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Thread #69355   Message #2093808
Posted By: SharonA
04-Jul-07 - 06:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: favorite old sci-fi movie
Subject: RE: BS: favorite old sci-fi movie
Ooooh, yes, "Dark Star"! Loved the talking bomb!

I really liked a couple of other, maybe-not-so-old campy sci-fi films also: "Earth Girls Are Easy" (1988, with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis) and "Flash Gordon" (1980, with Max von Sydow as Ming, and music by Queen).

Then there's an older one (1962) that's a cross between sci-fi and horror: "The Brain That Wouldn't Die." Boy meets girl, boy drives girl, boy has accident, girl loses head, boy (who is scientist) saves girl's head, girl's head talks, boy finds curvaceous bimbo to decapitate and graft girl's head onto, girl's head convinces boy's mutant experiment to kill boy and rescue bimbo so girl's head can die in peace.

GUEST dinnerlady asks if anyone remembers "Silent Running" with Bruce Dern (1974) -- some here do -- and I do too! (Folk-music link: Joan Baez sings two songs in this movie).

GUEST Arnie at Work: "Space Family Robinson" was a comic book series published from 1962 - 1984. "Lost in Space" was a TV series that ran from 1965-1968. The cowardly villian, Dr. Zachary Smith, was a stowaway who was an agent for an evil government (remember, this was the Cold War era) sent to sabotage the space mission. The robot on board was not Robby the Robot, but was designed by the same guy (Robert Kinoshita) and was called the B-9 Environmental Control robot... but usually just "Robot". Robby the Robot, which first appeared in "Forbidden Planet", did appeared in two LIS episodes.