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That's not an easy one for me to answer. When I was a kid, there was an independent tv station that aired loads of B movies on the weekends. Most of those were low-budget foreign films. They were gloriously groan worthy, but I was always a couple of minutes late to turn on the tv, so I rarely caught the title.
One example that comes to mind is a turkey that was made in Turkey. An evil lizard emperor wanted to conquer the Earth. Earth had a security force that was determined to stop the lizard emperor. (The captain of the force was a guy with a bad plastic mustache glued to his face and had so much product in his hair that it looked like a shiny, plastic helmet. He spent a lot of his time running around while shouting, "We must stop that oooooof-oh !" About halfway through the film I realized he meant "UFO".) For comic relief, there was a boy robot and a girl robot wandering around, quoting bits of Shakespeare's love sonnets to each other. (The girl, of course, was the one with the foot-long eyelashes welded to her face.)
It's hard to say how many I saw growing up, but there were so many that would have become classics if they'd been seen by a wider audience. (Anybody in the mood for Demon Dog: the Hound from Hell ?)
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Becky Rock
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| quote: | Originally posted by ElectricWhite
That's not an easy one for me to answer. When I was a kid, there was an independent tv station that aired loads of B movies on the weekends. Most of those were low-budget foreign films. They were gloriously groan worthy, but I was always a couple of minutes late to turn on the tv, so I rarely caught the title.
One example that comes to mind is a turkey that was made in Turkey. An evil lizard emperor wanted to conquer the Earth. Earth had a security force that was determined to stop the lizard emperor. (The captain of the force was a guy with a bad plastic mustache glued to his face and had so much product in his hair that it looked like a shiny, plastic helmet. He spent a lot of his time running around while shouting, "We must stop that oooooof-oh !" About halfway through the film I realized he meant "UFO".) For comic relief, there was a boy robot and a girl robot wandering around, quoting bits of Shakespeare's love sonnets to each other. (The girl, of course, was the one with the foot-long eyelashes welded to her face.)
It's hard to say how many I saw growing up, but there were so many that would have become classics if they'd been seen by a wider audience. (Anybody in the mood for Demon Dog: the Hound from Hell ?) |
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You're not saying the boy and girl robot were....EEEWWWWW!
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| quote: | Originally posted by Becky Rock
| quote: | Originally posted by lborgia88
I think for me, it's Logan's Run. It was on TV a few times when I was a kid, and my older brother had read the book and explained to me what was going on -future dystopia, everyone living in a city under a dome, and no one is allowed to live long enough to get old (you turn yourself in when you reach the age limit, in the belief that you get "renewed," except no one really ever does.)
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The Day of the Triffids was a great book |
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I agree with that -I love John Wyndham. I actually have never seen the Triffids movie though. Wondering now if there was ever a film version of The Chrysalids... |
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I liked the book Logan's Run better than the movie. I believe the movie changed the age limit from 19 to 29. |
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SPOILERS AHEAD. As I remember the Logan's Run (the book), the dying age was 21. It was a sustained dig at the youth culture's disdain for their parents. Pretty much everything was falling apart because so many people were 'doing their own thing' instead of learning and following up on the work of their predecessors. Logan reaches the age of 21, and for some reason, goes on the run for Sanctuary. (Unlike the movie, in which he's an agent trying to find it so it can be destroyed.) He and Jessica take a bit of a tour of this freaky US, and meet the various weirdos who live there. Francis turns out to be the legendary Ballard, a man with a 'double life', and Sanctuary is a space station in orbit. Life there isn't perfect, but the people there will return when the current culture implodes. (I read the book a very long time ago, so I have no doubt I'm leaving out a lot.)
At age 21, citizens go somewhere (forgot where) to die (Carousel was purely movie). Anyone who runs gets chased by the Sandmen and killed.
So, no domed, post-nuclear city, no Carousel, no violent destruction of the city at the end of the story. Box the crazy robot is in both.
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Becky Rock
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| quote: | Originally posted by UnpublishedWriter
| quote: | Originally posted by Becky Rock
| quote: | Originally posted by lborgia88
I think for me, it's Logan's Run. It was on TV a few times when I was a kid, and my older brother had read the book and explained to me what was going on -future dystopia, everyone living in a city under a dome, and no one is allowed to live long enough to get old (you turn yourself in when you reach the age limit, in the belief that you get "renewed," except no one really ever does.)
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The Day of the Triffids was a great book |
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I agree with that -I love John Wyndham. I actually have never seen the Triffids movie though. Wondering now if there was ever a film version of The Chrysalids... |
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I liked the book Logan's Run better than the movie. I believe the movie changed the age limit from 19 to 29. |
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SPOILERS AHEAD. As I remember the Logan's Run (the book), the dying age was 21. It was a sustained dig at the youth culture's disdain for their parents. Pretty much everything was falling apart because so many people were 'doing their own thing' instead of learning and following up on the work of their predecessors. Logan reaches the age of 21, and for some reason, goes on the run for Sanctuary. (Unlike the movie, in which he's an agent trying to find it so it can be destroyed.) He and Jessica take a bit of a tour of this freaky US, and meet the various weirdos who live there. Francis turns out to be the legendary Ballard, a man with a 'double life', and Sanctuary is a space station in orbit. Life there isn't perfect, but the people there will return when the current culture implodes. (I read the book a very long time ago, so I have no doubt I'm leaving out a lot.)
At age 21, citizens go somewhere (forgot where) to die (Carousel was purely movie). Anyone who runs gets chased by the Sandmen and killed.
So, no domed, post-nuclear city, no Carousel, no violent destruction of the city at the end of the story. Box the crazy robot is in both. |
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There was a second book. I can't remember the name. Logan and Jessica had a son, maybe 6 at the time of the book. All I remember is they were having a rough time adjusting to the open world.
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