Re: Disney's Lunar Cydonia?

On Mar 9, 12:07 pm, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dr.Colon.Osc...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

The synopsis says it better than my feeble memory from 50 years ago.
Yeah the robot was a disappointment. I remember thinking that its
"nose" made it look fake!

My favorite part is when the Japanese are shocked to find that a .38
caliber police revolver has no effect on it, and realize that it is made
from a "Chemical Substance".
They also seem to be surprised to find out it is a robot, and not
alive...despite the fact it has rotating rabbit-ear antennas on its head
and emits beeps that sound like Morse Code.
I guess after you've run into your first rocket-powered giant flying
turtle, just about anything might be an animal of some sort.
For all they knew, it might have been a giant space anteater in samurai
armor. Stranger things have arrived in Japan over the years.
I always thought they should remake that movie, but then reconsidered,
realizing that it's so wonderfully odd just the way it is, that it must
remain sacred and untouched, as some sort of cinema equivalent of a
unanswerable Zen koan.

I did some searching on the net, no DVD's
why is this?

http://www.amazon.com/Mysterians-Kenji-Sahara/dp/B00068NWJW
This also is a goofy classic:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BB18JK/ref=pd_cp_d_title/002-019...
Sub is wonderful; control deck looks like the cleaned out every surplus
electronics store in Japan, and every crewman has around 100 gauges to
monitor.
This thing is so complex that you don't just turn the periscope
around...you stand on a platform,...and you, the periscope, and the
platform, _all_ turn around.
The giant sea serpent is in the running for the worst done monster of
all time, sharing that title with the greatest Danish science fiction
movie ever made (also the only Danish science fiction movie ever made
AFAIK) "Reptilicus", and "The Giant Claw".
You decide:
Here's Manda from Atragon:http://www.scifilm.org/images/atragon3.jpg
Here's Reptilicus:http://www.badmovies.org/movies/reptilicus/reptilicus5.jpg
Here's "The Giant Claw":http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/images/00000307.gif
The U.S. may still be in the lead with that last one.
All three of these things were marionettes, and boy, can you tell.
Here's some info on Atragon:http://icydeath.www.50megs.com/reviews/atragon.htm
Favorite scene...the good guys can't get the police to believe that the
undersea Mu Empire really exists, until a mysterious package arrives by
mail at the police station...a mysterious package that has as its return
address THE MU EMPIRE*!
Well, with proof like that.... ;-)

* I assume the Mu Empire mailed this from the surface, as I think the
glue on the stamps may cause problems if mailed from several thousand
feet under the Pacific, not to mention that the Japanese Postal Service
only checks their mid-ocean mailbox buoys around once a year.
Earth could have saved itself a lot of trouble if they just kept sending
it back to Mu with "insufficient postage" stamped on it, until they gave
up on their plans for world conquest.

Pat

Yikes how did I miss that!!! Consider it ordered. The movie is way
to polished for a remake, way. Can you see a John williams score on
this, blow it all to hell it would. Who would play the leads, Costner,
Boy George, Sally Field Rosanne Argquette, Shane McGowan, De Vito....
Nah artistry is artistry, were just lucky to have it in its purist
form............Doc

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