I am taking a risk here and reviewing a movie which exists on You Tube. The link has been up for 11 months so I take this as a positive sign. I had War of the Gargantuas in my review queue and then all the sudden, there is War of the Gargantuas on flippin’ Comet! So I pivoted to another semi-obscure but amazing film, The Green Slime.
What’s cool about it? Well, the title music is absolutely the best, maybe one of the top ten super cool just for the movie opening credit scene musics ever done. It pops up about one minute into the hot opening.
This was directed by Kinji Fukasaku, who directed mostly gangland (Yakuza) films prior to and after this. It was a co-production with Toei and MGM studios, which meant the film ended up having that Japanese monster film sensibility, bright colors and beautiful cinematography with an all-American cast. Speaking of those bright colors (and clean sets), I blame Star Wars for the whole ‘dirty space world’ look.
This was based on a short story by Ivan Reiner, who also did The Wild, Wild Planet and War Between the Planets. The screenplay was done by none other than Bill Finger, the co-creator of Batman. This explains why this movie plays like a comic book. Which is great! It’s all action with sparse dialog meant to serve as character development. Most modern critics this film is considered terrible. Seriously? I can find a five movies worse by throwing a dart. This did spawn a Green Slime award at Bubonicon, and also was the very first movie spoofed by Mystery Science Theater, so there is that. Sadly getting spoofed by Rifftrax or Mystery Science Theater can make it difficult to find the original film again. So here we are, watching the original on YouTube.
Robert Horton is square jawed Commander Jack Rankin. He was in TV westerns, and even did a cover of King of the Road.
His uniform looks like the Dickies outfits I had to wear when I did auto repair. Thick, gritty and uncomfortable. Seriously he just needs a little captain hat and a rake to look like he just finished cleaning up the lawn. But enough about the male actors! Look at Luciana Paluzzi as Dr. Lisa Benson in this film! Holy Cow! She is still kicking about, no doubt due to her yoga regimen. She was also in the James Bond movie Thunderball. Her hair is perfect even when the Green Slime attacks and the space station is in disarray.
Our monsters tonight are green, but they are not slimey, nor slime like. The monsters did get their own action figure and are legendary in their own right, mostly for being stupid looking monsters.
I hope you enjoy tonight’s movie, I am compiling all the suggestions from last week and building out a plan for the next few months. Watch this! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary!
A few different people have reprehensibly tried to slime The First OF All Firsters. No matter how much I do for humanity and how much I tell them I don’t swing that way, they persist. I have to be ever vigilant. Constantly watching my own six because I can’t really trust anyone to do that for me. The task is to important to be delegated. Do you know what I mean?
Yes. I have been firsted. And this is the first first by you on this Thursday movie post after 18 shows. It’s historic.
It is the lot of a Firster in life to be unappreciated. To be the target of jealousy and all of the worst, base elements of human emotions that humanity has to offer. It is always nice to find the exception. The person who can appreciate that they have encountered someone who is just better than they are. I thank you, seconder, for recognizing my greatness.
I think you mean too important
The laws of grammar do not apply to a Firster.
Your a loon.
Is that an ironic loon?
I hope so.
Welcome to you are DOOM?
Is that some kind of ironic doom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OYA_rNgGjg&list=PLzjCCylmuEi82l8iS32KnYVss3w4fI6nj&index=36
Doom
There is a radio station in Fourscore’s neck of the woods called the “POWER LOON”. After they say “POWER LOON”, there is a forlorn loon call.
They still play the same music they played 30-35 years ago.
https://live.theloon.com/listen/
It brings back many happy memories. Most of my teenage summers were spent in that area.
Who’s on first?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M
*hits play*
Enjoy! This is a great flick.
So that’s where Colourbox got that sample.
It’s been samples and redone a lot. Time was very limited this week or I would have added in a bunch of covers and samples.
Covers of the opening song?
Yes, at least one punk band did a version, which I lost in a forest of songs about green slime. It is amazing how many people have songs with ‘green slime’ in it. I blame Nickelodeon for this.
OMG that show was great.
