"Two-Minute Warning" (1976)

Joe Kapp the football player?

R1 Yep. That one.

It's a Seventies classic, alongside The Big Bus.

Is this the one that had some disturbing violent moments or was that 1977s “Black Sunday”?

Not a sniper but in the same vein- Rollercoaster with George Segal, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and Timothy Bottoms.

I saw Two Minute Warning at one of those soon to be demolished big movie palaces on Broadway. All I can remember about it is that there was laughter from the audience during the serious parts.

Wait a minute, I mean the one with Bruce Dern, BLACK SUNDAY (1977). Directed by John Frankenheimer, screenplay by Ernest Lehman. That makes it sound like something good, Bob Evan’s produced.

It has something to do with a psycho (Dern) crashing a Goodyear blimp into the Superbowl.

Is this the movie where Ava Gardner gets stuck in the sewer, or was that Volcano?

I may be one of the few, but I really enjoyed The Last Boy Scout with Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans.

R8, it was “Earthquake”.

R5 I remember Rollercoaster. But don't remember Henry Fonda in it. Susan Strasberg is in it and has a nothing part.

At the time, Black Sunday was a hugely popular book, and movie fans were very excited for its release. So to take advantage, Universal quickly put this cheapie into production just so they could release it before Black Sunday, hoping to capitalize.

This movie fan was not excited to see Black Sunday and neither were the three other people in the theater.

6.2 on IMDB

Joe Kapp! Chicano football legend and sexy in his playing days. Berkeley legend.

The only quarterback to play in the Rose Bowl, the Super Bowl and the Grey Cup. Cal’s head coach the year they beat Stanford with “The Play.”

Trailer.

Please give me a two-minute warning before Jack Klugman appears on screen.

Those crowd scenes are horrible. And U$C still sucks—50 years later! ;)

Gena Rowlands gets below the title billing and she is even lower as the second tier stars are listed alphabetically. Only Charlton Heston and John Cassavetes are above the title.

That’s because disaster is a MAN’S game, R19.

I never miss a Marilyn Hassett picture.

[quote]I never miss a Marilyn Hassett picture.

I think I managed to miss *all* of them.

Huge cast

The Other Side of the LA Coliseum

—why that never happened?!

Did Marilyn Hassett's attempt to eat potato chips get some of you all riled up?

Yet they DID “do” The Other Side of Aspen, and more.

That movie was anything but a disaster! 🥵

Featuring the director’s wife, Marilyn Hassett… later the breakout star of their surprise hit MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN.

When THE BELL JAR tanked, she sank back into obscurity… only to be briefly resurrected by MURDER SHE WROTE.

What is this strange, unknown, thing called My Side of the Mountain?!

🤡

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, R27.

MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN is about the kid who lived in a hollowed-out tree.

Thank you.

I think I got confused because Ms. Hassett retired early to go live in a hollowed-out tree.

[italic]My Side of the Other Side of Midnight

I remember the trailer

[quote] My name is Jill Kinmont! And I ski!

[quote] Aaaaaaaah!

Her fall through the air was spectacular. Wasn't it based on a true story? Her douchebag fiancé dumped her for taking 5 minutes to bring a handful of potato chips to her mouth.

Then The Bell Jar, when she described Jameson Parker's dick in Charles Bukowski terms.

Bukowski belongs on that "read again" thread.

You-Know-Who lending her high wattage star power to the second ever episode of “Murder She Wrote,” ensuring its success.

The real star of the show is the LA Coliseum.

character delineation - The sniper says nothing to the motel lady when he checks out but Charlton Heston says excuse me when walks past a man watching television at the police station.

I nor anyone I know has ever seen this drab movie.

I am a bit curious now, though, as it features a pre- Dynasty Pamela Bellwood.

The documentary “Los Angeles Plays Itself” hilariously shades this movie.

That guy that treated Blanche badly on The Golden Girls plays a priest here. If he used to be a priest no wonder he was so frustrated.

[quote] and how did Gena Rowlands get dragged into this??

Hollywood was not throwing money at she and John to make Opening Night and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

I have to laugh at David Janssen not being interested in Gena when she makes a pass.

I couldn't help but notice how attractive you are. You have a very beautiful mouth.

Yeah so do you but it's big.

I forgot Walter Pidgeon was in this

Beau Bridges, John Cassavetes, Joe Kapp, and David Janssen were all I was interested in and all I remember.

And David Groh. I forgot that I remember him too.

Does anyone actually get shot? I’m hoping Charlton Heston or David Groh.

Or that Janssen asshole. Yeah, I said it. He knows why.

The sniper gets sniped.

Gena got it, didn't she?

Does anyone actually get shot?

An old couple riding bikes on the road. The man gets shot and the woman goes down too and does the screaming at his tomato sauced looking wound.

SPOILER:

If I remember correctly, Pidgeon, Klugman, and Janssen buy the farm.

He shoots at them from his hotel room. Target practice I guess.

Klugman plays a rude man. He pushes away the waiter serving him strawberries at a restaurant. "Okay. that's enough".

The bullet ricochet for years and finally landed in Donald Trump's ear in Butler, Pennsylvania.

What a time capsule. We even see a Yellow taxi.

And cars with no seat belts.

I have to laugh when the restaurant manager interrupts Klugman when he is about to kiss his date.

What about the 1968 film Targets with Boris Karloff? It feels timely now.

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It's rated...GP.

It sounds like the poor man's Black Sunday which was also released in 1976

The New York Times

The movie is a blank, in other words, until the end. And then, suddenly, a lot of people are killed very gorily; and there is a mass stampede, and the football crowd becomes a panicked, murderous mob. And even the panic lacks emotion. It has momentum—lots of feet stepping on faces—and viciousness. Nothing more.

Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

It's a cheerfully unashamed exploitation of two of our great national preoccupations, pro football and guns.

TV Guide Magazine

This mess is no fun until the sniper starts shooting--at least that livens things up a bit. See all 8 reviews on Metacritic.com

Klugman is a real sleaze. After he gets to kiss his date - an Asian woman who is probably a call girl - he gropes her breast in public.

Interesting fact: The 1976 film "Two Minute Warning" was edited for commercial television. The original version was cut to remove certain scenes, including 45 minutes of footage, to make it more suitable for broadcast. NBC negotiated with Universal Pictures to add additional scenes for the television premiere, which resulted in the current version that is often shown on network television today. IMDb