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Seven more 70's movies, we can scratch off our list. Welcome to Reviews number #50.
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1. (Dusty and Sweets Mcgee 1971) Here is neat documentary style look at drug addiction as people walk around L.A. looking to score.
2. (1776 1972) A musical I had not seen, annnnnd I'm a musical learner so I actually learned more from this story written by a history teacher then I did in school. This story and School house rock! Knight riders car and DR. Green's dad from E.R. are here.
3. (Top of the Heap 1972) Sadly here is another buried film, thanks Racism. It's starting to come around and I hope we can help. It's serious and heavy and it's written, directed and stars Christopher St. John whom we should have seen much more of. Paula Kelly from many films including The spook who sat by the door is here, and she has a poster of Baphomet!
 4. (California Reich 1974) This Academy award nominated documentary should definitely be seen and is available on YouTube. This and Jesus Camp 2006 should be on a shelf marked, Well we did fucking warn you!
5. (Sorcerer 1977) Yeah F what the director says this is definitely false advertising. Movie is cool and we get More Roy Scheider and an amazing soundtrack by Tangerine Dream, but there are absolutely no witches wizard or magic at all in this film.
6. (Phantasm 1979) Great flippin title. Group of hard working ambitious stoners make a movie that is very creative, cray, and not a Women hating slasher film. I'm here for it.
7. (More American Graffiti 1979) I wanna just say cash grab, but they waited 6 years. I guess you had happy days in 74. Grease was 78 sooooo they probably tackled George to make sequel for some beach houses. George had little to do with this, editing the screenplay and apparently “Supervising.” People like to dismiss, but we found a few things here that we dug, also some real weirdness, which I keep writing about some and then erasing, meaning, if you saw the first one this is worth a watch. Thanks always for listening. Please like and subscribe, why not.

INTERVIEW BEGINS AT : 28:00 In 1966 a song was released by a group of unknown Mexican American kids from Michigan that would change Rock-n-Roll, inspire generations of musicians and shape music for decades to come. ? and the Mysterians classic #1 hit 96 Tears has lived on as one of the greatest songs in the history of rock music, often credited as being the first #1 by a "Garage Band" and called by some " the Grandfather of Punk Rock". It has been covered by legends the likes of Todd Rundgren and Aretha Franklin to name a few. It has appeared in films and TV shows such as More American Graffiti, The Wire and Cats Eye Founding member of ? and the Mysterians guitarist Robert Lee "Bobby" Balderrama joins us today to discuss his life and career, from his youth and forming the Mysterians to future success such as the billboard topping #1 Smooth Jazz hit Any Moment (with Le Sonic) I am so excited for this one!!!!! So kick back, enjoy, and please subscribe, rate and share the show, Let's keep the audience growing and feel free to reach out to us at Trans.History.Rambling@gmail.com And hey, why not check out our merch store for t-shirts, baseball hats, hoodies, coffee mugs, stickers, magnets and a whole host of other items. https://www.teepublic.com/user/tahistory All of our episodes are listed as explicit due to language and some topics that may not be suitable for all listeners. Opening and closing theme is Random Sanity by British composer DeeZee

Today on GeekFest Rants we look at the pre-Star Wars George Lucas hit, America Graffiti and it's sequel, More American Graffiti.  Join Carlos and James as they chime in on their views on these two films.  Does the sequel live up to the original?  What is the Happy Days connection to the original film.  Is life today anything like it was in 1962?

Today on GeekFest Rants we look at the pre-Star Wars George Lucas hit, America Graffiti and it's sequel, More American Graffiti. Join Carlos and James as they chime in on their views on these two films. Does the sequel live up to the original? What is the Happy Days connection...

This week the guys talk about More American Graffiti, the posthumous sequel to George Lucas' classic 1973 coming of age film American Graffiti.  An interesting film that asks the question, what are these characters up to only a couple of years later?  Tune in! As always follow us on all of the things HERE.

