ALL SCI-FI

[WadeVC]

We are all guilty of it...having an affinity with at least one bad Sci-Fi (or classic horror) movie.

I know many folks who can't stand them, but inevitably there is one stinker in the bunch that, for whatever reason, we seem to enjoy.

I personally love cheesy Sci-Fi/Horror movies, but there is one that stands out above all the rest for me that I absolutely love: Robot Monster.

What bit of celluloid Cheese do you find the most amusing or that you just plain ol' like, despite it's short-comings?
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"You look like a pooped out pinwheel."
-Robot Monster

[Bud Brewster]

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What a delightful challenge for the members of All Sci-Fi, Wade!

You're right that we all have a skeleton in our closet, a Secret Sin we occasionally repeat, a guilty pleasure in which we indulge, behind closed doors . . .

So, I think we should treat this thread like a "group therapy session" — where people sit in chairs arranged in a circle and take turns bearding their souls to relative strangers.

(That's a strange oxymoron — "relative strangers". How can someone be both a relative and a stranger?)

Anyway, I'll get things started. Here we go . . .
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"Hi, I'm Bud."

Group reply: "Hi, Bud!"

"Guys, I admit I'm a snob when it comes to science fiction. Hey, we all know that the good stuff is wonderful — but the bad stuff is embarrassing! I'm intolerant of bad science fiction . . . the same way I'm intolerant of bad art and bad music. Know what I mean?"

Group reply: "Right!" "Uh-huh." "Oh yeah." "Me too."

"Thanks, folks . . . Well, I hate to say this, but . . . "

Group reply: "Go on, Bud." "Hey, that's okay." "You're among friends, pal."

"Okay . . . here's the deal. In the early 1980s I learned that a print of a 'lost sci-fi' movie from the 1950s had been found. Hey, I was delighted! Starlog did an article about it, and I was just itchin' to see it!"

Group reply "Wow!" "Amazing!" "Holy mackerel, Sapphire!"

"Right! And when I finally DID see it, I loved it right away. It's about a mission to Madrs, and it features a cast of beloved actors, along with a great rocket!"







"But there was something else which put this cheesy sci-fi right over the top."

Group reply in unison "What was it?"

"CHEESECAKE! The gals on Mars had legs that went clear down to Venus! We get to see space babes in shiny satin miniskirts . . . with matching panties!"

Group reply in unison "What? Shut the front airlock, Space Boy!"

"Folks, I can prove it! Move over Wisconsin, the new king of both cheese and cheeseCAKE — is Flight to Mars!




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"This delightfully cheesy movie could have inspired its own pin-up pinup calendar with cheesecake artwork!"



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[WadeVC]

I mean, what else could one possibly ask for in a movie.

Caves (spooky), a gorilla wearing a helmet (definitely an alien)...and bubbles!!!

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• The film was shot in four days, mostly in Bronson Canyon, with no interiors. It reportedly cost $16,000 to make (which would be about $140,000 in 2013 dollars). As bad as it was, Robot Monster reportedly grossed over $1 million in its initial run, even before it became a cult item.

• The inserted dinosaur footage comes from One Million B.C. (1940) and Lost Continent (1951).

• The music is by composer Elmer Bernstein, who was just starting his career. Bernstein would go on to be nominated for 14 Oscars, winning once.
~366 wierd movies
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"You look like a pooped out pinwheel."
-Robot Monster

[WadeVC]

[JKB-1]

I admit it, reading the first sentence had me thinking of Robot Monster. If that's taken, then Teenagers from Outer Space. I saw it when I was way past a teenager, in fact, when I should have been old enough to know better, but they got me with the UFO and the skeletonizing guns, and I hung around for the story, which is fairly satisfying!
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That does not compute...
at least, I am not going to bother to compute it.

[WadeVC]