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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 4, 2018 21:28:14 GMT
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 4, 2018 22:01:15 GMT
What does everybody else here think?
What do YOU think about the guy who wants it REHASHED?
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Post by anthonyrocks on May 4, 2018 22:02:19 GMT
What does everybody else here think?
What do YOU think about the guy who wants it REHASHED?I am against any type of remake, reboot, or rehashing of it.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 4, 2018 22:04:30 GMT
What do YOU think about the guy who wants it REHASHED? I am against any type of remake, reboot, or rehashing of it.
Ditto!
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Post by petrolino on May 4, 2018 22:06:25 GMT
My favourite big bug movie of the 1950s.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 4, 2018 22:07:07 GMT
My favourite big bug movie of the 1950s.
Mine as well.
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Post by anthonyrocks on May 4, 2018 22:12:50 GMT
The Acting in the Movie (especially from both James Whitmore and that little girl from the beginning) I also thought was Pretty Darn Good as well.
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Post by amyghost on May 4, 2018 22:27:22 GMT
Hard to believe that a film dealing with giant mutated insects could be so disturbing and serious, especially when you consider that the laughably bad Beginning of the End came just three years later (1957).
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Post by alpha128 on May 4, 2018 23:38:28 GMT
Hard to believe that a film dealing with giant mutated insects could be so disturbing and serious, especially when you consider that the laughably bad Beginning of the End came just three years later (1957). I own "Beginning of the End" on DVD, the MST3K version of course! Here are some highlights:
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Post by amyghost on May 5, 2018 11:48:53 GMT
Hard to believe that a film dealing with giant mutated insects could be so disturbing and serious, especially when you consider that the laughably bad Beginning of the End came just three years later (1957). I own "Beginning of the End" on DVD, the MST3K version of course! Here are some highlights:
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Post by amyghost on May 5, 2018 11:53:25 GMT
What does everybody else here think ? Best sequence: Giant grasshoppers crawling up the facade of a building. Only the building is a postcard picture, with regular-sized critters filmed up close, and their shadows showing up obviously against the pasteboard backdrop. That has to be the cheapest 'special effect' this side of the 'giant lobster shadow puppet' terrorizing Earth in Teenagers from Outer Space--another MST3K classic.
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Post by anthonyrocks on May 6, 2018 7:38:41 GMT
As far as I myself am concerned, "THEM!" and "THE DEADLY MANTIS" are the Top 2 Best GIANT Bug Classic Monster Movies.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 6, 2018 7:56:51 GMT
As far as I myself am concerned, "THEM!" and "THE DEADLY MANTIS" are the Top 2 Best GIANT Bug Classic Monster Movies.
I AGREE about Them! (1954). HOWEVER, the second-best IS Tarantula (1955).
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Post by anthonyrocks on May 6, 2018 8:15:26 GMT
As far as I myself am concerned, "THEM!" and "THE DEADLY MANTIS" are the Top 2 Best GIANT Bug Classic Monster Movies.
I AGREE about Them! (1954). HOWEVER, the second-best IS Tarantula (1955).I liked " TARANTULA" but it would be Number 3 on My own List.
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Post by hardball on May 6, 2018 8:56:27 GMT
One of the greatest sci-fi films I have ever seen. What struck me the first time was it didn't have the cheesy, grade B feel of other 1950s films. Not that I don't like those movies - I do - but the atmosphere, pacing, and the way the story unfolded here was just exceptional.
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Post by anthonyrocks on May 7, 2018 1:25:29 GMT
What does everybody else here think ?
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Post by drystyx on May 7, 2018 2:32:58 GMT
What does everybody else here think ? They can't think. We shot their antennae. They're helpless without them.
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Post by anthonyrocks on May 7, 2018 2:49:23 GMT
What does everybody else here think ? They can't think. We shot their antennae. They're helpless without them. LOL!
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Post by telegonus on Jun 14, 2018 5:32:33 GMT
Hard to believe that a film dealing with giant mutated insects could be so disturbing and serious, especially when you consider that the laughably bad Beginning of the End came just three years later (1957). For some reason a good deal of thought, intelligence and talent went into the making of Them!. I love the movie. It's less the subject matter, which I enjoy as good pulp, than the execution, and the effort that went into it. Such outstanding performers, excellent, smart and sometimes witty dialogue! Yet there's humor in it, and with it, a humanity (think the drunks and the "make me a sergeant and charge the booze!" business in the hospital; it's funny, and it show the winos for what they are; and it doesn't moralize one way or the other about who or what they are). There's a depth of feeling in the film at times that maybe deserves a better, more realistic story, and yet I appreciate it all the same).
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Post by amyghost on Jun 15, 2018 18:21:21 GMT
Hard to believe that a film dealing with giant mutated insects could be so disturbing and serious, especially when you consider that the laughably bad Beginning of the End came just three years later (1957). For some reason a good deal of thought, intelligence and talent went into the making of Them!. I love the movie. It's less the subject matter, which I enjoy as good pulp, than the execution, and the effort that went into it. Such outstanding performers, excellent, smart and sometimes witty dialogue! Yet there's humor in it, and with it, a humanity (think the drunks and the "make me a sergeant and charge the booze!" business in the hospital; it's funny, and it show the winos for what they are; and it doesn't moralize one way or the other about who or what they are). There's a depth of feeling in the film at times that maybe deserves a better, more realistic story, and yet I appreciate it all the same). Totally agreed, and that's well put. The writers didn't talk down to the subject matter, and that made all the difference. In fact, the script reminds me a bit of vintage Serling, in that a topic that could have seemed utterly absurd if handled by a lesser talent instead comes across as thought-provoking because an adult intelligence was applied to it.
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