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lostonezero In reply to ??? [2020-05-16 16:37:16 +0000 UTC]

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lostonezero In reply to IronBrony1981 [2015-10-05 06:40:58 +0000 UTC]

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IronBrony1981 In reply to lostonezero [2015-10-05 11:28:49 +0000 UTC]

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lostonezero In reply to onimoroboshi [2015-02-05 09:06:27 +0000 UTC]

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onimoroboshi In reply to NICELabs [2015-02-05 06:53:49 +0000 UTC]

Yes indeed!  And no Deforest Kelly or Stuart Whitman around to save her.  Awwww.

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NICELabs In reply to onimoroboshi [2015-02-05 07:02:43 +0000 UTC]

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onimoroboshi In reply to NICELabs [2015-02-06 06:23:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the nice reply, which not only gave me a good laugh, but prompted me to visit your spectacular gallery, to which I shall shortly return.  Do I take it that you, too, are a fan of the world's first and (hopefully!) only giant killer rabbit film?  If so, you might care to check out its source, Year of the Angry Rabbit, a 1964 novel by Australian writer Russell Brandon. 

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NICELabs In reply to onimoroboshi [2015-02-06 13:25:10 +0000 UTC]

Most welcome   To be honest, I don't remember if I've ever seen the entire film start to finish, but I know it's a guilty pleasure of a friend of mine.  We joke it is (or should be) a holiday tradition to watch it every Easter  Never knew about it's origins.  I'll definitely have to look that up!

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onimoroboshi In reply to NICELabs [2015-02-08 23:57:03 +0000 UTC]

Ho-ho!  That would be a great Easter tradition, and parents would love it; just give the kinder a look at it, and no more egg hunts to arrange, or pet bunnies to tend.  Wonder if there's a killer hamster movie out there somewhere...

I read the book, a loaner, many years ago.  It's very different from the film, the only similarity being the menacing rabbits, and they're quite different, too.  The Wikipedia articles gives a good overview of the plot, the writer's intentions, etc.
Tch.  Just hopped over to Amazon and ordered the original hardcover printing for $50, but what the heck, it's a collector's item... and it's a good thing I collected it when I did, cos it's $303 now! 
The Pan paperback I read can probably be found easily enough, assuming you feel like bothering with it.  It is a good read.  Had the book been filmed faithfully immediately, the movie would likely now be considered a black comedy classic, and it would be required viewing by PETA and Green Peace.

Thanks for the kind reply, and hope you're not regretting it too much, anyway.
 

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NICELabs In reply to onimoroboshi [2015-02-09 13:06:13 +0000 UTC]

Actually it looks like there's a killer hamster movie in development.. starring Lou Ferrigno

In the meantime there's always the Invader Zim classic, "Hamstergeddon"

youtu.be/uABnDyCpnPI


Great find on the book.  So easy to forget that even the cheesiest movies started as a story somewhere

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onimoroboshi In reply to NICELabs [2015-02-10 06:14:48 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I just found it on IMDb: Attack of the Killer Hamster, in development since March of 2013, and still developing, so detailed production info are restricted to IMDbPro; they're offering a 30-day free trial, probably at the cost of a flood of ecrap, so no thanks.  Guess we'll know when it comes out, which, sadly, will likely be about the time Satan is skating to work and pigs are a danger to aerial navigation, to say nothing of all those blue butt monkeys.  

The real pain, though, is having to admit that I've not seen the Zim you cite, so thanks much for the link!

Year of the Angry Rabbit has shipped and will arrive shortly; can't wait!

Believe it or not, there's a anthology of just such stories; I don't recall the title--something along the lines of 'great SF stories turned into movies' or some such, but it included the prose sources of such films as Day the Earth Stood Still, The Earth Dies Screaming, The Twonky, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Invasion of the Saucer Men, among others.  I wonder... nope, the only such book on Amazon involves screen adaptations of classic literature, fui! (nothing against classic literature, mind)

Anyway, I'm gonna go watch Hamstergeddon!



   

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NICELabs In reply to onimoroboshi [2015-02-10 14:23:24 +0000 UTC]

That's very cool about the anthology.  I've experienced the original story for The Day the Earth Stood Still, and it's quite a departure, but a fascinating one.  One of my favorite 'nature gone bad' type movies is the classic 1954 film THEM!  Giant ants mutated from the early nuclear tests.   Extremely well done.  The scientists in it were giving real facts and the premises were believable.  The effects would hold up today as being very sophisticated.  All in all a great film

Hope you enjoyed Ultra-Pi Pi

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onimoroboshi In reply to NICELabs [2015-02-11 09:32:12 +0000 UTC]

The story was adapted more faithfully in the 70's by Marvel as part of a short-lived SF anthology comic (1st ish was Van Vogt's Black Destroyer, 'The inspiration for Star Trek!', drawn by Gil Kane), and Scholastic Books released a short 'movie novel' that incorporated elements of the story.  Guess I oughta check out the Day remake one of these days.

