Rollercoaster Review
Added 10/15/2009
This is a fun movie. It has suspense and a lightly creepy element to it. The length of the film was perfect. Good Entertainment...costume's ere dated to the time the movie was shot but the story itself is pretty timeless. Costumes actually made it fun and a bit campy. If you want a suspenseful movie without worring about nightmares this is the one for you
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70's fun film
Added 7/4/2009
Great classic from the 70's. The DVD extras need a bit of help. Since the film came out in Sensearound sound, you would think that could be implamented in the film. Updating the cast bio's would be nice. Including some interviews from the "bit actors" ,Ike Steve Guttenburg or Helen Hunt.
Even though the extra features are not the best, Rollercoaster is still a very good film. The Rollercoaster (The Revolution) used in the film still operates at Sx Flags Magic Mountain. It's undergone a few theme changes, but it's still a good coaster.
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Great acting
Added 9/21/2008
Both Henry Fonda, and Bob Kelley, who plays Virg, the FBI agent on the Tower, illustrate acting at its finest.
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Sens-surround Feature Did Not Work on Home Version!!
Added 11/5/2007
YES, I saw this feature in the theatre as a young fella and like a handful of other mid/late 70's (Earthquake,Midway) it was hyped as being in "Sens-surround" which I remember as being some VERY BIG speakers that made the floor of the theater vibrate during the scenes with the rollercoasters. In hindsight, it was a pretty dopey effect, but it was novel at the time and worth noting.
The film itself is a decently paced thriller. Segal playing a saftey inspector/detective trying to find the cuckoo who's been bombing rollercoasters and blackmailing the amusement park bigwigs in the middle of peak season. Of course, upper management won't do the sensible thing and shut the parks down, so Segal must work extra hard while trying to nab the offending bomber. Segal also tries to quit smoking, which is not a good thing to quit when you are stressing as he definitely is ( and you may be too while watching the defuse scenes)
Great early appearances of Craig Wassam and Helen Hunt as well as odd L.A rockers Sparks-a band led by the Kael brothers, Hitler look-alike pianist and a pretty boy vocalist.
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Jaws in an Amusement Park?
Added 8/1/2007
I vividly remember seeing this movie in the theater as a kid -- it was summer and a few years after Jaws. The gimmick was "Senssurround!" but we really believed it -- it did seem like the theater shook during some of the rollercoaster scenes.
Watching it now, many years later, it holds up well as a Jaws-inspired 70s film. In the summer people love to go to the beach....or to an amusement park. Imagine Timothy Bottoms as the shark -- the director surely does -- as he swims around the amusement park, while Lalo Schiffrin provides a Jaws-like menacing score, before Bottoms slowly and methodically strikes again.
George Segal makes a decent Brody, though it's impossible to look at his performance now and not think it's a bit camp. You have the same crew of town elders like you do in Jaws, seeking to suppress and downplay the threat due to business concerns. And you have the same summer kids, in their 70s outfits and feathered hair, enjoying what should be innocent fun...until Bottoms strikes again.
As a reviewer mentioned, there is a short clip of Sparks performing at Magic Mountain in the final showdown, which is a plus. And a very cute and very young Helen Hunt.
In all this is an enjoyable, slightly campy, view down memory lane, when all it took to scare you was a land shark and some big speakers.
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Rollercoaster Review
Added 10/15/2009
This is a fun movie. It has suspense and a lightly creepy element to it. The length of the film was perfect. Good Entertainment...costume's ere dated to the time the movie was shot but the story itself is pretty timeless. Costumes actually made it fun and a bit campy. If you want a suspenseful movie without worring about nightmares this is the one for you
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70's fun film
Added 7/4/2009
Great classic from the 70's. The DVD extras need a bit of help. Since the film came out in Sensearound sound, you would think that could be implamented in the film. Updating the cast bio's would be nice. Including some interviews from the "bit actors" ,Ike Steve Guttenburg or Helen Hunt.
Even though the extra features are not the best, Rollercoaster is still a very good film. The Rollercoaster (The Revolution) used in the film still operates at Sx Flags Magic Mountain. It's undergone a few theme changes, but it's still a good coaster.
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Great acting
Added 9/21/2008
Both Henry Fonda, and Bob Kelley, who plays Virg, the FBI agent on the Tower, illustrate acting at its finest.
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