A story about a duck, a girl, inter-dimensional demons, and flirting with beastiality. Listen in as me and returning guest Dan settle in with a Duckweiser and thumb through that latest issue of Playduck as we revisit the first feature film about a Marvel character. Directed by Willard Huyck (Messiah of Evil, French Postcards, Best Defense), who also co-wrote the film with Gloria Katz (American Graffiti, More American Graffiti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), TV Guide Magazine called the film "a monumental waste of time" and the A.V. Club said it was "desperately unfunny." What the hell is wrong with these people? I think they saw a different film... I agree with Empire who said it was "a crazy comedy" and IGN who stated it was "fun to watch." Screw the haters! It tells the story of Howard T. Duck, a charismatic smartass anthropomorphic duck who is ripped from his planet, Duck World, and plopped down into the best area Cleveland, Ohio has to offer. He befriends struggling up-and-coming rocker Beverly (played by the electric Lea Thompson) who introduces him to her wannabe scientist friend Phil (Tim Robbins with full-tilt Nic Cage energy), and the two set about trying to return Howard to his home. Inter-dimensional demons and a zany turn by the talented, yet problematic, Jeffrey Jones keep this adventure firing on all cylinders. Let's not forget, there's a killer theme song. You can find the film on Amazon Prime Video for rent or purchase and on DVD and Blu-ray.

Revisiting things a few years later can be perilous and More American Graffiti is maybe a very good example of this. Even lacking most of the creative team from the first movie American Graffiti still manages to spawn a weird alternate reality sequel to American Graffiti (1973) that comes out a year later called The Hollywood Knights. Knight Time is the Right Time Of the two, The Hollywood Knights is the much more beloved. In writing this episode description I finally cracked the code. I was shocked that an uncredited writer for Two-Lane Blacktop and Aloha, Bobby and Rose would end up making this movie however Floyd Mutrux worked at Second City and, realistically, The Hollywood Knights feels like a very produced graduation improv show where they find a story somewhere in there among all the antics. This movie 100% has Hot Rod credentials. I mentioned Project X and I had known it mostly as a Hot Rod Magazine car because Popular Hot Rodding was on the decline but it, indeed, was the car of Popular Hot Rodding for some time. All of these brands have been eaten up by Motortrend, it seems. The T bucket "rail job" was a cool and very authentic car that rarely shows up in movies. More Isn't Better I wish it was, though. There was some heart and thought put into this movie but I think that the hand of Lucas weighed heavily on the steering wheel of development and production. We can, in hindsight, see that it was inevitable as we've seen the saga of Star Wars but it's unfortunate that it had to be that way. Bill Norton didn't have a prolific credited writing career but was a journeyman TV director. He wouldn't necessarily show up on the list of people who would push back on that as More American Graffiti was at an early point in his directorial career. In a weird tie-in to car movies in general, Monte Hellman was assistant director to Bill Norton on Cisco Pike (1971). Milner was racing what we, today, call a "sling shot" and wearing those masks to not die from the nitromethane fumes was definitely an eye-catcher. Racing was wild back then but these racing scenes, for the most part, are very staged and slow. Other movies have done racing much better (even American Graffiti) but I guess they saved it up for that one last shot. Filming everything for Milner at the track makes it basically a "bottle episode" so I guess that was one way to save some money. Music Matters So the commonality here is the music. A ton of hits. An actual ton. More American Graffiti definitely goes into the later protest songs and hippy movement music while The Hollywood Knights stays in the pockets with The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean (the other The Beach Boys), The Four Seasons, The Chiffons, The Supremes, etc). I think THK shows a bit more range, culturally, than More American Graffiti (which very dedicated to Vietnam and its protests) especially when Newbomb Turk farts "Volare". Interestingly, and I hope it was intentional because I, in my head canon, really want this connection to be real and strong, The Hollywood Knights ends with Martha & The Vandellas' "Heat Wave" and More American Graffiti opens with Martha & The Vandellas' "Heat Wave". For the Audio Enthusiasts Used the WA-47 Jr (cardioid pattern) on the UA Volt 276 with the compressor and vintage modes on. No additional compression was used on the main part of the episode (there was limiting on the whole thing but it was fairly conservative). Stereo section was Rode M5s into a Zoom F6. There was severe wind noise so I cut out a lot of the low end. I did need to run a little bit of voice de-noise because I guess I wasn't speaking very loud and the noise levels around me were wild. The errata part was a Rode VideoMic Go II and I did get rid of some room tone on that one as well. Thanks for listening. Rate, like, and bell that smash for subscribe.

