Blogathon: Movie Blogging "Just Imagine" (1930)
Hoo boy, what have I gotten myself into?
I obtained a copy of "Just Imagine", a 1930 sci fi flick about life 50 years in the future. Yes, life in 1980! Anyone would go into this thinking it's going to be a hoot.
And it is. Everyone has personal flyers instead of cars; to the left is a policeman in a floating traffic sign. Marriage is decided by the courts and everyone has a code instead of a name. Fortunately, our heroine is named "LN" (pronounced "Ellen") so you can relate to her.
The superfuturistic year of 1980 has hand dryers! And camera phones! What a futuristic utopia 1980 shall be! Ignore the fact that the policemen still have an Irish brogue. I mean, if "Star Trek" can have a Scottish engineer, then by gum "Just Imagine" can have Irish cops.
Not too long into the movie our handsome hero sings a terrible song about how he wishes girls were like they used to be in the old days. This picture of the flapper shaking a cocktail shaker around is from his innocent fantasies. The hero bemoans the fact that women nowadays are professionals with their own jobs and keys and stuff, and he'd rather have a ditzy flapper who just wants to have fun.
I think I have died and gone to heaven.
4 comments:
Oooh, where can I get a copy?
Unfortunately it's not out on VHS or DVD. I borrowed a copy from a friend who taped it off TNT years ago. I think it was on "100% Weird", a show that followed Joe Bob Brigg's "Monstervision".
Hummm...It's sounds great....How can I get a copy???Why, don't you pass your copy to a CD and share it on Internet???
The movie shows every once in a while on Fox Movie Channel, so I recommend looking for it there. It hasn't been on TNT for over 10 years (it was on "100% Weird", the show that followed "Monstervision".)
I couldn't possibly share the movie on the 'net, simply because I have NO idea how to upload video! My guess is the movie is probably somewhere on the 'net already though, so you might try searching the usual places.
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