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ROBOT MONSTER (1953)

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Babetician		#121	[-]
May 26 11 11:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Searching for that one screen grab from my collection of dozens that more than any other captures the unique mood and atmosphere of this special film.
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ghoulkid		#122	[-]
May 27 11 10:40 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	He goes to tie her up,starts to get a call from the Great Guidance,and can't decide what to do. Should he take the call or tie her up? He knocks her out and takes the call. Afterwards,she's miraculously tied up and awake. In my estimation,she'd be out longer than that. He hit her pretty hard. Maybe she tied herself up. She's into that sort of thing. One of the great moments of cinema.
bipolarber		#123	[-]
May 27 11 11:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You know, it's odd... but Robot Monster and Creature From the Black Lagoon are the only movies I can think of, off the top of my head, that actually had the image of the creature carrying off the heroine to it's cave lair in the movie itself... Considering how common that image was on the posters of the era, you'd think it would have happened more often. "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
Babetician		#124	[-]
May 27 11 3:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts
ghoulkid		#125	[-]
May 27 11 10:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Babetician,that's hilarious!
ghoulkid		#126	[-]
May 27 11 10:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Over on facebook,I got bored with my previous profile picture,so i substituted a picture of Ro-man. All my friends on that site are not fans of these movies(so sad) so they don't understand. But I was surprised that only 1 person questioned what it was. Some guy,not one of my friends,but a friend of a friend didn't like my opinion about some music and said "it's hard to take someones opinion seriously when they have Robot Monster as their profile picture." Sigh. They just don't understand. I wasn't going to keep it as my profile pic for long until he said that.
Babetician		#127	[-]
May 27 11 11:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ghoul kid wrote: Over on facebook,I got bored with my previous profile picture,so i substituted a picture of Ro-man. All my friends on that site are not fans of these movies(so sad) so they don't understand. But I was surprised that only 1 person questioned what it was. Some guy,not one of my friends,but a friend of a friend didn't like my opinion about some music and said "it's hard to take someones opinion seriously when they have Robot Monster as their profile picture." Sigh. They just don't understand. I wasn't going to keep it as my profile pic for long until he said that. Maybe he would like you to use The Calcinator Death Ray, and unleash prehistoric reptiles on him! Ro-Man has so many qualities- funny, philosophical, horny... Last Edited By: Babetician May 27 11 11:25 PM. Edited 1 times.
Babetician		#128	[-]
May 28 11 2:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Prurient interest leads to.. total annihilation! -As in the Friday the 13th films. A moral lesson for our children, and other presumptuous gorilla suit wearers.
Jonatwork		#129	[-]
May 28 11 3:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm working a double, and I'll have 5 hours before I have to be back for another ten hour shift. But just looking at the posts on this page makes me wanna pop this in when I get home. If I fall asleep on the job and get fired, it's on your heads.... “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley
ghoulkid		#130	[-]
May 28 11 9:57 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	John,if you get fired,I'll make sure The Great Guidance zaps your boss with the calcinator death ray. That'll teach him!
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ghoulkid		#131	[-]
May 28 11 10:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Babetician,is that a mouse pad? What happened to his fur?Stress? Or did he do it for the ladies?
Babetician		#132	[-]
May 28 11 12:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ghoulkid wrote: Babetician,is that a mouse pad? What happened to his fur?Stress? Or did he do it for the ladies? I cropped the graphic with rounded corners. I did it with a Program called Poser. It can't do fur without some special add-on, and Ro-Man is shaggy to the 10th power. Some whiz kid had to make the helmet and email it to me. I have no computer modeling skills In the other graphic I tinted the brontosaur green because Lost Continent was tinted green, and that's where he came from. Notice the antennas on Great Guidance are different, and look like suction cup darts. Last Edited By: Babetician May 28 11 12:18 PM. Edited 1 times.