This week we're talking about two Vietnam War movies. First up we find freeing POWs very boring in MISSING IN ACTION. After that we talk about the dramatic portrayal of PTSD in FIRST BLOOD. Then we talk about SCREAM, RAISING CAIN, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, and MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI. We end the show with … Continue reading Missing In Action & First Blood →

This week we're talking about two Vietnam War movies. First up we find freeing POWs very boring in MISSING IN ACTION. After that we talk about the dramatic portrayal of PTSD in FIRST BLOOD. Then we talk about SCREAM, RAISING CAIN, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, and MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI. We end the show with a spoilery chat about THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT.

Bob Falfa is back! Briefly, but it's a Harrison Ford movie so Paul and Adam are all over it. Forty-three years later and you still have to convince some people there was a sequel to American Graffiti. This episode gives the movie its due and explores just how ambitious the film really was. And it turns out you don't have to twist the arm of this week's guest to talk about More American Graffiti as film critic William Bibbiani joins the show. Like good movie talk? Please subscribe! Website: www.themovieguys.net The Ford Fiesta: https://apple.co/3s3Om9l The TMG Interview: https://apple.co/3c21SEI The Movie Showcast: https://apple.co/3eXSrrW Countdown to Nine: https://bit.ly/38XVDzS YouTube (The Movie Guys): https://www.youtube.com/TheMovieGuys YouTube (The Movie Guys LIVE): Youtube.com/user/TheMovieGuysLIVE Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/themovieguys   Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMovieGuys Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheMovieGuys Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themovieguys/ Tumblr: https://themovieguys.tumblr.com/

Country Joe and the Fish are best known today for The Fish Rag (also known as I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag), which they released as a single in 1967, and famously performed at Woodstock, One of the most enduring songs written in protest of the Vietnam War, this song has been used in films such as More American Graffiti, and TV series like The Wonder Years. It's a quite obviously anti-war song, and the band themselves were staunch non-conformists and communists. The band features a range of weird and wild instruments, from the kazoo to the calliope, and is a damning indictment of the American War Machine. In this video I take a look at what makes this song work, analysing the lyrics and the music. NOTE: I had accidentally uploaded the unedited audio for this episode and as of 08/04/2022 this has been corrected

Russ and Andy take a Long Days Journey Into American Graffiti (1973) and Dazed And Confused (1993) 0:00 - Intro 2:07 - American Graffiti (spoilers) 25:11 - Russ's thoughts on More American Graffiti (spoilers) 33:39 - Dazed And Confused (spoilers) 1:10:54 - Viewer Questions Answered * 1:11:30 - Who is the most underrated filmmaker? * 1:20:10 - Would you guys consider doing a film studies degree? * 1:21:59 - What's your opinion on extensive film analysis? * 1:24:12 - What's the best trilogy? * 1:31:24 - What would you do differently with the new Star Wars trilogy? 1:37:59 - Outro Our Letterboxd Accounts: Russ: https://boxd.it/1Hgfd Andy: https://boxd.it/1BSW3 The YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UC1dcXBUplY_SFrVuQ_-DPNw Movies & More Discord Server: https://discord.gg/zfjUbHGK The Nerds Of Filmstreet Discord Server: https://discord.gg/NccDKgf3

