kid growing up in SoCal and we went to Magic Mountain when The Revolution was all the hype. We went on the ride while the sun was still up and then went back near closing when the crowds were thinning out enough to the point where they just let us stay on and re-started the ride for us about three more times. Never forgot it.
This flick turned up on HBO a few years later when I was about 12 and it made me think of that day. Then I find your reaction video and of course the memories came flooding back. Thanks so much for the trip back in time.
I'd like to speak to the management.
Sparks are still going strong. They're celebrating their 50th anniversary and just released a new album.
Been a fan, forever. Had no idea they were in this film. Nice Surprise
This flick gave them a lot of exposure, and a lot of people even assume that they're some fictional group created for it (I think that's what THESE two even thought, going by their visible response to their introduction). But no, they're an actual group who span five decades (1972 to present), have subsisted on a persistent cult following, and are more influential than most people are aware.
🎶This Amusement Park isn't big enough for the both of us 🎶
Yeah Sparks - great group! This flick gave them a lot of exposure, and a lot of people even assume that they're some fictional group created for it (I think that's what THESE two even thought going by their visible response to their introduction). But no, they're an actual group who span five decades (1972 to present), have subsisted on a persistent cult following, and are more influential than most people are aware.
George Segal was a great actor, he was a main leading star in the 70's.
Timothy bottoms played a great smooth-talking psychopath who is who is cunning, brilliant and cold-blooded as they come. The last few minutes are terrific. The roller coaster itself gets revenge on the evil one.
A good follow up to this movie is "Two Minute Warning"(1976). You guys should watch the Airport movies. Airport(1970), Airport 75, Airport 77, and Airport 79 which will have you bent over laughing.
A better follow up to Two Minute Warning would be Black Sunday (1977)
That is a much better movie.@@davevannatta985
I love this movie. It was on HBO almost everyday in the late 70s. My friends and I still quote it.
“Got it made! Got it made!”🤣❤️
One of the very 1st movies to use "Sensurround" which used high levels of bass to give the feeling of vibrations, during the coaster rides. It was also used on "Earthquake", if you can imagine. It really worked, I remember seeing it opening day. USA bicentennial year. Filmed during the grand opening of "The Revolution" at "Magic Mountain".
Troll theme
Also used in "Midway".
A VERY good and very underrated suspense film from the 70's. One that even Alfred Hitchcock may have approved of. Nice reaction!
Love this movie. I was ten in 1977 when it came out and I was at Kings Dominion around the same time. The writing is so good. I finally got to ride the Revolution coaster in 1992. That loop is huge. Glad you liked it.
His motive was that the big parks that he was targeting were taking business from his family’s amusement park and his mom and dad were struggling to keep it open. this was cut from the movie as they thought it would make the audience sympathetic to his cause.
I've been a BIG FAN of this movie for over 40 years now abd I never knew about this until now very fascinating fact
Sparks were actually pretty big in the UK (though an American group). They caught the tail end of Glam, and then got a second wind during the New Wave era.
First album out in the early 70's... Sparks and Devo were probably the first New Wave bands.
@@ryanjacobson2508 And Roxy Music too I'd say.
I actually liked this movie a lot - I just saw the full movie before I saw this reaction. It's very well-paced and very well-made. I'm impressed with all of the extras and even many of them had lines in the background which made this movie more realistic. I would love it if they would have let us know WHY he did this, even if it was just for the money. I thought the ending was appropriate for the unnamed man (billed at the end as "Young Man"). I'm surprised this didn't get good reviews when it came out, probably because people thought it would just be a typical disaster movie, which it wasn't supposed to be at all.
Somehow I saw that movie when I was really little and the coaster crash near the beginning was the only part I've remembered forever....gave me a life long phobia of coasters...
The main star of this movie is pops from The Goldbergs.
The grampa 😆
@CRTR_FTR69 yeah you know now i’ve told you. 😀
Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, George Segal and Helen Hunt are the top 4
Fonda and Widmark stared in dozens of films ( Many cowboy classics )
@CRTR_FTR69don't be so rude, not everyone knows that.
@stevenulch2764 no shit doesn't necessarily mean in a rude way, a lot of Americans say it when they find out something interesting
Wow, this movie is a deep dive. I saw it in a drive-in double feature with The Car (1977). That first park was filmed at Ocean View Park in Norfolk, Va. I remember when they filmed there after the park shut down. And I worked at Kings Dominion as a teenager - this movie brought back so many memories. Thanks for digging this up.
