The Day the Earth Stood Still

[Dana Gold]

For anybody that enjoys viewing classic Sci-Fi films, I found this on Google video....the whole movie! ...and one of my favorites, too!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...43887050775784

[Dana Gold]

Oh wow!....found another .....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...n+planet&hl=en

[Priestess]

Just the mere mention of those brings back fond memories of saturday afternoons spent watching "Creature Double Feature" on channel 56. The intro was good too, with godzilla's head looking like it was going to smash it's way through your tv screen while they played Emerson Lake and Palmer as theme music

[Meresa]

Already have it on DVD. But I've got a lot of cool extras, including a nice featurette.

Great Flick. Robert Wise was one of the best. Much better than Spielberg IMO

[Priestess]

I wonder sometimes, if those who're intersexed are generally any more attracted to classic science-fiction as children than the usual kid is? Or less? I know I was, because I desperately wanted to take a one-way voyage to any other planet besides the one I was living on. Even if it involved giant monsters. You could always see that when giant monsters were running around that people were usually nicer to each other. Except for the villains of course

[short311fan]

i got one word for all of ya.......



Svengoolie! lol!

[Priestess]

Originally Posted by short311fan

i got one word for all of ya.......



Svengoolie! lol!

Look like fun.
According to their web site, next up is "Abbott and Costello Meet The Invisible Man". That's a good one I think for some stories the old filmmaking techniques worked better. B&W, and slightly hazy imaging, and you don't always need the very expensive special effects. Not like the crystal-sharp shots when modern directors just turn their cutting edge equipment to greyscale.

[short311fan]

... and add image dithering to get that old-school grainyness to their films, and so on and so forth, i took a course in high school in television production that taught us a lot on how to do that with today's technology, though i never did understand why we didn't just break out some old equipment and go for it tht way, would have been a lot more "real".....

as far as Svengoolie, he was the host of an old horror movie show on saturdays, based in Chicago, but i do believe he was nationally syndicated, he showed the ultra-cheesy movies like "White Zombie", "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", "Return of the Killer Tomatoes", and so forth, great stuff fond memories.....

[Priestess]

I'm not sure, but I think it's more than what sort of equipment they used. It seems like hollywood has lost the art of storytelling. Originality has disappeared so much that there's a wave of bland remakes to the classics. Sometimes not even classics- they're currently releasing the third or fourth remake of the "The Hitcher".

And then, I hate digital video. You can always see the picture breaking up when there's too much action in a scene. When I saw Lord of the Rings in the theater, every time they did a nifty quick pan of the landscape, the chunky scrolling of the background was easily visible. It hardly seems like a technical advance over what analog could be.