forgoton classics - Sci Fi movies

Psi Baba said:
Rocketship X-M. One of those movies that you might have low expectations for, only to be surprised that it's not bad. However, it is unusual in that unlike most sci-fi movies of the time,
everyone dies at the end! :(


ETA: Does everyone remember The Green Slime, which seemed to be more blue than green?
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Without checking, I am pretty sure that was one of the Italian SF's of the 60's. Attractive spacewomen and tentacles (not unlike some anime!!

Crap!! wrong on Italian - though the female star is - but right on the rest!!!:D
 
autumn1971 said:
You just nailed two of my favorites. I watched Spacehunter about a hundred times as a kid.
I always caught just the last half of Ice Pirates, but it was also cool.

Oh, and someone mentioned Rowdy Roddy Piper?
Is there anyone on Earth besides my family who saw Hell Comes to Frogtown?
Piper plays the last fertile man on Earth, who is tasked with inseminating a bevy of fertile women, who are kidnapped by giant mutant frogs, who. . .
Well, you get the idea.
Perhaps forgotton for a reason.
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Saw it, Taped it, laughed at it!!
 
Rrose Selavy said:
You want a really forgotten classic?


1954:"Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents " The Man who heard Everthing".

As the result of a car crash a man gets "super hearing" who becomes a terrible burden. Any slight sound is distressingly loud. Confined to a hospital room , the tears of a visitor are deafening as they fall.
Then he hears the distant voice of an alien in trouble begging for help and only he can hear her......

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0564849/fullcredits#cast
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Which is used as a plot in an STTNG ep (Data "hears" a little girl ?on a dying planet?):D
 
I'm going uber-obscure here with Dr. Seuss's The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T from 1953. If you have children who have music lessons it's a must see.

Also, who ever it was that mentioned Wizards, YES!
 
fuelair said:
You left out (as a reviewer essentially says) the two best parts of the film: Mathilda May as the alien - mostly nude through the film: :D
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That was what I was alluding to with the 'my god, they're almost perfect' thing :P
 
Naddig74 said:
I remember A Boy and His Dog...

Is Krull not well known outside the UK? I was going to suggest it myself but thought it must be far too well known. Bernard Bresslaw 4tw :P
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I believe it's a bit of an eccentric British cult movie, like Hawke the Slayer's* big brother.


*Also featuring Bernard.
 
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Jekyll's Guest said:
I believe it's a bit of an eccentric British cult movie, like Hawke the Slayer's* big brother.


*Also featuring Bernard.
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Yes, he was in Hawke as well, iirc. 'We need someone enormous' 'Get Bernard'

All non-brits who've seen Krull please raise your hands :)
 
Naddig74 said:
Yes, he was in Hawke as well, iirc. 'We need someone enormous' 'Get Bernard'
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My wife was unimpressed, and thought he was way too short to be a 'giant'. That and the 'Dwarf' was too tall.

I reckon she must have been blinded, BY BOUNCING FIREBALLS!
 
The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, starring Tony Randall. Loved the effects, and the story line wasn't too bad.

As far as Wizards, there is an apocryphal story that the original screenplay had an epic battle between the two wizards, only Bakshi ran out of money and they had to end it quick.

Beanbag
 
Mike! said:
Speaking of the Seventies, anyone ever see a Sort of Sci-Fi/comedy/disaster movie called, "The Big Bus"? It's a parody of the disaster movies of the day, featuring an atomic powered cross country double decker, double long Bus...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpBGsFddao

:p
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I remember that one as a kid. Seems like it was an all-star cast. The bus had a guy playing piano in the back. Crazy what comes back 35 years later.
 
Anyone ever see Cherry 2000? It starred Melanie Griffith.

Then there was The Tingler (Sci-Fi Horror).
 
autumn1971 said:
Wait, are you a not-UK-ian calling the movies "the cinema"?
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Born and bred Australian. I've always called it the cinema. And I always see a film, never a movie or a picture...being all refined and stuff :p
 
shadron said:
Anyone ever see Cherry 2000? It starred Melanie Griffith.

Then there was The Tingler (Sci-Fi Horror).
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Yes!
Again, thanks to my dad, who taped every movie that came on HBO, Showtime, The Movie Channel, and Cinemax in the eighties. He literally had a three-ring binder with a list of his movies, three or four to a tape, organized by tape number (yes, he numbered every tape sequentially, I actually have number 2 in my possession, it has Apocalypse Now, Easy Rider, and Motel Hell on it, to give you an idea of how literally I meant "every movie"), as well as alphabetically by movie title. By the time the mid-nineties had rolled around, he had amassed a collection of well over three-thousand titles.
 
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