The MIT Lecture Series Committee Presents...

The LSC SF Marathon XIX

Saturday, January 25, 1997 6pm

• 6:00pm Terminator 2 [1991] (139 min.)
  Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick star in this action extravaganza as androids sent from the future on a mission that hinges on one boy - John Connor (Edward Furlong), destined to become the commander of human forces in the war against SkyNet. This amazing sequel to The Terminator showcases amazing special effects.

• 9:00pm Snookles (~5 min.)
  Snookles the baby dragon gains a friend.

• 9:05pm Patlabor 2 [1996] (120 min.)
  In this near-future anime, the Japanese government is cast into political chaos as the mobile armored police work to figure out why mysterious forces are pushing Japan towards a devastating civil war.

• 11:10pm PIZZA BREAK

• Midnight The Twilight Zone (30 min.)
  "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" A town drunk finds a gun, and Fate steps in.

• 12:30am The Philadelphia Experiment [1984] (102 min.)
  When a World War II experiment in radar cloaking technology goes wrong, a sailor finds himself thrown into the present (i.e. 1984). He is sought by the government as the key to undoing the damage done by the original experiment.

• 2:10am Night of the Living Bread (~10 min.)
  Exactly what it sounds like.

• 2:45am The Day the Earth Stood Still [1951] (92 min.)
  A flying saucer lands on the Mall in Washington, DC, in the heart of the Cold War era. Human paranoia forces Gort, the alien occupant of the ship, to pose as a human in an attempt to learn about humankind. When complications arise with the robot guarding his ship, the fate of the entire planet is put into one woman's hands.

• 4:15am Rod Flash Conquers Infinity 8 min.
  

• 4:45am Hardware Wars
  This Star Wars parody is a traditional marathon favorite.

• 5:15am The Stuff [1985] (93 min.)
  This hilarious Larry Cohen film stars Michael Moriarty, Paul Sorvino, and Danny Aiello in a story about television, the FDA, a deadly white yogurt-like dessert, and military intelligence.

• 7:15am The Twilight Zone (30 min.)
  "The Escape Clause" A hypochondriac finds a way to immortality.

• 7:45am Colossus: The Forbin Project [1969] (100 min.)
  Dr. Charles Forbin (Eric Braeden) invents the world's largest computer in a project to automate the United States nuclear arsenal. When it gets a mind of its own, it rapidly discovers a Russian counterpart, and demands to be connected to it. The movie then becomes the story of mankind's race to free itself from the computers' clutches.

• 9:50am Gravity
  An informational film warning the public of a dangerous resource shortage.

• 10:30amBack to the Future [1985] (111 min.)
  When Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) gets involved in his friend Doc Brown's (Christopher Lloyd) experiment and things go wrong, he ends up trapped in the past. In this lighthearted adventure, he meets his parents and threatens his own existence.

• 12:20 Loaf
  An Alien spoof.

• 2:00pm 2010 [1984] (111 min.)
  This ambitious sequel to 2001 stars Roy Scheider as Dr. Heywood Floyd, a passenger on a joint American-Soviet mission to Jupiter to solve the mystery of what went wrong on the original flight of the Discovery. As they investigate HAL's malfunction and prepare to bring him back to Earth, another mystery unfolds on the planet below.

• 4:00pm Capricorn One [1978] (124 min.)
  The three astronauts of Capricorn One, the first manned mission to Mars, are taken from the launch at the last second. When the NASA project director threatens their families, they are made to act out the scenes of the mission from a bunker in New Mexico.

Additional movie information links provided courtesy of the Internet Movie Database.