Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 9:10 am Post subject: FEATURED THREADS for 4-23-22 |
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Behold!
Bud says a few mildly interesting things about the second Fantastic Four movie.
Bud comes up with witty movie titles that combine two-or-more (sometimes a lot more) titles from real movies. 
Bud actually admits he's wrong about Altair 4 being a desert planet! 
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Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame were packed with action and humor — but overall they had a darker feel than some of the older Marvel movies. And audiences world wide loved it. Those two films were adult superhero movies, with the right blend of the realism and fantasy.
I like the Fantastic Four movies, but I think one of the reasons they didn't do well general speaking was that they were less "rough around the edges" than the more recent movies, like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, for example
Seven years has made a difference in the way these films are made, which is why they've gotten even more successful.
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The Funny Made-Up Titles Thread!
We all know that science fiction and horror movie titles are sometimes funny on purpose and sometimes by accident. So, it's really easy to combine various titles and come up something that's really funny.
Try your hand at scrambling two, three, and even four legitimate titles to create something truly wacky.
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When the War of the Worlds Collide with the Flying Saucers
The Day of the Triffids, the Locust, and the Lepus
I Saw What You Did When You Married a Teenage Werewolf
Earth vs the Bamboo Saucer
Rocketship Eczema (aka Voyage to the Red Skin Rash Planet
Them! from Another World!!
Beast from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Magnetic Robot Monster from the Ocean Floor
The Man in the White Suit from Planet X
Revenge of the She Creature from the Black Lagoon Who Walks Among Us
The Incredible Amazing Colossal Shrinking Man
The Amazing Transparent 4-D Cosmic Neanderthal Man with X-Ray Eyes!
The 30 Foot Bride from Candy Rock Attacks the 50 Foot Woman for Having an Affair With the Amazing Colossal Man!
Abbott and Costello's Flight to the Red Planet Mars!
The Day the Earth Caught Fire, the Sky Exploded, and the World Ended . . . Right After it Stood Still
Fire Maidens of the Queen from Outer Space Battle the Cat Women of the Moon
Invasion of the Saucer Men from the Angry Red Planet Who Attack This Island Earth
The Brain Eating Blob That Journeyed from the Seventh Planet to Attack Target Earth
Target Earth versus the Invasion of the Flying Saucer Men
Conquest of the Space Children in the Damned Village of the Giants
It Conquered the World, the Flesh, and the Devil Girl from Mars
Have Rocket, Will Travel From the Earth to Moon
The She Creature from the Black Lagoon Married a Monster from Outer Space
The 27th Day the Earth Stood Still — and the sequel, The 28th Day the Earth Stood Still
The Monolith Monster from Green Hell that Challenged the World
Visit to a Small Angry Red Planet of the Apes
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Forbidden Planet (1956)
| Maurice wrote: | As to Altair IV, in the finished film we don't see the full globe, but the Lost Footage section of the DVD shows more of it. This footage probably wasn't color timed, but that featureless pale area sure looks like a body of water, especially in the 2nd pic.
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Well, sir . . . you got me. 
Allowing for the obvious fact that the image is from an aging 35mm print with fading colors, I'm forced to admit that those darker, uniformly-colored areas in the lower quarter of the globe do indeed appear to be large bodies of water.
Therefore, Altair 4 is not a "desert planet".
However, I don't think anyone would deny that actual high-orbit photos of an Earth-like world with an atmosphere we could breath and large areas with liquid water, along with chlorophyll-rich plant life (thus explaining the planet's oxygen content) would just naturally look mostly like this.
After all, an ocean viewed from space through air like ours would just naturally look the way our own oceans do.
But if an alien ocean looked drastically different from ours when seen from space, there must be some fundamental differences in the planet's atmosphere and/or its oceans . . . which means it isn't quite as "Earth-like" as we thought.
The fact that Altair 4 seems so Earth-like that all the humans in the movie are quite comfortable seems to conflict with the way it appeared from space.
And also the way the sky appears from ground level.
I mean, come on, folks! A green sky that shades up to black? 
Don't get me wrong, folks, I wouldn't change a thing about this wonderful movie. But it seems obvious that the producers created an "alien world" with Earth-like conditions . . . without making the conditions alien enough to explain its alien appearance!
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