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Subject: (OT) Favourite "B" Movies
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I just watched jackson's "kong". there were some scary scenes in it. but all the scenes were at least 3X too long, hence I hope they come out with a more reasonable version. as far as "b" movies, I liked that one with rex reason, the professor from "gilligan's island", and the guys with big foreheads from metal-luna or something. it's a real laff riot IMVHO.
Quote - I liked that one with rex reason, the professor from "gilligan's island", and the guys with big foreheads from metal-luna or something. it's a real laff riot IMVHO.
"This Island Earth" - also a favorite of mine. I also got many big laughs from the MST3K Movie version.
That reminds me, has anybody made an "Interositor" prop?
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Without a doubt, 1983's "Hercules", starring Lou Ferrigno! Watch it, and you will learn there are 4 elements: Night, Day, Matter, and Wind!
Also, Plan 9 From Outer Space by the talentless genius of Edward D. Wood, Jr. I think he pretty much pioneered B movies.
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Lexx? I'm not familiar with that show. GIgashadow was the sequel to (I believe) a cult film where dark forces are trying to take over the universe. Pretty straight forward, except the hero is dead though not a zombie whose pet is like a GIANT affectionate maggot, with a gender confused robot and a girl who's trying to prevent the evil dark lords from taking over with slime stuff. Really weird stuff; I can't believe they wasted the celluiod to shoot it. You can find it at Amazon
btw : the Zombie was Kai, last of the Brunnan-G who has been dead for 2000 years and was an assasian for His Merciful Shadow, who was infact a small part of the Gigashadow, the last remaining Insect left from the wars that the Brunnan-G fought.. and Kai was prophised to kill him/it but had the small technical problem of being dead and reliing on Protoblood (the slime you mentioned) to survive. hence them being back at the Cluster to get some... cos it's a secretion of the Gigashadows. the Girl, Zev, was meant to be converted into a Love Slave, she got the body and sex drive, but before she got the final programming an incident with a cluster lizard made her part cluster lizard, she escaped and gave her final programming to 790 (the bot head) so he fell in love with her. add in the LEXX (the giant bug spaceship under the command of security guard 3rd class Stanley Tweedle) and it got quite insane..
pant everybody got that?
but just watching the last part would'nt make anysense at all... so I can see why you called it a waste.. but trust me.. if you can get parts 1-4 it does make sense.. and it's a bloody good series.. made in Canada and Germany..
My 2 favourites:
1 - Dammit! I can't dredge up the name!! But it's the one where there about 3/4 guys, stuck in a gungy spacecraft that is blowing up suns and things. They eventually meet something they can't overcome (a ticking time-bomb thingy), and it ends up with one of them "surf-boarding" into oblivion..
(What the h*ll was that one called?????)
2 - Flesh Gordon - loved the special effects!
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Diolma
1 - Dammit! I can't dredge up the name!! But it's the one where there about 3/4 guys, stuck in a gungy spacecraft that is blowing up suns and things. They eventually meet something they can't overcome (a ticking time-bomb thingy), and it ends up with one of them "surf-boarding" into oblivion..
(What the h*ll was that one called?????)
Dark Star
Quote - I can't dredge up the name!! But it's the one where there about 3/4 guys, stuck in a gungy spacecraft that is blowing up suns and things. They eventually meet something they can't overcome (a ticking time-bomb thingy), and it ends up with one of them "surf-boarding" into oblivion..
(What the h*ll was that one called?????)
Dark Star, John Carpenter's directorial debut, partly written by Dan(?) O'Bannon (later, screenwriter for the original Alien). It started as a film school project and then was expanded and released in theaters. O'Bannon supposedly once said he went on to create Alien to make people scream since they didn't laugh at the beachball critter aboard the Dark Star.
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Bill
(OOPS! Cross posted with Khai.)
Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!
I don't know why, but Robinson Crusoe on Mars..saw it when it came out in a drive-in movie theatre (I was like 7 at the time..;), but I've seen it numerous times since..
Dr. Phibes (both of them)..just wicked fun
There's just too many to list them all. There's a takeoff of Star Wars with John boy from the Waltons flying a giant hambone through space (with a Valkyrie I swear is the model for Dina..;), and the agent from UNCLE..;) It's worth watching, but only through a sense of morbid curiosity.
Somewhere in time, just appeals to me, but unlike the guy who flew a deck chair into the heavens with weather balloons, I know when to quit..;)
I've seen the origin of LEXX, which explains a lot more of what's going on, but I never could find the rest of them. Last I caught, there were on Earth, trying to scam various politicians..;)
and so on and so on..;)
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)
I also like "Planet of the Apes" movies, though I haven't seen one in a number of years.
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This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Quote - "I can't dredge up the name!! But it's the one where there about 3/4 guys, stuck in a gungy spacecraft that is blowing up suns and things. They eventually meet something they can't overcome (a ticking time-bomb thingy), and it ends up with one of them "surf-boarding" into oblivion..
(What the h*ll was that one called?????)"
Actually, that sounds like a variation of 'Dr. Strangelove,' with Slim Pickens Yahooing and waving his stetson as he rides the A-bomb down to earth.
I not sure if this qualifies as a B-movie, but I think my all time favorite was 'Teminator 2,' where Schwarzenegger played the 'sympathetic' robot.
