05-07-2008, 05:55 PM
[quote bazookaman][quote Zoidberg]1978 (still a favorite): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/
oh yes. that was a good one. I especially liked Kevin McCarthy's cameo at the beginning picking up where the original left off...sort of...kind of.
What's funny is, when I was a kid and saw it (I think I was 11 or 12), I had not seen the original yet. Afterwards, I caught it on a late-night Saturday Monster Movie Show (remember, you younglings, this was before movies were commercially available on videotape).
Also love the revised ending, in retrospect; if I remember right, I did a paper on it in school at some point, comparing/contrasting the whole "USA wins" vision of the 50's genre with the "we are doomed" attitude of the 70s.
oh yes. that was a good one. I especially liked Kevin McCarthy's cameo at the beginning picking up where the original left off...sort of...kind of.
What's funny is, when I was a kid and saw it (I think I was 11 or 12), I had not seen the original yet. Afterwards, I caught it on a late-night Saturday Monster Movie Show (remember, you younglings, this was before movies were commercially available on videotape).
Also love the revised ending, in retrospect; if I remember right, I did a paper on it in school at some point, comparing/contrasting the whole "USA wins" vision of the 50's genre with the "we are doomed" attitude of the 70s.