tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post805441204101345406..comments2024-03-05T19:50:31.497-08:00Comments on World O' Crap: Devil Girl From MarsScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-50992942695864642182015-06-10T23:01:56.855-07:002015-06-10T23:01:56.855-07:00Li'l Innocent:
Although Robby the Robot undou...Li'l Innocent:<br /><br />Although Robby the Robot undoubtedly had him beat in the personality department, I still think Gort edges Robby out in the Coolest Robot of the 50s competition. Robot costumes don't usually fare well, but Gort remains very intimidating.<br /><br />That's a great first-viewing story. I first saw TDTESS in the early 60s, on a TV not any bigger than the one in that bar, our old portable B & W. (i.e. "the kids' TV") I was a bit younger than you, but it made a tremendous impression on me, too. So much so that I even started fabricating replicas of Klaatu's saucer from aluminum pie plates. <br /><br />I'm a big fan of British SF. But yeah, they could produce some utter crap, like <i>The Crawling Eye</i> and <i>The Gamma People</i>, to name just two. But this one has to be by far the silliest. What continues to amaze me is that they wasted so much talent on this pathetic tripe.<br /><br />Suezboo:<br /><br />Yes, it is terribly unfair. Of course, being a 60-year-old, bespectacled male who also dresses for comfort, I'm hardly likely to meet a space babe's demanding physical requirements, so it's all rather academic.<br /> <br />However, you've inspired me to start work on a film treatment, tentatively titled <i>Cougars from Beyond Space</i>. Hank (aka grouchomarxist)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-66399391636937241012015-06-09T12:31:10.379-07:002015-06-09T12:31:10.379-07:00My major complaint with these Devil Women from Out...My major complaint with these Devil Women from Outer Space is that they're always so damn hot.I recall (vaguely)My Stepmother is an Alien was another Hawt Babe. How is your average rotund, bespectacled, 60+ Earth female in battered jeans (purely hypothetical person here)supposed to compete for luscious Earthman flesh which has galaxy-wide appeal? Doomed, we are.<br />SuezbooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-3220892683473722002015-06-08T16:10:33.115-07:002015-06-08T16:10:33.115-07:00Gee that flying saucer is too cool. My dad owned a...Gee that flying saucer is too cool. My dad owned a Buick Electra like that, ca. 1959. Fully equipped. Keithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-48233544490022924082015-06-08T06:51:08.073-07:002015-06-08T06:51:08.073-07:00We need legions of manly men, unflagging in their ...<i>We need legions of manly men, unflagging in their determination to stand proud and erect against the creeping emasculation which threatens to engulf our civilization.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2015/01/next-up-war-against-my-right-to-grab.html" rel="nofollow">Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser is on the case</a>!<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-85781900853326553522015-06-07T17:56:02.696-07:002015-06-07T17:56:02.696-07:00It's nice to learn that the Mother Country - w...It's nice to learn that the Mother Country - which has given us Gorgo, Quatermass in various forms, Doctor Who, and lots more - is, or was, just as capable of turning out silly crap as we are. And boring silly crap at that.<br /><br />Not to mention one of lo-budget SF's least impressive mechanical men! Re your comment about the actual robots in these cheapo flics looking nothing like the poster robots, I guess that's one way to tell the sheep from the real alien goats. If you recall the classic poster for "Day the Earth Stood Still", it features an accurate depiction of the robot of robots, Gort. He's carrying a vague approximation of Patricia Neal (hair wrong, face wrong, ripped dress wrong) but at least such an encounter does actually take place... and if anything, movie-Gort is much scarier than poster-Gort.<br /><br />I first saw DTESS in a bar-cafe near New Brunswick, NJ about 10 years after it was released. I was a college freshman spending a rainy Spring Saturday with my boyfriend. We stopped at this neighborhood eatery for a snack, and the movie was on the little TV over the bar. There were at least a dozen other patrons, and we all sat there riveted for the full 90-minutes-plus-commercials, our beers and sandwiches forgotten.Li'l Innocenthttps://ladysmantle.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com