Like Kim, your comments took me down memory lane. I remember Flash Gordon when it was the best of its time. Even with the smoke rising upwards and sparks shooting out the back as the space ship traveled to places beyond, it stimulated the imagination. A guy named Ming was the principle high-collerd villain, if I recall. There was a movie that came out in about 1955 (I was 12) that was a leap in technology. I walked 2 miles to a movie house on Beratania a piikoi street in Honolulu to see it. It had astronauts doing a space walk and one of them got hit by a meteorite and his face plate filled up with blood and he drifted off into space. It was, for the time, the scariest thing you could imagine. I was so captivated by what space was like; it was stunning. The leap from Flash Gordon to this was incredible Kim Hyatt <kimharch@msn.com> wrote:This stroll down memory lane reminded me of the Flash Gordon series. When I was in high school, the Salt Lake Public Library used to show a segment each Friday night, I think at the Chapman Branch. These showings made for a cheap date and were a lot of fun. Of course, they were much more entertaining after having ingested some illegal substance... Kim Hyatt Architect 1849 East 1300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 Tel: 801.581.0561 Mobile: 801.631.5228 kimharch@msn.com serius est quam cogitas ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck Hards To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:38 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Best space/sci-fi movie ever Chuck wrote: Because the criterion was "best" move ever. ;) Same reason noby mentioned "The Black Hole" or "Barbarella", "Message From Space", "Plan 9 from Outer Space"...you get the idea. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. Learn more.