There is an image in my mind that spawned a few nightmares over the years.
It was a pool of liquid in a deep crater that had a mind and telepathic powers. It was on the surface of Uranus (?), an ice planet, and a rocketship from Earth landed and lost crew to the being’s machinations.
I can’t find it with these clues; I’ve searched IMDB but since I don’t know a title or any cast I don’t know where to look.
Any thoughts? What movie was this? It was in theaters in the 60’s.
Are you sure it was a pool of liquid? This sounds a lot like Voyage to the Seventh Planet, but in that one they find a large supercooled brain weith a big eye in it. The Brain can create the illusion that their desires/ fears are present.
I remember that movie! Greta Thyssen, and a lot of wandering around a Scandinavian farm. Not as exciting as it could have been :rolleyes:
I think that’s the movie, too. That astronaut crew was in a tight spot in Uranus.
aaaarrrrrrrrgh.
Thank you. It’s been a long time since I saw this, and my memories are fragmented. Yes, it is the movie I was asking about, and another monster falls to the power of reason.
I don’t know about the movie,but I love to say Uranus
priapus loves to say Uranus.
<wanders off snickering>
Yup. Isaac Asimov once said that the media preferred the incorrect pronunciation of “YOUR-anuss” because they could not handle “your-ANUS.”
I never could figure out how “anus” was such a no-no word.
But then, I never could figure out why the husbands and wives in the 1950s were always shown as sleeping in separate beds, my experience with my parents to the contrary. Even at age 5, I thought this was really stupid.
The best thing about Voyage to the Seventh Planet was the title song. Sorta set the mood for the whole movie.
Once watching some old show at age 10 I turned to my mom and asked “Don’t they have sex? I thought they were married.”
That turned into a long day.
Since the word was originally Latin, wouldn’t the correct pronunciation be “oo-rah-noos”? But I don’t know which syllable would be stressed. Then again, in Latin anus would be pronounced “ah-noos,” wouldn’t it? So the pun would still work – if any ancient Roman other than astrologers had occasion to talk about the planet at all.
In a Futurama episode, Professor Farnsworth comments that "We decided to eliminate those stupid jokes ages ago, and renamed it ‘Urectum’ ".
I could never figure out how saying “URINE-us” was supposed to be any better.
As far as I know, the planet now called Uranus was unknown to the Romans; it’s barely visible to the naked eye under the best circumstances. So they may have made rude puns, but they’d be talking about the father of the Titans. Maybe we’ll get to hear Titus Pullo make such a pun on the tv show “Rome”.
As I’ve remarked on this Board before – don’t make fun of the name “Uranus”, however you pronounce it. The planet was almost called “George”.
It was discovered – the first planet to b discovered since classical times – by self-made astronomer William Herschel, who originally thought to brown-nose it and offered to name it fter King George of England, and suggested it be called “Georgium Sideris”. Cooler heads eventually prevailed, and they decided to stay with classical names (although another poster noted that the name “Geoge” did tick for several years before “Uranus” prevailed. For a while it was even called “Herschel”, sfter its discovererer. )