Oasis Theatre
63-57 Fresh Pond Road,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
63-57 Fresh Pond Road,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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Thanks, Lost Memory. I think the details of the story line that you commented on resulted from the film being a re-telling of Joseph Conrad’s classic novel, “Heart Of Darkness” set in Vietnam, the whole point of which is that, the deeper the white man goes into the jungle, away from his civilization, the more his moral fiber deteriorates. You see the same idea in William Golding’s novel, “Lord Of The Flies”, and its two film versions.
The Martin Sheen character himself was skeptical of his assignment, when he said that tracking down one man in the jungles of Vietnam for murder was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.
Even so, I enjoyed hearing The Doors classic “The End” on the soundtrack.
Maybe it’s time for a new re-telling of “Heart Of Darkness”, about how man loses his moral fiber the deeper he goes into cyber-space.
where do you guys find these old newspaper adds with the movie times.there cool to see
Peter….Apocalypse Now is an okay movie. There are some good scenes in it but it isn’t very believable to me. I don’t want to do a review on this movie but in my opinion, sending someone to assasinate an Army Colonel is kind of stupid to me. And why send Martin Sheen, wouldn’t a character like Rambo be more suited for this job. Besides, if this Colonel was a major threat, once they knew his location, he could have been attacked from the air. If Brando had to be eliminated and it had to be done on the ground, then why not use a squad of special forces instead of one person? Its like the Godfather goes to Nam and a CIA agent hunts him down. It was too unrealistic for me to buy into.
And Robert, keep those ads coming, I enjoy them.
I linked it the old way so the large image above can be removed
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Lost Memory, thanks for the description of “Platoon”. What about “Apocalypse Now” ?
Thats funny Peter. Real violence is okay but Three Stooge’s staged violence is bad for the kiddies. Those people that complained needed a reality check. I like the movie Good Morning Vietnam. Robin Williams was really funny in that movie. The most realistic movie about Nam that I have seen so far is Platoon. Some parts of the movie Platoon are exaggerated but its not as far off from the real war as many people might think.
Now, boys and girls, don’t try this war at home yourselves, you could get hurt very badly …
Adrian Cronauer, where are you now ??? We need you to report on Iraq !
Lost Memory, I agree. The network complaints about excessive violence on “Three Stooges Funhouse” were ridiculous, in light of Vietnam, and its daily TV coverage, and seem like a Lenny Bruce routine.
Four dead in Ohio …
This napalmed village is brought to you by Dow Chemical Company. Nyuk nyuk nyuk ….
Good morning Vietnam !
Peter….When Officer Joe Bolton first came to channel 11 in the mid fifties, he hosted the “Clubhouse Gang” featuring the Little Rascals. In the late fifties, the showed was changed to the “Three Stooges Funhouse”. Around 1970 the show was canceled because of complaints of excessive violence by the Three Stoges. Those complaints sound just as silly to me today as they did in 1970. Someone should have informed those people that there was a war going on in 1970 with Real violence. Maybe they should have complained more about the war and less about the Three Stooges.
Warren…I don’t believe your supposed to put photos directly into the message. I remember someone else doing it and the message was removed. Maybe the rules have changed. The above photo causes my screen to distort and makes it difficult to read the messages in here. Its similar to someone posting a link that is too long.
Yes, that’s another reason I don’t think it’s a good idea to post the photos directly into the message page, as opposed to linking. If you have people posting very large photos directly into the message page, not only will you cause a hardship for dial up users, it will make you have to scroll back and forth just to read the messages if the photo pixels are too large to fit on people’s computer’s screen.
Again, this is why although I discovered you could post photos directly into message sections about two or three years ago (by testing it in preview), I never made it public that it’s possible, as unless the photos are less than 700X or 800X, it will cause problems on the pages, especially if people aren’t familiar with what they are doing.
I still think it’s better to link to photos as we have been doing.
Posting at the site seems to throw the whole page out of proportion. It’s like a masked standard-sized movie screen suddenly opening up to CinemaScope size.
Warren, yes, you can post images directly into your posts, however, it may not be a good idea, as the pages will take longer and longer to load if too many photos are added to the message section, so I never did it. I discovered that the USB codes for images worked on Cinematreasures in the preview, but never did it for the above reason. That’s why it’s perhaps better to just link as most have been doing, but I don’t know other people’s opinion on this.
Can we now post illustrations directly at the listing, as RobertR did on May 14th? I thought that images had to be linked to a blog or whatever…And could someone please correct the introduction to this listing, which has both Skouras and Randforce spelled wrong.
I was there at the instigation and invitation of a friend from the Ridgewood YMCA, a few years older than me, who was a bit immature for his age, although he DID have the climactic few minutes of the 1935 James Whale film “The Bride Of Frankenstein” on an 8 mm home movie reel.
I think I may have seen Officer Joe in January 1969 at Our Lady Of Hope auditorium in Middle Village, Eliot Avenue and about 74th Street, just west of the Connecting Line RR tracks. I think he was trying to lead us kids in some inane Three Stooges nonsense song, which went something like, “Bee Ay Boo, Bee Ay Bippie Eye Boo Eye Yay”, like pig Latin on LSD on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. I was thirteen then and it was much too babyish for me.
Lost Memory, I remember “Officer” Joe Bolton very well, and his cautions to us kids not to attemot Three Stooges type stunts in real life, lest we severely injure ourselves.
I’ve always thought it ironic that we boomers went from that as kids to that teenage boy who tragically hanged himself and died in emulation of ‘70’s rock star Alice Cooper.
Was this an “Art” movie? LOL I think I missed this one. Did you get to see Officer Joe? I used to watch him on channel 11.
Not that any theatre conversion of this type is ever flattering, but it sure makes for an ugly CVS building.
stevel, I didn’t forget anything. I only meant to represent the first two bars of the opening four notes of the theme.
I would write it in musical notation if I could.
Maspeth, near Fresh Pond RD ..you forget the end of the song, it goess like this…….DA NA NAAAAAAAA NAAA DA
NA
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Good for you, stevel ! Exactly where will you be moving back to ?
Bway, I usually write the Twilight Zone theme like this :
ning NING ning ning, ning NING ning ning ….
actually i will be moving back into the area this summer.
Thanks, Bway. I LOVE the Twilight Zone ! LOL indeed !
In Joisey or the the Twilight Zone….dudu dudu dudu dudu.
I think the mass hallucination was caused by the person that placed the newspaper ads listing the Oasis as being in Brooklyn, Maspeth and Glendale. We all know that the Oasis was really located in “Joisey”. LOL