It's our first minisode for Phase 2 of the pod! We discuss the first episode of "Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later" and share a couple camp stories from our youth. Then we name some of our favorite stageplay-to-film adaptations and recast the roles of Don and Teach from "American Buffalo" with actors from other "American" movies we covered so far. And finally we rank our top five tracks from the incredible "American Graffiti" soundtrack and pick apart the trailer for the ill-advised sequel "More American Graffiti." References: Titus Welliver's Al Pacino Impression 2 (YouTube) More American Graffiti - Original Theatrical Trailer (1979) (YouTube) List of plays adapted into feature films (Wikipedia) 41 Original Hits from the Soundtrack of American Graffiti (Wikipedia)

You want more? We've got more… More American Graffiti, that is! Doris, Rachel, and Tierney crowd into the booth to talk about four storylines spread across four New Year's Eves in the mid ‘60s. This episode covers A LOT: melting ice sculptures, Carol calling herself Rainbow, Apocalypse Lite, and a trip down memory lane courtesy of Hawaiian Punch. We also address the creeps galore in the film, how amazing Candy Clark is, Terry Le Tigre, and that no one cares about Andy (aka Not Curt).Come hang out at Mel's Listeners' Drive In on Facebook and @vcrprivileges on Twitter and InstagramArtwork by Alex RobinsonMusic by Sankta Eugenia Vokalensemble

“All Summer Long” by The Beach Boys plays as the credits roll. Doris saves the day by coming up with a good reason to use a song from 1964 here, Tierney has a lot of feelings about California, and Rachel wonders if “More American Graffiti” will just blow this film out of the water. (Probably not.) Grab your marimba mallets and play along! Sittin' in my car outside your house/(Sittin' in my car outside your house)…Come hang out at Mel's Listeners' Drive In on Facebook and @vcrprivileges on Twitter and InstagramArtwork by Alex RobinsonMusic by Chris Frain

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This week we review 2 picks from our Patreon supporters. First we take a look at Joshua's pick up "More American Graffiti" and then Ollie's pick of "The Dam Busters".

Who's the Bossk? - A Star Wars Podcast from Laughing Place #48: More American Graffiti with Mark Marshall and Amy Richau Date: February 10th, 2021 (intro recorded February 9th, Mark Marshall interview recorded February 4th, Amy Richau interview recorded January 29th) Listen Topics Film producer Mark Marshall of the Free Willy franchise joins host Mike Celestino to discuss how he got his start on Lucasfilm's 1979 sequel More American Graffiti, his time working for Steven Spielberg in the early 80s, and even a bit about what it was like on the set of The Goonies. Plus author and StarWars.com contributor Amy Richau stops by to promote her new Valentine's Day gift book Star Wars: I Love You. I Know. Subscribe iTunes Google Spotify

Who's the Bossk? – A Star Wars Podcast from Laughing Place #48: More American Graffiti with Mark Marshall and Amy Richau Date: February 10th, 2021 (intro recorded February 9th, Mark Marshall interview recorded February 4th, Amy Richau interview recorded January 29th) Listen Topics Film producer Mark Marshall of the Free Willy franchise joins host Mike Celestino […] The post Who's the Bossk? – Episode 48: More American Graffiti with Mark Marshall and Amy Richau appeared first on LaughingPlace.com.

