Pre-1980 Sci Fi Movie Thread

MeteorWayne · Aug 16, 2006

Gawd, you must be an old f**t like me! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id. I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function </div>

yevaud · Aug 16, 2006

A lot of us here are old enough to remember riding the family dinosaur to school in the morning. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Differential Diagnosis: "I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are." </div>

telfrow · Aug 16, 2006

Uphill. Both ways. In a snowstorm. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild. - Tennyson </div>

yevaud · Aug 16, 2006

I miss Shep. The rides he gave me. When he wagged his tail and caused 3.2 tremors on the richter scale. Feeding him entire trees. He was a good doobie! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Differential Diagnosis: "I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are." </div>

telfrow · Aug 16, 2006

You know, the worst part about this thread for me is that I saw almost all of these movies in a theater when I was growing up. My father was a big sc-fi fan, and every Friday night, we'd head to the movie theater and watch the double (or triple) feature. (Of course, you'd have to suffer through the drawings and promotions, between movies, but it was worth it.) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild. - Tennyson </div>

yevaud · Aug 16, 2006

I've seen just about all of them myself, Tel. But - the next-generational shift operating here - it was late Friday night horror movies, and Saturday afternoon Science-Fiction movies on tv. A small, cheap black and white. Some of the best damned fun. That being said, here's a horror flick and it's sequel that was one of the campiest horror movies ever made: <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Differential Diagnosis: "I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are." </div>

MeteorWayne · Aug 16, 2006

Wow, a Shep fan too? We have way too much in common. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id. I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function </div>

yevaud · Aug 16, 2006

I remembered the name Shep from the Niven / Pournelle book "Footfall." <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Differential Diagnosis: "I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are." </div>

MeteorWayne · Aug 17, 2006

Heck I thought you were old, you young whippersnapper <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> (54) I just wish the SciFi Channel would replay them once in a while, instead of giving us all the schlocky horror stuff Or all the pseudoscience crap they put on. PS, I had a friend named crazy eddie in NJ a few dozen loops around the sun ago. You don't happen to hail from there, do you? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id. I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function </div>

telfrow · Aug 17, 2006

Ha! Children, the lot of you. 56 next month. <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild. - Tennyson </div>

yevaud · Aug 17, 2006

Waaaahhhh! <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> (48 in a few months) Life's aspiration: to become that old coot on the porch who yells at the neighborhood kids, "get offa my goddamned lawn!" while waving a cane in the air/safety_wrapper> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Differential Diagnosis: "I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are." </div>

telfrow · Aug 17, 2006

Drwayne has us all beaten, doesn't he? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild. - Tennyson </div>

yevaud · Aug 17, 2006

Good question. Don't remember. Urg. I hate it when that happens. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Differential Diagnosis: "I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are." </div>

jmilsom · Aug 17, 2006

I've seen just about all of them myself, Tel. But - the next-generational shift operating here - Hey, I am glad this thread is proving nostalgic. I am 37 and watched a fair bit of SciFi when I was younger, but most of these are before my time. I am a real SciFi fan and like SciFi movies and I have sort of run out things to watch - these old movies are a veritable gold mine! I am really enjoying watching them, they really are a lot of fun. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

MeteorWayne · Aug 17, 2006

Well enjoy them. They don't make s**t like those anymore. Today, much flashier, but not as much story; or conversely Wayyyyyyyy too much story. True grade B- sic fi crap is so much fun a story only gets in the way. To tell the tryth, the best sci-fi ever was the Twilight Zone. Talk about pre 1980's! Hmmm sounds like another thread <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id. I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function </div>

telfrow · Aug 17, 2006

Ah yes, The Twilight Zone. Used to scare me to death. Especially "To Serve Man." Didn't sleep for days. Loved it. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild. - Tennyson </div>

yevaud · Aug 17, 2006

And the old "Outer Limits" (which had more hard SF, grittier acting and plots than TZ, IMO). Remember the episode with the tiny flying saucer and doll-sized aliens in spacesuits - and the gigantic old woman with the broom, in her attic? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Differential Diagnosis: "I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are." </div>

telfrow · Aug 17, 2006

Agnes Moorehead. Remember it well. She didn't say a word through the whole thing...and the ending blew your mind. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild. - Tennyson </div>

yevaud · Aug 17, 2006

I always found I had a bit of a tear at the end of the movie, "Silent Running." Bruce Dern and the injured robot and all. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Differential Diagnosis: "I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are." </div>

wmdragon · Aug 18, 2006

"Bruce Dern and the injured robot and all." oh yeah, the injured robot and the one that got blown by the "storm" broke my geeky heart as a kid. I should put that movie on my netflix queue, I got a thing for nostalgia scifi/horror movies (which owes this forum much). <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. --- James Clerk Maxwell </div>

MeteorWayne · Aug 18, 2006

That's why I preferred the TZ myself. More of the fear took place in your mind than in the visual effects that OL went for. Rod Serling knew how to mess with the neurons! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id. I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function </div>

jmilsom · Aug 18, 2006

This one was painful to watch. They're not all B movies in this set, this one was a C! From 1960, it seems dubbed from German and originally entitled Toter hing im netz, Ein: Horrors of Spider Island Man, what was this film? A bunch of dancers and their agent (an actor called Alexander D'Arcy who looks like Freddie Mercury) en route to Singapore crash into the sea and end up on an island in the Pacific. The only thing science fiction is the following dialogue after arriving on, and exploring the island. "Look it's a hammer with a long handle. It's used for mining metals. It can only be uranium." That and the fact there was a hut on the island with a lone professor (who they find dead hanging in a spider web). There follows a few creepy shots of rather cool (but rather muppet-like) spiders, then their agent is bitten and turns into some sort of strange spider beast (sparsely adorned with spider mask and gloves!). He kills one of the girls and does horror and mayhem follow? ........ No. The movie should have been called "Honeys of Spider Island". This must have been a naughty film in its day, for the bulk of the scene is frivolous waffle with girls in bikinis. Two of the professors assistants arrive (men) and a series of minute long relationships ensue - and it was that dialogue that was painful. Anyway - it only gets more silly! I won't go on - you'll have to go out and see it to find out what happens. Info on film While looking for a picture, I found this really funny Web Page devoted to the movie! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

spacefire · Aug 18, 2006

My favourite movie title would be:Attack of the Topless Busty Redhead Sexamazons. alas, I don't think that was already made. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.comhttp://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </div>

vogon13 · Aug 18, 2006

For some of my friends, Crazy Eddie (ala Niven and Pournelle) is a lifestyle . . . . . <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!So many people, so few recipes !!Let's clean up this stinkhole !! </div>

MeteorWayne · Aug 18, 2006

See, for me this is why I liked the TZ more. After all, you're a punk kid <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /> My favorite TZ eposide is where an alien race screws with the power in a neighborhood. Power goes off and on in particular houses, cars start and stop at random. Eventually, someone in the neighborhood shoots a person coming down the street, of course, one of their friends. The closing is the aliens laughing at how easy it is to manipulate humans into severe panic. I bring this up often when there are power hits in our hood. All the houses but one on our cul-de-sac are on underground power from one source. The house across the street is on another source. When all of us have no power and he does, I stand in the street, point, and shout...."IT'S THEM! THEY'RE THE ALIENS!!!!!!! I hope he gets it <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> It starred one charachter actor whose name I can't recall, I'll try and find it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id. I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function </div>

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