You gotta feel sorry for the guy, don't you?
I mean, first he's told by an army official (Alan) to fly over a space that will almost certainly make him pass out; at least in the book they lowered a man in instead of sending the entire plane.
Secondly, not more than five minutes after he crashes in a fiery explosion, the phenomenon passes. Talk about *beep* luck, huh?
Damn I thought I was the only one who thought that, because I'm just like that, ha ha. I KNEW his plane was going down, and afterwards I kept thinking, man, imagine those guys being responsible for his death...and FIVE SECONDS LATER everyone wakes up and the "curse" is off the city! Like...it was the most pointless death in the world! And yer right, aside from some brief angst, no one really seemed too upset, even!
I know, it's just a movie, but jeez! That really stood out to me.
If everyone around here is going to start telling the truth, I'm going to bed
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Wow, this bloke has a whole support group going here, huh! It's one of those movie moments where you start shouting at the screen, "NO! Stop!! Morons!" I knew the minute he said, "pull up if you feel something" and the poor b@stard says, "feel WHAT?" that it was all up for the pilot!
Ahh well, it's only a movie...I wonder if they did this bit in the re-make?
I saw it on the movie channel the other night too--it was "aliens" night on Turner Classic Movies or something. I was glad I finally got to see this, it was awesome.
Mutant alien babies rule.
If everyone around here is going to start telling the truth, I'm going to bed
The impression I'd always had, upon seeing that scene, was that when the plane crashed, somehow to "switched off" the dayout effect. Maybe, by shear dumb luck, he crash-landed on top of whatever mechanism was keeping everyone zonked.
And no, I don't remember a scene like this in the remake.
Yeah, and maybe the milkman wasn't affected by the "dayout"... And he went around the town having sex with all the women. - Delivering the milk so to speak.
I reckon he's the same guy wearing a red shirt on all of the Star Trek landing parties...the guy who ALWAYS gets killed..oddly enough a SECURITY officer
shareGuy Fleegman (Sam Rockwell) in "Galaxy Quest": I'm not even supposed to be here! I'm just "Crewman Number Six!" I'm expendable! I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is! I've gotta get outta here!
Nilbog! It's goblin spelled backwards! This is their kingdom!
I was screaming at the tv! The guy with the big mole by his eye was totally responsible for that pilot's death. "ease down, take it easy..." what? Mole Man KNEW he was going to pass out if he crossed "the line" and all he warned him with was "if you feel funny, pull back." What a jerk.
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A Place That Defies Logic - RIP CAGE
"Mole Man" is actor James Donald. He's been in many, many movies. He was the Frankenstein monster in Hammer's THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN, and he had the last line of dialogue ("Madness. Madness.") in BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.
Yeah, a light plane crashing into an alien apparatus powerful enough to knock out the whole town and impregenate all the women would "Knock it out." Sure. It stopped because the aliens were finished.
The novel it's based on, THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS by John Wyndham, is really, really good. The movie follows it fairly closely, but it goes into so much greater depth and detail.
And that was one of those REALLY cheap plane crash scenes, where the plane just dived down behind trees, and an explosion is set off.
Yes, the poor but brave pilot got screwed, but lots of other innocent people get killed in the picture also. Why is all the pity just for him?
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"Mole Man" is actor James Donald. - dkmce
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I saw this movie again last night and had the same feelings as everyone else except I don't think the crash caused everything to return to normal.
It was a "dumb death" and maybe that's why it was left out of the remake.
It was absolutely a dumb death. All he had to do was activitate the autopilot prior to entering the danger zone. After all it was the pilot that would fall asleep, not the plane! The plane should continue flying -- out of danger -- and the pilot should regain consciousness at that time.
Geez... Did the pilot and his entire chain of command overdose on stupid pills?
Good thought, but many light aircraft have no autopilot of any kind, even relatively large ones, if there was no need for it in its regular duties.
Many small aircraft don't even have radios as basic Visual operations don't require one if you're not using controlled airspace. This is why news stories about aircraft incidents that have to mention whether the "tower" was contacted or not are silly. First of all, as mentioned, some aircraft don't even have radios, and secondly, most small airports don't have a tower or anyone else that needs to be communicated with. Pointless.
This reminded me of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" because it did not make the allowances for planes in flight or hospitals that the earlier flick made. The exceptions made that part of the plot of the earlier film better IMOP. Violent destruction didn't seem to be part of the alien's plan in VOTD, at least at first.
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Anyone know if another remake is being planned for Village Of The Damned? I loved the original and hated the John Carpenter remake. I think, with the right director, there is much to be explored in the various themes of this great film. Maybe David Cronenberg?
sharethis is what happens when the 'authorities' and 'officials' and 'experts' are put in charge.
OTHER people die. same as war and medical emergencies since time began.
this is why my generation constantly questioned the 'authorities' during the vietnam fiasco.
"google it if you dont think so ...."
.........In the context of the movie the military personal, who doubtlessly didn't run into these sort of situations everyday, assumed the effected area was only at ground level. They had no way of knowing whatever force knocked out everyone in the village would reach hundreds of feet into the air...........More important the scene sends a massage to the audience the village has been taken over by bad a-- aliens (or beings from the future in some explanations of the film) who have no concern for human life; something that becomes obvious later in the movie when the alien children start doing their stuff.........The book may have started differently, but most readers are more patent when it comes to an explanation then most film goers.
TAG LINE: True genius is a beautiful thing, but ignorance is ugly to the bone.
I just watched Village of the Damned for the first time and had the exact same thought. lol As soon as he's given the order I thought "Ohhh noooo1" I'd planned on doing a lot of channel surfing tonight (Halloween). I'm glad I came across this just as it was being introduced on TCM. Great movie.
Back off! ... Way off!