Posted on 05/03/2014 2:17:42 PM PDT by EveningStar
Check the films you've watched all the way through.
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I get more movie tips from FR than anywhere, these days.
But back in the day... Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday matinée, different movie, different girl.
I actually watch movies, today. ;)
/johnny
I lost count but “Repo Man” was one of my faves.
This list is incomplete. Nowhere was Caltiki or Reptilicus mentioned. Nor was The Amazing Colossal Man. Some of the early ones were so bad they were good. Kronos is one of those.
No tv here either; watch everything on my ‘puter, but I still go to the theater from time to time...and maintain a pretty large dvd library, much influenced by yhe reviews and discussions here on FR, lol.
I’ll tell of my experiences that night my parents took us to the movies at a drive in as a child. I don’t know which show was shown first.
My dad said we were going to movies about “spooks”. All I remember was they were tall, had shiny faces, fell when shot then came back to life with lots of cave ins. It took 60 years for me to realize it was it was INVADERS FROM MARS.
The second feature was THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS.
When the beast first came on scene I was so scared I hit the floorboards of the car!
When I looked up again it was tearing up a lighthouse! Back to the floorboards!
Next it was coming ashore in NYC! I hit the floorboards!
When I looked up again, it GOBBLED UP A COP! Back to the floorboards.
Then I fell asleep, and when I looked up again, it was in a roller coaster area in lots of fire!
That is all I remembered of it. I was only 6 years old.
Never went to a si-fi movie again till they came on SHOCK Theater on TV, and even then FRANKENSTEIN scared the s***t out of me! And I do mean SCARED! I made lots of runs to the bathroom that night!
Now, I LOVE those old hokey horror movies, not the new silly superhero movies!
***I’ve never seen ET or any of the Back to the Futures...***
You haven’t missed much. The Spielberg SUPER 8 is just an ET with an adult creature who is not nice!
Kronos is the first Si-fi movie I saw on TV.
Quite a few - but I’ll never forget the first, “The Thing from Another World” - back in 1951 this kind of scary movie-making was new to a lot of us kids, who had grown up on the likes of Abbott and Costello and Roy Rogers - going to see “The Thing” was almost a rite of passage, and those who went and survived were looked on with awe, for a day or two at least, as having shown courage and valor beyond their years - I remember walking around in a stunned daze on the day I was planning to go see the movie - the condemned man enjoys his last meal - and feeling about ten feet tall walking home from the theater that night - simpler times......
Me. Eleven out of the first 20. None out of the last 20.
130. Some I wish I had missed.
Hundreds at least. But I’m 55 and I loved the stuff when I was a kid so watched it all.
I would guess more than the average person, but perhaps not; depends on your definition of "science fiction," I suspect.
I am curious.
We always had some late Friday and/or late Sat night local show that would put on B movies of either horror or science fiction. Saw a lot of Vincent Price.
Wow, I’ve seen 249 on the list.
Me too.
lol, it was fiction allright. No laws of physics in there.
There were a number missing, including The Last Man on Earth and Night of the Living Dead. Not a very complete list including 28 weeks later and 28 Months Later.
The connection kept resetting on me, but I’d only missed one of the first 35..
Lots of fun science fiction films also are missing.
Final Countdown.
The Twelve Monkeys.
The Fifth Element.
Stargate...
Etc.
I pulled 150, but there were some more that I wasn’t certain of. The ones in the 50’s I saw first run at the theater; most of the others the same, but some of the 70s and 80s titles were seen mostly via satellite or late night broadcasts. A few I can thank(?) Seymour or Elvira for.
Some of the missing titles surprised me: the Mad Max/Thunderdome set; Silent Running; Dark Star; On The Beach; Cherry-2000; Flesh Gordon; Enemy Mine, and some others.
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