*Blog started on April 11, 2020.
News is still centered around the pandemic, so despite my
shortened work days, it has not been overly difficult to catch up on
the news websites. Last night, I tried to distract myself from going
after the #NeverTrumpNeverBiden movement to attack the first three
conservative Twitter users who went after Representative Ilhan Omar for
trying to catch the nation up with the rest of the Western World. The
social media platform maybe too diluted now because it use to be when I
would attack hashtags (not users) like #PatriotsUnited, #Trump, #Jesus, I
received a lot of hate for it. Now, these cunts are just ignoring it.
It must be all about your follower count I suppose.
Too bad this blog is going to conclude with a movie review. It seemed
fitting to find a place to start listing the names and profile
information of the deplorables I found in every blog post. Then again,
that might just encourage people to continue being the worst the United
States has to offer who are not an offspring of Donald Trump whos life
revolves around kissing Daddy's ass. I am calling you out Baron.
Maybe I have lost some of my passion for politics. Acquaintances from
Morton are sharing and reacting positively to my Facebook posts. What
does it take to get unfollowed? I guess my tolerance for bullshit is
gone. This week has led me to unfollow anyone implying that they are not
going to vote for Joe Biden.
It all ends up being a conspiracy by the baby boomers. Millennials were
given everything growing up, so they feel entitled. Thus, they need to
get their way or no one gets their way. Their parents were playing the
long game. Be pushed around and underappreciated by your crotch fruit so
that these twats feel like the world owes them just as much as you.
Hillary Clinton fairly beat Bernie Sanders, so they voted against all of
their interests instead of protecting some of them via Jill Stein or
Donald Trump.
Sadly, they seem to be idiots who Sanders' free education would be
wasted on. These kids are acting like they have not learned and will
burn this current world down by letting Trump win again. The tactic this
time is probably skipping the polls which would be worse than voting
for a third party. If we can at least win the Senate, Trump would be
effectively powerless and Ruth Baders Ginsburg could finally relax.
The rode to hell is paved with good intentions. How else did you expect
me to transition this rant to a Roger Corman movie? He knew that we
needed "Alien" and "Star Wars" to feature over-the-top gore and female
nudity, but what we got was a cinematic purgatory in "Forbidden World.
Forbidden World (1982)
Being awoken to battle some space pirates, Troubleshooter Mike Colby's
robot custodian SAM-104 advises him that he has received a new
assignment. The two are to head to planet Xarbia to contain a research
experiment that may have gone wrong or horrendously right. Dr. Hauser
and his team have been trying to develop a new food source to solve all
galactic hunger concerns by creating organisms with Proto-B DNA. It
seems a noble cause, but because it is playing God, they are isolated on
this deep space planet.
This new DNA's metamorphic nature puts into question who is actually
playing the all mighty on high. The latest mutation decided to kill all
of other test subjects before cocooning itself in the lab. Its violent
nature leaves Colby believing that it needs to be terminated, but Hauser
and his primary assistants want to see how this plays out...even after
it attacks the janitor and escapes the lab.
Technically, the cleaning guy is still alive, just dissolving into
protein with a pulse. That sounds like a fate worse than death, so the
majority of the crew is ready to side with Colby's intentions. The
minority seems a little to eager to further study the events, so
everyone will eventually be on the same page, but will they have enough
numbers to battle the large-toothed, intelligent insectoid that it has
become?
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IMDb.com - Forbidden Planet
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Roger Corman's importance to cinema should make his last name an entry
in the Oxford Dictionary. Aside that word should be the primary poster
for "Forbidden World". It tells you the film knows what you want, but
this is still a deal with the devil.
A few months ago, I had watched the Corman-produced "Galaxy of Terror".
It was entertaining enough despite a haphazard story, so I expected this
feature to be the same. Aside from the reuse of James Cameron designed
sets and overall tackiness, this film lacks the originality of its
predecessor, and once we witness the space dog fight (from
Corman-produced "Battle Beyond the Starts") and concept of hypersleep,
you know you are just settling into a cheap knock off of the biggest
sci-fi of the time.
The acting is hindered by everyone trying to be either hip or sexy, with
our male cast focusing on being David Carradine hot, so it feels like
2000's indie wrestling. Its special effects are all around laughable
with an Ed Wood equivalent monster as the villain and a robot that just
misses the mark. There are some good gore effects too start, but it all
just becomes a mess of red and transparent gelatin by the end of the
flick.
Despite all of its flaws, it does show the beauty of a good Corman
production. In trying to differentiate itself from what it is ripping
off, possible inspiration for classic films are present. The monster's
development is very much like 1995's metamorphic alien film "Species",
and the demise of the beast is very similar to the end of "Species 2".
It attempts to improve on some of the sequences from "Alien", which you
have to applaud the effort, and in turn offers up devices that may have
been used in that film's sequels.
If anything beyond the production values can be said to have aged
poorly, it is all the female nudity, but I can defend that. "Game of
Thrones" first season is classic television and it shows us that
sexposition is still a valid storytelling device.
With some Clark & Sheffield Vodka, Kahlua and Meijer's brand Italian
Sweet Crème Coffee Creamer, "Forbidden World" was a fun experience. If
you can talk some friends into watching it with you, there are few
better celebrations of mediocrity. This is not art, but you will not
feel dirty seeing classic films being subverted and perverted. You can
accept that is just part of the deal if a flick has been labeled a Roger
Corman Cult Classic.
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IMDb.com - Forbidden Planet
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