@RUTGERS.ARPA,@MIT-MC:DUCK@MIT-OZ (01/20/85)
From: Michael Eisenberg <DUCK%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA> Although it's kind of a cliched choice, here's another vote for "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Though I don't, in general, believe in the "it's-so-bad-it's-good" school of criticism, Plan 9 is an exception. It's so bad it's brilliant. It's perfection times -1. Change anything, anything, no matter how small, how trivial, and you would have a superior movie. Remember the interior of the aliens' spaceship? -- A bare room with a wooden table?... Or the "double" for Bela Lugosi who looks nothing at all like Lugosi?... Or the military man who tells his superior, "General, what kind of soldier would I be if I didn't believe in the things I saw and shot at?" Even "The Green Slime" looks like "Citizen Kane" by comparison. - Mike Eisenberg DUCK@OZ "Someday, someone will pass you in the dark, and you won't even know it, because they'll be from outer space!" -------
@RUTGERS.ARPA:Mary (01/26/85)
From: Couse.osbunorth@XEROX.ARPA My nomination for one of the worst "SF" movies would have to be "Robot Monster", circa 1951. The alien was a guy dressed in a gorilla suit with a sort of diving helmet type thing on his head. When he would contact his home planet it was via a standard '50s style TV set showing someone in a similar costume standing in front of a curtain with soap bubbles being blown around behind him. At the end of the movie, the little boy (think his name was Bobby) wakes up to find it was all a dream, then he looks out his window and sees the flying saucer that started his dream coming in. Best line: "I am not hu-man, I am ro-man." /Mary (Great! What's a truck?)