I loved the video, just like to point that i find funny the focus on the video on creating a narrative where the bad comunists try to sabotage solaris and his director at all cost and the movie came out despite of soviet state. It is a funny narrative, considering that in the west there was no even a chance that a movie like solaris would be released or financed. Despite that biased way to describe things i love the video and find excelent insights on it.
Many of the sets and props from 20th Century Fox's "FANTASTIC VOYAGE" (1966) were also used by producer, Irwin Allen, who used the "FANTASTIC VOYAGE" set in "The Derelict", the second episode of CBS's "LOST IN SPACE" in 1965, and the other various props that also turned up in later episodes of the series.
I think an updated When Worlds Collide would make more sense today than ten and could be great - an Elon Musk figure promoting a massive Space-X project just to garner money using fear only to realize there is a real threat requiring an entire fleet of such vehicles as governments start tearing each other apart.
Another interesting TV program that I found worthy of watching that turned belly up. I just know how to pick them and other viewers just didn't get it. Just like STAR TREK in 1966. And look what has happed to it. I must have saw something there.
fascinating movie. i k ow no one who's watched it. i was really interested in seeing it because i heard many of the song tracks first. i enjoyed most of it, but i haven't seen the long version.
What is forgotten in the original miniseries is the obscure reference to the Visitors' OTHER enemies-----some mysterious alien species which apparently defeated the Visitors before at some point in the past (maybe which led to their exodus to Earth in an attempt to take its resources/people?)...the Resistance sends out signals into space at the end of the first miniseries in the cliffhanger, but nothing more comes of the subject...wonder who THEY were...???...
First appearance in film of.....Michael Caine! As a cop! "Don't go down the King's Road,sir, there's a riot going on, and not a lot of people know that....."
I met Bob Picardo some years back here in the UK and he told us a story about "Greta" the lady Gremlin (yes, that was her name). She was operated by Bob for the scenes where she launches herself at him passionately, and tries to kiss him. The result was when he got home, and took his shirt off, his wife was rather shocked at how bruised his chest and upper body was. Apparently, those Puppets are quite robustly built!
I saw Gremlins 2 in the theater. The whole film was so wonderfully chaotic that when the film "broke" I knew it had to be part of the story. More than anything else, though, I enjoyed seeing Dick Miller come back. On one of their first dates my parents went to see "Bucket Of Blood". They didn't tell me that until years after I'd seen that film, but I felt it explained why Miller always stood out to me.
Fun Fact: In the novelization of the original film, the Gremlins were originally an alien experiment gone awry, similar to Stitch from Lilo & Stitch. The animated prequel series, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, retcons this origin story and reintroduces the Mogwai as creatures of Chinese mythology. So, I guess it used to count as Sci-Fi, but not anymore. 👽🐉
There were only about 5 other people in the theater when I first saw it. Never understood why it flopped. And because I lingered for the end credits music, I was treated to Looney Tunes Easter eggs! PS, the TV show is extraordinarily juvenile.
Um, "won't have time to bleed." Enjoyed the review. Just as I wondered why you didn't mention the spoofing the "why I don't celebrate Christmas" scene I see you stuck it in at the end. Nicely played.
I must have watched this over 100 times as a kid, I saw the original a few times, but I just loved the madcap energy of the sequel, which felt like a lost Mel Brooks film
My favorite sequels that completely flip the script are the Skyline sequels. The first is your standard alien invasion blockbuster. The sequels are straight to Video scifi martial arts movies. And fun ones.
