Again, the film Alien drew it's inspiration from part of the premise...
The plot:
1: A distress beacon is picked up by a rocket-ship.
2: It lands on Mars? where a derelict alien vessel is discovered.
3: Inside the ship is the calcified remains of the pilot - He's HUUUGE!
4: It become apparent that he's the victim of SPACE VAMPIRES!
5: Arrgh, look out, they're everywhere!
6: Returning to the ship, they discover that one of the crewmen is infected.
7: Now the Vampire is loose onboard the rocket, slowly turning the crew into mindless slaves!
I've got a sneaky feeling that I've asked this on here before.
Sorry, that one is purely in your head ! You had it beamed in there by the microwave transmitters in Bognor.................
Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
The recent time I don't like movies at all as I am faced to brainwashing coming mostly from america. Try at least little bit take the dialogues and behaviour of characters in these films seriously and you become to conclusion that they must be insane if they mean it seriously. It's so cut of reality! I don't know if people in america talk each other the way as it is offered in those hollywood movies, but I'd gladdly won't believe.
But its just a bit of escapism. I mean do people HONESTLY think americans are like how you see in films ? If thats the case people must think english people drink cups of tea and wear bowler hats and speak weird. Ridiculous
A lot of american films are totally over the top but its just escapism and nothing to be taken seriously. All the Stallone/Arnie films were OTT but good for a laugh.
Obviously with the US being so rich they release a ton of films but there are still some good gems around
A lorra-lorra people these days, especially children, do speak as though they're from some crap american soap or gangster movie. I can't help but smile when they're trying to be serious.
If you want a crap sci-fi film with VERY realistic dialogue, then try, "Beware the Blob."
It makes the whole thing rather slow, but there's no denying that the emphasis was on believable dialogue and humdrum scenes rather than story. The scene in the hair dressers is perfect!
"I don't just cut hair - I sculpt it. Would you like a hair... sculpt?"
And about being British, I think our stereotype is very flattering, and it's a shame that fewer people actually meet the criteria these days.
Tea? Yes please, if you're making one - I drank 8 cups yesterday. I used to have about 12.
It's a shame that these can be very hard to find on DVD.
I got Silent Running fairly cheaply many years ago - I love it, but have to admit the original film suffers from some truly lousy editing. The musical interlude is far too screechy too. But then the DVD was pulled ahead of a special (read: massively overpriced) edition, that I'm not sure ever came. The same thing happened to It's a Wonderful Life - that can be very hard to get hold of for less than ?20.
Battle Beyond the Stars had a few US releases, but no UK DVD release. I eventually found out you can get in in Germany under the title Sador: Herrscher im Weltraum ('Sador, Lord of Space'). If you just put the DVD in and play it you get the original English-language version with no subtitles. I've also got a James Horner double-CD with the excellent main theme on it.
Recently I bought a Doug McClure triple box-set on DVD from HMV in London. Gotta love those old Ray Harryhausen back-projected rubber dinosaurs. Also reminds me of Gorgo, a cheesy giant monster movie where London gets trashed. Kind of an Anglo/Irish Godzilla.
No, they just think that the Americans that watch it are daft enough to believe thats how people behave.
Thats just as sad !
Every american i've met has been fine. Seem to be most people 'assume' everyones thick in the US because of Jerry Springer etc or theyve met 'one' in London who asked where the Queen lives etc.
At the end of the day every country has their thickies (Eg we have chavs and Amstrad/C64 owners) ;)
Recently I bought a Doug McClure triple box-set on DVD from HMV in London. Gotta love those old Ray Harryhausen back-projected rubber dinosaurs.
Those effects were done by a guy call Roger Dicken - who went on to 'make' (not design) the 'face hugger', 'chest burtser' and full size alien in 'Alien'.
Facehugger, chestburster, full-size alien - in ALIEN, these creatures were principally designed by H.R. Giger and realized by Carlo Rambaldi and Roger Dicken.
Those effects were done by a guy call Roger Dicken - who went on to 'make' (not design) the 'face hugger', 'chest burtser' and full size alien in 'Alien'.
Would that be the triple boxset including the utterly fab "At The Earth's Core"? I got that boxset for Christmas, and it's great!
Would that be the triple boxset including the utterly fab "At The Earth's Core"? I got that boxset for Christmas, and it's great!
