Classsix T Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 (edited) Thought you'd like this one ! "You put a knife in the fork drawer..." Edited September 11, 2017 by Classsix T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Oh Sir - I would be prepared to trade Haddock slaps at dawn with you over that ............... many many are dire I agree but not boring - dire only makes them more watchable ............ Currently watching "The War of the Worlds" (1953 version) on satellite - standard hysterical female and all ............ made 64 years ago and still a GREAT film ............... It certainly beats the awful remake with Tom Cruise, but it would be nice to have a film version that reflects the book's original story set in England. There was talk that Jeff Wayne's musical version was to be made into a film, but nothing came of that jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 This Island Earth anyone? I'm afraid, much like Westerns of the period, Sci-fi films from the 50s & 60s don't really do it for me as a child of the following two decades. The hokey effects, music (all the time) and dubious acting ability putting me right off. The Thing from Another World (subsequently done far better by John Carpenter with clipped title) isn't bad, bloke in rubber suit notwithstanding. I'll watch The Day the Earth Stood Still for the quality acting. But I'll watch Forbidden Planet over and over. Terrific motion picture. When Worlds Collide is a good giggle. I quite like the first two Planet of the Apes movies, and Chuck Heston again in The Omega Man. There's another colour film, satellite crashes bringing back a virus to small town America and scientists in deep bunker try to suss it out, can't remember the name...? Not Sci-fi per se, but little mentioned anti nuclear Brit classic The Day the Earth Caught Fire, with a great turn by many years prior to Rumpole (or The Prisoner?) Leo McKern, left its mark on a teenage C6T living up the road from RAF Wattisham in the Eighties! C6T. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted September 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2017 Was the satellite crashing and scientists in a bunker the excellent but seemingly forgotten The Andromeda Strain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Thank you John, you're a sweetheart, yes it is. I caught it first time round on Moviedrome. It's not a short film and being late I not surprisingly nodded off, much to my chagrin. I've bumped into it a couple more times since but I don't think I've ever watched it from start to finish in one sitting. A dvd purchase is vitally necessary I think. Thanx John, C6T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyram Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 I don't know, the Porridge spin off movie holds up well with the series. Back to Worst Movies - managed to half watch Batman and Robin, a deeply horrible experience, proving that a huge budget, big hollywood stars and a proven concept can be oh so terrible - George Clooney still apologies to fans for it. I felt that Porridge movie was a bit of a poor relation to the tv series. This was probably not helped because I think they used a different location to the series so it had a different look about it. In my experience very few comedy movie spin offs transfer over to the big screen. The Bottom one has always been mentioned, I hear Rising Damp was pretty poor and the Dad's Army remake had mixed reviews. I do wonder what would happen if Only Fools and Horses made it to the big screen. Some of the Christmas specials come close to movie length with "Miami Twice" probably the closest to a feature film and that was probably one of the weakest of these specials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 I saw a pretty dire film about giant worms invading an American small town some years ago but can't remember it's name. Mean anything to anyone? steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Tremors? Actually quite a good creature feature with a yet to be big Kevin Bacon. Most unfortunately, the producers decided to capitalise and failed miserably with subsequent lower budget clunkers. C6T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted September 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2017 I saw a pretty dire film about giant worms invading an American small town some years ago but can't remember it's name. Mean anything to anyone? steve Tremors http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/ Not my cup of tea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted September 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2017 You see, JB, directors do insist on gorgeous looking bimbo's screwing up war films. If John Wayne wasn't winning the war on his own, he was dating every nurse in sight which says a lot about movie audiences in general who just can't get enough of it - At least Stephen Spielburg didn't have rifle toting bimbo's prancing about all over the beach in the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan ! Another great war film was, Ice Cold In Alex but, and even then, they had to include the bimbo element that was firmly attracted to John Mills when Anthony Quale would have been a far better proposition ! And what else gets me is, why can't these bimbo's look more like my mother-in-law for a change instead of something that looks like it's just stepped out of page three ! Allan. Ice Cold in Alex was a wonderful film and is still hugely enjoyable and with a terrific plot. I used to spend quite a lot of time in Alexandria and always asked to stay in the Cecil Hotel which was steeped in history and the centre of much intrigue in WW2. When I stayed there in the late 90's - early 00's it was a bit seedy and run down (despite being part of the upmarket Sofitel chain) but it had character in bucket loads and felt so much nicer than the identifit international hotels I usually stayed at (a bit like Raffles in Singapore before it was refurbished and "improved"). The restored blu ray of Ice Cold in Alex is well worth buying, for some reason many seem to think HD is only pertinent to modern blockbusters yet many of the best HD transfers are old B&W classics. On bimbos, with the best will in the world I'm afraid I'd take a nice bit of eye candy over having to look at the mother-in-law 9 days out of 7...... