Sex At The Drive-In

 Let's Have Sex At The Drive-In: Grindhouse & Drive-In Movie Trailer Marathon!

Michael Flores from The Global Psychotronic Film Society

	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Let's Have Sex At The Drive-In: Grindhouse & Drive-In Movie Trailer Marathon! It is no secret that I believe two categories should be included in Academy Award nominations: stunt work and trailers. Today's post is about trailers. MICHAEL FLORES JUL 29 ∙ PREVIEW   READ IN APP   In the 1940’s and 1950’s, grindhouses became places to hold “make out parties”. Hey if I don’t remember this history, who will? Last year I saw 163 movies at movie theaters. They weren’t all American films, my AMC 21 theater in Streeterville in Chicago shows Bollywood action films, new Vietnamese films, Chinese and Hong Kong movies. I am a huge fan of Bollywood action films and these films often end up on Amazon and Netflix. But you have to do a search to find them. Even the trailers burst with excitement. Here are a few of my favorites: We all know a bad trailer when we see them. It usually gives away the entire film when it should be seducing us into wanting to see it. If trailers were allowed to be nominated, I think we can all agree the Barbie trailers would have to be at the top of the list. The Barbie trailers: The first teaser trailer: Teaser Trailer 2: Trailer 3: These trailers let you know this was not a kid’s film, yes kids would like it, but the first screening I went to the audience was all adults! The second time I saw it on the big screen there were people in the audience dressing up as characters in the film. (Hint to studio: release this as a party movie for Friday and Saturday nights and watch the money roll in). This one hurts to write about. GRINDHOUSE. I knew the film was marketed wrong when people began leaving the theater after the first film as the credits rolled. They didn’t seem aware a second film was coming. But I can’t blame the trailer which was cool as hell. I don’t know, maybe the credits for both films should have run at the very end. Not only did I love the trailer, but there was a homage to trailers in GRINDHOUSE that was just outstanding. Here is the actual trailer followed by different directors having fun making trailers: Some folks went to the drive-in and didn’t actually care what movie was playing. Imagine that. Film trailers were conceived in 1913 by Nils Granlund, the advertising manager of Marcus Loew theaters, when he spliced together rehearsal footage of The Pleasure Seekers, a Broadway play at the time, into a mini promotional montage that trailed after films shown at Loew’s theaters. Thus began the trailer industry, which was hardly an industry then, operated by theaters and studios themselves at first, but in ways that never fully capitalized on the potential for both business and stylistic expansion. Then Herman Robbins created the National Screen Service in 1919, a company theaters and studios could outsource to do all the work for them, expanding the idea of what a trailer could and should do. The NSS held a virtual monopoly on the trailer game until the 1960s, when auteur filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick began cutting trailers for their own films. The market changed again in the 1970s to promote Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, the world’s first summer blockbuster. That film’s subsequent success helped solidify the advertising model still widely prevalent in today’s trailer strategy: customize trailers to be viewed during prime-time hours of television viewership and then, to the point of near oversaturation, inundate the market with these trailers prior to the film’s release under the blanket hope that potential consumers know of only one movie opening that weekend and their only plan for that weekend will be to see that one movie. read the history of the trailer here I love trailers because I can sit and watch them and know what I want to see and what you couldn’t drag me to see. Now let’s begin our orgy of movie trailers. By the way, is there a fashion for the drive-in? And now on to our trailers: Grindhouse/Drive-In Movie Trailers 1960s-1970s (Summer 2024 Edition) 1. The Final Programme aka The Last Days of Man on Earth (1973) 2. Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) 3. Infra-Man (1975) 4. Tales that Witness Madness (1973) 5. Tales from the Crypt (1972) 6. Take the Money and Run (1969) 7. The Big Bounce (1969) 8. Hustle (1975) 9. Zorro (1975) 10. El Condor (1970) 11. Viva Knievel (1977) 12. Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) 13. Last Summer (1969) 14. The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971) 15. Goodbye Columbus (1969) 16. The Twelve Chairs (1970) 17. Project X (1968) 18. Out of Sight (1966) 19. Badge 373 (1973) 20. Me, Natalie (1969) 21. Adam at 6AM (1970) 22. Hercules and the Captive Women (1961) 23. The Wild Bunch (1969) 24. Little Big Man (1970) 25. A Man Called Horse (1970) 26. Lightning Bolt (1966) 27. Born to Win (1971) 28. Jaguar Lives (1979) 29. The Warriors (1979) 30. Life of Brian (1979) 31. Phantom of the Paradise (1974) 32. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 33. The Magic Christian (1969) 34. Guess What We Learned in School Today (1970) 35. Joe (1970) 36. Latitude Zero (1970) 37. The Groove Tube (1974) 38. The Naked Ape (1973) 39. The Lawyer (1970) 40. Lightning Swords Of Death (1972) 41. For Those Who Think Young (1964) 42. The Prize Fighter (1979) 43. Myra Breckinridge (1970) 44. Day of Anger (1967) 45. Riot on Sunset Strip (1967) 46. Hot Rods to Hell (1967) 47. Death Race 2000 (1975) 48. Derby (1971) 49. Colossus The Forbin Project (1970) 50. Super Stooges vs. The Wonder Women (1974) 51. Record City (1978) 52. Zachariah (1971) 53. The Tongfather (1974) 54. SuperManChu: Master of Kung Fu (1973) Behind the paywall: Double Feature Drive-In: Carnival of Souls & Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory Upgrade to paid Unlock this post for free, courtesy of Michael Flores. Claim my free post Or upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid A subscription gets you: Subscriber-only posts and full archive Post comments and join the community   LIKE COMMENT RESTACK   © 2024 Michael Flores PO Box 167963, Chicago, IL 60616 Unsubscribe