Interview: I am joined by actress Candy Clark. Candy Clark starred in and received an Academy Award nomination for her role in George Lucas's American Graffiti. Candy share some amazing stories about Ron Howard, Richard Dryfuss, George Lucas, Cindy Williams, Bo Hopkins, and Charles Martin Smith. Candy and I also discuss More American Graffiti, the sequel to American Graffiti and together we come up with an idea for another sequel. Candy was also kind enough to share some memories of David Bowie and a story from their movie together The Man Who Fell to Earth.  Our Guest, Candy Clark https://www.instagram.com/candyclarkamericangraffiti https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0163748/  Live From Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show: WINNER TOP 25 INDIE PODCASTS 2020 from Indie Pods United! JOIN OUR MAILING LIST!  https://jeffisfunny.com/mailing-list/  Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JeffDwoskinShow  Jeff Dwoskin Presents: Crossing the Steams: Every Wednesday at 9:30PM ET we are LIVE discussing the best TV shows to binge watch. I'm joined by a panel of TV watching experts. You don't want to miss the fun! (Watch past episodes) Watch LIVE: @bigmacher on Twitter & Periscope: https://www.pscp.tv/bigmacher/follow The Jeff Dwoskin Show on YouTube Subscribe to YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/CTSYouTubeSubscribe  Hashtag Fun: Jeff dives into recent trends and reads some of his favorite tweets from trending hashtags. The hashtag featured in this episode is #AutomobileAMovieQuote Social Media Tip: Jeff goes on and on about the reply limiting feature on Twitter Featured on the show: Hashtag Game: #AutomobileAMovieQuote Hosted by: https://twitter.com/FreshCoastTags  Tweets featured on the show: https://twitter.com/BadBoxArtMarc/status/1179894200265039872?s=20 https://twitter.com/JRNoblin/status/1179894731104382977?s=20 https://twitter.com/robyndwoskin/status/1179893827378827264?s=20 https://twitter.com/dangermarin/status/1179894909383278594?s=20 https://twitter.com/JWButta/status/1179897042975543297?s=20 https://twitter.com/WonderKat365/status/1179893945582665738?s=20 https://twitter.com/MunaNawabit1/status/1179894280535588864?s=20 https://twitter.com/realsusandixon/status/1179895857522438144?s=20 https://twitter.com/mrjafri/status/1179894370759262209?s=20 https://twitter.com/genghisjon30/status/1179895595722403841?s=20 https://twitter.com/ByrdMan0914/status/1179895354042572801?s=20 https://twitter.com/Rachels_Ratchet/status/1179894436395831296?s=20 https://twitter.com/mickru79/status/1179899727078477826?s=20 https://twitter.com/redbox/status/1179905174996967425?s=20 https://twitter.com/sunkisseeddd1/status/1179894009168322560?s=20 https://twitter.com/Superbokka/status/1179894046774444038?s=20 https://twitter.com/Anythingpork/status/1179897910382780416?s=20  Follow Hashtag Roundup to tweet along with fun hashtags daily! https://twitter.com/HashtagRoundup   Download the Hashtag Roundup app at https://app.hashtagroundup.com/ Follow Jeff Dwoskin: Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigmacher  The Jeff Dwoskin Show: https://twitter.com/JeffDwoskinShow  Podcast website: https://jeffisfunny.com  Instagram: https://instagram.com/JeffDwoskinShow  The Jeff Dwoskin Show is available on Amazon Music, Humbly, Goodpods,  iHeart Radio, Pandora, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and more! 

Happy New Year! The guys were looking for a New Year's movie to review and came across a sequel they had never heard of before, More American Graffiti, the sequel to the critically acclaimed American Graffiti.

Hopkins appeared in more than 100 film and television roles in a career of more than 40 years, including the major studio films The Wild Bunch (1969), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Getaway (1972), American Graffiti (1973), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), The Killer Elite (1975), Posse (1975), A Small Town in Texas (1976), Midnight Express (1978), and More American Graffiti (1979).After Bo Hopkins' first roles in major films in the early 1970s he appeared in White Lightning (1973). Bo Hopkins played Roy Boone. Jerry Reed and Bo Hopkins played brothers Joe Hawkins and Tom Hawkins in the 1985 film What Comes Around.Hopkins starred or co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies of the mid-1970s, including Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley (1975), The Runaway Barge (1975), The Kansas City Massacre (1975), The Invasion of Johnson County (1976), Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), Woman on the Run (1977), Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978), Crisis in Sun Valley (1978) and The Busters (1978).When Gretchen Corbett left the television series The Rockford Files in 1978, Hopkins replaced her character as Rockford's attorney John Cooper, ultimately appearing in 3 episodes. In 1981, Hopkins appeared in the first season of the prime time drama Dynasty as Matthew Blaisdel. His many other appearances on television included in miniseries Aspen (1977) and Beggarman, Thief (1979), and in episodes of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Nichols, The Rat Patrol, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Fall Guy, Crazy Like a Fox, Murder, She Wrote and Doc Elliot. Hopkins has a role in the video game Nuclear Strike. He plays Colonel LeMonde, a mercenary who steals a nuclear weapon. The 'Strike' team tracks him through Southeast Asia.

