Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

by **kaijubringer** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:36 pm

Yep, that's pretty much my view.
I would say, however, that the FX were not that bad when compared to similar movies of that time.
And who can forget the great music?

by **william newell** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:43 pm

Definately one of my favorites.... Now if MGM would only release a nice widescreen DVD of it!

by **MouthForWar** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:04 pm

That movie is freakin weird as hell, but its so hard to hate it!! I've always liked it a lot, but I wish the monster had more screen time.

by **The Giant Pacific Octopus** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:06 pm

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by **Xenorama** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 1:47 am

by **MouthForWar** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:32 am

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by **The Giant Pacific Octopus** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:24 pm

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by **Green Dragon** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:45 am

Instead of starting a new thread, I did a search to find out if there was one on Mister Guilala already, and I found this.

I first saw it on afternoon tv in Texas in 1972, and was, uh... :shock:

I had it on laserdisc years ago, and have a DVD on order. Just a favorite silly movie, with the name "Guilala", the goateed professor who talked with the cliched Germanic accent, and the crazy-ass cocktail parties. We'll see if it's still all that after years of not being able to see it.

Seriously, the whole cocktail party with astronauts thing just rocks. Like in The Green Slime, too.

And the MUSIC!!!! :eek:

I love this crazy movie.

Regarding the look of the space scenes, special effects, fashions, etc...

About 8 years ago, when I had my gallery, I was commissioned by some friends to do this really funky, large painting, which they have now put in their four year old son's room. They love artists like Shag and all things futuristic retro, and Michelle asked me to do a painting full of 50's style rockets. I came up with a hodgepodge that was meant to look like a special effect that you would see in a Japanese movie, and they totally understood. I went for the "blue" starfield, and ships that looked like they may as well be suspended on wires. Amongst all of it was an impossibly ludicrous orbiting coffee shop. Tons of little details in it that can't be seen in this jpeg, all the numbers and verbage in the painting were homages to one thing or another....it's very cartoony and not my usual style, but it was a blast to do. Now their little boy Zachary has it hanging in his room, and loves pointing all the details out.

Oh...the space station on the lower left is fashioned after the Mysterians' space station. I have recently modeled a similar station for a 3d render, but it's not finished yet. In fact, I may go back and redo the entire thing as a 3d digital print, 30 inches tall...i've been doing some huge images for fine art printing, the only thing with digital art is that it is too crisp, and I try to do the best I can to take some of that out, thru post-production in photoshop.

Except this time, I think I'll make it a casino, and not a coffee shop.

by **Xenorama** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:01 am

THAT is really cool. i sure miss spaceships and space stations like this.

David

by **Green Dragon** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:12 am

Why, thanks!

And yeah, I love when spaceships looked like models, had the aerodynamic look to them, brushed silver...I think one of my most favorite spaceships ever was the Jupiter 2 from the tv series Lost in Space (NOT the movie version); that and their funky silver spacesuits!

So, I am really really partial to the spacegear we were treated to during the 50's and 60's Showa movies, and the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson tv shows like UFO and Thunderbirds Are Go! 8-)

(remember the Moonbase girls on UFO, with purple hair and mascara, silver miniskirts, and matching go-go boots? Space travel rocked in the 60's.) :lol:

My friend Michele worked for a fashion design company that specialised in PVC jackets in very trippy colors and iridescents...she called me one day to help brainstorm names for colors that were featured in their catalog, so we just threw retro "spacey" names together for colors, like "Satellite Silver", "Orbital Orange", etc. Silly, but fun.

Was just thinking of some of the gravity-defying hairstyles of the period, too. Peggy Neal in The X From Outer Space definitely had one, even if it wasn't blatantly a beehive. :lol:

by **The Giant Pacific Octopus** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:40 pm

by **Xenorama** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:54 pm

by **Garasharp K7** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:25 pm

by **ryuuseipro** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:46 pm

Bill, that painting of yours is really cool!

I just went to your website, and you do really beautiful art! You've also captured that vintage 50s style so well.

I'm working on a comic-book project, incidentally (I'll have more details on it someday), and am also using a colorful "vintage" style! As you can tell, I'm a swinging retro fan. :wink:

by **SparkieGojira** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:27 pm

Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

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