Now I'm trying to remember the first time I saw MM. I think it was in the movie "Frailty". Very good flick about demon killers, and pretty creepy too. :groucho:
I love that movie! It is very creepy and not much creeps me out.
I think I first saw MM in
Dazed and Confused.
Language warning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wknywxfcE5M
Taking out neesaki's vid clip as WS will allow only one video per post!?
Dazed + Confused is one of my all time favorite movies because it reminds me so much of my own 70's growing up. We used to hang out in the Foosball Hall just like they had in that movie.
The "Foosball Hall" was a unique place that got created shortly before Disco got invented. The Foosball Hall was kind of like a Pool Hall but had a much different atmostphere.
Our place had Foosball Tables lined up on both sides of the room and the best ones were reserved in this back room where the main Foosball Tournaments were held.
There were 2 main brands of tables. Dynamo + Tornado tables. I loved the Dynamo the best because they were easier to use. The Tornado tables had soccer men that were harder to control the ball because their feet pads were a little more slippery on the ball.
In the Foosball Hall, there was a definite ETIQUETTE that you had to maintain. No Drinks at all were allowed to be placed on either side of the table. Because they didn't want people spilling drinks onto the table. No spinning the men. You had to play the game the right way where you controlled the men and it took hours and hours and days and days to get good at it. It took me about a year before I finally got pretty good at it.
No beer or alcholol inside the place because us teens were allowed inside. You paid a nightly admission and they stamped your hand and you had access to OPEN TABLES all night long.
You could come and go and it was just like a "Club" to get back inside they used to use those Black Lights to light up your glow stamp on your hand stamp.
Inside the club they had cool lights in back with more black lights and posters in a back room.
Everyone would leave to take "smoke breaks" and it was common to smoke a little weed and then come back in to play foosball. Like in the movie, everyone wanted "Shotgun" when the driver hauled about 4 of us off for a break drive in the country.
8-tracks were the music used in the cars back then. OMG that is another whole topic. You had to put matchbook under the 8-track cassette to keep the road bumps from skipping the music. The 8-tracks were notorious for "dragging" too and a good hit of your hand onto the unit ususally took care of it. LOL
Back in the foosball hall, the owners and older kids did a great job of controlling us kids. There was seldom any fights because most people were high on weed and "mellow". Rock and Roll music was typically played in the background.
The Foosball Hall fad did not last long. It seemed to come and go within about a 5-8 year span. They kind of died out by early eighties it seemed.
That movie had so many things that were "spot on" for the era of the time. Our high school also had keg parties in the field of some known property where all the kids would just park in the field and just hang out and drink. You had to pay a "Head Charge" just like the movie. Also, there was always 1 or 2 fights break out at those keg parties just like in the movie.
Whoever wrote the script for that movie had obviously lived through those times.
Practically every situation they used were things from that era. Even going around smashing mailboxes....although I think kids still do that today as our street got all our mailboxes smashed about 5 years ago. LOL
