The Movie Thread

[lordroel]

Jul 28, 2024 8:09:27 GMT 575 said:

Jul 27, 2024 18:00:27 GMT lordroel said:

Why nobody told me there was a British Godzilla.

Gorgo 1961 | Horror-, sciencefictionfilm

In that day and age everybody had a monstermovie/Godzilla - Denmark entered the fray with Reptilicus which is reported to be the worst ever Danish movie (haven't watched it). 

It's also airborne

There was also a US movie of the name and it seems both being produced by Sidney Pink.

Think i have agree after watching the trailer (watch at your own risk, alternate-timelines.com is not liable for lost time refund from watching this trailer).

[simon darkshade]

Gorgo is a seriously decent flick, for its time, budget, SFX capacity and what not. Plenty of late 1950s military hardware deployed uselessly to try and stop the mother monster swimming from Ireland to the Thames to fetch her baby.

[simon darkshade]

As a monster picture, it made for an excellent contrast to the over-jingoistic ability for conventional human weapons to harm such creatures, as found in the silly Godzilla picture with Matthew Broderick, and also some cringeworthy articles online (that I recall coming from the USAF at Kadena AFB) ; in the latter case, as well as on a YouTube video, there is a blithe presumption that the whizzbang modern weapons will always work. That in itself made it worth the hour and a bit it runs for, in addition to the 1950s aircraft, the Centurions and the naval action.

[American hist]

I just watched Pride in Prejudice; the movie isn't nearly as good as the mini-series by the BBC.

[Max Sinister]

Recently I watched some documentaries in the cinema.

First, "Riefenstahl". If you ask me, the old woman was quite confused in her head. (In fact, even before she got old.) On the one hand, she admired the "führer" (no surprise there); but OTOH as early as at the Olympic Games, she admired the trained bodies of the black athletes and their movement which she compared to that of cats of prey.

(Some will say that this means fetishizing of blacks, hence racist too. A different kind of racism though than that of those who'd like to enslave or kill all blacks, if you ask me.)

I wonder: Did nobody ever tell her that her "führer" considered the blacks "untermenschen"?

She also claimed that in 1934, Goebbels tried to rape her, and I'm not talking about something like "putting his hand on her knee without asking first".

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Second, "The Apprentice: The Trump Story". Yes, very revealing, indeed. And I have to say: It was entertaining when Roy Cohn called him bad names. If two guys like those are fighting, it's like a wasp is sitting on a stinging nettle, as Terry Pratchett would say.