Skip to comments.
Were the 1950s the Golden Age of Science Fiction Cinema?
See body of thread for link
Posted on 05/24/2016 12:33:44 PM PDT by EveningStar
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-60, 61-80, 81-100, 101 next last
To: rockrr
Forbidden Planet was an incredible movie for its time and should be considered the origin for what became Star Trek.
61
posted on
05/24/2016 1:46:28 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: massmike
The beast from 20,000 Fathoms wa writen by Ray Bradbury as was It came from outer space. many of thye first season on Twight zone was written by some of the bext sci-Fi writers of the day.
To: rockrr
I liked those two movies. “This Island Earth’’ with Rex Reason was cool. And the picture with John Hodiak and the big spider was waay cool Mara Corday was the female lead in that one. Check her out, hubba hubba!.
63
posted on
05/24/2016 1:50:04 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"Some not so great (The Giant Claw)."
It just needed a prettier monster:
64
posted on
05/24/2016 1:50:31 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: Ancient Man
Defiantly! Ants with vocal chords. Who knew?
65
posted on
05/24/2016 1:50:43 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
To: Peter W. Kessler
66
posted on
05/24/2016 1:51:01 PM PDT
by
AceMineral
(One day men will beg for chains.)
To: BenLurkin
67
posted on
05/24/2016 1:51:17 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
To: Donglalinger
Monsters just love babes.
68
posted on
05/24/2016 1:52:14 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
To: EveningStar
Different narrative style. You can’t always make a meaningful comparison of Old Hollywood films with today’s flicks because the storytelling ways are so different.
69
posted on
05/24/2016 1:54:05 PM PDT
by
x
To: henkster
70
posted on
05/24/2016 2:03:57 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: strider44
2001 was a long time before 1977
71
posted on
05/24/2016 2:05:19 PM PDT
by
TalonDJ
To: Donglalinger
The Crawling Eye and The Mole People
72
posted on
05/24/2016 2:05:29 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: discostu
Horror are movies and TV for me too. Never got beyond HP Lovecraft and of course that’s pretty sci-fi. The little movies the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society made are really good.
With the really good TV they do now, yeah there should be some great sci-fi stuff down the line hopefully.
Freegards
73
posted on
05/24/2016 2:08:47 PM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: Ransomed
I’d like to see The Mote In God’s Eye made into a movie.
74
posted on
05/24/2016 2:17:18 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Mote would be cool, Ringworld too. I think Legacy of Heorot would make a great horror/alien planet sci-fi flick.
Freegards
75
posted on
05/24/2016 2:23:06 PM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: E. Pluribus Unum
76
posted on
05/24/2016 2:24:08 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Ransomed
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the HPLHS movies, they’re but they’re trying. It’s good to see somebody not named Stuart Gordon tackling HPL, I enjoy his movies but he’s pretty solidly an exploitation splatter guy.
On the TV SF front Expanse is really carving good territory. 12 Monkeys is doing good when they aren’t tripping on their own feet. I really respected the end of Continuum, sticking to their “design” which had indicated multiple times that the main character couldn’t get a happy ending and not giving it to her was pretty impressive, as a whole the show was just pretty good, but they stuck the landing.
77
posted on
05/24/2016 2:41:41 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
To: PLMerite
“The Giant Claw” described in the “Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film” as “Woodenus Puppetus”
78
posted on
05/24/2016 2:43:22 PM PDT
by
Lee Enfield
(I identify as rich, cut me a check.)
To: Ancient Man
Them! Best 50’s sci-fi flick, when James Arness asked Edmund Gwen how they would know if all the ants were dead and Gwen replied, “We go into the nest and find out.”, they had me!
79
posted on
05/24/2016 2:43:28 PM PDT
by
Exeter
To: EveningStar
I like
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). This low-budget black-and-white film tells of how inhabitants of a Northern California town are being replaced by duplicates that arrive on Earth as alien life-forms that resemble giant artichokes. The duplicates that emerge from the artichokes are devoid of emotion and ambition yet determined to duplicate everyone around them until they duplicate the entire human race--sort of like the New Soviet Man and New Soviet Woman, who would submit to Communist doctrine while working to spread Communism, that Marxist-Leninist theoreticians were trying to create.
The man engaging in a lonely fight to stop the invasion is played by Kevin McCarthy, who shares the same last name as a man who at the same time in real life was engaged in a lonely fight to stop the Marxist-Leninist theoreticians from turning every human on Earth into a New Soviet Man or Woman.
The movie is based on the novel The Body Snatchers (New York: Dell, 1955), a suspenseful, fast-paced page-turner which I prefer to the movie.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-60, 61-80, 81-100, 101 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson