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[Bud Brewster]

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Two highly enjoyable movies from the early 2000s and one low-bugdet (but fun) movie from the Golden Age of Sci-Fi.

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Clockstoppers (2002)

Opening Statement: ~ The plot was inspired by H.G. Wells' 1901 story "The New Accelerator," about a scientist who develops a drug enabling him to move so fast that no one can see him. From his viewpoint, everyone else seems frozen in time.

Note from me: The concept of "slowing time" was also extremely well portrayed in John D. MacDonald in his highly enjoyable novel, The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything.

Moon (2009)

Opening Statement: ~ Kevin Spacey read the script and agreed to voice GERTY, but only when the film was finished and if he liked it. Having loved it, he recorded his lines in half a day.

Note from me: I didn't know it was Spacey's voice. The next time I watch this movie I'll pay a closer attention.

The Cyclops (1957)

Opening Statement: ~ The cyclops myth almost certainly originated in the Greek islands, which in prehistoric times were the home of dwarf mastodons. By the classical period they were all extinct, but their jumbled bones could be found in caves (and still are).

Like the modern elephant, the skull has a central opening for the nasal passage of the trunk, which resembles a human eye socket, whereas the real sockets are further back and rather indistinct — thus it looks like the skull of a giant man with one eye.

Note from me: By gum, I think maybe the author of this trivia item was right.



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