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Octavia Butler's "favorite" movie!
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:49 am
by Liege-Killer
Here it is,
Devil Girl from Mars, the movie Butler says got her started writing, because it was SO bad that anyone could write a better story. Now you can watch this cinematic gem too!
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:35 am
by Omphalos
Thanks for posting this. Butler is one of my favorite writers ever. I have an Octavia Bulter bibliography around here. Ill have to add this when I get home today.
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:26 pm
by Rakis
It was one of those old 1950s movies in which the beautiful Martian woman arrives on earth to announce that all the Martian men have died off and there are a bunch of man-hungry women up there. And the earth-men don't want to go.
Man-hungry women from Mars and earth-men don't want to go ?!
Fucking unreal movies...
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:01 am
by Robspierre
I just saw this two weeks ago and boy is it awful!!!!!! Ed Wood's movies are far more fun!
Rob
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:49 pm
by Himachil
Awful?! This film is a defining example of one of the most ubiquitous motifs used in British science fiction films of a certain vintage -
it's set in a pub.
(IIRC there is actually quite a good essay about British science fiction films set in pubs in one of the books I read for my dissertation
)
I've got a soft spot for this film.. but yeah, it is bloody awful
Great linkage though thanks.
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:15 pm
by Omphalos
What was your dissertation on?
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:05 am
by Himachil
Omphalos wrote:What was your dissertation on?
Some bollocks about the scientist-hero motif in SF. It were shit
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 4:08 pm
by Omphalos
Himachil wrote:Omphalos wrote:What was your dissertation on?
Some bollocks about the scientist-hero motif in SF. It were shit
Did you rely on a lot of older stuff for support?