mental mistakes

 

UNLOCK YOUR MIND

3 common on-course mental mistakes and how to fix them

By Drew Powell

July 06, 2024

Illustration by David Junkin

We can learn to think like the best players in the world, but as sports psychologist Dr. Bhrett McCabe explains, there are numerous landmines, or mental mistakes, that we commonly make on the course that cause our scores to suffer. McCabe joined us for the Golf Digest Happy Hour, our live webinar series with golf experts, offered exclusively for Golf Digest+ members. This Q&A, selected from the one-hour interview, has been edited for clarity and concision.

Many of us get frustrated when we can’t take our range game to the course. How do we fix that?

McCabe: One of the biggest concepts I teach is called capability and capacity. We are all capable of something. Scottie Scheffler and players on tour have high capabilities, but when they go play, they’re not going to have 100 percent of their toolset. They may be tired, or they may have a group they don’t like or they may be hitting it so good that their yardages are plus three yards and it’s disconcerting.

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If you could put your finger on a scanner and it said, “OK, you’ve got 78 percent of your abilities today,” most people would say, “Oh, man, I hope I have my driver.” Most players are trying to find the 22 percent that is missing.

As a result, they’re out there messing with their swing and trying to find a groove. The best players are focusing on the 78 percent that they have, so they make adjustments like downshifting to a fairway finder off the tee.

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Why are par putts seemingly easier to make than birdie putts?

McCabe: There was an article written 15 years ago by some University of Pennsylvania Wharton business school professors. The title of the article was, “Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse?” They found that Woods made more par putts than he did birdie putts from the same distance after controlling for all factors.

A few years later, I challenged a statistician to figure out why that was. He found that players tend to miss birdie putts short. It’s natural for the mind, as you’re walking up to a 12-footer for birdie, to think, I’d like to make birdie, but what I don’t want is to have a three-putt.

When you’ve got a par putt, what are you thinking? I’m making this son of a gun or nothing. You tend to lock in, and you reduce the amount of choices that are available on your decision. Now, if you could look at a birdie putt the same way you look at a par putt, then you’ve cracked the code, but we can’t. Is a three-putt worth the risk to make a birdie? That’s a hard decision to make.

How can I settle my nerves on the first tee in an important round?

McCabe: What are you feeling on the first tee? I need to get off to a good start. I’ve got to get it all. I don’t try to suppress those emotions. Let them come in. We experience them, and then we just let them pass. Identify what you are trying to do, and turn to your go-to fairway-finder shot. Pick a clear target. Accept how you feel, and verbalize the shot you want to hit. I don’t want you to feel calm. I want you to feel connected to your process.

(Editor’s Note: This story is part of the new Golf Digest Community section, where we engage with Golf Digest+ members. We encourage all members to submit swing videos, great stories, questions or feedback on recent stories here for a chance to be included in a future edition.)

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