Jonatwork		#133	[-]
May 28 11 12:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ghoulkid wrote: John,if you get fired,I'll make sure The Great Guidance zaps your boss with the calcinator death ray. That'll teach him! ghoulkid, I'll put him on that little sparkler-powered rocketship and fly him around in circles. “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley
ghoulkid		#134	[-]
May 28 11 2:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jonatwork wrote: ghoulkid wrote: John,if you get fired,I'll make sure The Great Guidance zaps your boss with the calcinator death ray. That'll teach him! ghoulkid, I'll put him on that little sparkler-powered rocketship and fly him around in circles. That sounds even better. LOL.
ghoulkid		#135	[-]
May 28 11 2:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Babetician,I never noticed that before,about the Great Guidance. It looks like he's got little plungers on his head.
Jonatwork		#136	[-]
May 28 11 2:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ghoulkid, I thought those were darts with the little suckers on the end of 'em. I used to have gun that fired those, you lick 'em so they stick better. Must've been that little brat. He got off a couple of shots before Ro-Man did him in! “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley
Paul Haight		#137	[-]
May 28 11 6:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's actually Great Guidance who emerges from the cave (three times!) in the last shot of the movie. You can see that the footage was shot in front of a cloth backdrop and then superimposed over the shot of the cave, but if you watch very closely, before the double exposure begins, you can see George Barrows just beginning to emerge from the back of the cave, presumably wearing the XJ-2 helmet.
Babetician		#138	[-]
May 28 11 6:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A friend on Facebook put up a cartoon with various movie robots, and I'm reminded that I enjoy Robot Monster more than Disney's The Black Hole. At least when I'm watching Robot Monster, I don't want to be put out of my misery. And they say Robot Monster is one of the worst films ever made. Ro-Man is funny, Alice is sexy. The Black Hole managed to waste former teenage heart throb Yvette Mimieux, who probably should have fired her hairdresser.
Paul Haight		#139	[-]
May 28 11 6:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Back in the '80s, I rented a VHS of ROBOT MONSTER that opened with a 'Medallion' logo, and had been padded for TV broadcasts by adding around five minutes of randomly assembled lizard-dino footage prior to the main titles. I can't recall if the footage was from ONE MILLION B.C. or some other source, but it had even been scored with some of Elmer Bernstein's music from the film proper. Does anybody happen to know what label or company issued this? I'd like to track down a used copy for archival purposes.
WaverBoy		#140	[-]
May 30 11 2:10 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bill Warren wrote: The thing is that if you like the look of Ro-Man, you like the look of Ro-Man. No one is going to talk you into disliking it. On the other hand, I do not believe for a moment that Phil Tucker chose this absurd image to demonstrate that it's all taking place in a boy's imagination. The titles play out over a vast array of comic book covers (I think they're all made up for the movie, but maybe not); I'll accept that that's a clue as to the all-a-dream ending. However, if we're to believe that the boy's imagination drew upon what he saw in comic books, I don't think you could find in any comic book published until the time the film was made an alien represented as a gorilla in a space helmet/diving helmet. Why would the boy come up with that peculiar image, when he had a vast array of more interesting and even more bizarre aliens to draw on from his reading of comics? The bottom line: Tucker did not want Ro-Man to look like this, but he couldn't aford anything better. He didn't use it because he liked it; he used it because that's all he can afford. If you keep trying to justify that particular image, then you have to justify the occasional background glimpse of undestroyed buildings as also part of the boy's imagination, and not merely because they shot the film in such a hurry that they didn't have time to frame out those buildings. Denigrate it all ya want, but this low-budget sci-fi film is far more memorable than countless examples of its big-budget brethren. The image of a gorilla in a helmet is so indelible that we're still talking about it today. And, intentionally or no, it works perfectly in the context of the film. It's exactly the way a young comic-book fan might dream it. I'll take Ro-Man any day over aliens from <<insert name of lame schlockbuster such as INDEPENDENCE DAY here>>.
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