Avengers/JLA

 I have not yet commented about George Perez and his diagnosis.  It makes me too sad.  I can, however, comment about this special reprint of the Justice League/Avengers crossover.  It is limited to 7.000 copies, which is fine and good, but damn, it's a mess overall.  The proceeds are going to George, but already people want to buy all 7,000 copies.  Then sell them for $300 on eBay.  George won't see a dime of that money.  Apparently most stores are only getting one or two copies of the thing.  It is priced at $30, which is pretty good, but even that won't net much monies for George.  It is all very annoying that Marvel and DC didn't get their baktag together earlier and make it a much larger run.  I would love a copy of this.

MOTW- Gavadon

 

Several small vandals desecrate a work yard with their graffiti.  A strange cosmic ray brings a drawing of a monster to life, which is pretty cute.  The vandals "improve" their drawing, and Gavadon wakes up, then goes back to sleep.  The older morons attack the monster, which does absolutely nothing to it.  It even ignores Ultraman.  Finally, our hero takes pity on the beast and takes him, and the rays of "terror" back to space where they can do no harm.

Sven- Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

 

This is actually a pretty good Bert I. Gordon movie, all things considered.  It is kind of a dark movie, with a lonely, misguided scientist who is in desperate need of psychological help.  He shrinks people so they won't leave him.  His wife did, and that obviously took a toll on his fragile psyche.  The man is obviously a genius, since he figured out how to use white star material AND proper suspended animation.  Eventually his misdeeds are found out and he plans to kill his puppet people and himself.  The two heroes figure out how to return to normal height, and then leave the others and the crazed man.  We never do find out what happens.

Attack Of The Puppet People (1958) Sven

Here's an interesting if kinda boring movie.  It's a low budget version of Dr. Cyclops, with rockin' tunes and hip lingo. 

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Theatrical Trailer

                                                Damn what a great movie this is.  I don't actually remember seeing this trailer, but I must have, it was everywhere.

MOTW- Gamakujira

 Gamakujira (literally "toad whale") eats pearls.  That and its gigantic size are the only thing wrong about it.  It is pretty harmless otherwise.  It has some kind of corrosive mist or spray it can use as a defense.  The humans, needing pearls for some reason, have to stop the beast, though of course their efforts prove fruitless.  The Science Patrol even shoots a rocket into the poor creature before it meets its untimely end.

Dinosaur V Day

 

Valentine's Day, or Single Awareness Day as some of us know it, is rather a dreadful made up holiday.  Aside from telling people they need a significant other to be complete, it also makes people think they have to spend loads of money on this one day of the year.  OK, it's just ONE of the made up holidays that puts pressure on people to overspend.  Ugh.  But I did see card this year, and it's pretty awesome.  I don't care much for these kinds of chocolates these days, especially the scream filled ones.

Sven- Revenge of the Creature

 

This is a fun movie.  I give the studio props for not doing exactly the same thing they did in the first movie.  It is a logical move, bringing the Creature to civilization, somewhere in Florida.  Naturally the beast breaks free and causes havoc before it's untimely second death.  It also is able to go from breathing freshwater to breathing seawater in a matter of seconds.  While rare, some fish are able to do this, but I don't know if it can happen that quickly.  The suit still looks great, though it had been altered a bit.  The leads are fun, and it's nice that Nestor got to return from the first movie.

Granny meets Joe Young

 

Yep, that's Granny in her early days.  She's an unnamed patron of the bar, and that's her boyfriend "Nicky" who calls her a sweet young thing.  Even  15 years before she starred on The Beverly Hillbillies she looked older than she really was.  I am enjoying this movie far more this time than the last time I watched it.  It's been so long since I have seen it, it is nearly a new movie.  It might have moved up a notch above Son of Kong now.  I didn't remember it being only 93 minutes long.  That was the perfect running time for this movie.

Revenge of the Creature - 1955 - Official Trailer

                         Sven is showing this classic tomorrow night.  While growing up, someone at Channel 2 KWGN loved these Universal movies.  I bet not a month passed that one of the Creature movies aired.  The last one was the least popular, but I saw these movies a lot.  This should be fun!