Oh wow, I'd forgotten about The Car! That thing gave me nightmares for months
I went and saw this in the cinema as a kid. That first over-the-top and plummet-down-the-slope? With the Sensurround, you really felt like you were on one.
Which I found amazing because I'd never ridden one!
A good trip down Memory Lane.
Trivia:the baddie was originally going to lose his legs at the climax,but this,like the opening crash was much toned down to get a lower cinema certificate 🎩
Very “hitchcockian” story, with the audience knowing who’s the murderer since the begining, hyping the suspense factor. Even the use of strings in the soundtrack reminds a little a Bernard Hermann old score. Remember seeing this at a theater in the late 70’s. Still a good movie! 🌟✌️
Better have a reference to the Ohio Players in this video. "Love Roller Coaster" is a great disco banger!
They apparently deleted a scene that explained his motivation. That thought it would be more intriguing as a mystery. Also, the motivation might have made him too sympathetic of a character for a villain.
It has something to do with his parents being ruined by an amusement park, or something.
It was included in the novelization.
That final looping rollercoaster…it’s my favorite! It’s 47 years old and still a major FUN RIDE! The Revolution at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California! Side note; in the 1983 “National Lampoons Vacation “ with Chevy Chase, they ride the Revolution in the conclusion of that movie as well. Magic Mountain was used as “Wally World” in that film.
Ah the 70’s big star disaster thriller genre. This one came out during its peak. Timothy Bottoms kind of gives me young Richard Gere and Han Solo vibes for some reason:)
That bigass rollercoaster is the Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion. There was a time where you could ride the cars backwards, and it was scary as hell. The cars only had the lap bar which seemed really sketchy even in the 80s.
Timothy Bottoms was in a TV show called That's My Bush, so he presumably looks like George W. Bush.
Hey Mrs Mr Movies wanted to say , you two have a unique and exciting channel. Love that you never overreact and your reactions and commentary etc . I like that we never got a motive, it leaves it up to the audience. I ve seen Helen Hunt as a teen in old TV shows and of course know her from Mad About you and Twister but yeah she really looks young here.
Next Disaster movie rec . The Towering Inferno, The Poisedon Adventure .
Damn, I was just a kid when this movie came out.
Writers Levinson and Link were best known for TV mysteries (they created _Columbo_ and _Murder, She Wrote)_ while director James Goldstone had a more checkered career, filming this between the campy _Swashbuckler_ and Irwin Allen's volcano dud _When Time Ran Out._ George Segal chose to publicly trash the film days before its release, which probably played a bit part in the downward spiral of his career.
Levinson and Link also created Mannix and co-wrote Steve McQueen's last film, "The Hunter", under the pseudonym, Ted Leighton.
There were so many well-known actors headlining in this film, and I spotted several young actors before they hit it big.
Helen Hunt, Steve Guttenberg (uncredited) and Craig Wasson.
Cool to see King's Dominion get some screen time! Went there many times on youth group trips as a kid.
Like Earthquake and Midway before it, this movie was released theatrically in Sensoround. Basically the bass would be kicked up in the sound mix and would make you shake.
48:44 George Segal was in a ton of things! His final role was Pops on "The Goldbergs" and he was Jack Gallo on "Just Shoot Me" (1997-2003)...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Segal
Not heard of this one before. Some other good amusement park movies: Adventureland, The Way Way Back, Action Point
When I was 10, in 1976, our family went to visit relatives in Southern California. THIS time, we decided to visit this new amusement park called Magic Mountain. Now anyone conscious in 1976 knows it was the Bicentennial. You might also remember that we kinda over did it. 🙄
So off we went and on the way, we kept seeing billboards for the hot new roller coaster - The Revolution! Mind you, the very word "Revolution" had a loop in it on the billboards. But that was lost on me, a 10 year old who was afraid of roller coasters. Instead, I was convinced that "The Revolution" was a boat ride through scenes from the American Revolution a lá Pirates of the Caribbean. No, seriously, I really believed that! And I continued to believe that I was headed for a historical boat ride until I was seated in the FRONT ROW of the world's first roller coaster with a LOOP! 😮 I Surrvived, barely. I also learned that not everything had to be be Bicentennial themed 😂 .
