anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> nope@noway.com wrote:
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> After gaming night, I watched:
>>>>
>>>> THE MOVIES THAT MADE US:
>>>> "Halloween". It took a young team's blood, sweat and tears - and a triple-
>>>> threat visionary - to make this bloodless yet scarily influential horror
>>>> masterpiece. I rewatched this because I thought this was where they
>>>> explained them using THE SHAPE to describe Michael Meyers, but they only
>>>> mentioned that the script used his name only a few times.
>>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> The Time Machine (1960). My mom took me to see this when I was seven,
>>> when it was first released. I've seen it all the way through at least
>>> a dozen times since, and at almost 70 I can't get over how good it is.
>>> Special effects master Wah Chung once said they'd brought it in for
>>> $705,000. (The original budget was $750k.) I think this has already
>>> proven to be the film Rod Taylor will be remembered for.
>>>
>>> Doing the wraparound as a period piece was a brilliant idea. I've
>>> sometimes thought that the worst thing about one of George Pal's
>>> previous films, War of the Worlds, was setting it in modern-day
>>> California. Maybe Pal thought so, too.
>>
>> Was that the one with Rod Stieger?
>> I always thought that movie from the 1950's, but I guess 1960 is as close as
>> one can get.
>
>Rod Taylor. Rod Steiger was in Hitchcock's "the birds"

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