ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

If you're not a member of All Sci-Fi, registration is easy. Just use the registration password, which is —

gort



Attention members! If you've forgotten your password, just email me at brucecook1@yahoo.com.
____________________________________________________________________

The Starship Troopers are back in action in a 2012 CGI production. The entire movie is available on YouTube. The computer generated images are not realistic, and they aren't even very smooth! It looks like a video game from . . . well . . . ten years ago.

____________ Starship Troopers Invasion 2012


__________

The other two posts below offer discussions about the enjoyable Rocky Jones, Space Ranger series, and a TV episode in which Robby the Robot assists a famous crime-solving married couple.

Robby even carries a man, the way he did in Forbidden Planet!
____________________________________________________________________

Starship Troopers: Invasion - (2012)




Wikipedia: Starship Troopers: Invasion is a 2012 computer animated science fiction film directed by Shinji Aramaki. A fourth film in the Starship Troopers series, it was released in Japan on July 21, 2012 and it was released in North America on August 28, 2012 as a direct-to-dvd title.
________________________

Love the original movie. Might watch this one. I haven't watched the other Starship Troopers CGI sequels to the original movie, so perhaps I'll do some catching up on them soon. ____________________________________________________________________

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger



I watched this wonderful show when I was a kid back in the 1950s. About the only thing I remember clearly are those cool scenes of the Orbit Jet landing majestically on its fins. Those scenes still look very impressive. The rocket descends smoothly, and the thrust flame emits no smoke which would make the rocket look like an obvious miniature.

This show is available on very low quality DVDs, but even these are extremely enjoyable for fans like me. Our hero and his loyal crew cruise around the solar system in their gorgeous rocket, and visit various planets. They fight to preserve the United Federation of Planets (the same used in Star Trek). They solve problems with brains rather than brawn (whenever possible).

If you're old enough to remember this show, or you've become a fan more recently by watching the less-than-perfect DVDs, please share your views.]
____________________________________________________________________

Robby on The Thin Man (1958 TV series)

The Forbidden Planet DVD has a wonderful "extra feature" -- the 1958 episode of The Thin Man which featured Robby the Robot as the suspect of a murder in the mansion of a brilliant scientists who has built a robot to handle radioactive materials. One of the assistants of the scientist is Robert Cornthwaite, who played Dr. Carrington in The Thing from Another World.

This story features Robby in numerous scenes, and his character is very important to the plot. He isn't just added as window dressing for the story.



If you have the DVD of The Forbidden Planet you'll love this extra feature.

I remember Robby appearing in episodes of other shows such as Oh, Susanna (a sitcom starring Gale Storm) and Hazel (a sitcom about an elderly maid who worked for a young couple). But those were just "guest shots" in comedic roles. This episode of The Thin Man presents Robby in a prominent role in a serious story which allows him to play a robot who is suspected of murder.

In other words, this story has a great deal in common with I, Robot!

As I said, this episode of The Thin Man is a special feature on the 50th Anniversary DVD of The Forbidden Planet. The story is terrific, and it's wonderful to see Robby featured in such an imaginative roll. There were only three things I didn't care for in the show.

One was the fact that Robby's moving parts (the revolving rings on each side of his head) constantly spun around at twice their normal speed. They spun around at the faster speed we saw during Robby's "shorting out" scenes in The Forbidden Planet).

This made Robby seem hyper-active and frigidity during the story -- instead of the way he appeared in The Forbidden Planet, in which he always appeared composed and dignified . . . like a good butler.

The second thing I didn't like was that Robby's other moving parts -- the ones INSIDE his head -- didn't make all those endearing clicking sounds every time he was about to speak.

And the third thing I didn't like was that Robby's voice was not done by Marvin Miller, the talented actor who provided Robby's voice in both The Forbidden Planet and The Invisible Boy

Despite these drawbacks, it was great to see Robby in this brilliant 1950s TV series.

In addition to the 50th Anniversary DVD, I have the Blu-ray of The Forbidden Planet as well as the unique and superior HD DVD version converted to Blu-ray by a brilliant and benevolent genius I happen to know.

The Blu-ray version contains every one of the special features on the 50th Anniversary DVD -- and they are all on one disc, amazingly enough.

If you're a The Forbidden Planet fan, you're obviously a Robby fan. And since you're a Robby fan, you owe it to yourself to get the DVD or the Blu-ray version of The Forbidden Planet which contain this wonderful 1958 episode of The Thin Man.

So, what do you folks think? Was Robby's acting in The Thin Man as good as it was in The Forbidden Planet? Don't forget to consider the dramatic scene in which he carries the dead body of a scientist into a room crowded with people -- similar to his dramatic scene in The Forbidden Planet when he carriers poor Dr. Ostrow into Morbius' living room!



Unlike the similar scene in The Forbidden Planet there are no wires visible in this shot!
_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)