"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message 
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> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
>> "The day the earth caught fire" was another example of misconceptions 
>> about
>> effects of nuclear testing, though unrelated to radioactivity issues; 
>> didn't
>> stop it from being a good movie.
>>
> Probably my all-time favorite of the genre; an implausible concept made
> plausible by a great, serious script. On a par with the original "The 
> Thing."

   Omg, I watched 'The Thing' at the flicks - yeah, it did what it was 
supposed to do - frighten the life out of me!

    Another great film.

    ~Steve~

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"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> Looks nice, and...small.  Gee, I want to see a bigger version!

Hum... would need to reconstruct the faulty code - and invest some rendering
time...

> "Phase IV" was an odd film--essentially a documentary about ants, turned into
> a quasi-doomsday story. Clever conceit, though.

Loosely based on a short story by H.G.Wells as I heard tell, so I'm not too
surprised about the documentary info regarding ants. After all, he was into
science-fiction, not science-fantasy.

> THEM! is one of my faves--especially that chilling scene when the little
> frightened girl, numb with shock, screams bloody murder when she smells formic
> acid. The giant ants were pretty cool props, too--probably state-of-the-art
> special effects for the 1950's.

Don't remember it, honestly. Seen it on TV, I'm pretty sure, but the memory
about it probably got drowned in the mass of "Help, the animals are coming to
get us!" B-movies that were broadcast about the same time; and being the N-th
of those movies I saw (instead of the first, like when it originally came to
the theaters), and me being a teenager then, I probably didn't pay much
attention to the qualities of it. To me, I guess it was just another one of
"those ridiculous 50's b/w mutant animal flics".

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"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
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> I call it "Revenge of The Killer Scarabs from Outer Space".

What a shitty render!  ;-)

> (Okay, wrong color - should be brown and sound like a bell - but what the
> heck...)

That would make it even shittier.

(In case some people don't get the joke:  aren't you glad that there are
creatures to clean up after the rest of us?)

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"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
> news:web.49aa69caf3f1ac26f50167bc0@news.povray.org...
> > "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> >
> >> "The day the earth caught fire" was another example of misconceptions
> >> about
> >> effects of nuclear testing, though unrelated to radioactivity issues;
> >> didn't
> >> stop it from being a good movie.
> >>
> > Probably my all-time favorite of the genre; an implausible concept made
> > plausible by a great, serious script. On a par with the original "The
> > Thing."
>
>    Omg, I watched 'The Thing' at the flicks - yeah, it did what it was
> supposed to do - frighten the life out of me!

Are you guys talking about the 50's "The Thing from Another World", or the 80's
"The Thing"?

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> > I call it "Revenge of The Killer Scarabs from Outer Space".
>
> What a shitty render!  ;-)

Yeah, a B-render so to speak ;)

But what do you expect from a script that contains plain bullshit? :P

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"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> Are you guys talking about the 50's "The Thing from Another World", or the 
> 80's
> "The Thing"?

  Well, I'm talking about the 80's 'The Thing', but I thought it was a 
remake of an earlier film of the same name?

     ~Steve~

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"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> > Are you guys talking about the 50's "The Thing from Another World", or the
> > 80's
> > "The Thing"?
>
>   Well, I'm talking about the 80's 'The Thing', but I thought it was a
> remake of an earlier film of the same name?

If Wikipedia can believed, the 50's movie was commonly known as just "The
Thing", but the full title was "The Thing from Another World".

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clipka wrote:
> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> 
>>>Are you guys talking about the 50's "The Thing from Another World", or the
>>>80's
>>>"The Thing"?
>>
>>  Well, I'm talking about the 80's 'The Thing', but I thought it was a
>>remake of an earlier film of the same name?
> 
> 
> If Wikipedia can believed, the 50's movie was commonly known as just "The
> Thing", but the full title was "The Thing from Another World".
> 
> 
Steve McQueen movie as I recall.  One of the first movies I ever saw in 
a real moview theatre.  Loved it!

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clipka wrote:
This image suddenly got Very interesting.

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Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
> clipka wrote:
> > "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> >
> >>>Are you guys talking about the 50's "The Thing from Another World", or the
> >>>80's "The Thing"?
> >>

The 50's one, definitely.  Although John Carpenter's 80's remake was really
terrifying, in a different, more visceral way (probably a closer adaptation of
the novel, too.)

> >
> > If Wikipedia can believed, the 50's movie was commonly known as just "The
> > Thing", but the full title was "The Thing from Another World".
> >
> >

> Steve McQueen movie as I recall.  One of the first movies I ever saw in
> a real moview theatre.  Loved it!

Nope, that's "The Blob." The seminal cheapie 50's monster flick.  I *still*
can't figure out how they made that blobby creature--AMAZING for its time.
(This was the first movie that REALLY scared me. Badly. Gave me nightmares for
years! Oh well, I was just a wee little kid...)

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