I've kind of gotten into the swing of tailoring movie choices with my daughter around the era that she's studying in history. We've dealt with 40s-50s so far, and she's moving into the 60s. So the question becomes, what SF movies from the 60s (that I consider iconic and/or enjoy a lot) should I impose share with her to give her a sense of the zeitgeist.
Movie ideas I'm leaning towards:
Crack in the World [a kitschy SF/disaster class]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea [the Irwin Allen Walter Pidgeon movie]
Village of the Giants [teen JDs grow big and go wild!]
5 Million Years to Earth [Quatermass and the Pit]
Planet of the Apes [iconic]
Fantastic Voyage [spiffy fx, Cold War, plus Raquel Welch]
2001: A Space Odyssey [iconic and high concept]
Of course, in the SF/Fantasy realm, there are some TV shows that bear some possible sharing:
The Twilight Zone [which could take us weeks]
The Outer Limits [ditto]
Lost in Space [nothing past S.1]
The Avengers [arguably SF/Fantasy]
The Prisoner [ditto]
The obvious TV show, Star Trek, we've already gone through.
So, obviously, there's way more there than can be easily shared in the time frame involved. Indeed, I probably can only manage 2-3 movies, which just kills me. I'm thinking of Apes, 2001, and I'm torn on what else might fit in there. Am I missing anything major/obvious?
(The 70s and 80s lists are already seriously filling up.)
The Prisoner and The Avengers are a must.
Logan's Run for the Seventies as well as UFO.
2001 and Planet of the Apes are for sure, would skip some of the others on the list.
My other favorites from the 60s are The Day of the Triffids and The Valley of Gwangi.
Logan's Run is 1976, but thanks for the reminder. "UFO" is -1981- 1970.
Hmm. So maybe 2001 and Apes, and then a duo of the first episode of "The Prisoner" and … hmmm, finding an appropriate "Avengers" episode. Though for both, my DVD sets are buried at the moment.
Been a while since I've seen Triffids, but it's certainly a classic. Never saw Gwangi.
Hmm. We already saw The Time Machine (1960).
UFO is 70-71, so seventies I guess again. Mary has those.
Village of the Damed.
La Jetee (a french short)
The Time Machine
Fahrenheit 451
The Seventies are when SciFi starts to get dark.
Soylent Green
Roller Ball
The Valley of Gwangi is Cowboys and Dinosaurs. Well, dinosaur.
don't forget Green Slime, 2001 Space Odyssey is one of my favorite
ever see Robinson Crusoe on Mars.
Assignment outer space, Forbidden Planet.
Already seen The Time Machine (George Pal for the win!). Fahrenheit 451 is excellent but too damned depressing.
+Scott Randel Ah, right, recall that one now.
+Heinrich _Forbidden Planet_ is 1950s (also already watched, though excellent).
oh I just mentioned Forbidden Planet because it's one of my favorites I also like, land that time forgot. 75 I believe.
I got a question for you or anyone that knows whats the movie where the scientist take the drill and travel into the earth and they find dinosaurs. At the end they tried to take out a t rex like dinosaur with a large rock and sling shot like device but it doesn't work. late 70s I believe movie was in color.
+Stan Pedzick Yeah, dystopias are big in the 70s. Might well do Soylent Green (heck, I should do The Omega Man in there and make it all a Charlton Heston trifecta alongside Apes).
70s also gives us The Andromeda Strain, which is definitely on the list. And Silent Running. And, of course, we might have to circle back to Star Wars …
+Heinrich Oooh, yeah, The Land That Time Forgot. There are a lot of Verne and Wells moves from the 60s, esp. early on. (I guess 20,000 Leagues would also qualify — oops, that's '54).
The movie you mention doesn't sound familiar to me.
Hey, One Million Years BC is 1966. Hmmm. No, that's more of a film for me, not my daughter …
+Dave Hill oh yeah, Omega Man!
Omega Man is 1971. Though I have a much fonder memory of Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth, which is a 60s movie. Much scarier (as I recall from a late afternoon long, long ago).
Hmmm. Then we could watch I Am Legend, and +Kay Hill could write a compare-and-contrast essay. Esp. if she then read the original Matheson work.
I'm going through all my DVDs right now lol Assignment outer space,
Destroy all planets.
Uh,
2001 A Space Odyssey
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Dr. Strangelove
Our Man Flint (Marginally SF but very 60's)
Fantastic Voyage
Barbarella (depending on your kids age)
Je T'aime Je T'aime
Doppelgänger
The Illustrated Man
Marooned
That ought to keep you up late.
Book: A Fall of Moondust (1961) Arthur C. Clarke
Before Kennedy announced going to the Moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYb_mhiE-qU
+Stan Pedzick I read the Fahrenheit 451 book in class, so I think I am good on that note. Also +Dave Hill, IF YOU TRY AND MAKE ME DO AN ESSAY, I WILL TIE YOU TO A CHAIR AND MAKE YOU WATCH THE WILD WILD WEST MOVIE UNTIL YOUR EYES BLEED!!!!
Movie: The 10th Victim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10th_Victim
Reality TV, with a little blood. LOL
+Kay Hill
snortOkay, I hadn't known you had read the book.
Though, having you do a thousand word review of the movies that you watch would've fun. That way we can see what your PoV of the movie was like compared to +Dave Hill PoV of the film.
I like this idea and support it 100%!
So a proposal for +Kay Hill, a penny per word with a maximum of a thousand words, that after basic grading (e.g. A = 90%, a B = 80% and so on) for every movie review posted on G+.
So yes, this is a learning opportunity on how to do critiques of movies.
+Stan Pedzick That isn't necessary. I have enough writing to do WITHOUT you guys deciding to have me wrote essays on movies. Also, that would take all the fun out of watching movies!
+Kay Hill You know, I do reviews in Letterboxd all the time and it doesn't hurt my enjoyment of them any.
I say we make +Dave Hill review the work documents that cross his desk.
If you're doing Land that Time Forgot, then also look for People That Time Forgot and At The Earth's Core, all featuring Doug McClure.
+Dave Hill the show with the dinosaur I was talking about is called The Last Dinosaur 1977
So we watched "2001" tonight.
I owe my daughter a profound apology. https://plus.google.com/101083456815352083930/posts/aZFng1xHApL
my god it's full of stars
+Heinrich 2010 was a hell of a lot more conventional of a film. And I'm now seriously tempted to rewatch it because 2001 left such a bad taste in my mouth.
2001 has been puzzling viewers since the day it came out and will probably forever continue to puzzle people until humans are so advanced that we become “Starchildren” like Dave himself
+Heinrich Y'know, it's not becoming the Starchild, or even the weird hotel suite stuff, but the ENDLESS spacewarp / color-manipulated landscape montage that really chapped my attention span.
Stanley Kubrick stated the color manipulated landscape montage you speak of was a zoo of all life forms brought together.
Of course it was. Not that one could actually tell, but it was an amazing 30-second montage stretched over five minutes.