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Question: What do a movie about giant grasshoppers, a movie about a world with nothing but robots, and a movie about a reptilian cattle rustler have in common?

Answer: They all have threads on All Sci-Fi with interesting posts which deserve replies. Especially the one about that rootin' tootin' T-Rex!



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Beginning of the End (1957)

Let's Create a Sequel!
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Here's what Wikipedia says about the premise of this movie.
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Dr. Ed Wainwright is experimenting with radiation as a means of growing gigantic fruits and vegetables to end world hunger. Wainwright reports that there have been a number of mysterious incidents nearby, and that locusts have eaten all the radioactive wheat stored in a nearby grain silo.
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~ A Question for the Members: If this radioactive wheat can trigger accelerated growth in insects, could it do the same to animals which are sometimes fed wheat . . . such as cattle?

~ Here's what I came up with.: After all the locusts have been disposed of, the egghead scientists decide to test the super-wheat on cattle being raised for beef, and on cows which produce milk.

The goal, of course, is to raise oversized cattle with lots of beef on their bones, and king-sized cows that can squirt out a hundred gallons of milk per day!

Normal cows produce six-to-seven gallons a day, so these Mega-Milkers would deliver 14 times as much as a normal one!

Therefore, this story is about a large experimental farm in Montana which is raising a sizable herd of gigantic Angus cattle for their high quality beef and a hundred Guernsey and Jersey cows which crank out enough milk each day to feed everybody in Billings, Mt — the largest city in the state.

Robots (2005)

MDB has several interesting trivia items for this production.
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~ The filmmakers wanted the music score to sound like it was recorded by the "Robot Philharmonic". To that effect, they hired performance artists Blue Man Group, known for performing on musical instruments made from industrial piping and other found objects, to do special percussion effects.

Note from me: A very clever idea.

The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)

Thinking Outside the "Plot"!
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~ A Question for the Members: Other that using a better model of the T-Rex and getting a skilled animator to provide the stop motion, how could we fix this poor movie?

~ My Theory: I think the premise of this move, which includes the period and the location, has a great deal of potential.

Admittedly it's harder to explain the existence of a single surviving prehistoric beast, 65 million years after all his relatives are dead and fossilized, than a "Lost World" with a complete ecosystem with lots of unfossilized inhabitants who keep the place well supplied with the pitter-patter of little reptilian feet.

But The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms offered one (unconvincing) way to resurrect a critter from the dim past, and it was just good enough to seem sorta-kinda possible.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)