tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post4120343058669641930..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: Battle of the Sci-Fi Flicks: the 50sDoughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-78744340413957612932011-03-21T10:56:23.402-05:002011-03-21T10:56:23.402-05:00Steve – you da man. That’s exactly the film, and ...Steve – you da man. That’s exactly the film, and I’m betting you saw it in the same place I did first time. In about 1975 or so, the BBC did a season sci-fi films on Tuesday nights (don’t ask me why). It included Bodysnatchers, Day the Earth Stood Still, maybe the Day of the Triffids? Definitely the Incredible Shrinking Man. Indelible images were left! <br />Thanks<br />RichardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-71768437864210620502011-03-18T23:45:22.559-05:002011-03-18T23:45:22.559-05:00Holy cow -B Smith, I LOVE Earth vs. the Flying Sau...Holy cow -B Smith, I LOVE Earth vs. the Flying Saucers! When I first thought of doing this post I was going to include it and somehow forgot. I must be getting senile. Thank you for bringing up that classic! Great Harryhausen film -and if you love Harryhausen, you should be sure to check out Sunday's post (hint hint).<br /><br />KarenKarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032477453891087135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-83469845703755842292011-03-18T21:48:08.117-05:002011-03-18T21:48:08.117-05:00I'd add Earth Vs Flying Saucers..there was a t...I'd add Earth Vs Flying Saucers..there was a time when I was growing up when it seemed to be screened every school holidays....saucers by Harryhausen, voiceover by Paul Frees...what's not to love?<br /><br /><br />cheers<br />B SmithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-24627909220161609132011-03-18T15:24:15.115-05:002011-03-18T15:24:15.115-05:00I knew this post would inspire comments and some d...I knew this post would inspire comments and some debate. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is probably a film I should go back and watch again. It's been many years since I last saw it, so it may have moved up on my list since then.<br /><br />Honestly, for pure enjoyment, I would take even a grade B like It! over Forbidden Planet -for some reason, FP has never been that entertaining to me. But it's such a well-made movie I feel it has to be included.<br /><br />I agree with Chris' remarks about the Thing and the Carpenter remake. Both are excellent films, with completely different approaches to the story. Carpenter's Thing will make the 80s list, no doubt. <br /><br />KarenKarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032477453891087135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-64424066106063389742011-03-18T14:53:02.139-05:002011-03-18T14:53:02.139-05:00Got it. I think it's, "Invasion," fr...Got it. I think it's, "Invasion," from 1966. The following url should take you to a summary of it. http://www.eofftv.com/eofftvreview/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=86:invasion-1966&catid=2:science-fiction&Itemid=13Steve Does Comicshttp://stevedoescomics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-3970251488645398032011-03-18T14:44:57.735-05:002011-03-18T14:44:57.735-05:00Richard said, "Can anyone help me with this o...Richard said, "Can anyone help me with this one: there’s a film about an alien who lands on earth, but looks completely human (conveniently). He is taken to a hospital where all the action takes place. He tells the nurses that he has been sent to recapture two fugitives, but of course she works out that they wouldn’t send one person to capture two, and that he must be the fugitive. That’s all I can remember...saw it when I was very little. It’s black & white , American, looks fifties, might be sixties."<br /><br />Richard, I know exactly the film you mean but can't remember its title. Are you sure it's American? I seem to recall it as being British but that could be my memory playing tricks on me.Steve Does Comicshttp://stevedoescomics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-17277943267155749702011-03-18T10:39:06.283-05:002011-03-18T10:39:06.283-05:00Cannot believe the Incredible Shrinking Man is not...Cannot believe the Incredible Shrinking Man is not here. Surely the proto Ant Man ! Just wait til Doug gets home...we’ll all be sent to bed with no tea! <br /><br />Can I slip a couple of on-the-cuspers onto the list? Village of the Damned and the Time Machine, both released in 1960. Those kids! Yikes. Also couldn’t believe the Time Machine was so old when I first saw it in the 70's. It looked better than a lot of stuff being made then. <br /><br />Totally agree with Chris about the Thing. Hawks’ Thing is brilliant because it’s all suggested...shadows down a corridor, fear of the unknown. Carpenter nods to this with things slithering in the darkness to start with, but then he just totally goes for it. Probably the best animatronic ‘real’ special effects movie, before it all starts moving to visual effects and CGI. If I remember rightly, the original was the first time I saw a man on fire for what seemed like enough time to actually fry a stuntman. <br /><br />Sadly Carpenter spectacularly failed to repeat his trick with Village of the Damned. <br /><br />Bodysnatchers should totally be on your list. Where, as you point out, Michael Rennie’s Jesus now seems a bit corny and in Forbidden Planet you keep expecting Commander Adams to say ‘don’t call me Shirley’, Bodysnatchers now retroactively captures the McCarthy paranoia superbly. I mean Senator McCarthy, not Kevin McCarthy. OR DO I? Spooky. Rather than having lost its ability to surprise, it’s kind of marinated in its milieu to the point where it’s practically two films. Where The Day The Earth Stood Still sets out to be a parable, Bodysnatchers has become one subsequently. <br /><br />Them is superb. Remember the bit where they put the formic acid under the catatonic little girl’s nose? She let out a scream that I can still hear now. Cut right through me. <br /><br />And, of course, Plan 9 from Outer Space. <br /><br />Can anyone help me with this one: there’s a film about an alien who lands on earth, but looks completely human (conveniently). He is taken to a hospital where all the action takes place. He tells the nurses that he has been sent to recapture two fugitives, but of course she works out that they wouldn’t send one person to capture two, and that he must be the fugitive. That’s all I can remember...saw it when I was very little. It’s black & white , American, looks fifties, might be sixties. <br />Thanks<br />RichardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-20747384055755198422011-03-18T09:30:59.848-05:002011-03-18T09:30:59.848-05:00I love all these movies, including your honorable ...I love all these movies, including your honorable mentions (although I have to say I like the 70's Donald Sutherland Invasion of the Body Snatchers better; that last scene kept me up that night when I first saw it, and I was 23!) But if I only got to watch one forever and ever, it'd be The Thing. The dialog in that movie is just so crisp, the characters are pretty well-developed, and it's got a pretty darn good female protagonist. She doesn't just shriek and fall down, she does stuff, has ideas, and very obviously is the one who dumped our lantern jawed hero. Plus, James Arness! All around great movie.<br /><br />And the remake was pretty great too, albeit in entirely different ways. It's really the only case I can think of where the original and remake are sufficiently different, and sufficiently worthwhile, that I honestly don't have a favorite.ChrisPVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-35981726470327869932011-03-18T08:25:51.835-05:002011-03-18T08:25:51.835-05:00I'd go for "Forbidden Planet" and &q...I'd go for "Forbidden Planet" and "War of the Worlds" - and throw in an honourable mention for the magnificently paranoid "Invaders From Mars".Steve Does Comicshttp://stevedoescomics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-5194782085908094902011-03-18T07:13:23.573-05:002011-03-18T07:13:23.573-05:00I can't argue with any of yor choices, especia...I can't argue with any of yor choices, especially Thing From Another World which is one of my very favorites of all time. I would add The Quatermass Experiment to the list.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11928246967239009012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-56072405778947687042011-03-18T06:15:38.353-05:002011-03-18T06:15:38.353-05:00I'd have to add Godzilla to that list. Otherwi...I'd have to add Godzilla to that list. Otherwise, you seem to have tagged the best of the best there.<br /><br />Rip OffRip Jaggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936426877024852134noreply@blogger.com