*gets groovy*
Holy crap. Typos in the article and my comments. Gaaaaahh…
Green Slime is a critter in D&D. Though, I think that critter was different from what is in this movie.
Robert Horton is square jawed Commander Jack Rankin. He was in TV westerns, and even did a cover of King of the Road.
“King of the Road” is a good song. I think also good for Swing dancing.
Look at Luciana Paluzzi as Dr. Lisa Benson in this film!
Yum.
Time to start the movie. I’m still working, so I might not be all that active.
You enjoy. Tonight is a great one.
They spared no expense here.
Try not to look too close. It does have that Doctor Who feel for the monsters.
Why wouldn’t a super-genius cyborg have a toilet plunger for an arm?
It looks a little more polished than Blake’s Seven or old-timey Doctor Who.
Definitely the sets look incredible. The monsters, not so much.
I love the chunky workstations. Calls to mind that secret Chilean bunker for some reason.
Also Space: 1999 – some of the best TV sci-fi sets ever.
I used to have the model ship as a toy. Mom tossed it sometime in my 30’s. While I wasn’t going to play with it, I don’t even want to look on eBay to see how much they’re going for.
I had some of the Captain Scarlet vehicles. I got them from a toy store called ‘Toys by Roy.’ He had the Space 1999 ships too. Mine met the same fate. Dinky or Corgi toys, I think.
My (much) older brother had that too.
I was never interested in that sort of toy, but he was a model nerd so he had all kinds of them.
Fiona Volpe!
Guessing that’s the bombshell with her arms all over the dorky blond guy?
Yup! James Bond villain from Thunderball. Companion to many fantasies to a young Hobbit. IYKWIMAITYD.
Been meaning to look this one up sometime – I think there was a nice DVD release or blu-ray remaster. I’ll need to relook. The problem is that some of these period flicks are absolutely legit and then they get shitty US dubs or hack job cuts for domestic release which is how they get remembered locally.
The one that sticks in my head even though I only have the nicer DVD release is “Attack of the Mushroom People” aka “Matango” – which is bizarrely a Toei adaptation of a William Hope Hodgson short horror story….would love to hear the story behind that pitch.
Attack of The Mushroom People is a freaky film.
The Green Slime is worth a good DVD copy. I will say this is a nice clean copy for YouTube.
It also came out on bluray
Might fire this up during commercials… the freeze-pic on Youtube, this guy looks like George Hamilton. Righteous tan.
Is there a way to force the buffering on YouTube? I am cursed with a slow internet connection. I stopped the vid for about 20 mins to fix supper. When I came back the video was as exactly the same spot and about 3 minutes later I got the pause to re-buffer.
Kind of. This is why I don’t like You Tube as a means to introduce people to new movies. If you have the settings “gear” in your web browser, lower your streaming resolution. This film is in 360p and it looks fine. Your version of YouTube may be trying to download a much higher resolution than is available. If you are using the YouTube App, I think by default it always tries to download the highest resolution possible, even if it is ridiculous. Sounds silly to manually adjust your streaming resolution but it seems to work for some people.
Thanks!
Been ages since I’ve done this. Use a web based downloader.
First hit…. https://yt1s.com/
I’m sure there are now others.
After that play the mp4 with VLC.
OT: Seamus is on fire lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3fASiTvPvQ
That ‘Ben Shapiro Thanksgiving’ is awesome.
*gets groovy again*
The green slime attacking the equipment reminds me of the last episode of season three of Blake’s Seven.
Hey! Return to Blood Fart Lake was a classic!
Somebody clicked on the links! Impressive! What are your thoughts on ‘Thankskilling 3?’
*mumbles* Yeah, you could be right about that one.
Let me guess, she ditches her fiancee?
Gotta join a Zoom. I’ll finish this tomorrow. Thanks RJ!
Thanks for coming!
Editors having fun
Edible cannabis can blunt COVID-19 infection, researchers find
Glibs After Dark™.
https://archive.md/YIEs4
NSFW.
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Well, that went by fast.
War of the Gargantuas gave me nightmares when I was about 6.
Konga did that for me at the same age.
