The Morningstarr*

badger47 · 20-03-2007, 20:39

This is my suggestion for the next film to be reviewed, and there is bugger all else on next week (Shawshank Redemption is just wet!).
It has characters with called Dr. Adolph Engelborg, Brack, Exeter and a planet called Metaluna! A machine called an interroceter! What more could you want?
And discusion on the lines of...
"Dr. Cal Meacham: Sun lamp?
Dr. Ruth Adams: That's what it looks like. Only instead of a suntan, you get your brain cells rearranged"
This film not not only expores the nievety of post war USA society, but also post Korea parinoa.
The film has some pretty good special effects (for the time) and many ideas that would later be absorbed by many of the so called classic SF (I will not use Sci-Fi as it as an yank term) including Alien!
The original bug eyed monster, high fore headed scientests makes this one to watch.
It also won an Oscar for 'Technical (now termed special) Effects'
So set your Betamax at the ready for....
More 4, 4pm, Wednesday 28th March.

Zombie Mastermind · 25-03-2007, 05:46

I watched this about a month ago.

Quality olde-worlde sci-fi.

Pesky tefal heads.

badger47 · 29-03-2007, 00:18

Glad someone made the effort even if it was in the past! All will be revealed when I have control over you hairbears!

Snapper · 30-03-2007, 12:36

Balls! Is it on again?

badger47 · 15-04-2007, 20:23

here are some films for your consideration this week.
Havn't picked one 'cos you're all boring gits and spend too much time in the pub!
Weds 18 Aprl. The Stranger BBC2 1220 A real Orson Wells classic!
Thurs 19 Aprl. Jackie Brown C4 2230 Tarantino at his best!
Fri 20 Aprl. Vanilla Sky Film 4 2100 Didn't like it at first but grows on you like a genital disease.
Sat 21 Aprl. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Classic 50's anti communist paranoia mixed with sentimental longing for the innocence of the early 1900's. Also worth watching for Ingrid bergman's impressive bosom!
Well that's my choice this week. if you don't like 'em you have no taste!

SFB · 15-04-2007, 20:30

We watched 'Vanilla Sky' last night on Film 4 channel.

Very interesting, hard to follow, sad ending.

Donachiel · 08-05-2007, 15:09

Finally got to watch "This Island Earth" a while back. Liked it but really didn't see why it should be classed as a Morningstarr* Classic...

Although the science fiction was credited as being good at the time, I don't think they really pushed any boundaries. Obviously, many of the techniques used are still very similar to those special effects used in movies today, just a little less polished. But I don't think This Island Earth can claim to have invented them...

The alien was a reject from It Came From Outer Space, according to the Wiki, which is quite believable - as the alien isn't

. It does look good, up to the point he clubs it over the head. It bounces around like a rubber tyre, and the sound, hee hee.

And as for the Metalunans, why the fook should we feel sorry for them being destroyed, they're a bunch of gits. They blow up a house filled with our brightest, possibly stunting out scientific growth for the next 100 years - if this was real, or course...

But that said, it is damn good fun, and just perfect for a parody. The scenes on the alien planet are all seriously cult iconic of that era - right done to the rubbery alien with an exposed brain.

Although I didn't see much merit in the film, I did love watching it...

ThinBoy · 21-07-2007, 10:36

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Originally Posted by SFB

We watched 'Vanilla Sky' last night on Film 4 channel.

Very interesting, hard to follow, sad ending.

The original that it was a remake of is much better. I think it was called Open Your Eyes. Or something.

This Island Earth is a classic. The scene of the ships attacking the planet is one of the all-time great SF images.