[DemforBush]

I love this flick. It's really quite cleverly done, especially the F/X work. Brings back a lot of good memories for me, too. A local tv monster movie host in my hometown had a show where he'd run movies like this every Friday night. We'd make a big bowl of popcorn (cooked properly in a lidded pot, as we didn't have microwave popcorn back then, and my parents were too cheap to buy Jiffy Pop) and watch these movies into the early morning. Good times!

[DemforBush]

An incredible shrinking ping! :-)

[windcliff]

I always thought this movie was to grim. Just hopelessness.

[lee martell]

How ironic that this was posted by “Demfor Bush”, when that’s how many would now describe Jeb, as The (supposedly) Incredible Shrinking Man”

[Mark17]

I liked it too, and I liked another one called “Them,” with James Arness, James Whitmore, Fess Parker, William Schallert, and, at that time, an unknown actor, by the name of Leonard Nimoy.

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you!

[dfwgator]

AKA “The Jeb Bush Story”.

[TexasCruzin]

I watched this movie in a theater with my mom when I was 7 years old and the movie was new. Scared the crap out of me. I never forgot it.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Several of us college students were up late in the dorm watching this c. 1967 when a mink-farming commercial appeared in the middle of it. It ran on and on and on, finally returning us to the movie after a full and surreal eighteen minutes.

[concentric circles]

I love the soliloquy that ends the movie as Scott, having escaped the pit of doom that his cellar had become, now gazes upon the vast cosmos of the night sky:

“So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle.

I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God’s silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite.

I had thought in terms of man’s own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man’s conception, not nature’s.

And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance.

All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!”

[ETL]

[Viking2002]

Back in the 70's we had one of those home hot air poppers that you'd put a little oil or butter in the top of. My parents wouldn't splurge on Jiffy Pop too much, either, and I would sometimes take the lid off the pot too soon and send a popcorn blizzard all over the kitchen, so the hot air popper was the answer. We had a show called 'Creature Feature' with Count Gore DeVol on Saturday nights, and movies like this were standard fare. And ol' Count Gore wasn't shy about using a little burlesque T&A on his show, since it was on at 11 at night.

[Karl Spooner]

Pretty good movie. The anti-cat crowd loves it.

[ETL]

[UnwashedPeasant]

This is a good cerebral, literary sci-fi and a fun watch.

It is a metaphor, man!

[SaxxonWoods]

A great movie, especially late at night.

[beaversmom]

I have never seen this whole movie. I always catch it about the time he’s fighting the spider. I love the ending. So much so, I put it on my FR home page.