So many of the movies mentioned hear are like Oh yah that was good, and the ones I am not familiar with I now have to watch!! How about Mars Attacks Independence Day, more of a creature feature but Creature from the Black Lagoon is one of my all time favs
I still have this in paperback, got it when I was in grade school! Came out in '52, mine is the third printing. I read a lot of Sci-fi back then.... Poe, Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlan, Crichton, then Herbert's Dune series, the John Varley trilogy: Titan, Wizard, Demon. After college I was reading King and Strauss, Anne Rice, etc. Clive Barkers 'Weaveworld' stands out as one of my favorites. After a couple of trips to Moab, Utah, I read a bunch of Edward Abby, such as the 'Monkey Wrench' gang. I'm not reading much these days tho, too much other stuff to do. Add 'Twilight Zone' and 'Highlander' (another with Queen soundtrack!) to some of the great movies already mentioned. I liked the 'Transformer' movies too.
I think my favorite twilight zone episode is the one with Burgess Meredith where he is a bank teller with thick glasses that likes to read books. My other favorites are the one with William Shatner & the “gremlin”, and the one with Jack Klugman about “Gabriel blowing his horn”. Duane
Mars Attacks and Independence Day were great! I also love Creature From The Black Lagoon. My parents took me to see it when I was about four years old, scared the crap out of me. For a long time after that I was scared to get in water that I couldn't see through.
I was 7 or 8 years old and got a hold of Mars Attacks trading cards at summer camp. Scared the bejesus out of me. Now I wish I kept them - could of bought a nice Buick! https://www.ebay.com/itm/2747446592...aERnHuOpp8FpAcatpi8z6lF9gfsW-sDBoCsqIQAvD_BwE
I always liked the shape of the Borg cube. Who needs aerodynamics in space anyway? "If you are confident enough to open any conversation like this: "We are Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile" Then you better have a bad ass ship to back it up " Next best thing was the Spaceballs Winnebago:
The original Superman and the mole men scared the crap out of me, and scarred me as a child, almost as much as the John Henry and the inky-poo cartoon. I can still hear the woman scream and the guy saying John Henry is dead. My two favorite original Star Trek shows, The pilot with Jeffery Hunter, "The Cage", and "The city on the edge of forever" where they go back in time with a very young and beautiful Joan Collins.
The movie which scared the crap out of a young me was the original 1962 version of "The Day of the Triffids". The idea of plants dining on humans caused me to despise most vegetables for many years.
The one that scared me to death was Phantasm with the flying metal balls that drilled into your head. Had a nice Mopar though.
I do not watch horror flicks! Also have a 3 strikes and im out of there F bomb policy. People dont really talk like that in the world.
Oh contraire Sir, Then you have never been around me much, it’s my favorite noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, adverb ……..I’m not even sure I can express myself in today’s world without it, so yes, people do talk like that….lol
Then sir, no matter how cool you might be I could not hang out with you. maybe I should rephrase.. most people dont talk like that.
Guys, Don’t go down this road. This is a discussion of movies that we like and is another thing, (besides cars), that some of us have in common. How about we keep it as a friendly discussion. Duane
One thing I wanted to talk about was Star Wars. I know people praise it all the time, but I don’t think people today understand what an impact it made at the time. I got to see it in the theatre when it first came out. It wasn’t just about the plot, which is fairly straight forward, but was about the entire experience. In the opening scene you are basically looking at a dark screen and the speakers came on and you “felt” the heaviness of a very large ship coming over your head from behind. You could actually feel the concussion of the sound hitting your body. At that point you knew you were going to see something that had never been done before, and that was just the opening scene. You can watch the movie a hundred times on the TV or at home, and never experience the impact it had in the theater. I know some of the old movies are having special runs on the big screen. Beth & I watched Casablanca at the theatre a couple years ago, but it would really be something to see Star Wars in the theatre again if it comes around, especially if they re-make the sound like they originally did. Did anyone else here see it in the theatre? Duane