Nothing's better than those "warnings" given at the beginning of movies back in the day. "If you have a heart condition please consult your physician before viewing this movie". Lol. Such great power of suggestion. Theatres running The Exorcist did something similar, don't recall the verbiage tho. There was also news footage of people all over the country fainting during the movie and being carried out. PR campaigns back in the day were hilarious.
Grew up in this town. That KISS movie was also filmed there shorty after
"KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park". Dearest god I still remember begging my mom to let me watch that.
I love this movie! Has a bit of a Columbo vibe to it - no wonder since it's a Levinson/Link feature. Lalo Schifrin wrote tons of music for the dramatic score and the rides, most of it is still unreleased.
This was the third movie in the miracle of Sensurround, after 1975’s “Earthquake”, where ultra-bass speakers in the back of the theater would rumble the seats during the action scenes….IF they were adjusted correctly. They usually weren’t, leading to management complaints.
(I only caught the last one, a cheap 1978 reissue of the Battlestar Galactica pilot: Ultra-bass was supposed to be inaudible, but if it wasn’t, those sitting back got a right blasting. 😖)
I saw this movie in the theater with the Sensurround speakers just one row back and one seat over from where I was sitting in the rear of the theater. The (very loud) rumbling was very much like that of a genuine roller coaster. Fun time. And a pretty cool movie, to boot.
Did y’all really watch the roller coaster? I was born in 1971 you make me so happy.
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@@howardb.6205 fist bump yo.
I think this is an incredibly underrated movie. I think it's tense, with good acting. Timothy Bottoms did another movie called The Paper Chase, about the struggles of a law student. It sounds boring but I thought it was very watchable. This movie feels to me like Jaws, except the shark has been replaced by a mad bomber.
Yeah, The Paper Chase managed to vividly evoke the pressures of an elite academic program while also managing to make legal work seem intriguing without resorting to courtroom flashiness. The actor who played his professor in the film surely deserved his Academy Award.
@@stoogefest16 John Houseman. He was part of Orson Welles' stock company of actors and starred in the original versions of "Rollerball" and "The Fog"
@@Madbandit77 I actually caught him the other night in the espionage thriller ‘Three Days of the Condor’ with Robert Redford.
Loved that movie when I grew up. Hadn't seen it for decades, but have to say, it aged pretty well.
One of the best things about old disaster movies is they were chock full of classic character actors.
I saw Earthquake with ol Charlton Heston in sensurround. Boy did that vibrate!
I saw it with that as well.
Years ago (May 1972) the Youth Group I was in was camping near Great Yarmouth (UK) and we had gone there for the day. We went to the amusement park and spent 10mins persuading the girls to go on the rollercoaster as it was quite safe. Driving back to the camp we had the radio on and there was a news story about a rollercoaster accident at Battersea Park Funfair in London. The wooden coaster train came off it's tracks, 5 children died and another 13 people were injured.
Core memory unlocked! My Family saw this in the cinema back in ‘77 I was 8. I also had and still have bad motion sickness. I spent the drive home and sometime afterwards throwing up all over the place from this movie 😂😩
now many times did u see star wars? My total was 11 oh the days when the movie kept restarting and u could hang there all day
The amusement park in Virginia is Kings Dominion and is the sister park to Kings Island here in Mason Ohio. Reminds of how much has changed. No more monorail through wildlife, sky ride which was great when you didn’t want to walk to the other side of the park. The Brady Bunch actually filmed an episode here at Kings Island and they rode the double roller coaster. It’s called The Racer (very imaginative) but now one goes backwards.
One of my favorite movies cant wait to see the reaction
I remember seeing this in sensurround Helen Hunt can also be seen Blessings and happy thoughts! 😇🙏🎊🙌🎉🤗
I probably shouldn't be posting this, but if you're curious...
"Eddie Parnassus"
was the bomber's name. (I once had a copy of the Dell paperback novelization by Burton Wohl.) 😉
One of the movies released in Sensurround along with Earthquake and Midway. I think there may have been another as well. I remember the room shaking and funny thing was so many women were sitting in the front row!
Sensurround was last used on two theatrically-released edits from the TV series _Battlestar Galactica._
Yes, "Rollercoaster" along with "Earthquake" and "Midway" are the prime examples of a once cutting edge but now dated quirk of sound design known as Sensurround, which in an era long before the likes of "Irréversible" and "Paranormal Activity" used infrasound and low bass frequencies played with volume and frequencies to give theatre goers a much more authentic experience.
