Movie Viewing Thread #81: Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham?

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Watching Guyver 2 now, and I will most certainly be watching Super Inframan very very soon. Its criminal that I haven't revisited that particularly craziness sooner because I'm long overdue. Anyways, for now here's a trailer free poll....

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) - From his perspective they're all giant monsters!

Latitude Zero (1969) - Not sure of the longitude...

Caveman (1981) - Stop motion dinosaurs, so it counts! Zug zug!

The Blob (1958) - Always on the list, but never a winner.

The Black Scorpion (1957) - Willis O'Brien and King Kong prop cameos!

Outlander (2008) - A bit more contemporary of an option but also most certainly not!

[Henry88]

voted for The Blob (1958) The Black Scorpion (1957)

[DannyBeane]

I choose you Blob! and Outlander!

[Henry88]

time to do the tie dance once again.

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Someone's holding out on a vote.

I voted for Shrinking Man and Latitude Zero. The former I haven't seen since afternoon creature features many moons ago, and the latter I have had but keep forgetting that I need to watch it.

[Henry88]

go blob go!

[DannyBeane]

If the blob takes this, its available to watch on Hulu + if you are a subscriber.

[Henry88]

[klen7]

or is it?!

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Someone alunda Caveman, or at least thinks Caveman bobo.

[DannyBeane]

[Henry88]

and The Black Scorpion take it's.

[klen7]

Or did it?

[Henry88]

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Is today the cutoff or tomorrow?

Btw, Incredible Shrinking Man is the feature on Svengoolie on MeTv right now! Yay!

[Henry88]

[DannyBeane]

This movie is costing me $2 to rent on prime. It had better be good...

[klen7]

Yeh... im probably going to do the same. The biggest interest factor for me is that apparently a lot of the armatures from the lost spider pit scene in Kong 33 are featured in this movie.

[DannyBeane]

Just finished watching this and this film is a mixed bag. The first 40 minutes or so of the film is one of the dullest films I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of 1950s schlock. Its so painful it hurts. However about a 1/3rd of the way in the scorpion makes an appearance and things quickly pick up. When they go to the cavern there are a bunch of delightful creatures and it really does feel like something out of a King Kong film, The scorpions really shine for the most part. The stop motion is top notch butch the big props for closeups are incredibly goofy. For closeups they use a dolly zoom to make it look like the prop is advancing and its utterly non-convincing. The final rampage though is awesome. You have scorpions vs trains, other scorpions and a giant battle royale in a stadium against tanks and helicopters. I really can't describe how well the stop motion actions scenes are and so it baffles me as to why the filmmakers went with such a terrible studio prop for closeups. Also the military guy manning the electric harpoon in the finale has one of the funniest deaths I've ever seen in a science fiction movie. I literally facepalmed while saying "IDIOT!"

Final review, C+ If you can survive the first third of the film, it goes from dull slowpaced garbage to awesome fastpaced action movie.

[Henry88]

and Richard Denning is awesome.

[DannyBeane]

Anyone else watch this movie yet? Bueller? Bueller?

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[DannyBeane]

[Henry88]

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