"Rollercoaster" on AMC tonight! 9PM PST

A must see for all enthusiasts! Classic campy flick about a killer on the loose in America's amusement parks. Check out the bellbottoms and long hair! ;)

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Yeeee Haaawwww!

no, Silver Streak is on right now, Rollercoaster is on Midnight.
*** This post was edited by sfne guy on 11/7/2001. ***

*** This post was edited by sfne guy on 11/7/2001. ***

wait no, its at Midnight.

Where is this on?

He said 9PM PST...which is midnight EST....

AMC [American Movie Classics] at Midnight EST.

Yup yup...less than an hour from now.

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Yeeee Haaawwww!

7 billion channels on my sat. and not one of them is AMC. Plus I missed Monty Python Flying Circus Marathon tonight! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

FYI..."Rollercoaster" just recently came out on DVD! I hope every true park fanatic spends the $$ on this "smash" hit!
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Is it a full length feature film? How is it?

Yes, it is a full length film. The movie itself isnt the greatest but if you are a coaster or park enthusiast, it obviously becomes more interesting. Its worth checking out.
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""An hour wait for a 2 minute thrill. Yes, we need our heads examined""

Pure cheese all the way, but I still liked it. Isn't the hero the boss on "Just Shoot Me?"

Yup, George Segal as 'Jack Gallo.' It doesn't look like him at all in RC.

hmmm, good movie, but i found it funny how many stupid things they did in the movie, like they repainted only one part of the track (where the bomb was) and then left the rest with the wear away rust from the wheels and it was "the first trip". plus you could totally tell the peeps in the train at the beginning were dummies....

Ok...did any of you catch who played his daughter? Helen Hunt! I didn't know that!

So what's the scoop with Ocean View? Anybody been there?

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Here is a link that has the trailer for the movie for those that dont know about the movie. Its a pretty funny clip its right below the pic of the DVD box.

http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=v&id=1800112797&clink=dmvi-ks/rollercoaster

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Hmm it just came out on DVD eh? Seems like a good Christms gift to put on my list. :)
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Something NEW is coming to the Buzz...

janfrederick, we DID notice it was Helen Hunt (she has aged WELL I might add)...only after the fourth or fifth viewing of the movie!
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Question: What rock band performed for the Revolution's grand opening? Also, was it filmed any time around the actual grand opening?
I could swear they said "Supertramp", but it didn't quite sound like them. Perhaps it was thier formative years?

Also, notice those rainbow stickers on the Rev's trains? Faaar ooouut!
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Janfredrick,

Ocean View park was a seaside amusment park located in the Virginia Beach area of Virginia.

There were two parks in that part of Virginia at the time of this movie. Buckroe Beach park (in Hampton VA) and Ocean View. Ocean View was the larger and more popular of the two, but both were located in very poor parts of town near their demise.

Ocean View lasted until the late '70s. Just a year or two after "Rollercoaster" was made.

Their large coaster, the Rocket believe, was the parks focal point. However the park had wained in popularity thanks to the competition of BGW and KD just an hour or two away. They jumped at the chance to have the park featured thinking it would help revive it. Why else would a park allow a movie to be filmed featuring tragic deaths on their rollercoaster?

Did you know that the cars, food stands etc destroyed in the crash were all made of balsa wood?

Or that people were actually injured in the filming of the crash scene had had to be rushed to emergency rooms?

But alas, this was not Ocean Views last flirt with celluliod. The park was featured in a made for TV movie in the late 70's called "The Ending of Ocean View Park." When it was decided to close the park (the real life owners were offered good money for the land, to be developed into beachside condos) and hollywood caught wind of the park's closure, they thought it would make a wonderfully dramatic movie.

The plot went like this... The land the park sat on was unstable and the erosion and instability of that land threatened all the rides in the park, and those that rode them of course. Naturally the owners and those that knew ignored the warnings. This culminated with the park literally "collapsing" in the midst of a busy day. The heroine dangled from the rollercoaster track as her hero saved her... a park worker plunged to his death trying to rescue a little girl from the Ferris Wheel etc. The acting was very poor and melodramatic by the way.

Hundreds of extras were brought in for the filming. More people were there for it's demise than had attended it in latter years. But there was a problem... the most dramatic element of the show was the collapse and explosion of the rollercoaster. The same one that was "blown up" in the movie Rollercoaster.

Well guess what? The coaster would not blow up. They tried dynamite, lighting it on fire, flame throwers, gas, everything and it just would not destruct. So, in order to collapse it, they chainsawed the supports then bulldozed it while the cameras rolled. The bulldozers were edited out of filming. Thus the coaster that collapsed and blew up twice in the movies, never collapsed or blew up in real life.

I was a wee lad when all this was going on. I was raised in Newport News Va just accross the water from that neck of the woods. It was big news and the papers all ran stories of the filming, and the coaster that would not fall. I saw the movie when it aired on whichever network and have not seen it sense. I do hear tell of copies that can be found, but it is difficult. The movie has a bit of a cult following from what I understand.

Ocean View and Buckroe Beach (BB lasted a few years longer than OV) were known to be unsafe near their close. T were usually just open in the evenings, and on weekends. Pick pockets and thugs ran rampant in them. I never went to the parks while they operated, (my parents would not go near them at night) but rode past and played on the beaches nearby. I remember them distinctly. BB even had signs saying "Watch your wallets and purses."

Oh, and the proposed Condo development never happened. Ocean View was destroyed and the deal fell through. Last time I went buy there (probably 10 or 12 years ago) the land was still vacant.

Shaggy