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[Bud Brewster]

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Three threads I'm proud of, which I hope receive replies you guys will be proud of.

The first is a remake of a 1950s classic which actually does a fairly good job.

The second is a reboot of a 1930s classic that surprised me when it turned out to be so much better than an insulting remake from several yeas earlier.

And the third is an action-packed Schwarzenegger adventure that's well worth the price of admission.
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Invaders From Mars (1986)

Here's a treat, folks!

A really well done trailer and a good copy of the movie.

I was disappointed when I first saw this movie in 1986 at the Starlight Drive-in in Atlanta with my six-year old daughter (who is now All Sci-Fi member Ticket2theMoon) and my three-year son.

However, a few years ago I shared it with the late Tim Edwards (Bulldogtrekker) during an on-line chat, and we enjoyed it.

BoG is right in his review above when he describes some of the flaws in this film. One has to lower one's expectations for this movie to enjoy the merits it does have. One of those merits pertains to the way it gives us more obvious clues that the whole thing is a dream the boy is having.

Watch the scene in which the boy tells the general about the invasion. The general's reaction is clearly unrealistic, but it's consistent with the way a kid might imagine a general would act.

Stan Winston's truly weird Martians are glorious creations, although BoG is right to some degree when he described them as "cumbersome, slow-moving, strangely non-frightening monsters". But to be fair, they were consistent with the idea that a young boy might have nightmares about such creatures.

__ Invaders From Mars (1986) Tobe Hooper Trailer


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_________ Invaders from Mars (1986) Full Movie


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Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Johnny, this a classic example of how people's taste can vary quite a lot. I think you're going to like Kong: Skull Island, and I'll admit that I was surprised how much I liked it when saw it.

But when I watched Jackson's King Kong I was pretty unhappy with many of the plot elements that actually insulted the original.

Like the way he gave the romantic deck scene between Jack Driscoll and Ann Darrow to the ham acto character, Bruce Baxter, and had him deliver Driscoll's lines to Ann just to show us how corny they were . . ."by today's standards".

And Jack Black plays the intrepid filmmaker and adventurer as a smarmy little opportunist who is desperate to prove he's not a weeny.

But all that's minor compared to the way they took this famous scene —





— and turned it into this.





King Kong, sitting on the floor like a fat, dejected child.

And just to make matters worse, the music they used for the stage show is actually the Max Steiner's score for the native ceremony in the original. So, a stirring and dramatic scene from the original is replaced by a Broadway extravaganza.

It seemed like yet another jab at the great classic.

________Kong Escapes Scene - Kong's Rampage


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The Running Man (1987)

This thread was started by Bogmeister (Andrew Bogdan) back in 2013 when he copied his post from the "old board" that we both knew was destined to crash eventually. (It did, three months later).

In fact, he copied-and-pasted 74 of his thread-starting posts from the old board to this one. But during that time he was also adding 5,265 posts to his own board, the Galactic Base of Science Fiction. between 2010 and 2015 (the year he passed away).

The Running Man review shown below was written for his own board during that time, and it's more elaborate than his All Sci-Fi post. Ironically, he created the post below in 2010 . . . three years before he moved the post which started this thread to this board to save it from the "ASF Crash of 2013".
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)