A review of the 1979 film More American Graffiti

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Released in 1979, Bill Norton's More American Graffiti reunites most of the original cast of George Lucas's 1973 film save for Richard Dreyfus. Rather than looking at a single night, the film spans four New Years Eves across the lives of five main characters.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Released in 1979, Bill Norton’s More American Graffiti reunites most of the original cast of George Lucas’s 1973 film save for Richard Dreyfus. Rather than looking at a single night, the film spans four New Years Eves across the lives of five main characters.

Released in 1979, Bill Norton’s More American Graffiti reunites most of the original cast of George Lucas’s 1973 film save for Richard Dreyfus. Rather than looking at a single night, the film spans four New Years Eves across the lives of five main characters.

"Where were you in '62?" On this, the 62nd episode Dave and Jerry talk about "American Graffiti" and "More American Graffiti" (poor Terry the Toad) and Jerry's recent home plumbing issues (it was wet and steamy!) Listeners tell what advice they would give if they could go back in time and talk to their teenage self (stop playing with that thing.) If you're looking for intelligent, thought provoking and morally uplifting conversation, you've got the wrong podcast. 

Star Wars has always been political. This week, we explore how President Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War inspired George Lucas to create Star Wars!We discuss how close George Lucas came to serving in Vietnam (02:52), and how the Vietnam War and Lucas' aborted attempt to make Apocalypse Now influenced Star Wars (03:51). We look at Richard Nixon's opinion of Return of the Jedi, and how the disgraced President influenced the creation of Emperor Palpatine (10:30), and the parallels (or lack thereof) between the Emperor and Donald Trump (13:00).Finally, we consider how the Emperor is viewed by the denizens of the galaxy far, far away, and how that compares with history's view of Nixon (23:27).

What could be better than More American Graffiti? How about the fact that it takes place entirely on New Year's Eve! The boys tackle the ill-fated sequel to George Lucas' American Graffiti. What a fantastic bad name.

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss More American Graffiti. Posters for the first American Graffiti asked "Where were you in '62?" In this ambitious sequel, we look at four different vignettes taking place on New Year's Eve in 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1967 in Modesto and San Francisco California and Vietnam! Terry (Charles Martin Smith) is fed up fighting knee deep in the muddy field of Vietnam. John (Paul Le Mat) is trying to win drag races and the heart of a foreign exchange student (Anna Bjorn). Steve (Ron Howard) and Laurie (Cindy Williams) are on the brink of a divorce. Debbie (Candy Clark) is cruising around San Francisco trying to land her boyfriend a gig in the hit band Electric Haze. Each vignette is filmed in a different aspect ratio and, like the original, is loaded with classic songs commenting on the action at hand. Some stories work (Debbie's hippy band adventures, John's drag racing), and others don't (Terry's Vietnam hijinks, Steve's Mr. Mom escapades with his kiddos). It's an idea that works better in theory than in practice, but there are enough strong moments here to lure back in those who enjoyed the original. Mat read the novella Meg Origins by Steve Alten. It felt like a Michael Crichton novel with more sex jokes, for better or for worse. Thrasher enjoyed the short stories in Dreamsongs Volume 2 by George R. R. Martin. It collects pieces from earlier in his career before the mammoth success of his Game of Thrones novels.  Ratings for More American Graffiti: Mat: Sequel Yes Thrasher: Sequel Yes Follow the show on Twitter @Sequelcast2 Like our Sequelcast 2 Facebook Page The theme song to the Sequelcast is written and performed by Marc with a C. Sequelcast 2 is delighted to be a member of The Batman Podcast Network. Hear more great podcasts here! Watch Thrasher's tabletop RPG YouTube show d-infinity Live!. Listen to Marc with a C's music podcast Discography.  

