Classic low-budget science-fiction, fantasy & horror films that you like?
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Ah. The M*A*S*H Effect. Why keep showing how terrible and pointless war is when you can just start giving Alan Alda long-winded speeches about how war is pointless and terrible?
Having said that, I could watch James Spader speechifying on Boston Legal until the cows come home.
If the speech is about the film itself, we can find a lot of not too serious, but problems in it. Unfortunately, people all over the world are ready before the cooperation with the company like the one done Quincy. Moreover, if I had a chance to choose once again, I will do the same.
I watched it off and on for a while it was on Cozi and I had the same issue. Like you I agreed with a lot of what the show had to say, but it just got to preachy after a while. I don't mind if shows deal with issues as part of the cases or whatever, but I prefer it if there is more than just the issue.
All the Kind Strangers. Pre-dates Children of the Corn and is much more realistic.
By the way....does anyone recall which ultra-low-budget old sci-fi movie had flying saucers that were very clearly paper plates that were set on fire? I can't remember and can't find footage or an image.
By the way....does anyone recall which ultra-low-budget old sci-fi movie had flying saucers that were very clearly paper plates that were set on fire? I can't remember and can't find footage or an image.
That's the urban myth about Plan 9 from Outer Space, but in reality it was a store-bought model kit flying saucer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space#Casting
Yeah....I just watched those two posted excerpts and it's not that movie.
Somewhere, there is a movie with footage of a black background and a flaming paper plate that's supposed to be a spaceship. You can even make out the ridges on the paper plate, IIRC.
Like I said, that's long been an urban myth about Plan 9. It could be that this is a case of the Mandela Effect -- you've heard the story enough times that you imagine a memory of actually seeing it.
What I'm saying is that it is evidently from a different movie, not Plan 9.
I've heard the "paper plates on fire" story many times in my life, and it's always, always been in connection with Plan 9, never any other movie as far as I recall.
I wonder if you could be thinking of Tim Burton's Ed Wood, which recreates the filming of Plan 9 including that iconic scene. I think it may have gone with the paper plate myth.
In what I remember, there was only 1 paper plate on fire. It was moving from left to right across the screen and besides the black background itself there was nothing else but the 1 flaming plate in the scene.
I delved deeply into memory and I am reasonably certain that I did not see the entire movie. I believe that it was an excerpt that was screened along with excerpts of various other movies. I believe that one of the other excerpts was from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I believe it was a program devoted to some of the worst films ever made. Back in the 1980s, I watched a lot of Siskel and Ebert. It may have been one of their shows. The 1980s has the feel of when I saw the footage. And the thing is, between then and now I have not thought of that footage or read about this urban legend with Plan 9, or anything. My question in the post upthread is the first time I happened to remember it since I saw it. Because, at the time, my feeling was "Well, there's a movie to absolutely avoid."
I delved deeply into memory and I am reasonably certain that I did not see the entire movie. I believe that it was an excerpt that was screened along with excerpts of various other movies. I believe that one of the other excerpts was from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I believe it was a program devoted to some of the worst films ever made. Back in the 1980s, I watched a lot of Siskel and Ebert. It may have been one of their shows. The 1980s has the feel of when I saw the footage. And the thing is, between then and now I have not thought of that footage or read about this urban legend with Plan 9, or anything. My question in the post upthread is the first time I happened to remember it since I saw it. Because, at the time, my feeling was "Well, there's a movie to absolutely avoid."
Like I said, human memory is fallible. A 30-year-old memory is unlikely to be accurate, and our brains can easily confuse our factual memories with ideas we've subconsciously absorbed from the world around us and don't even remember being exposed to. That's what the Mandela Effect is all about. You might be right about some parts of that memory, but the details could easily have been distorted over time.
I know that when I've gone back and revisited movies I saw in the '80s, the scenes I found most memorable often played out rather differently than I'd remembered. I'd embellished them in my mind over time, misremembering details and confusing my own ideas for how to improve a scene with the way it had actually happened. The brain isn't a tape recorder -- we alter our memories every time we think about them.
I can't find a reference online to any "burning paper plate" flying saucers in movies except for the Plan 9 urban myth. And I think it would be unlikely to work as a special effect in any case, given how quickly a paper plate would probably burn.
I know that when I've gone back and revisited movies I saw in the '80s, the scenes I found most memorable often played out rather differently than I'd remembered. I'd embellished them in my mind over time, misremembering details and confusing my own ideas for how to improve a scene with the way it had actually happened. The brain isn't a tape recorder -- we alter our memories every time we think about them.
I can't find a reference online to any "burning paper plate" flying saucers in movies except for the Plan 9 urban myth. And I think it would be unlikely to work as a special effect in any case, given how quickly a paper plate would probably burn.
I am not kidding when I think you may want to check out this clip from Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" (semi-biopic) film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wood_(film)
(And I think there is a 'recreated sequence' attributed to "Plan 9 From Outer Space" where they do a 'finished effect' type shot of a burning paper plate as a flying saucer <--- And that's what you (and even myself) may remember as I too recall a shot with clearly burning paper plate on a string).
That's interesting, but not the one from my memory.
What I remember was an ordinary paper plate with no added dome. It was literally just a paper plate with no modification. Also, the entire thing was not on fire....just part of the edge. Like they lit it with no accelerant and as it started to burn they filmed the scene before much of it had a chance to be consumed. It moved from bottom left to top right across the black background and there was a wobble to it from simply jiggling the camera.
My memory has been tested, numerous times, and found to be much better than average....seems to be eidetic with some things, though definitely not all. This is one of those times when I saw something once, briefly, and remember it in vivid detail.
Where I was living, as a child in the 70s, there was no trash service. My folks had to burn the paper refuse. I can tell you that many paper plates burn quite slowly, as a matter of fact. Sometimes, it's even difficult to get them to burn. There are a lot of variable factors and inconsistencies in batches of them during the manufacturing process that contribute to that.
Some things, but not all. This could easily be in the latter category. This is why knowledge requires external corroboration. I can't find any corroboration that such a movie exists. As I said, a Google search for what you describe turns up nothing but Plan 9 references. Now, it's possible that there was a real instance that people tend to confuse with Plan 9, but if so, I can't find any evidence.
"Knowledge"....in the sense of definitive 'truth'....yes. Completely agree.
What I don't like to see is when unusual things are looked at askance and the ones making the reports are cast in an unfairly suspicious light for various reasons.
Often times, even "corroboration" only goes so far and may not be definitive. Even 'The Mandela Effect' itself, for that matter, illustrates that fact because there are two sides and many who 'corroborate' on those sides.
I think that the best approach is to leave most things at least somewhat open-ended. Because this is a funny old world and universe and we 'know' very little about it, at this point.
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