Siegfried asked:
How come nobody has mentioned "lost in space?"
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. Rob, MST3000 is "Mystery Science Theater 3000". The movie was just an expanded version of a long-running TV series in which a couple of robots and a human are trapped on a space station, and tortured by a mad scientist by being forced to watch "cheesy movies". They appear as silhouettes in the front row and heckle the film constantly. Some of them are incredibly funny. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
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<mailto:kimharch@msn.com> serius est quam cogitas ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck Hards<mailto:chuckhards@yahoo.com> To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com<mailto: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.
I really like quite a few of the movies listed, so I am going to change it up and go a bit more recent. I really enjoyed Contact. Yes I know the book was better, but it's fun to see a "smart" movie on the big screen. Since someone mentioned Dr. Who (I vote for Tom Baker), I can throw in my Brittish TV pick of Red Dwarf. ~Jon
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.
I may have caught an episode or 2 of MST3000. I only do TV after working the day and then I have one eye towards the TV and another on the monitor surfing or doing P-shop work at night. There have been some moments on TV w/ sci-fi programs that were really good, but w/o heavy viewer support they now have become history. Oh well ............ Rob
"The day the Earth stood still"! Now, whenever I see "Gort" open it's eye, instead of going for the Glock, I reach for my green laser... ;) Take that!!! Quoting Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com>:
Siegfried asked:
How come nobody has mentioned "lost in space?"
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.
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