Me too. It was an extra weird giant monster movie. And rather hard to come by until the streaming era. I will eventually review it. Damn near all the older Godzilla movies popped up (I think) because of Shout! Video. And that’s a great thing.
I ? this series.
I’d like to recommend Highway to Hell for a future article. Available on Tubi. Featuring a young Kristy Swanson.
Noted. I got a ton of requests last week which will keep me going, I am adding this to the group.
Thx, RJ. These are a fun break from the nonsense going on.
The slime is symbolic of which bodily fluid?
Eye boogers
Cerumen
OT today I learned a new word, 交配.
Was not the kouhai, I expected. I’m sure there is a dad gag here somewhere.
交尾 ブライエンド
Dang it. 交尾 ブライエント
That took me 5 minutes to puzzle out. I hate western names in katakana.
But good one!
“Mix tails” is great euphemism.
Freedom is in our DNA.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Rothmus/status/1481650916566585349
Wow there are a lot of covers of that song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWkhIdOX0nQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FX93Mpi1q4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv3rHYSWDUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c_9PkqAKYk
There are probably more….
Well done. The rabbit hole has been thoroughly searched.
I’m thinking there might be more rabbits in there.
This is crazy,
https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770722271760384
Wow. LA is telling NYC, “hold my beer”.
“On the way”
Lol.
Holy shit. I had no idea this was going on.
Another sign of our country swirling down the drain.
Bring back the Pinkertons.
Or armed guards on every rail car like in “Von Ryan’s Express.”
Yeah, solving this is real easy. It just takes balls.
Lead Balls
That is kind of ominous. Vigilante justice is better than none at all.
That never solved anything.
Except, sometimes, the problem at hand.
Saying that LAPD doesn’t have jurisdiction is bullshit. Yes, railroad police have police powers under state/federal law, but that isn’t sovereign jurisdiction. It’s just like any other private/privately controlled property.
I watched the new War of Worlds movie on Tubi the other day. So incredibly bad, I couldn’t turn it off.
I blame Star Wars for the whole ‘dirty space world’ look.
I think that was pushback against downer-dreck like ‘Silent Running’ – very clean, very depressing..
Richard Jaekel.. might have to save this one for the wife.
Damnit the hell. This is just a shit night. So, i was gaming and I hear this ‘pop’ sound, and I’m thinking what the fuck was that? I really did not hear that and a couple of seconds later, my computer just goes off.
So, I waited just a couple of moments and I get up and push the power switch to turn it back on. And I see fire fly out of my power supply. WTF? So I take the cover off my puter and I detect a lot of heat and then I put my hand on my GPU and it is REALLY freaking hot. So I unplug my PC an wait for about 20 minutes and then come back in here and plug it back in and turn it back in and I see a bigger fire fly out of my power supply. FUCK!
Now I’m on my laptop and I don’t know the extent of the damage yet.But the GPU is a $2500 3080ti, and if the board is fried too, I’m sure I’m looking at, at least 4k in damage here, damn this sucks!
Sorry 🙁
Did you put in a large psu? Those new video cards need tons of power.
It’s a 1000 watt Thermaltake.
And it is toast now, that much I am sure of.
Want one of my surplus desktops? I have Lenovo E73 and M73 both in i5 flavor. 16 GB and 8GB, respectively.
My workhorse is a K410 ThinkCentre, but I need to get rid of some of the junk Ive acquired.
Also, 2 iPads, 2 Microsoft Surface Pro, and an ASUS D550-MA. And an i3 Sony VAOI (VPC46EAFM, 8GB).
This place looks like a paki beer/wine/cigarette pagoda, with DVD rental and cell phone repair/sales.
I’m forming a graveyard of dead computers in my spare bedroom/home office, because I’m too lazy to get rid of them. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to do something about that.
You hate to toss them cause despite being older, they’re good for “something”?
Like minds.
Maybe homeowners insurance covers some of that? High dollar items?
Holy crud Hyp.
I am glad that it did not burn down your dwelling.
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh, Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.
OK Boomer
Shut up, Millennial
Shush, Millennial!
I’m early Gen X, biatch.
Also, I love that song.