This week, we're looking back at George Lucas' first (and least successful) sequel, More American Graffiti! Today, the Star Wars franchise is an unstoppable juggernaut, setting new box office records and creating new fans with virtually every new entry in the series. But times weren't always so good for Lucasfilm. George Lucas' first attempt at a sequel, 1979's More American Graffiti, was a major disappointment — the critics savaged it, and in the words of Lucas himself, "it made 10 cents". On this week's show, we take a look at what went wrong with More American Graffiti, and how its failure affected George Lucas' approach to the Star Wars sequels and left him fearing for the future of his company. We also discuss how an American Graffiti sequel could have succeeded — in the hands of another young writer-director.We'll be back next week with our Rebels recap extravaganza!

Where were you in '62? This week on the Force Material podcast, we're celebrating the film that first brought together Ron Howard and Lucasfilm!When George Lucas was challenged by his mentor Francis Ford Coppola and wife Marcia Lucas to make something more warm and commercial after the failure of THX-1138, he delivered in spades with American Graffiti — his most human, and perhaps most atypical, film. On this week's episode, we discuss George Lucas' fast and furious teenage years; Ron Howard's initiation into the Lucasfilm family; the unsung heroes who helped make American Graffiti great; and the connections between American Graffiti and Lucas' even bigger hit, Star Wars. We also explain how a film released in 1973 and set in 1962 sparked a full-blown 1950s revival, and why American Graffiti isn't just a 'nostalgia' film!We'll be back next week with More American Graffiti!

The guys talk about Preacher, More American Graffiti, comics, and more this week.

More American Graffiti.Before Star Wars, George Lucas made an impact with American Graffiti (examined in Episode 15 of Great Shot, Kid!). After its success, and especially after the success of Star Wars, a sequel was likely. Hence was born one of the lesser-known works of Lucasfilm.Directed by BWL Norton, to say More American Graffiti didn’t match the artistic or commercial success of the original is a study in understatement. Join John and Mike as they explore this unique piece of American film.

Wrapping up our conversation on our favourite films ever and their sequels we've never heard of with MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI. This is a surprisingly ambitious sequel that leads to some interesting film analysis. MIKE CHECK with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos - Our podcast journey through the films of Mike Myers on iTunes!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Where were you in '62? Find out in our discussion of George Lucas' "AMERICAN GRAFFITI" starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard & a young Harrison Ford. This is one of Cameron's all-time favourite films that Alexei is watching for the first time.  Join us next week where we'll be watching "STAYING ALIVE", the sequel to Alexei's favourite film "SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER". Followed by the sequel to this film "MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI".  Alexei's hosting the last Green Lights Comedy Nights of 2016! $5 November 25th at The Gaelic Club in Surry Hills, Sydney! Headlined by Zoe Coombs Marr. It is one of the most beloved comedy rooms in Sydney and the last one for the year always goes off! RSVP HERE MIKE CHECK with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos - Our podcast journey through the films of Mike Myers on iTunes!    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We were honored to sit down with actor Bo Hopkins for a discussion of the films from his lengthy career that have most influenced him.  Bo is best known for his roles in American Graffiti, More American Graffiti, The Wild Bunch, Midnight Express and television's Dynasty and The Rockford Files.  He has also appeared in countless other films and television shows, with appearances ranging from Bonanza and Gunsmoke to Charlie's Angels and Murder She Wrote.  His latest film project, EVElyn Rising, begins filming soon.  Enjoy hearing about his storied career, as we discuss why good liars make good actors, working with your heroes, being confronted by your own movie dialogue, and why Peter Jackson should meet "Stonewall" Jackson.