I saw all those films at the cinema as a kid, and they were crap then. The roof blew off the cinema during a re-run of "Jaws" one day, and now it is a carpark.
The last time I went to the cinema was to see "Trainspotting", and I gave a load of ale to the two chicks sitting near me - they were student barmaids from the pub across the road - it was a good night that one!
I didn't think Harryhausen actually did all those, but Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans, One Million Years B.C. and one I don't have on DVD, The Valley of Gwangi, were. I never really took to the Sinbad films, although I love the terrible messing around with Greek mythology in those first two.
According to IMDB, Roger Dicken also worked on 2001. That's quite a history too.
I will never seeing an exhibition of the Ray Harryhausen models including the Clash of the Titans ones, supprisingly they were about two feet tall and very well made. Which reminds me Enemy Mine, the one with the Drac creature in it, an all time crap film, and seeing one of the Drac masks in the flesh and being shocked at how piss poor it was. If I remember right it was at a Sci-fi convention in Brighton called something like Unconventional 1986.
Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
I will never seeing an exhibition of the Ray Harryhausen models including the Clash of the Titans ones, supprisingly they were about two feet tall and very well made. Which reminds me Enemy Mine, the one with the Drac creature in it, an all time crap film, and seeing one of the Drac masks in the flesh and being shocked at how piss poor it was. If I remember right it was at a Sci-fi convention in Brighton called something like Unconventional 1986.
Oi! Enemy Mine is a good crap film you!
I do agree the Dracs look like nobbly poo people though :D
I do agree the Dracs look like nobbly poo people though :D
When "Enemy Mine" came out it was hailed as the most original SCI FI film ever made, till someone realise that the script writer had ripped off "Robinson Crusoe On Mars".
When "Enemy Mine" came out it was hailed as the most original SCI FI film ever made, till someone realise that the script writer had ripped off "Robinson Crusoe On Mars".
Yep. Barry B. Longyear, who wrote the original story the film was (very loosely) based upon, was more than a little miffed about that:
Oh i always thought enemy mine was a re imagining of the ww2 film err was it hell in the pacific not sure. with the downed us and japanese pilots sharing an island. Ive not seen it though so im probably wrong.
Oh i always thought enemy mine was a re imagining of the ww2 film err was it hell in the pacific not sure. with the downed us and japanese pilots sharing an island. Ive not seen it though so im probably wrong.
That's actually a good movie that one saw it years and years ago, it was at least 10 years ago the last time I saw it cos' my gran was still alive at the time I watched it?
Oh i always thought enemy mine was a re imagining of the ww2 film err was it hell in the pacific not sure. with the downed us and japanese pilots sharing an island. Ive not seen it though so im probably wrong.
yeah, hell in the pacific.
watched it again not so long ago, bit boring really.
i'd have thunk enemy mine was inspired by it.
or maybe that battle star galactica episode where that guy gets stranded with the zylon and they live in a shed together.
edit - they are all just ripping off the odd couple. :p
I loved those old journey to the center of the earth adventure films as a kid.
Watched 'The Last Mimzy' a little while ago, that was pretty good for a Disney film. And 'Moon' was good too.
Good selection of old and new movies worth a watch. I found a few 'odd' but good films here that I'd never heard of before. PI is extremely odd for example. http://www.redicecreations.com/movies.php
Watched 'The Last Mimzy' a little while ago, that was pretty good for a Disney film.
I saw that one too when it was on TV a few months back, pretty good considering that it's a Disney movie.
Do not read the spoiler below, it tells the ending to the movie.
Spoiler:
It was particularly interesting to note how the ending was different than what was portrayed earlier in the movie, i.e. one is lead to believe that there were aliens that caused the probs ... when in fact it's not an alien but something even terribly worse, a ... ;-)
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No, not that one, I've got that one. This was in colour.
Queen Of Blood?
Sorry, that one is purely in your head ! You had it beamed in there by the microwave transmitters in Bognor.................
Pah! I borrowed it off someone in Porchester.
Oooooh. It's certainly in the same style as I remember - characters look familier! I'll have to track this one down and see! Ta :)
But its just a bit of escapism. I mean do people HONESTLY think americans are like how you see in films ? If thats the case people must think english people drink cups of tea and wear bowler hats and speak weird. Ridiculous
A lot of american films are totally over the top but its just escapism and nothing to be taken seriously. All the Stallone/Arnie films were OTT but good for a laugh.