Colbert just came on after the news…..counting down until the 1st Trump reference.
can’t take more than 3 minutes…
That’s 3 minutes too long. He was very funny before taking over for Letterman. Now he is poison.
What is it? 90 seconds? 2 minutes?
He went on about Jan 6 and hinted at Trump. Time to move to Pluto.
I remember his Captain America schitck or whatever the fuck that was a couple decades ago, and that’s about it. Late nite turned into garbage shortly thereafter.
MST3K is for me. Specially since Im about 8 beers in.
Good call.
I almost don’t care whether it’s good or bad law – I just love the name that Sen. “Moron” Marshall hung on this bill.
Why are you still awake on a schoolnight, little girl ?
I’m just now getting ready for bed. We went out to an open mic downtown. TT and a good friend of ours – a ridiculously talented young man we’ve known since he was a pint-sized prodigy who’s now all growed up and sporting a full beard – were the class of the night, but we had to suffer through two other acts in between. Longest half-hours of my life.
I like it. More ridicule, please.
Tonight, me & Jugsy got Donato’s AND Fricker’s since Donato’s wings are C+ at best.
You need to come over to the rich side of the Township.
You know we have a Wing Stop now, right? Haven’t tried ’em yet, but they’re open.
And Ben-GIRLS saturday when Jugsy is having another fat girl party.
Sext me their location.
Done. I’m going to bed now. Night night! ?
You’re having an irgy, aren’t you?
Never heard of them before.
This chain. I’ve seen their commercials but have never tried them. Our new location is tucked into a narrow storefront in a pretty depressed shopping center. I wish them luck.
Putting together the oblique hints, I realize that they were replacing the floor of one of that chain’s locations in one of the new Dirty Jobs episodes, but it was a case of “Someone forgot to get clearance to mention their name on camera” so the name got bleeped out. The hints went right over my head at the time since the name meant nothing as of yesterday.
A fast food chain location that pops up on Dirty Jobs does not inspire confidence.
I’ll let Tres try them first and check with him about 48 hours later.
YouTube earned its keep tonight
https://youtu.be/bUwgm3v-MYw
Now you can enjoy the show.
Yes, yes I am. Unfortunately it screwed up the channels. Uh… it was like it when I checked in..
60FPS orDIE! BOOMER!
I hate the world. Yes, this should not even be a thing that exists.
If I learned one thing from The Wire it’s that every Baltimore politician is crooked.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/baltimore-top-prosecutor-marilyn-mosby-indicted-on-perjury-charges/
I hate filling out paper work, their choices are always so binary. Do you rent or own your home? My answer is neither, but that is never an option.
Huh. App I saw recently had an other field.
That option never appears on anything I fill out. I have some paper work I have to file for work, when I filled it out 2 years ago an HR person told me how to file that part, but I can’t remember now. Oh well. Que sera sera.
This is why we need bigger government – David Simon.
I don’t know when, or if I’ll get around to writing it. But I think the time Marlon Brando came to the area to help negotiate for Native American domestic terrorists will be what I cover.
The other guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Groppi
So, he was a protestant?
Well…
Ah, the old ‘I’m Catholic, I just don’t want to follow the rules. Just like the current pope.
Muh Insurectionz!
The cameo business option, despite saying so, did not let me send any kind of script. So we’ll see how this goes.
?
Can you elaborate, or at least post a link to wherever you might have posted details previously?
Also, good luck ? regardless.
For no good reason whatsoever, at around 11:30 pm (PST) I got a wild hair to make pretzels.
It’s a skill (not really a recipe) I learned in 7th grade “Home Economics”.
Put about a teaspoon of yeast in roughly 1 & 1/3 cups warm water (tap water is great; just not TOO hot) along with a tablespoon-ish of sugar to feed the yeast.
Meanwhile, put 3 and 1/2 cups of flour and 1 tsp salt in a mixing bowl.
After the yeast/water cup is foamy, stir it into the flour bowl.
Turn the mixture out onto a floured counter. Knead 8 times, adding flour as needed.
Separate dough into two balls, then those into three, then those into two. 12 Balls total.
