Wednesday, July 23, 2008
COMIC-CON AND THE MAN FROM PLANET X
This is the second year I've missed Comic-con. I hope to change that next year.
It's good to take some time off from the "big con" so it doesn't wear you down... and it CAN, but I'm pretty sad that I am going to miss all my friends that do show up.
If you end up going, I hope you have a good time... be sure to swing by the Ghostbusters booth and the MST3K booth for me... *sniff*
ON THE WEB
Robert Kirkman is named an Image Partner! Pretty sweet to know they are still adding folks to the roster. Congrats to an excellent creator.
Kenny Caperton is building a replica of the Myers house from the movie Halloween in North Carolina.
The difference between an illustrator and a cartoonist is about $500
ON THE SHELF
Good Grief! Look at all the cool stuff coming out this week!!!! You'd think there was a comic convention going on or something.
GENRE-XPLOSION!
Genre-xplosion is a short, spoiler free introduction to some of the strange and obscure movies and comics that I enjoy. Some of them are brilliant masterpieces... some of them aren't. All of them are entertaining.
THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1951)
football-headed, asthmatic aliens
Directed- Edgar G. Ulmer
Written- Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen
STYLE: ****
SUBSTANCE: ****
BLOOD/GORE: ****
NUDITY: ****
Scale built on quantity, not quality.
SET-UP:
An unknown planet, nicknamed "Planet X", is hurtling towards the earth. Professor Elliot (Raymond Bond) believes it will come the closest to a small island near Scotland and asks his old friend John Lawrence (Robert Clarke), a newspaper reporter, to cover the story. Unknown to them, an alien with a mind control device has just landed on the same island with motives of his own.
SEX AND VIOLENCE:
There is none of either.
THOUGHTS:
This is one of those great old 50's sci-fi movies that is a little bit hokey and a whole lot of fun. The Man from Planet X has everything you would expect in a 50's invasion movie: a newspaper man, a feisty dame (Margaret Field) and two scientists. One who is looking to advance the field of science and the other who is trying to advance his bank account (William Schallert). As these types of movies go, this film is pretty cohesive and has a fairly intriguing plot and characters. It is well shot and, once you get past the wordy opening, moves along pretty nicely. It's yet another one of those genre movies that makes you wonder who the real bad guy is, the mutant from space... or us. If this sounds like your type of movie, I suggest you check it out.
It's good to take some time off from the "big con" so it doesn't wear you down... and it CAN, but I'm pretty sad that I am going to miss all my friends that do show up.
If you end up going, I hope you have a good time... be sure to swing by the Ghostbusters booth and the MST3K booth for me... *sniff*
ON THE WEB
Robert Kirkman is named an Image Partner! Pretty sweet to know they are still adding folks to the roster. Congrats to an excellent creator.
Kenny Caperton is building a replica of the Myers house from the movie Halloween in North Carolina.
The difference between an illustrator and a cartoonist is about $500
ON THE SHELF
Good Grief! Look at all the cool stuff coming out this week!!!! You'd think there was a comic convention going on or something.
GENRE-XPLOSION!
Genre-xplosion is a short, spoiler free introduction to some of the strange and obscure movies and comics that I enjoy. Some of them are brilliant masterpieces... some of them aren't. All of them are entertaining.
football-headed, asthmatic aliens
Directed- Edgar G. Ulmer
Written- Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen
STYLE: ****
SUBSTANCE: ****
BLOOD/GORE: ****
NUDITY: ****
Scale built on quantity, not quality.
An unknown planet, nicknamed "Planet X", is hurtling towards the earth. Professor Elliot (Raymond Bond) believes it will come the closest to a small island near Scotland and asks his old friend John Lawrence (Robert Clarke), a newspaper reporter, to cover the story. Unknown to them, an alien with a mind control device has just landed on the same island with motives of his own.
There is none of either.
This is one of those great old 50's sci-fi movies that is a little bit hokey and a whole lot of fun. The Man from Planet X has everything you would expect in a 50's invasion movie: a newspaper man, a feisty dame (Margaret Field) and two scientists. One who is looking to advance the field of science and the other who is trying to advance his bank account (William Schallert). As these types of movies go, this film is pretty cohesive and has a fairly intriguing plot and characters. It is well shot and, once you get past the wordy opening, moves along pretty nicely. It's yet another one of those genre movies that makes you wonder who the real bad guy is, the mutant from space... or us. If this sounds like your type of movie, I suggest you check it out.
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It's been so long since I've seen this movie, I need to pop it in again. Thanks for reminding me!
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