I went with "bodysnatchers." There is a fine little film called "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" from this era that I recommend to fans of the others. It's suspenseful and brisk, but fun, too. Not hammy.
― Abbott, Friday, 18 January 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
There was an episode of Perfect Strangers that ripped off the pod people idea. It was scary! It dealth with xenophobia because all the pod people had Myposian characteristics.
― Abbott, Friday, 18 January 2008 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
There is a fine little film called "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" from this era that I recommend to fans of the others.
Good film - and not just because Ray Harryhausen was involved with it. Much of Independence Day ripped it off.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 January 2008 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
^inspired brilliant Washington Monument gag in Mars Attacks!^
god i am so jealous of keanu
photographic evidence?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 January 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
On the Beach isn't really sci-fi either.
I suppose not but you could argue that for the time it was released (1959) it was pretty sci-fi despite being, well, sappy in it's self-professed nobility. The other post-nuclear war movie from that year, The World, The Flesh, And The Devil, is a great piece of 50s American sociology that not just takes on nuclear war, but racism, imperialism, and a handful of Deadly Sins. Worth the effort to track down (TCM shows it occasionally)
Also worth tracking down is Five which I believe is the first post-nuclear war movie ever (it's from 1951). It plays out like an extended Twilight Zone episode but it gets kinda ponderous and DO YOU SEE at times. It's cool for the Frank Lloyd Wright house setting though.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 January 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha. Mrs. Redd was just doing a crossword and asked "What's food for Morlocks?"
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 19 January 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
On the Beach is definately the least 'genre' film I've included, and it will be interesting to see if it gets votes (I suspect not).
― chap, Saturday, 19 January 2008 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
god i love all these films so much
― J.D., Saturday, 19 January 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The makers of Indpendence Day owe the makers of Earth Vs The Flying Saucers and War of the Worlds some kind of compensation (and possibly an apology).
― latebloomer, Sunday, 20 January 2008 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Friday, 25 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Saturday, 26 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
TDESS got fucking ROBBED
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 January 2008 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
for real
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 26 January 2008 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd say you people barely dodged a bullet ... but I voted for Body Snathchers. (FP has too much tin can, not enough me.)
TDESS fans: are you claiming that Klaatu's hilariously hypocritical "Be peaceful, or we'll blow you to smithereens" shit is conscious on the film's part? or just natural for Cold War Americans?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 1 February 2008 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link