Roll each ball into ropes and then shape into pretzels. This is a GREAT opportunity to get kids into baking!!!
Place on greased baking sheet. Whisk 1 TBSP water with a beaten egg and then brush over each pretzel.
Bake at 425 for as long as it takes to look lovely, 12 minutes, plus or minus depending on elevation.
Serve with hot Velveeta melted with some milk.
Carbs. ?
You skip the baking soda bath?
And are these hard pretzels or soft pretzels?
Soft.
And no baking soda bath.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/infant-dies-after-contracting-covid-19-becoming-youngest-person-to-die-from-the-virus-in-riverside-county/
https://pix11.com/news/djokovic-visa-revoked-again-facing-deportation/
This is all so dumb.
Australia, parts of it anyway, is pathetic. I used to think of them as sort of Americans with a funny accent but their attitude about all of this makes California look like Florida.
Hell, the original inmaes shipped there were more freedom minded than the sad sacks still there today.
The descendants of their jailers live there too and that attitude shows.
Canada, too. My forebears were indentured servants.
It seems to boil down to “the people cheer this on out of spite.”
It would be nice if players refused to play over this.
Not gonna happen, he and a few others are free thinkers in a sea of compliant morons.
The three of them are chasing that record. The other two are overjoyed at this development.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/fitness/this-gym-rat-celebrated-his-birthday-by-working-out-oh-and-hes-102/ar-AASLeez
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/01/14/carjacking-victim-shoots-teen-suspect-west-mount-airy-philadelphia/
Philadelphia sucks.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/baby-shark-becomes-first-youtube-070754394.html
Most viewed YouTube video. Where is ZARDOZ?
So far I’ve mainly been exposed to “Baby Shark” at the local minor league ballpark between innings. I intend to keep it that way if at all possible.
OMWC posted it as Old Man Music a week or two ago. Worst earworm ever.
Worse than the Hamster Dance?
Is it the one with the milf with assets? That I can believe. Bored Dads having to watch that need something.
It is not. Faith in humanity irretrievably broken.
Morning, Glibs.
The lack of good governance on how users are created and authenticate made switching authentication services a royal mess this week. We’ve cleaned that up and should have the last random problem cleared up today.
What a waste of a week. We should burn down the system and fire everyone who let the agencies run wild. I don’t care what tax thinks, make them follow the rules.
Good morning, U, Sean, & Stinky!
I’m sorry you’ve had such a frustrating work week, U. My week quieted down, even having to cover a few gotta-do’s for Reliable Co-worker, who took yesterday and today off for his birthday.
Tuesday will probably be my day from Hell.
I can provide moral support tuesday, for what it’s worth. That day doesn’t appear to be filled up yet.
Can you pencil me in some time mid-afternoon? I should be tearing my hair out by then.
It actually may be worse Wednesday, when I have to review the tentative payroll for final approval, making sure all the new pay rates are correct, the incentive amounts are right, and all the “special circumstances” accounted for.
Sure thing.
Sorry for your troubles, UCS, I feel your pain. I spent most of this week cleaning up a mess caused by failure of a process which performs an update followed by an insert. Not wrapped in a transaction, failed after updates were committed. About 100MM records affected. Blecch.
Fun.
My week was just one of those “sure, pull me in 14 different directions, I don’t mind” things.
Thank G-d for (((early release))) today.
Morning Guys.
Typical same BS here.
Morning.
Good morning, ‘bodru!
At least it’s not new & different BS?
I have been doing this job since ’14. Definitely same BS.
Ugh… Thursday is the only night I can get to sleep early, so I always miss these articles when they drop.
R.J., are you a member of the snahp.eu forum? I ask because someone just recently shared (and I greedily downloaded) Blood Car, and the 2 Blood Fart Lake films. Then your article links to those films in a most serendipitous manner.
Good morning, l0! You’ve been sick, have you not? If I’m recalling that correctly, are you recovered now (I hope?)
