I'm watching Rodan on TCM right now. The creature is no cinematic wonder on this, it's first appearance on film but compared to the cartoonish puppet it became in it's second film, Gidorah, it's almost Spielbergian here. And I'm still not sure why it has supersonic speed if it's just some kind of pterodactyl.
I would like to point out that some of my favorite sci-fi, and some of the best and most important sci-fi, has been on television. 1959-64 The Twilight Zone -- it changed the world. 1964065 The Outer Limits 1965 Star Trek: The Cage pilot -- a soulful bounding leap in the development of space sci-fi. 1967-68 The Invaders -- still ahead of its time. 1968 The Prisoner These five programs continue to exert a pervasive influence. It was a sixties thing.
And why all other supersonic flying machines do not decimate everything as they fly by? And why it seems to fly with a causal forth and back sway to its course?...almost as if it is hanging from strings. And why Godzilla doesn't just eat the big bird...I guess a ten minute Godzilla feature would not be very exciting to watch. And why, in some scenes, Rodan is scaled to be absolutely HUGE, with a seemingly few hundred foot wingspan, while in others Rodan appears to be just pretty big? Oh the things these movies brought to mind...at least to a kids mind...a kid who watched them all with great anticipation and joy. A kid who totally geeked out on the really great vehicle models, and sets surrounding them.
As did/does my wife. She know all the name, what they can do and all and everything about those movies. I’m recording all of them off TCM for her
Two excellent choices that people tend to forget were science fiction. The choice of "Charly" tends to make me think there are a lot more films with plots based on medical fiction than what we are choosing in this thread.
Lol. I never thought about any of that as an 8 year old. That damned thing scared the crap out of me at the time. Of course, as an adult, all those questions pop up in every one of those movies. Some of my favorite, laugh out loud moments come in Mothra and all the toy soldiers positioned on various tanks, fire trucks and military vehicles. Somehow, I never noticed those either as a kid.
Lots of people feel the same way. Most would agree that every version of Body Snatchers is good in its own way - but I like the original best, I think how it shows the comformity of the 50s taken to its extreme - and I love the black and white. I do see that there might be some advantages to accepting life as a pod person:
I appreciate each one of them and still think they are terrific movies Carpenter, though, reinvented The Thing by going back to the source novella by Campbell. I look at Kaufman’s as a different take and providing a commentary on how in a big city is would be even less noticeable due to the anonymity. You know your neighbors in a small town but what’s more insidious is not knowing about these changes and not being able to convince anyone because of it. Kaufman’s film isn’t a remake as such but an extension or sequel with just as much punch.
The Stepford Wives, the original one. I saw it in the theater then watched it many times on HBO in the 70s. Katherine Ross, hubba hubba! And one of my faves, Paula Prentiss.
One would hope if someone looks that great but sadly no. They just generate more pod people. Seriously though, I can’t recall if Finley had anything to say about that certainly not in the story in the era it was set in.
I forgot the overwhelming science fiction basis of "Get out" - not my favorite, but a movie I liked a LOT
