…d and whose claim to fame is that it wound up in The Official Razzie Movie Guide, a compendium of terrible movies. All in all, I think we would have been better off if The Island of Dr. Moreau had been never been completed: then it would have become the mysterious “unfinished” film starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer—and in that alternate reality you could imagine that it would have been spectacular. But, alas, our reality prevails, and 1996’s T… … More
…auty’ and presented the artwork to Ridley Scott. He loved it and Giger was commissioned to design the alien creature as well as the alien spacecraft—Giger took the work very seriously and personally airbrushed the alien set. Alien was an enormous success and screened at Grauman’s Egyptian Theater in Hollywood 24 hours a day—some people were so freaked out they supposedly had to run to the restrooms to throw up. It has become a well-regarded classi… … More
…ntastic Voyage to Shawn Levy, director of Real Steel. The film wil be a big-budget 3-D spectacular. In an interview with Collider, an energized Levy revealed that the film will be “tactile and hands-on” you will get out of the boat and take “free dives in the [human] body with real full-scale underwater sets.” The script is still being written, and Levy is scheduled on several films, including a new version of Frankenstein, so Fantastic Voyage may… … More
…present the scientists’ deepest emotional scars. Deep into the film, one researcher wakes to find a ‘visitor’ sitting in his quarters—a beautiful young woman from his past. She searches for her shoes, confused, remembering only vaguely who she is—but she knows who he is, and she appears to love and trust him deeply. In fact, she clings to his side. But he is repulsed by her presence, as she is a resurrection of his greatest love, and his deepest g… … More
…jumps through time—leaving a flaming trail of tire tracks. With doors that open upwards and a stainless steel finish, the car itself looks almost like a futuristic UFO, especially to the simple folk of the 1950s. The scenes with the DeLorean were mostly shot during the freezing cold hours before dawn and the hydraulics that held up the DeLorean’s doors failed, slowly lowering them. Michael J. Fox turned this into a running gag as he was constantly… … More
…s barren environment, they live in a stunning open-air home of the future, complete with a garden, wild deer and tigers, and a powerful mechanical servant–the famous ‘Robby the Robot.’ However, as his confident and naïve daughter steps out of the pool, naked, and into the arms of the visiting ship’s captain, the balance of this artificially created world begins to crumble and a raging monster from twenty years ago is awakened. Even though it is a… … More
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