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"Videodrome" will always be at the top of my short list of favorite "B"s. It became my religion for a while. The fact that it is a true story also helped.
I remember being enamored of "Parasite" when it came out in the theaters (in 3-D!) although I remembered very little except how cool the shotgun looked pointing right out of the screen, and what a great gizmo a secret, up-your-sleeve hand laser would be to have. I saw it years later and realized 1) How completely godawful and nonsensical it was and 2) It had Demi Moore in it (!) in what must have been one of her first roles. She looks about 17.
"Streets Of Fire" has always been another fave, just because it was so stylized and because there is nothing quite like watching Willem DaFoe open his mouth really wide to a rock beat.
"Flash Gordon" was another one I always liked. How can you not love any movie made after Star Wars where you can STILL see the wires holding up the spaceships? And as far as I'm concerned, Ornela Muti as Princess Aura will always be the ultimate space babe.
- Jimdoria ~@>@
I remember a very funny spoof of Star Wars done by Mel Brooks (actually he did a spoof on the Star Trek movies too).
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No, the ship definitely had breasts. It had a woman's voice too. That was one of the "jokes" - the young guy being taught the "ways of the world" by his granddad's space ship.
Oh, and do foreign films count? One of the greatest outrageously bad films I ever saw was "Star Crash." I think it was an Italian film dubbed into English. I remember laughing for days over that one. My favorite part was during the climactic battle scene when the good guys sent their soldiers into battle by firing them at the bad guy's ship in big torpedoes, which smashed through the huge plate glass windows of the villain's ship. (Windows which were never visible when the outside of the ship was shown.) Once inside, the torpedoes popped open and the soldiers immediately jumped out and began shooting. I guess it was supposed to take place in a universe where space is filled with air.
(Speaking of which, how do we hear those TIE fighters and X-Wings roaring around?)
- Jimdoria ~@>@
One of my all-time favorite "guilty pleasures" is "The Mysterians", (1957) "Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on". Lots of: giant monsters, flying saucers, humans and aliens blasting at each other with ray weapons, and mass destruction of detailed miniatures tied together with an infectous score by Akira Ifukube, (inventor of Godzilla's roar) guarantees a fun time. Considering the era, the special effects were pretty good.
Hmm... let's see....
Evil Dead movies...
50's "man in a suit monster movies (Creature from the Black lagoon, It! the Terror from Beyond Space, Monster of Piedras Blancas, The She Creature)
Original Godzilla, Kong, Attack of the Giant crab Monsters, Hercules, Xena, I have a whole buncha B movie type favortie things.
I gotta finish off the Poser "Robot Monster n Skully" set I started last year...
Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.
It would be cool to see some of the strange and weird props from these movies modelled for Poser. That ship with the boobs is a hoot, LOL
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
There are tons of "B" movies that should be required viewing for all movie buffs. Two of my favorites are:
Atragon is a pretty good one. It's worth watching just for the theme music. Japan is under attack by the underwater kingdom of Mu. Atragon, a flying, burrowing submarine saves the day.
Beginning of the End is another great B movie. It's the attack of the giant people eating grasshoppers. The National Guard is called in to battle them to no avail. Leave it to the handsome scientist who uses stereo equipment to lead the grasshoppers to their death. Watching live grasshoppers cavort on a photograph of Chicago as opposed to a miniature is a hoot!
It's all fun and games...
Until the flying monkeys attack!!!
I'm in B Movie heaven! Or was...
In the last few days the movie channels have shown:
The Fly
Fantastic Voyage
Planet of the Apes
The Body Snatchers
What was the name of that movie about a plant like a Venus Fly Trap plant that ate people?
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Quote - Watching live grasshoppers cavort on a photograph of Chicago as opposed to a miniature is a hoot!
LOL, that reminds me of a movie I watched awhile back. I think it was from the late 70's or maybe early to mid 80's. Unfortunately I forget the name. It's about a smaller sized boat that gets caught up in a treturous storm/hurricane.
When the camera panned out the waves looked taller than an ocean liner, yet when they were showing the crew of the boat clinging to things on the deck, you could tell that someone was standing off camera and throwing the odd pail of water on the boat, and the few people were sitting there seemingly unmoving while the image of the ocean rocked and rolled behind them, LMAO
I didn't finish watching it because it was just soooo bad.
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
The LEXX miniseries here was released on Showtime as a four-parter back in like 1997 as Tales from a Parallel Universe The Dark Zone (with Tim Curry), Eating Pattern (with Rutger Hauger), I Worship his Shadow and The Gigashadow. I loved those four....I never really like the LEXX series beyond that much though. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115243/
Anyway, my fave B movies are Dr. Caligari http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0097228/
The Dark Backward http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0101660/
and the Evil Dead 2 & Army of Darkness http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/
OF course, as a kid....for some reason...I really liked Class of Nuk'em High http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0090849/
--Rebekah--
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Mine is "Fantastic Voyage" from 1966. For those who haven't seen it, I've attached a link to a summary of the movie.It stars Rachel Welch, Donald Pleasence. Even James Brolin in one of his early bit parts.
The cinematography and effects were pretty amazing for back then. And it was interesting to see how the various parts of the inside of the body were visually depicted.
What is your favourite "B" Movie to watch?
"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi