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Kronos -- a slight problem with the basic concept

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Monsterpal		#181	[-]
Apr 4 09 5:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You know who wears the pants in our house.
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TomWeaver999		#182	[-]
Apr 4 09 5:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	<< Cuffs were de rigeur for denim trousers during that period, apparently on the belief that the owner of the trousers would grow enough the pants needed to be lengthened. << So if they're lengthened all the way and there's now NO cuffs, they're not blue jeans any more? By the way, why did ALL pairs of blue jeans come with cuffs so that they could be lengthened as the owner grew and grew, if (as you insist) grown men working in workplaces were the only people wearing blue jeans in the '50s? Last Edited By: TomWeaver999 Apr 4 09 10:11 PM. Edited 2 times.
TomWeaver999		#183	[-]
Apr 4 09 5:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	^ I I Wow, first the nice surprise to learn that he's a slave to/expert on fashion; then the jaw-dropper that he once saw the inside of a workplace!
Monsterpal		#184	[-]
Apr 4 09 10:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Pantaloons?
Bill Warren		#185	[-]
Apr 4 09 10:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Lemme see, before I moved down here, I worked (mostly summers) setting dynamite, in lumber mills (pulling on both the green chain and the planer chain, plus yard work), a plywood plant (chopping veneer, drying veneer), a paper mill (testing the "liquor"-- the very strong bases, as opposed to acids, that dissolved the wood chips), highway work crew flagman and as a cowboy. Without a horse. Anyone else here done such regular working guy stuff? For these jobs, I usually wore bluejeans, changing out of them at home since bluejeans were pretty much entirely work clothes.
skelton knaggs		#186	[-]
Apr 4 09 10:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I was a dynamite taster..........once. "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
TomWeaver999		#187	[-]
Apr 4 09 11:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	<< testing the "liquor" << This explains so much!!
Monsterpal		#188	[-]
Apr 5 09 4:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Pantangles?
Monsterpal		#189	[-]
Apr 5 09 8:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Pantages Theater?
Gorilla At Large		#190	[-]
Oct 26 09 9:30 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Check out this cool poster from Kronos - I've never seen this one circulated before.....
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Monsterpal		#191	[-]
Oct 26 09 10:45 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jeff Morrow is panting for Barbara Lawrence.
Edkkakumon		#192	[-]
Oct 26 09 4:49 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That poster makes Barbara's face look like a mannequin.
The Batman of Gotham		#193	[-]
Oct 26 09 5:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Actually, the quote is: "For one who has not lived even a single lifetime... ...You are a wise man, Van Helsing!" - GJS
Babetician		#194	[-]
Aug 7 11 11:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just found my slightly tattered Kronos poster which now hangs in my living room next to She Devil. The photos of posters from others in this topic have gone bye-bye in the car-car, and I'm new here. I just notice weird things about the poster art. Rivets???? How un-Kronos! Maybe that's the artists way of telling us it's made of metal instead of wood or plastic. Giant wooden energy sucker from the stars made by Amish E.T.s!! Towering lucite titan sent to earth to pillage for energy and scrap metal from its metal-depleted and over-mined home world!! I don't remember the giant mail slot in front either!? The little windows on its left side aren't too bad in a Krel lab kind of way, but pretty sure that's not accurate. The artist got carried away, or didn't see the film. Barbara Lawrence bothered me in a good way, and I was fascinated by her cute nose. Wait, am I supposed to talk about blue jeans? I think I wore them all the time in the 50s. The durability was practical for a child of 5-10. I also wanted a black leather motorcycle jacket with silver stars on the epaulets like my Mexican friend, but Mom wouldn't let me have one. Squares. Last Edited By: Babetician Aug 8 11 12:02 AM. Edited 1 times.
Babetician		#195	[-]
Aug 8 11 12:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I should try taking another shot with no distortion, but it's not like you can't download almost any friggin' one sheet off the internet these days! The first photos I ever took were the posters for THEM! and The Beast from 20,000 fathoms at my local theater when I was 7. I just found them. I wanted good art reference, and there was no Famous Monsters yet in '57. I think. Those pillar legs that go up and down are pistons that generate power for the central energy field cylinder thingy which is a kind of anti-gravity/propulsion device. Not sure how that helps it go forward. Not sure. Have to check my crummy VHS in letterbox that I taped off AMC in '97 back when AMC was still good. The cylinder legs also flatten groups of people to make the trailer scary. The device looks designed by Krel, since some of the same brains were possibly involved.
Monsterpal		#196	[-]
Aug 8 11 1:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Conqueror of the Universe!
scotpens		#197	[-]
Aug 8 11 5:06 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	bipolarber wrote: Not to mention all the science fiction movies and TV shows that had aliens trying to mate with us... they’d have just as much success if they tried to mate with an elm tree. Yeah, but Earth babes are HOT! Especially when they’re wearing jeans. Gil Ray wrote: I lump Kronos and The Monolith Monsters together in this same sort of category. Both are unique and well made. The Magnetic Monster falls into the same sub-sub-genre of sci-fi: a menace that’s neither man nor beast nor intelligent alien being, but a mindless thing that just keeps growing. . . and growing . . . and growing. Until it can’t fit into its jeans.
Reegs		#198	[-]
Aug 8 11 6:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Babetician wrote: Have to check my crummy VHS in letterbox that I taped off AMC in '97 back when AMC was still good. That's what I did! In fact, I taped over a bootleg version of the movie that not only wasn't letterboxed, it wasn't even panned-and-scanned. If the action didn't happen in the middle of the screen, you didn't see it.
Babetician		#199	[-]
Aug 8 11 11:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Reegs wrote: That's what I did! In fact, I taped over a bootleg version of the movie that not only wasn't letterboxed, it wasn't even panned-and-scanned. If the action didn't happen in the middle of the screen, you didn't see it. I used to have that one! There's a scene after they drop the A bomb on Kronos- with a 6 inch tall newspaper headline reading "LUR!". It's supposed to be "FAILURE!" Now it's a private joke with me. Whenever I fail at something, I say "LUR!".
Squashpants		#200	[-]
Aug 8 11 6:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	CreepingBride wrote: Tyrannocaster wrote: Yes, the scene in which Kronos trundles across the landscape is the most memorable thing in the film IMO; I think it rocks - truly, it's a monster unlike anything else. How often can you say that? I think Kronos is in trouble if it expects to be able to use that outhouse. "Men, there's a drive-in movie full of juicy people! Wow! " - PIC Mosquito Coil Ad
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