Miller: “Casting the Runes” is by M.R. James. Great story.
I believe that The Seven Samurai bear more than just a resemblance to…
A 1920s style death ray. :rolleyes:
A plot summary of the 1931 movie “Ingagi” sounds very similar to another movie released two years later.
The 1980 classic “Without Warning” is a story of an alien trophy hunter who has come to Earth to hunt the natives. In one scene the witless kids stumble upon the alien’s trophy collection. Very similar to the 1987 movie “Predator,” including Kevin Peter Hall giving form to the alien hunter in both movies.
Ron Howard played a boy genius who develops some gunk that turns people into giants in the 1965 classic “Village of the Giants.”
Several years later, he played a boy genius in episode “Genius at work” of “Land of the Giants” in which he develops some gunk that turns the “little people” into Giants. There’s a funny sort of scene in which Fitzhugh (played by Kurt Kasznar) finally gets to manhandle a giant, in this case Vic Perrin, probably best known as the narrator of the original “Outer Limits” series.
There was no narrarator. It was “The Control Voice”
Hello Lamia,
Dory is wonderful. Don’t you just want to smack her silly?
Groundhog Day with Bill Murray portrays a cosmically induced sort of amnesia.
On a different note: apparently, Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were loosely based on the same book, although you wouldn’t know it. This gives new meaning to the term ‘adaptation’. (I can’t seem to squeeze the book title out of my brain at the moment.) Bate’s mother stands in for the evil Grandpa on the farm in TCM. In their own special ways, both elderly relatives drive the young person (s) in their lives to maim and murder. Eeeeek.
Yes, that’s the one. And it’s probably my favourite TNG episode. I agree it is really good. So is 1984 IMO. Now it’s been a good while since I’ve read it, though, so I might be misinformed, but the specific similarity was that I think I can remember that someone in the book, under torture, is made to say that 2+2=5 or 1+1=3 or something like that. And that reminded me of the lights business. The same thing about trying to make someone say/believe something inoccuous but obviously wrong to break their spirit. But it might be a coincidence, or even worse, a well-known tactic of torturers that I’m unware of.
Thanks, Enola. People have been a little sloppy with the obligatory Seven Samurai reference for the last few posts…
Psycho and TCM were both “based” on the life of Ed Gein.
And I’m using the word based in the loosest way possible:
Logan’s Run seems to be a direct rip-off of THX1138 - uncredited, as far as I’m aware. There’s also A Boy and His Dog (my nomination for the All-time Best Surprise Ending Movie) - can anyone sort out the tangle of post-apocalyptic fascist society escape movies? Of which Matrix is just the most recent installment (yawn).
Oh, and isn’t Predator just a movie-length version of Captain Kirk vs. the Big Lizard-Guy? Still a terrific movie, tho.
What are your definitions and standards? Logan;s Run doesn’t have anything to do with THX-1138 as far as I can see, except that the societies are artificial and enclosed. Logan’s Run is based on the novel by William F. Nolan and someone else, and the novel hasn’t got anything to do with THX, either. I think they came out about the same time (THX is based on Lucas’ student film of the same name)
a Boy and His Dog is based on Harlan Ellison’s novella of the same name – it, too, has a buried enclosed society, but no other connection I can see. In fact, the first two movies don’t give any sign that they’re “post -Apocalyptic”. As for Post-Apocalyptic fiction, that goes back to a BIG number of stories, novels, and movies in the 1950s. Interest in the idea hasn’t waned.
No, addressed in an earlier post.
Didn’t that hack Shakespeare rip off West Side Story, remove the songs and try to turn it into a play?
Hey, wait a minute! That rat ripped off Forbidden Planet too! what a creep.
I haven’t seen THX. Logan’s Run, however is definitely post-acopalypse. I’d say the big sign is when when they find an old man living in a ruined building surrounded by forest. The building is the Capitol.
Obvious to you and me maybe, but not to my nephew. That’s why it irked me.
Another one for the OP: Mission: Impossible 2 was extremely similar to Notorious. Same love triangle between Cruise, Newton and the bad guy (forgot his name). There’s even an almost identical scene at a racetrack, where they exchange information and his henchmen almost catch her.
THX doesn’t show the outside world(the entire movie takes place in a huge underground complex/bomb shelter) except at the very end, and then you only see the sky. I think one character says something to the effect that the surface is uninhabitable, and there seems to be the implication of some kind of major disaster.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen that episode, but did he really say “24601”?
In the DC comics series “The New Gods,” we are *introduced to characters Darkseid (hmm, “dark side”?) a character dressed in black–and a mysterious “presence” called “The Source.” One of Darkseid’s mortal enemies is his son, Orion of New Genesis.
In the “Star Wars” univers, we are introduced to “Darth Vader” a character dressed in black, who has been seduced by the “dark side” of some mysterious presence called “The Force.” His mortal enemy is his son, Luke Skywalker.
*Well, he had been introduced earlier, but Kirby’s “New Gods” and related series was where he really became well-known.
A friend of mine in college swore she’d seen a science-fiction movie about a future society where all people over a certain age were killed…
“You mean Logan’s Run?”
No, she said, it wasn’t Logan’s Run. Anyway, all the people had these jewels that changed color, and…
“Sounds like Logan’s Run to me.”
No, she insisted, it wasn’t Logan’s Run, these jewels were implanted in people’s FOREHEADS. It was a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MOVIE! The story was that the main guy was just about to become too old to live, so he had to escape and…
“That was totally Logan’s Run!”
But I could never get her to admit that she was describing Logan’s Run. She continued to insist that she’d seen both movies and they were not one and the same. So if this mystery film was a real movie that was not, in fact, Logan’s Run, it was a total rip-off of Logan’s Run, Logan’s Run was a total rip-off of it, or they were both based on the same novel.
I still think it must have been Logan’s Run, though.
It was Citizen Kane!
Well, maybe it was The Magnificent Ambersons.
No, it was Citizen Kane!
Admit you’re wrong and I’ll take the knife out!