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Moving Pictures This area is for discussing any technology that creates moving pictures. Topics in the past have covered favorite avant garde films, old TV sitcoms, animation, current trash TV, TV news, making movies, home brew video, video equipment, and multimedia.

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Old 2008-11-20, 01:25
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Wasilla, Alaska
Default Silly monsters

I thought it might be fun to talk about some movie monsters that bring out unintended laffs.

Like "Robot Monster"--featuring some guy in a gorilla suit with something like a goldfish bowl on his head.

Then there's "The Creeping Terror" (or was it horror?), which has this outer-space thingie that looks like a Chinese funeral procession--a long quilted carpet-like affair with a bunch of college kids underneath it (look close and in some scenes you can see their little sneaker-clad feet).

And "The Killer Shrews", which features collies with fake fangs as the titular monsters (and a heroine with a Swedish accent for no apparent reason). . . . .
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Old 2008-11-20, 01:49
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hardtown, hardstate, hardnation
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A Sound of Thunder.

Oh my god they ruined that short story.
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Old 2008-11-20, 04:29
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Winston-Salem/Greensboro, NC
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It Conquered the World or This Island Earth
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Old 2008-11-20, 13:09
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Sydney, Australia
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I saw the first 5 minutes of Return of The Killer Tomatos the other day... that gets my vote.


EDIT: I just realised the first post said "unintended." Now I have to think this one over to get a proper answer.
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Old 2008-11-20, 19:39
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Wasilla, Alaska
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^Yeah, that's why the serial killer in "Freak out" (2005) doesn't count, either.
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Old 2008-11-22, 03:05
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Mexico
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That Leprechaun from the movie of the same name. I think Jennifer Aniston was in it. It always made me lol, especially because the spanish title translation for the movie is basically:

"The evil leprechaun from outer space". Like, couldn't they just call it "Duende (Leprechaun)?"
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Old 2008-11-22, 04:09
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Funkytown
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Trolls 2.



Nothing compares.
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Old 2008-11-22, 07:54
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Canada
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Invasion of the giant spiders.



Imagine if you will, a Volkswagen beetle with felt over it and a bunch of fake legs driving around slowly in a group of people.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Bksvon-hSDM
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Old 2008-11-22, 09:11
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Sydney, Australia
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I thought of a serious one, the alien/predator hybrid from AVP:R.
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Old 2008-11-22, 19:49
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Chicago
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i saw Yetti last week on sci-fi.

i must admit, it was pretty awful. however, it was pretty entertaining, sci-fi is usually notorious for that.
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Old 2008-11-23, 08:23
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The Great Below
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How about the chick from "Teeth"?
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Old 2008-11-27, 18:49
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Houston, TX
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Gremlins, my god, the Gremlins! 1 and 2 (which was superior).
 
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