I'd almost forgotten THEM!  The first of the atom-age 'big bug' movies and still, I think, the best, and most credible in terms of its mutation premise, and yeah, I agree completely with your view of the FX (a nice, though doubtless unintended touch is that the gi-ants move slowly and laboriously, an accidental nod to the cube-square law that to me makes them all the more menacing, and without which the movie would have had much less happy an ending, though the ants woulda had one helluva picnic).  
Had Warner produced it in-house the film might have been in color, to its detriment in my opinion, but I'm guessing it was they who rendered the eye-grabbing title card red, the lead up to which is one of most suspenseful film openings ever.

I completely forgot--far more shameful than missing it I think--that I HAD seen Hamstergeddon and in fact have it in my Zim off-air collection; I am indeed a stupid Earth human!  Still watched it of course; classic is right! (and so funny I durn near Ultra-Pi Pi'd my you-know-whats).

One of my favorite nature-gone-wild (sort of) flicks is the 1964 proto-disaster movie Crack in the World ('Thank God it's just a movie!'), a credible and well-cast 'doomsday' thriller--whiiiich you're probably well aware of, huh?

A couple of entertaining films in the same (rock) vein that may have escaped your notice, both from '57, are: The Monolith Monsters and The Night the World Exploded, so take your pick; get crushed or mineralized (then crushed) by waves of ever growing and toppling alien crystals, or get blowed up, blowed up real good. (Not really of course--spoiler alert!--in both stalwart scientists and their cute assistant-girl friend-sweater models save the day at the last minute using the same deus ex machina, good ole H20.)  My favorite bit in Night is when the looming threat--a previously unknown subterranean element, now globally emerging for some unknown reason, that when exposed to air expands and explodes--tilts the Earth's axis five degrees, causing suspended lamps and such to hang at an angle! (To be fair, that's the story's only major gaff, and like Monolith Monsters it's got an excellent cast and is at times genuinely suspenseful.)

And now, with nature calling, it's time for me to bug outta here before I explode--but you're probably asleep by now, so I'll just slip away real quiet like...  

 

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NICELabs In reply to onimoroboshi [2015-02-11 13:11:43 +0000 UTC]

Hadn't heard of Crack in the World, but tracked down the trailer.  Very interesting.   Reminds me of the old Irwin Allen flicks.  My favorite being Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.  Very cool movie (though I admit I never saw the TV series).  I remember bits and pieces (or shall we say shards) of the Monolith Monsters, but haven't heard of the other.  I'll look into it

My other favorite giant animal monster movie is Deadly Mantis... building sized prehistoric Preying Mantis thaws out in the arctic and heads south, causing mayhem along the way.  Of course my all time favorite giant monster is understandably Godzilla.  I don't know if you've ever seen the original Japanese version without all the Americanized parts (and Raymond Burr), but it's a much better film.  Actually a nuclear protest movie.  Definitely worth a look.

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onimoroboshi In reply to NICELabs [2015-02-11 17:27:58 +0000 UTC]

The Voyage film is great; talk about global warming!  The inevitable novelization was written by Theodore Sturgeon (to fulfill a contract commitment with Fox), who considerably expanded the story (among other things, Alvarez is given a considerably more developed and sympathetic back story) and rewrote some of the more inane stuff to make it more believable (rather than sinking, the chunks of ice that threaten the sub come up from a long a submerged ice floe cracked apart by the increasingly hot water above it; he also turned that annoying octopus into an unknown critter, compared by Nelson to the Kraken, about to chow down on the Seaview until another, larger member of the species has it for dinner); as for why Sturgeon put in all that effort, I suppose he figured a straight adaptation would ruin his reputation (no doubt the studio would never have allowed him to use a pseudonym), which no doubt explains Asimov's similar modifications in his Fantastic Voyage tie-in.  

