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There never seems to be an end of things to recall, want to see, and hunt down to add to the collection.For the past year or so, I've had fun introducing my son to old favorites (good ones, bad ones, ugly ones, pathetic ones) that used to show on TV when I was a youngster. Latest arrivals were The Crawling Eye, When Worlds Collide, Island of Lost Souls, Robinson Crusoe On Mars, and (shudder) The Giant Claw. Still waiting for Fiend Without A Face. Anyone else been watching anything of that ilk lately???
Follow Ups:
The Beast from 20,000 fathoms, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Forbidden Planet, The Creatre from the Black Lagoon, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing, The Blob, anything with Harryhausen animations or by George Pal ... I could go on :)50's & 60's SF is my favourite non-serious viewing, partly from nostalgia, my dad introduced me to most of that stuff when I was a nipper. What's been your lad's impressions? Does he enjoy them?
Cheers
Yes, my son enjoys the movies, but he doesn't feel the same impact I did when I was young watching them for the first time...he has been influenced by the 'action every other moment' type of films that are typical today in some genres, so that old movies with slower pacing (or building of plots, suspense etc) sometimes lose his focus. He doesn't seem to be put off by older special effects vs today's whiz-bang stuff, fortunately. Though, something like the remake of The Thing (which is, at least to ME, a fun movie) is one of his favorites, while The Thing From Another World was an interesting thing to see, but nothing he was all that enthusiastic about.He doesn't mind plot contrivances or nonsense though...when I drop asides like 'realistically, folks wouldn't do something like that, or wouldn't be so stupid' he looks at me and says 'yeh Dad, but that's what they need for the movie..." And he will joyfully recall the quip I gave him once "Dumb people deserve to be Dinner."
Refer to my comparsion of the original Thing vs the remake in the
archives dated 10/04/99 if you´re interested. If you can get copies of the original
King Kong 1933 and the 1976 remake, show them to your son and see
which one appeals the most to him; ditto with Island of Lost Souls and
the remakes. - AH
... of the Body Snatchers" would be another good one for comparison.
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