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"Justice through strength and courage!"

That's the creed of the heroic Captain Midnight — aka Jet Jackson, thanks to legal crap after the show went into syndication. Rolling Eyes

The other two posts below are for Contagion (2011) and Gorgo, Great Britian's answer to Godzilla.

Hey, how 'bout a movie caled Gorgo vs Godzilla? Very Happy






After battling each other for hours, the two monsters suddenly stop, stare at each other, and then . . . the stunt men inside the suits rip them off and become two giant humans who start slugging it out on the set of a miniature city! Shocked

Finally fighting each other to a draw, the two giant men would suddenly stop, grin at each other, throw their arms over each other's shoulders, and stride off to find a tiny bar they could rip open and steal all the beer kegs — which they'd guzzle down like the cans which beer normally comes in!

The audience would convulse with laughter, and the movie would be a blockbuster.

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Captain Midnight (1954 - 1956)



Here's another great show from the late 1950s that thrilled kids like myself. I haven't seen it since it went off the air in 1960, but I have fond memories of it. Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia article about it.
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The Man and the Challenge is a 36-segment half-hour television adventure/science fiction series which ran new episodes on NBC from September 12, 1959, to June 11, 1960.

It starred George Nader as Dr. Glenn Barton, a research scientist for the Institute of Human Factors, an agency that conducted experiments designed to measure human endurance for the United States government. The series was produced by Ivan Tors.

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Here's the link to the article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_and_the_Challenge

George Nader starred in another TV series which began just one year later. This one wasn't science fiction, but it was high tech (for it's time). The series was called Shannon. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it
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Nader stars as Joe Shannon, an insurance investigator for the Transport Bonding and Surety Company. Regis Toomey portrayed Shannon's boss, Bill Cochran.

Shannon drove a modern 1961 Buick Special, equipped with cameras, a dictating machine, tape recorders, weapons, and notably, a mobile phone (decades before cell phones) when car phones were rare. The car required a long whip antenna required for the phone.


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Contagion (2011)



Please forgive me for doing a copy-and-paste review of this movie, but I haven't seen it and I wanted to get a discussion going.

That said, here's this from Wikipedia:
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Contagion is a 2011 medical thriller disaster film. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer Ehle.

The plot of Contagion documents the spread of a virus transmitted by fomites, attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order in a pandemic, and finally the introduction of a vaccine to halt its spread. Contagion makes use of a "hyperlink narrative" style popularized in several of Soderbergh's other films to follow several interacting plot lines.

Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns had collaborated on The Informant! (2009).

Following the release of that film, the two considered creating a biopic covering the life of Leni Riefenstahl before Burns brought up the idea of producing a medical thriller film depicting the rapid spread of a virus, which was inspired by various pandemics such as the 2003 SARS epidemic and the 2009 flu pandemic.

To devise an accurate perception of a pandemic event, Burns consulted with representatives from the World Health Organization, as well as renowned medical personnel such as W. Ian Lipkin and Lawrence "Larry" Brilliant. Principal photography started in Hong Kong in September, and continued in Chicago, Atlanta, London, Geneva, and San Francisco until February 2011.

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(My take on this movie)

The film was similar to Outbreak, which I enjoyed very much. I admired the accuracy of the science used in the plot. I recommend it.
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Gorgo (1961 England)

My God, Bogmeister, is this a post you pasted from the old All Sci-Fi?

If so, I'm ashamed to say I don't remember reading it! I watched this movie with Bulldogtrekker a few months ago from a Stagevu download, and even though the picture wasn't great, we enjoyed it. But the FX weren't very good, even when compared to other movies from the same period.

It's amazing how much FX have changed in the last few decades. Movies like Godzilla are downright embarrassing today when compared to the 1998 Godzilla



— and the recent Pacific Rim. How could we have been impressed by these movies when they first came out, regardless of the fact that we were just kids?


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