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Nowhere Man
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 05/07/2006 : 5:40:07 PM
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The Navy vs. the Night Mosters is something that I've always wanted to see, ever since catching some small chunks of it on the Saturday afternoon monster movie ("His arm's been torn out of its socket!"). But that was decades ago and on a B&W TV to boot, so I never knew (or cared to look up) that it was not a 1950s B&W thing. From what I've read so far, it might not be worth hunting down...
Anyway. Ken, I have a couple of corrections for the very first line of the review proper: quote:
a seeming nod to the film’s... probable inspiration, either Joe Campbell’s novella Who Goes There?, or the film adapted from it, Howard Hawk’s 1951 The Thing from Another World.
First off, the author of "Who Goes There?" was John W. Campbell, Jr. And since the co-director's name is Howard Hawks, the punctuation is more properly , "Howard Hawks's 1951 The Thing from Another World."
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Victoria Silverwolf
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/07/2006 : 10:29:24 PM
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Good catch. "Who Goes There?" may be Campbell's best story.
The Navy vs The Night Monsters feels like a movie that should be in black and white, and made in the 1950's. The last hurrah of the old time sci-fi flicks, maybe?
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/08/2006 : 11:49:44 AM
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I'm Baaaack!
I saw this at the drive-in with dad when it came out.
Hoooo! Scary to a young rug rat, but now...Cheese fest!
It doth have some MST qualitys, and if i can find it, i have an omlet recipe i've been dieing to try
It would make a good double feature with FROM HELL IT CAME!...which critic Ed Naha called "To hell it can go!"
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Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
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Posted - 05/08/2006 : 2:30:03 PM
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Thanks for the corrections! I hope to do some editing on the article tonight.
NvNM does seem a pretty classic '50s monster movie. Damn, it's a shame they don't make stuff like that anymore, warts and all.
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/09/2006 : 07:07:09 AM
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If they remade Night Monsters now the monster trees would be the result of and EEEEvil Corpguvmintary genetic engineering bioweapon thing ... and there'd be some EEEEevil hotel owner or travel agent who would keep the island open to tourists even though he knew that there were EEEEEvil Corpguvmintary, acid secreting monters trees on the loose. EEEEEEvil Travel Agent, yeah, that's the ticket!
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