Loveable Fave From the 50s
I thank the people that made these fun, very low budget movies. Oscar nominations be damned! Not ususally attracted to fair types, but I must say that Joyce Meadows was gorgeous.
shareYou said it! These films are much more fun, and vastly more interesting, than today's CGI dead-brain candy (I dare not say "mind"). Avatar be damned. Arous arises.
shareIMHO, John Agar was very good in this. He seemed to be slumming it in a number of others, but not in BRPA. Not a great actor. Perhaps the starring role energized him more than usual.
I have given a number of the new genre movies a look in the theaters. The CGI is great, no doubt. However, the stories in these flicks usually seem to be secondary and in some cases even an afterthought. The sense of wonder is therefore damaged. Avatar was so overloaded with effects that I went home and went straight for the couch. Whew!
There's something definitely wrong with someone who could compare one of these with the other. That is madness, indeed!
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.
Hey, Yodz, you can compare anything. What's got you is that we're comparing The Brain From Planet Arous favorably to the great god Cameron's Avatar.
Okay, I haven't seen that film and don't plan to until it shows up on cable. But I've seen enough to believe it probably wouldn't interest me that much, whatever its strong points, though maybe I'll be proven wrong. Even so, a lot of what I'm commenting on is that a movie from someone with $200 million at his disposal (and I use that word advisedly), tossing in endless scenes of mind-numbing CGI eye candy, with a weak script (as even favorable reviews said, unsurprisingly, since Cameron is a terrible writer), isn't as interesting or as much fun as many of these older, cheap, but enjoyable, unpretentious little sci-fi capers.
When anything is as mindlessly popular as Avatar, I automatically recoil from it a bit, even if it may be, quote, good, unquote. I have an inherent aversion to mob mentality, or mob taste-making.
"They're here already! You're next!!"
i don't think of james cameron as any kind of great god. as far as i am concerned, he's more like the antichrist. at least nathan (brain from planet arous) juran reigns as a kind of demigod, a minor deity. a member in good standing of the pantheon which includes fred f (earth vs the flying saucers) sears, edward l (it! the terror from beyond space) cahn, and a handful of other inspired b film auteurs.
Jonathan Becker
p.s.--i'm another of those snobs in reverse. i get the idea that, during the fifties, the really HIP people (from jack kerouac on down) were digging THESE kinds of films. (while the stuffy suburbanites, no doubt, were watching doris day and rock hudson.)
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