tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post6182601709682403018..comments2024-03-24T14:03:33.932-07:00Comments on Every 70s Movie: Americathon (1979)By Peter Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385971732301020652noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-32947613656980285372023-05-26T21:18:16.385-07:002023-05-26T21:18:16.385-07:00Outrageous without being outrageously funny, full ...Outrageous without being outrageously funny, full of sub-par bathroom humor and some racist tropes - it's possibly the only picture that, ironically, could get Arabs and Jews "united in brotherhood" (to steal a line from the movie) to protest its vulgar stereotypes. The sight gags are also lame - a map showing the "United Hebrab Republic" spreading across northern Africa and southwestern Asia shows the rest of Africa as a country called the "United Parcel Republic." They ought to have banished whoever thought that one up from the writer's guild. And yet, some of this movie's predictions for 1998 came true. By 1998, England was Americanized, China was a world power, and we had a President who got in trouble for sexual promiscuity.<br /><br />One good line in the entire movie - "Telethons always work. Look what they did for diseases!" Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02419484925045586473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-2506919504883840152019-05-23T10:42:28.493-07:002019-05-23T10:42:28.493-07:00Opens with the very catchy theme song "It'...Opens with the very catchy theme song "It's A Beautiful Day" by The Beach Boys.fakebaconimprovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06814341521065914258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-45097373669832277412016-05-12T08:28:25.033-07:002016-05-12T08:28:25.033-07:00I saw this AMERICATHON the theaters because Elvis ...I saw this AMERICATHON the theaters because Elvis Costello was in it. Elvis's too-brief scene was among the few parts of the film I enjoyed.Jim LaReginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277415404891951284noreply@blogger.com