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YAY, it's on BBC4 in 30 minutes (UK time)


Feeling a nostaligia trip coming on.....hope it won't frighten me as much as it did when I was little!!!

To anyone else out there who's watching it tonight - enjoy!!!!

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Me and my girl are getting ready to watch it for the first time, more for the anticipated amusement factor of a little known B&W 50's sci-fi flick than anything else!

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I watched it last night for the first time in years and although it has a lot that is fairly risable it's risable in a forgivable, they didn't know much better, way and the things that it does well namely the set design and unusual sound effects are pretty great.

Plus the atmosphere is pretty chilling for a 50's movie, most notably, to my mind, the scenes where the two policemen who blew up the building are cornered and then disposed of one at a time (with just enough time for the second to get an idea that something bad is about to happen) remotely by the martians and then the realisation by David that the same thing could happen at any time to his parents.

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It was good fun. Id just recently finished a book about '50's America so it was interesting to see all the things mentioned pop up in this film in one way or another - Atomic power! UFO's! Polio! Communism! Dodgy Science! Martians with Ray Guns!

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It was on again (BBC2) the other day

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