OLD fantasy/SF films

[K T Ong]

Do you own any old fantasy/SF titles (roughly from the 30s to the 60s) on DVD? Which ones are your favorites?

Just got George Pal's Atlantis: The Lost Continent and Richard Fleischer's Fantastic Voyage recently. Truly wonderful films. Can never forget the cherry-red death ray (among many other things, of course) from Atlantis -- so beautiful and terrifying at the same time. :) As for Fantastic Voyage, the idea of being shrunken down to microscopic size and wandering inside the human body is just so original and clever. The way the interior of the human body is depicted in the film is as surreal and wonderful as a Dali painting, too. Really, 3D Realms should make a FPS game based on this film. ;)

[SonnyBonds]

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w252/SonnyB73/barbarella.jpg

Some scientist guy tries to kill Barbarella in this pleasure machine where the point is getting her so orgasmic that she dies from it.
Also has a city floating on evil, a blind angel that has lost the will to fly (something Barbarella corrects easily), Duran Duran etc, etc..

[K T Ong]

Some scientist guy tries to kill Barbarella in this pleasure machine where the point is getting her so orgasmic that she dies from it.

Instead, she overloaded the machine with her orgasms and it blew up, right? :D

[Karthik]

Does Jane Fonda really wear those clothes like in the poster?! If yes, I'm definitely getting it from EBAY.

[wayskobfssae]

Forbidden Planet
War of the Worlds (George Pal)
This Island Earth
The Mysterians (The Toho one, not Captain Scarlett which everyone confuses it with when I bring it up)
Them


I've seen bits and pieces of Barbarella, but the movie looked so awful that I couldn't watch it anymore. Seemed like one of those really bad excuses for a sex movie, only 100x more poorly done than Charlies Angels 2 :p

[SonnyBonds]

Does Jane Fonda really wear those clothes like in the poster?! If yes, I'm definitely getting it from EBAY.

Oh she wears many costumes in the movie.. here are some promotional shots -

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w252/SonnyB73/barbarella1.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w252/SonnyB73/barbarella2.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w252/SonnyB73/barbarella3.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w252/SonnyB73/barbarella4.jpg

[AlienAssKicker]

LABYRINTH

http://images.movie-gazette.com/albums/L/labyrinth1.jpg

[K T Ong]

[LIST]
Forbidden Planet

I seem to have read that it was intended as a SF remake of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

[IHerman]

I have Tron and Willow, but that's 80's stuff. I don't have anything older than that.

[jimbob]

the original Time machine. i thought it was quite good.

[Boo Boo Juice]

LABYRINTH

http://images.movie-gazette.com/albums/L/labyrinth1.jpg

Starring David Bowie's bulge.

Oh, and it is all about The Dark Crystal

[wayskobfssae]

Starring David Bowie's bulge.

The Goblins didn't call him "King" for nothing... :p

[Gamebrain]

http://www.impawards.com/1986/posters/aliens_ver1.jpg

"Get away from her you BITCH!"

[Paroxysm]

impawards.com

[Grande 3:16]

Them!
It Came From Outer Space

[tvc 15]

Starring David Bowie's bulge.
:love:

The Man Who Fell To Earth (http://imdb.com/title/tt0074851/) is nice, though there's no bulge goodness. I didn't find it that entertaining but it has Bowie so it's amazing.

[Commando Nukem]

Can anyone say
"The Day The Earth Stood Still" ? :)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3232643887050775784&q=The+day+the+earth+stood+still&hl=en

1951. Good stuff.

[Buzzer]

"Plan 9 from outer space" is the only "old" sf movie i own. It blows, but that's the whole point tough:

http://www.horrordvds.com/reviews/n-z/plan9/plan9_shot3l.jpg

[Grande 3:16]

"Plan 9 from outer space" is the only "old" sf movie i own. It blows, but that's the whole point toughThey've got that at video stores here for about $4. I've been tempted to get it, but dunno if I want it bad enough to part with $4. :p

[Commando Nukem]

They've got that at video stores here for about $4. I've been tempted to get it, but dunno if I want it bad enough to part with $4. :p

Im pretty sure it is also on Google video for free viewing since its so damn old.(Along with Night of the living dead, which just roxorz). Better off to save your money.

[Tetsuro]

Nah, it's not that old. Films from '59 ain't public domain yet. Plan 9 is public domain because no one WANTED it. :p I have it on DVD, paid a lot more than four bucks, and I think it was worth the price anyway.

But of old sci-fi movies...Metropolis? Or is that TOO old? :D

2001 was made in '68, and it still stands out as one of the few "hard" sci-fi movies (ie. no sound in space, etc.) out there. I also liked Forbidden Planet...hmmm...the original Gojira, does it count as sci-fi too?

[mon2908]

Raumpatrouille Orion (Space Patrol)

Great series from the sixties. If you watch it today it is so strange and weird that you could believe the drug ecstacy existed way before the eighties. (I call the Metall box with the cinematic movie and the series my own.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAIRlgTf7ms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvcpz3-UFF4

[crunchy superman]

70's is as far back as my collection goes for Sci-Fi.

http://crunchysuperman.freeservers.com/Zardoz.jpg
http://crunchysuperman.freeservers.com/soylent%20green.jpg

[AlienAssKicker]

WOAH! Soylent Green is THE BEST! My favourite Sci-fi of all time.
But the reason why I didn't mention it is because it's not fantasy at all. It really is the future.

Another favourite would be Logan's Run:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00004VVNB.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg