The Green Slime. Not the most...enticing of titles I'll grant you but probably one of the most hilarious old sci-fi B movies ever made. Oddly it appears to have been ripped off by Alien, Armageddon and a host of other 'bigger' movies that movie snobs consider to be almost art in comparrison - Ok, Armageddon is stretching the point a little but you get my idea right?
Now...my issue is this. Beyond ruining a top that I sprayed a mouthful of red wine over whilst laughing at the inept effects, wooden acting, cack-handed editing and sets, spacestations and spaceships that appear to change size depending on who was actually filming that day, this movie has long earned my wrath.
I knew I was different to the other girls, beyond the fact I was the token asian kid. The others considered Michael J Fox to be the embodiment of sexual perfection whereas I was feeling very odd whenever I watched Sigourney Weaver. So when it came to looking around the video store for an evening's entertainment, my eye was drawn to the lovely image above. Naturally the others prefered to rent Doc Hollywood or Back to the Future Part 3 instead so I was left wondering. By the time I got the membership card the video was long gone. So I was always left wondering about the girl on teh front in the tight spacesuit and the fact that I kept getting a warm flush thinking about it was one that annoyed me for years when I couldn't find it for love nor money back in the days when you weren't able to download movies online. Naturally I hunted high and low but it wasn't till a year ago I finally discovered it on a sattelite channel being shown at 3am.
Duly recorded I got out the wine, settled in and looked forward to admiring the leading lady. Suffice to say what I got wasn't quite the wonderful ideal that built up in my mind - the poster lied to me! Not that I didn't enjoy it (despite the loss of my top) but I wanted to see a damsel in a tight silver spacesuit being menaced and I got an actor who made Shatner look like Olivier and a theme tune that left me wondering what they were on when it was recorded?
To get an idea of things for yourself.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79_ljVC5Wk
This movie is in the running for my top ten favorite lines ever.
ReplyDeleteTechnician: We'll never make it, chief, it's coming too fast.
General: We'll just have to move faster.
The delivery is sooo utterly pitch-perfect in it's terribleness.
Also directed by the same bloke who later brought us Battle Royale(AKA Japanese school girls are badass!) which just makes me love this film more.
but I wanted to see a damsel in a tight silver spacesuit being menaced...
ReplyDeleteDon't we all ;)