Thanks for asking. Yes, mostly better, but its still lingering in my chest. It was weird. Severe symptoms for about a week, then I felt fine for a day or two. Then it came back stronger and coupled with wisdom teeth action, put me in bed for another week. Also, kids were exposed to ChiComPox at their schools and ex was exposed at her school so everyone is stuck in the house until Tuesday. Ex tested positive, kids both test negative, I refuse to get tested. Good times…
Yuck. Better times are right around the corner, I hope.
Mornin’, all. In addition to typical BS I now have yet another medication added to my daily regimen. Something to address my… um… memory issues, that’s it! Not sure that’s a great idea, I’d like to forget a lot.of the last two years.
Will this fabulous new pill make your dreams come true?
According to the doc, vivid dreams are a common side effect. Maybe I’ll have some AC worthy poetry to contribute.
Good morning, ‘patzie! I hope your new med is effective with no worrisome side effects!
(Remember – avoid all drugs that have their own TV commercials!)
Especially commercials featuring crooked root vegetables!
WooT! OT issues resolved! If I lived in a freer country I’d be logging into Gunbroker right about now.
Don’t waste all that good money, Festus. Hookers and blow, stat.
O Frabjous Day! ?
Double Woot! I spend the entire weekend without interacting with anyone IRL until Sunday (delivery xersons excluded)!
I hate when I spill my breakfast.
I doubly hate when I spill it on myself.
I had only been wearing that outfit for maybe a half hour.
Proposal:
Lets all stay home and do nothing today. Its to dangerous to go out.
I second the motion!
? Some days it doesn’t pay to get out of your pajamas.
Some nights it pays well to never don said pajamas in the first place. Mornings, too!
My Dad used to wear a long shirt, almost a painter’s smock over his work garb to guard against such eventualities. He called it his “Spaghetti Shirt”. He was a suit and tie guy.
Smart man.
He was remarkably intelligent. He was also the King of bad choices. The acorn falleth not far from the mighty oak.
I’m excited you got your payroll sorted.
Thanks, Friend! It wasn’t the money, it was the idea. I’m still pissed at Kronos for putting me through the shit-show. I’ll just spendthrift it away.
Potheads rejoice, you’re safe!
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2022/01/cannabis-compounds-might-prevent-covid-19-infection-study-shows.html
“According to the study, the compounds bound to the virus’s spike proteins and blocked the process in the pathogen’s development where it usually infects people.”
Where’s my bong?
Everything helps except for the mRNA injections.
I just smoke tobacco now but I’ve yet to get the Koof. There were rumblings early about the tar impeding the spike proteins.
I remember that. Didn’t help me, though.
It was nicotine, I ordered a bunch of nicotine lozenges back when this thing started. Don’t know if effectiveness was further investigated or not.
“Yachts To Be Exempt From EU’s Carbon Pricing Plan”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yachts-be-exempt-eus-carbon-pricing-plan
It’s good to have friends in high places, especially when you need to exempt yourself from the consequences of policies you advocate for.
Those Gulfstreams were already exempt. What’s a few Trillion in grift between friends?
I’ll be fine, my 15 mpg minivan identifies as a yacht.
It’s a landyacht
does the phrase “Tran-axle” work here?
I was gonna make a joke about a “Lady-Yacht” and the man in the boat but the explanation seemed funnier.
Also private jets LOL
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Its been a couple of says since i have seen a ‘THICC?” post, so i figured i would just toss this out here.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10401943/Demi-Rose-goes-braless-wears-semi-sheer-pink-robe.html
What the hell happens when all of that eventually settles down to her ankles? Gumby?
https://www.nj.com/business/2022/01/chick-fil-a-will-replace-a-shuttered-hooters-in-bergen-county.html
“Chick-fil-A, the popular fast-food restaurant chain, will open another New Jersey location, this one in Bergen County.
Construction recently started at 41 Route 4 E. in Hackensack at the site of a shuttered Hooters, according to northjersey.com.”
Right up the road from my kids’ HS. Pretty sure the boys preferred Hooters.
Bright shiny clean Christian girls have their own allure,
Hoo-whee! This weekend is fixin’ to be a fine old hootenanny if the first few hours are any indication! I’m already sort of buzzed.
Doesn’t anyone sleep?
/Yawns/stretches