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Poll Question: Cheesy! Your personal favorite? (in no particular order)
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    Posted: March 19 2005 at 16:11
I'm sure I forgot about a hundred of them. Remember any
good ones?
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I voted for TIE but anything with Robbie the Robot is good.

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War Of the Worlds- 1958? version (of course I havent seen the Spielberg production)

The Thing From Another World was good,but the remake was a classic!

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Points: 225 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2005 at 16:32
You're right, I forgot "Forbidden Planet" with Leslie
Neilson. As well as "War of the Worlds". I thought "War"
was later. One of my favorites! I have the original radio
brodcast on vinyl.
Next thread will be "Giant Insect Movies"
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War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide, Forbidden Planet, and, for goodness sake, where is Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

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Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

I voted for TIE but anything with Robbie the Robot is good.

Not to mention Anne Francis.

The Theremin was used for the soundtrack of Forbidden Planet, if I'm not mistaken.

 
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I like the early Quatermass film 'The Quatermass Experiment' (1958?).One of the creepiest sc-fi films ever made and one that has been copied a great deal.(It's the one where an astronaut comes back from space having had contact with a mysterious asteroid and now something about him isn't 'quite right'.ie he stares into the distance and doesn't talk..later he mutates into a hideus monster that is tracked down and killed in Westminster Abbey by Professor Quatermass)

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Gotta agree with Maani here WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE( an Acadamy Award winner to!!) is one of my favourite sci fi movies(there is talk of a remake...... shudder..what politically correct angle will they put in...)

 

Forbidden Planet is one of THE great sci fi movies

 

and let me put in a plug for two interesting but obscure sci fi movies from the late fifties or early sixties

ATOMIC SUBMARINE(with Arthur Franz)..featuring an early "hawks v doves" debate forshadowing the turmoil of the late sixties(as well as being an interesting sci fi movie all round)

BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER....ATOMIC WAR IS HELL!!!

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Originally posted by maani maani wrote:

War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide,
Forbidden Planet, and, for goodness sake, where is
Invasion of the Body Snatchers!


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Damn! I knew I missed some great ones. "Body Snatchers"
is actually a favorite of mine. Couldn't sleep for weeks.

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Didn't Mystery Science Theater 3000 make fun of This Island Earth?
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