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Sep 2 11 10:09 AM
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bob7708 wrote: todmichel. where can I get this copy of RXM and how much does it cost? So it looks like the origional and is red tinted as well? Great, and thanks for finding it!!!
Sep 2 11 2:02 PM
todmichel wrote: But incidentally, do you think that the two shots of the missile are from the original film? I thought they were some of the fx later added by Wade Williams. Am I wrong?
Sep 2 11 2:19 PM
But incidentally, do you think that the two shots of the missile are from the original film? I thought they were some of the fx later added by Wade Williams. Am I wrong?
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Sep 3 11 9:17 AM
bob7708 wrote:todmichel: "But incidentally, do you think that the two shots of the missile are from the original film? I thought they were some of the fx later added by Wade Williams. Am I wrong?"I have a VHS tape of the origional (Pre- Wade Williams) and just got through watching it and those shots of the RXM taking off from Mars are from the origional version.
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Sep 3 11 2:08 PM
TomWeaver999 wrote: Wellllll, I'm glad they altered them (by adding commercials and doing a bit of censoring where need be) in order to put them on television in the '60s and '70s, 'cause otherwise I'd have never heard of ANY of these movies! I'm also glad that some of my favorite foreign films were altered (the addition of dubbed voices or subtitles) or I wouldn't know what the heck was going on, when I saw them on TV (altered with commercials).
Sep 3 11 3:56 PM
Thanks for taking the time to post that listing of variations between the three versions of RXM.
Unfortunately Wade Williams, though he obtains good original source prints for films he has collected, also has a propensity for screwing around with some of them (as he also did with KILLERS FROM SPACE and CARNIVAL OF SOULS)
Didn't realize he'd tampered with those two titles; what changes were made?
I heard that he also messed up the origional version of Flight To Mars.
I seem to recall the VHS release of FLIGHT TO MARS used a much better print than its later DVD counterpart, even though both were from the Wade Williams/Corinth collection! (In spite of that, the splice-ridden DVD came out at a higher-price than most of the other Wade Williams Image releases...I guess because of that two-part interview with Cameron Mitchell included as a bonus feature?)
This man told me he didn't know and that this was (as I knew) Williams's favorite film, so they hesitated to ask him to restore a movie he'd tampered with.
It seems odd, if the film is his favorite movie, that he would mess with it...unless he thought "jazzing it up" would help it find a more appreciative audience in these more modern times. (Basically, the mindset behind colorizing movies.) I remember, during the early days of Starlog, the magazine ran a piece on Wade Williams having picked up the rights to RXM and how he had even tracked down the trailer, giving him just about every scrap of footage for the film. His enthusiasm for the movie really came across.Man, there were so many titles like that that I first learned about in those first few years of Starlog...there was something magical about the magazine back then, because there wasn't the saturation of information we now have available to us, and each issue was anticipated treasure. (Not that I'm complaining about the instant access of DVD and the Internet, but the obscurity back then added a mystique to the material. Wasn't easy to see Puppetoons, Max Fleischer's Superman, or a lot of the Fifties Sci-Fi that now appears under the Wade Williams/Image banner. And FORBIDDEN PLANET in widescreen? Fuggetaboutit!)
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Sep 3 11 6:47 PM
TomWeaver999 wrote: Just playing devil's advocate here, because I get along with everybody and want to keep it that way ... but ...For a loooooong time there's been annoyance directed at Wade Williams for having some talented fans come in and shoot some new RXM footage and FX and making his own version that was BRIEFLY released (and is now highly sought after and costs a pretty penny, IF you can find a copy). Ummmmm ....... where's the annoyance/contempt/whatever for the fans who did the work? That's nnnnnnever part of the conversation. Should it be? Should it not be?Hey, I like everybody involved, and it's nice that they did what they did for that briefly released version. But why the double standard? What about the FX guys' "massive egos and stupidity"?Or is that one of those things that You're Not Supposed to Say?
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