So, other people have mentioned Sparks (they did songs for Valley Girl too) . Well, Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) did a documentary on them and it turns out that Sparks was a last minute replacement in this film. Originally the band was supposed to be KISS. However, they pulled out of the project to do "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park" instead. Which was not exactly a career highlight either. It was also filmed at Magic Mountain at about the same time.
OMG i love this movie !!!!!
I was in a twin theater watching another movie. Rollercoaster was in the other theater. During the Sensurround segments of Rollercoaster, I couldn't hear a GD thing in my theater. Prob the reason Sensurround didn't last long. As far as I remember there were only two Sensurround movies released.
Kings Dominion DOES exist. It is just south of Richmond, VA. Main rollercoaster is called the Rebel Yell.
This film was just before Segal's box office popularity began to wain.Like that others 60s-70s star,Elliott Gould,by the time the 80s dawned his career was more tv based (unlike today doing tv was considered a step down in your career)🎩
Confucious say " He who go to bed with itchy bum , wake up with smelly finger "
Dunno what cast list you were reading,but Helen Hunt IS billed (as Tracey Calder)...btw Steve Guttenberg makes an unfilled appearance as a messenger 🎩
About 20 years ago I had a PO Box in Beverly Hills...right above Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks. I got a lot of their mail accidentally.
At about 45:48 it must be Rory Calhoun since he is both standing and walking.
I saw this in our local theater when it came out. I did not see it in sense-a-round but I DID see Midway (1976) in that special sound. Rollercoaster was fun, not great but fun to see in a theater. This was the disaster movie era and this was a late comer to the party.
Revolution was one of my favorite coasters when I was a kid in the 80’s. It’s still fun but it’s basically a family coaster now. It’s famous for being the first modern vertical looping coaster. The first corkscrew loop was built a few months before a few cities over at Knotts Berry Farm. I rode all these coaster when I was a kiddo.
JUGGERNAUT 1974, is a similar type of thriller, a great cast and the same suspense!
As a native and still resident of Norfolk, Virginia, it was fun to see Ocean View Park in a You, Me, And The Movies video.
Ryan Reynolds does look like Timothy Bottoms, who should have been a bigger star.
The film was co-written by "Columbo" and "Murder, She Wrote" co-creators, Richard Levinson and William Link. Director James Goldstone directed the "Star Trek: TOS" pilot. So, the film has a bit of a TV vibe.
32:06 Steve Guttenberg is uncredited here as a messenger.
32:48 Demerst is played by veteran voice actor, Michael Bell ("G.I. Joe", "Rugrats"), who has worked on a bunch of Hanna-Barbera produced animated series that Helen Hunt's dad, the late Gordon Hunt, worked on as a voice director.
48:59 Katey Sagal's dad, Boris Sagal, directed some episodes of the original "Twilight Zone" and "Columbo". To TV fans, George Segal was a regular on "Just Shoot Me" and "The Goldbergs" (his final acting gig). His movies include "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf", "The Owl And The Pussycat", "King Rat", "Where's Poppa?", "The Hot Rock" (my favorite of his), "The Terminal Man", the original "Fun with Dick and Jane" and "Carbon Copy" (Denzel Washington's first film).
Timothy Bottoms is older so shouldn't it be Ryan Reynolds looks like Timothy Bottoms?
@@ChocolatePiazza Mea culpa.
I say that Mr. Segal did some of his best work in the project he joined after this one - namely, *Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?* alongside radiant Jacqueline Bissett and mountainous Robert Morley. He really seems to be enjoying himself! 😎
I saw this movie in the theater. In Sensurround! Not only that, but King's Dominion was a frequent visit by our family. I've been on all the rides they showed. Rebel Yell was one of the fastest coasters in the country at that time.
George Segal starred in another 70s film that I really enjoyed, 1975's Russian Roulette. And Timothy Bottoms was in the great 1973 film The Paper Chase. My favorite amusement park ride is probably the Beast, Kings Island, Mason, OH, which is touted as the longest wooden roller coaster in the world.
This is a great choice brilliant set pieces and acting from all and who doesn't love Richard Widmark in any movie?👍🇬🇧
Against all odds
Kiss of Death (O.G)
The last wagon
The long ships
Night and the City
Are some of my favorites.