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted September 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2017 Oliver Stone's "JFK". OK, in many ways it is a great film with some great acting from a stellar cast but it is scary how many people who seem to think it is some sort of documentary (made worse by the fact that Oliver Stone seems to take some of his own tinfoil hat wearing paranoid fantasies seriously) and just feeds that whole conspiracy theory cottage industry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted September 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2017 Sylvia Sims in Ice Cold In Alex... drool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted September 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2017 For bad war films I'll nominate Raid on Rommel, despite starring Richard Burton it was basically a repackage of footage filmed for the George Peppard/Rock Hudson movie Tobruk. Tobruk wasn't great movie making but it was quite entertaining and at least it was the original movie for the footage used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locomad Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 I saw a pretty dire film about giant worms invading an American small town some years ago but can't remember it's name. Mean anything to anyone? steve There's another one where they were giant rabbits ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Dad's Army. __. Original Cast? The story of how the platoon was formed varies tremendously from the pilot TV show. For instance. The pilot show had Private Fraser's (John Laurie) occupation as owning Philatelist Shop. That changed to him being a undertaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 The Andromeda Strain was an earlier novel, and the one that first brought him widespread success, by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton. He had a medical/science background and many of his novels incorporated science based themes. Quite a few made it to the screen, some better than others. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 I thought that Jurassic Park was a brilliant film with a strong cast and out of this World special effects but, the sequels - well quite positively the results of milking the same cow once too often. Allan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Ah ha. Michael Crichton also wrote Westworld, which obviously had the same basic plot of Jurassic Park. C6T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 One re-make that did work well was The Sweeney. I was certain it could not possibly be any good without Thaw/Waterman, but I was wrong. The original film spin offs from the TV series were in contrast, pretty forgettable, but still useful for street scenes of the 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 There's another one where they were giant rabbits ! Sounds like "Night of the Lepus", a notoriously bad horror film. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 It certainly beats the awful remake with Tom Cruise, but it would be nice to have a film version that reflects the book's original story set in England. There was talk that Jeff Wayne's musical version was to be made into a film, but nothing came of that I love Jeff Wayne's musical version. Sadly the chances of anything coming from that are a million-to-one (he said). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 It was ''Kill Bill'' last night here in the Downes establishment and what the hell was that all about ! - Yet, I STILL watched it ! Mind you, I'd been on the Bells all afternoon... Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 It was ''Kill Bill'' last night here in the Downes establishment and what the hell was that all about ! - Yet, I STILL watched it ! Mind you, I'd been on the Bells all afternoon... Allan Isn't that the Hunchback of Notre Dame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT3 Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 The Andromeda Strain was an earlier novel, and the one that first brought him widespread success, by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton. He had a medical/science background and many of his novels incorporated science based themes. Quite a few made it to the screen, some better than others. . And back to bad movies - Timeline, probably the worst of the Crichton movies, and i am a fan of the books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT3 Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 One re-make that did work well was The Sweeney. I was certain it could not possibly be any good without Thaw/Waterman, but I was wrong. The original film spin offs from the TV series were in contrast, pretty forgettable, but still useful for street scenes of the 70's. And who could forget the Triumph 2500 through the plate glass window and the Blaggers Series 1 Jag 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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