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One Of A Kind Classic!!

posted 17 years ago by moviemaniac2002
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I'm willing to stand corrected...but I don't know of any other Japanese
film besides this one that was all-Japanese behind the camera while the entire
cast was non-Japanese....(at least until the Americanized "Grudge" movies.)

Anyway, I LOVE this movie...it's an insanely funny nutball masterpiece...the lunatic title song, the Ed Wood Jr. special effects, the
wonderfully lovable Green Slime, squeaking like demented wind-up toys as they
fry the wooden American actors.

If a DVD is ever released, I'll be first in line.

[–] cool302 16 years ago

they have this movie on dvd in japan but they only have the movie on vhs in the states.

[–] antimusick 16 years ago

I have a liking for it I think it's because I remember seeing it shown on TV in the 1970s and it was around the same time as the TV show Space 1999 was new and I enjoyed both because in the mid 1970s there really was nothing like that shown on TV.

I would love to see a re-treatment / remake of a film with a Green Slim like plot. With modern day special effects and horror films it would be unreal.

[–] southbase 15 years ago

You've never seen it unless it's on a large Toeiscope-length theatrical movie screen, even an HD presentation won't do it. There's one shot near the end when Luciana Paluzzi tells Jaeckel that Horton's character Jack Rankin has re-entered the slime-infested Gamma 3 to set off its self-destruct instruments. Jaeckel reacts to her in a tilted close-up shot, then instantly the entire screen goes dead-black, taking all of the dead auditorium lighting alongside it, almost like your entire theater had its power cut off along with the space station's. When I saw this moment during its original release I literally thought the film had broke in the projector booth but then WHOOSH! the screen almost literally split open as a mirrored set of pressurized station-doors hissed open and deposited Rankin into the Main Control. Fukasaku had deliberately allowed several seconds of 'dead space' on the print to make Horton's entry that much more striking--never seen a cut using a movie theater itself like that in any other film. Goofy--maybe, dumb--no.

[–] andymcneill75 15 years ago

Saw this today and it was so bad it was good, very laughable and incredibly stupid but unintentionally
funny. The models were bad, the dialogue brilliant " I suggest you bone up on your regulations!"
and hammier than ham sandwiches, Robert Horton was smug and Richard Jaeckel was his big rival with
the two of them arguing back and forth who should be commander. Look out for the fact that in one scene Horton goes into spacecraft and opens his visor to chat over radio and the door is open.
So so bad that is actually good to laugh at, you'll like it and the funky title tune at end was weird too.

[–] hadmatter 15 years ago

Recently I found a pretty decent DVD-R transfer of Green Slime and got to see it for the first time since a saturday-afternoon TV creature feature about 25 years ago. I've always remembered this movie with great fondness but could recall very little about it, and I kept wondering why it had such a low rating on imdb.

Well, having finally watched and re-assessed this gem now in my mid-thirties, I have to say that it lived up to all of my expectations. There are a lot of so-bad-it's-good reviews for Green Slime on this site, and I guess I understand that sentiment. Maybe I feel differently just because I've become such a huge fan of Japanese space movies over the years, but even though I realize the sets are a bit flimsy and the acting somewhat wooden, this film does not seem like a camp classic to me. It's just a really fun old science fiction movie, done in all seriousness and I thought accomplishing quite a lot considering the limitations. I've watched it twice this week and I think I might do so again right now.

I do hope that this movie sees a revival on DVD one of these days; I still haven't had the pleasure of watching Green Slime in Toeiscope!

Ooo, baby, your domestic gross is SO BIG. That's how I know how GOOD you are!

[–] Battle-4-Endor 15 years ago

I love this movie...one of my favorite creature features!!

while it is cheesey, its pretty worthwhile. I love the jellyfishmen! Reminds me a lot of the "Ark in Space" episode of Dr. Who.

This movie is a blast, and very, very ambitious for its time. While sometimes its "so bad its good", many times it actually is just plain good.

Release a DVD...it would be a wrthy addition to my collectio!

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