The TV show was pretty good in its first, B&W season (the pilot, 11 Hours to Zero if memory serves, was shot in color, but CBS nixed that for the series to save a few bucks, the short sighted idiots), but as of the second, in full color, the show went full tilt WTF!? mode with rampaging werewolves, shambling mummies (for whom the crew were polite enough to stand still gawking at so the mummies could strangle 'em), fish men, plant men, creature men, killer toys, killer dolls, brain-snatching blobs, heck you name it and it was there!  The modified, more steam-lined Seaview was cool (problem was it kept turning back into the movie version for some reason), as was the Flying Sub (though even as a kid I noticed that when it docked with the Seaview it took up the whole nose, and that, interior wise, the vessels' hatches couldn't possible align with one another--ahem. sorry, but it bugs when interior sets don't jibe with the miniatures, and yes, in that regard I'm annoyed with annoying frequency; even Space: 1999 screwed up badly in that area, and what was the deal with those Eagle-to-Eagle docking tubes, sheesh!), and like season one, the model shots were always all but totally convincing; they used rather big models to be sure, but what really did the trick was the use of a detergent that broke the tank water's surface tension, producing foaming wakes and such.  And call me old fashioned, but while CGI has become thoroughly realistic, to me there's still something superior about a really god model, maybe cos it has more 'weight', if that makes any sense. 

That Mantis was deadly alright, if its strings were cut and it fell on you--I kid; for the most part that puppet worked pretty good, and its true scale was rarely apparent, and it sure kept William Hopper a-hoppin' didn't it?

Gee, Godzilla, oh yeah.  King of the kaiju, baby.  Funny thing is, I had none of the films till last year, when I got Sony Classic Media's The Godzilla Collection, all Showa, which includes the U.S. & Japan versions (completely unaltered save for the optional Eigo subtitles) of Godzilla, Godzilla Raids Again, Mothra Vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster, G vs. Monster Zero, G's Revenge and Terror of Mechagodzilla (the last Showa film and originally intended to be the last G film, period), and all have audio commentaries by a panel of G and kaiju film authorities.  After that I went a little G-happy and now have the whole lot (though I had to settle for the stateside version of the first Heisei entry, know here as Godzilla 1985, in which Raymond Burr got to reprise his nosy report role); generally I favor originals, but the Heisei and Millennium series are terrific; the latter wasn't a series in the serial sense though, all were 'alternate universe' stand alones, except for G Against Mechagodzilla and its direct sequel, Tokyo S.O.S, and the last, Final Wars was essentially a remake of Destroy All Monsters, with a brief cameo by our own 1998 G, known in the Toho pantheon as Zilla... I love all the Gamera's too, especially the first and final Millennium film, Gamera the Brave (an 'alternate universe' thing, like the three Heisei films).  But that's about enough outta me I expect. ('bout time, eh)  Shoot, I went on so much I don't feel like proofing it, so for any typos or other gaffs I apolo...um, yeah, I'll just be going now.










 




 

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NICELabs In reply to onimoroboshi [2015-02-11 18:53:18 +0000 UTC]

Yah, inaccuracies aside, some of those were definitely guilty pleasures  About my favorite Irwin Allen series was of course, The Time Tunnel  Super-cheesy I know, going from one impending peril during a famous historical event to another, but it was a neat premise and cool actors.  I've met Lee Merriwether and she's very neat.  Was talking about how neat a show it was where not only was it a woman on the team, she was one of the lead scientists.  Rare to have a female authority figure at that time. Totally loved the Tunnel.  Wanted to build a Time Tunnel playset in my back yard when I was a kid  Awesome sound effects with it too.

Yah, I love me some Godzilla  I have many of the Japanese original versions, which make them all the better  I did enjoy Final Wars as it was a proper send off.  How do you celebrate 50 years of film?  Have him travel the world fighting every single monster he's ever fought  Was fun to see him face off the American one too.  They never liked the version from the US film and took jabs at it in a few films.  Remember two soldiers talking in one of the movies:  "The Americans say they saw Godzilla off their East Coast - - They thought it was him, but.... it wasn't."   When they met in Sydney took all of 12 seconds to take out the 'imposter' to which the main bad guy lamented "I knew that stupid lizard was worthless!"  naw... can't read between the lines there at all   I am very glad, however, that Toho has given their stamp of approval on the new Godzilla.  I've been extremely pleased with what they've done with him and have every confidence it'll just get better from here

As for another bit of cinematic/TV culture I think you'll agree is about the best there is I'll say three words:

Original Jonny Quest

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onimoroboshi In reply to steve2275 [2015-02-05 06:56:34 +0000 UTC]

That's going to put her in a real bind.

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MandrakeMoorglade In reply to CristianDraws [2012-05-06 09:24:04 +0000 UTC]

but then she wouldn't have been able to escape. Nah, keep her with loose boots, her stocking feet are too cute.

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