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  • The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)

    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to All on Sun Jul 25 23:07:00 2021

    Anyone remember The Groundstar Conspiracy, 1972?

    To be honest, I didn't. I just ended up finding this when I was
    looking for other George Peppard material - specifically the Tv
    series Banacek, but I digress.

    TGC isn't half bad. There is big reveal just before this clip
    (the clip doesn't spoil anything) but it's an interesting scene
    considering that this was imagined in 1972 and privacy is quite
    paramount 20-30 years later.

    https://kolico.ca/mpg/TGC1972-privacy.mp4


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  • From Dr. What@21:1/194 to Ogg on Mon Jul 26 08:52:00 2021
    Ogg wrote to All <=-

    Anyone remember The Groundstar Conspiracy, 1972?

    Yes. This one sticks in my mind because
    1. It was the first movie shown by the brand new theater near my childhood home.
    2. It was the first movie that I walked out on. I really just wasn't in to those movies at the time and Dad took me.

    TGC isn't half bad.

    It's not a stinker, but it's certainly not the best either.
    It's worth a watch if you have nothing better to do on a rainy Sunday.


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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Dr. What on Mon Jul 26 18:18:00 2021
    Hello Dr. What!

    ** On Monday 26.07.21 - 08:52, Dr. What wrote to Ogg:

    Anyone remember The Groundstar Conspiracy, 1972?

    2. It was the first movie that I walked out on. I really
    just wasn't in to those movies at the time and Dad took
    me.

    It has quite a few long drawn-out parts. Even the opening
    scene (BEFORE the title even shows up) with the female lead
    visiting her "cottage" is unnecessarily too long.

    TGC isn't half bad.

    It's not a stinker, but it's certainly not the best either.
    It's worth a watch if you have nothing better to do on a
    rainy Sunday.

    It has a twist at the end that I did not see coming.

    It was filmed Canada at the campus of the Simon Fraser Univ.
    Probably for it's futuristic setting for the imagined
    "military" facility.

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