Fun Fact: they modeled the Joker, from his character in Night and the City.
@@MrBoyYankee Totally agree Coma with Michael Douglas is also topnotch.👍🇬🇧
Wow not seen this film since the 80's...great film
I remember seeing this movie a lot on the AMC channel as a kid. Thanks you two for bringing this movie back to my attention.
I was waiting for someone to cover this
Good review!!! Was 14-years old when this movie came out and saw it a few times in the theater just because of the "Sensurround" effects - same as for the 1976 movie "Midway". Have NOT seen this movie in decades and other than the "rollercoaster" stuff, totally forgot what this movie was about. Yep - can remember those rollercoasters of yesteryear with just the LAP BAR as a safety device. Have not been on a rollercoaster since about the late 1980s at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany - think that one actually had the shoulder bars and seat belt combination (space-age back then).
Few 1970s disaster movies to consider:
Two Minute Warning
Black Sunday (kind of goes with the current events in a certain place on Earth PLUS it has the Super Bowl in it!!!!!!)
Airplane (+ all the 1970s sequels to this movie)
Earthquake
The Cassandra Crossing
Grey Lady Down
They did the same Sensurround thing with the "Blockbuster" movie....
/ Earthquake (1974) /
( You should check it out )
It was better suited for a movie like Earthquake, and the shaking feels real.. cuz it is !
It's like a very deep base speaker .... was very cool, and yes, a few people left the movie .
About 30% screamed like crazy because they had no idea what was going on !😮
Thank you so much for this!!!! One of my faves.
Had to laugh that Mrs Movies said "dicking around" during the scene with Sparks playing.
Another good one, besides those that have been suggested is "Juggernaut". A huge cruise ship has several powerful bombs planted on it.
So as a roller coaster obsessed kid my brother had me watch this when I was 5 or 6 and it’s still my favorite movie and the reason why I love roller coasters
I love this movie, saw it when it came out in Sensurround which really added to the immersive experience of the POV shots on the coasters. Also saw the films "Earthquake" and "Midway" in Sensurround and it was a pretty cool effect.This is a fine movie with good writing and and a great cast that still holds up pretty well. Thanks Guys and shout out to Markus for this one!
Ah yes I remember the ending was filmed in Kings Dominion in Doswell Va. It was a pretty cool movie back in the day.
This movie reminds me of Speed. I liked it.
"SPARKS" were an actual band, Dutch to be precise. And yes, the keyboard player did look like Hitler, that was his trademark.
Also had Craig Wasson from Elm Street 3
38:42. "Snag worthy." That was funny. 42:28. That was definitely the girl in the front's camel toe.
You guys need to watch Shanghai Knights with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, great action/comedy film that came out in 2003.
I've never seen this one before! It was fun.
This movie is like going home f0r me... Boush Gardens in Williamsburg, and King's Dominion in Richmond.
A blast from my past. I was ten. Lovely to see this.
I’ve ridden two of those roller coasters. The one in Pittsburgh was the Thuderbolt in Kennywood Park. They have a big sign saying it was used in this movie.
From Pittsburgh and didn't know that.
@@johnashley327 it’s been 20 years since I’ve been to Kennywood. The sign might gone now.
Can't believe the Tom Hanks 80s classic, "Bachelor Party" hasn't been suggested for you to watch. Smh. Love the channel tho.
Tom Hanks hates this movie but I still love it.
"Hey, it's Cole! Did someone order an asshole from room service?"
Regarding HF "living room" chair I think office chair-especially for bosses-were less minimalist than they would become later.BTW,we never learn the baddies name or motive🎩
I vaguely remember this movie. It's actually pretty good -- thank you for reacting to it.
You've got to love these old fun park's 😀
Magic Mountain had Followed and Revolution...plus five more today!!!
That big long white beamed rollercoaster was featured in the intro of Step by Step
I only know about this movie because Sparks are all my time favorite band (well, second to Bowie.) So that’s the only segment I’ve ever seen of this film
LOVE THIS MOVIE!! Never expected you guys to react to it though- I wasn’t aware it was an especially popular movie!
Forgot Henry Fonda was in this.
The Revolution is the first steel coaster with a loop and is still in use.
The "Hitler piano player" is Ron Mael actual brother of the lead vocalist,no really 🎩
I saw this in the theater as a kid. I had to be 9, it took me till my 20s before I would get on a rollercoaster. LOL