Obviously with the US being so rich they release a ton of films but there are still some good gems around
If you want a crap sci-fi film with VERY realistic dialogue, then try, "Beware the Blob."
It makes the whole thing rather slow, but there's no denying that the emphasis was on believable dialogue and humdrum scenes rather than story. The scene in the hair dressers is perfect!
"I don't just cut hair - I sculpt it. Would you like a hair... sculpt?"
And about being British, I think our stereotype is very flattering, and it's a shame that fewer people actually meet the criteria these days.
Tea? Yes please, if you're making one - I drank 8 cups yesterday. I used to have about 12.
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You mean you don't?!?!?!
Well, that's one way to shatter a WoSser's conception of other forumites :cry:
I got Silent Running fairly cheaply many years ago - I love it, but have to admit the original film suffers from some truly lousy editing. The musical interlude is far too screechy too. But then the DVD was pulled ahead of a special (read: massively overpriced) edition, that I'm not sure ever came. The same thing happened to It's a Wonderful Life - that can be very hard to get hold of for less than ?20.
Battle Beyond the Stars had a few US releases, but no UK DVD release. I eventually found out you can get in in Germany under the title Sador: Herrscher im Weltraum ('Sador, Lord of Space'). If you just put the DVD in and play it you get the original English-language version with no subtitles. I've also got a James Horner double-CD with the excellent main theme on it.
Recently I bought a Doug McClure triple box-set on DVD from HMV in London. Gotta love those old Ray Harryhausen back-projected rubber dinosaurs. Also reminds me of Gorgo, a cheesy giant monster movie where London gets trashed. Kind of an Anglo/Irish Godzilla.
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Thats just as sad !
Every american i've met has been fine. Seem to be most people 'assume' everyones thick in the US because of Jerry Springer etc or theyve met 'one' in London who asked where the Queen lives etc.
At the end of the day every country has their thickies (Eg we have chavs and Amstrad/C64 owners) ;)
Those effects were done by a guy call Roger Dicken - who went on to 'make' (not design) the 'face hugger', 'chest burtser' and full size alien in 'Alien'.
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Would that be the triple boxset including the utterly fab "At The Earth's Core"? I got that boxset for Christmas, and it's great!
I saw all those films at the cinema as a kid, and they were crap then. The roof blew off the cinema during a re-run of "Jaws" one day, and now it is a carpark.
The last time I went to the cinema was to see "Trainspotting", and I gave a load of ale to the two chicks sitting near me - they were student barmaids from the pub across the road - it was a good night that one!
According to IMDB, Roger Dicken also worked on 2001. That's quite a history too.
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
Oi! Enemy Mine is a good crap film you!
I do agree the Dracs look like nobbly poo people though :D
When "Enemy Mine" came out it was hailed as the most original SCI FI film ever made, till someone realise that the script writer had ripped off "Robinson Crusoe On Mars".
Yep. Barry B. Longyear, who wrote the original story the film was (very loosely) based upon, was more than a little miffed about that:
http://www.sff.net/people/bblongyear/MoviesTheTruthRunDrac.html
That's actually a good movie that one saw it years and years ago, it was at least 10 years ago the last time I saw it cos' my gran was still alive at the time I watched it?
yeah, hell in the pacific.
watched it again not so long ago, bit boring really.
i'd have thunk enemy mine was inspired by it.
or maybe that battle star galactica episode where that guy gets stranded with the zylon and they live in a shed together.
edit - they are all just ripping off the odd couple. :p
Logan's Run
Cosmos:War of the Planets
Watched 'The Last Mimzy' a little while ago, that was pretty good for a Disney film. And 'Moon' was good too.
Good selection of old and new movies worth a watch. I found a few 'odd' but good films here that I'd never heard of before. PI is extremely odd for example.
http://www.redicecreations.com/movies.php
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Carlos Michelis Theme
I saw that one too when it was on TV a few months back, pretty good considering that it's a Disney movie.
Do not read the spoiler below, it tells the ending to the movie.
Logan's Run is great! Love that film.
Go check out pages 11 and top of 12 of this thread! ;-) :-P