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Plan 9 From Outer Space

Posted by: Xristofl
Date Submitted: Monday, March 5, 2001 at 16:41:07
Date Posted: Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:34:29

Plenty has been said about this movie already, so I won't go over it all again. Here are some of the highlights (lowlights?) I noticed:

- The aliens were going to kill humans because they had learned to split the atom, and the next step would be to use the sun's own rays as a bomb. So they proceed to tell the humans how to develop such a bomb, how it works, and the general theory behind it.

- The aforementioned solar bomb will sort of ignite a solar ray and trail back to the sun and blow it up and everything that the sun's light touches. The entire universe, basically. I'm wondering who would *want* to develop such a bomb, let alone use one, and how you'd test the thing.

- I really liked the teetering tombstones, but my favorite part of the cemetery was the cardboard box-crypt (which everyone goes *into* for the funeral). It looks like a refrigerator box painted white, with a door cut out, and some very basic trim on the top.

- When the woman who lives next to the cemetery runs away from the zombie who broke into her house, she runs right into the cemetery. I don't know about most people, but if some undead guy was trying to attack me, the cemetery would be pretty low on my list of places to run.

- The airplane cockpit consists of two guys in chairs and a curtained door behind them. They never do anything with their hands, and there aren't many visible instruments. They don't even appear to be moving.

- The hubcap-flying saucers look like the guy who was holding the fishing wire above them had had a little too much caffeine that morning. They were *really* shaky!

- One of the cops falls down before the zombie even touches him. The zombie looks at him, raises his hands, the cop shrieks and falls down, and the zombie turns away. Very funny.

- The cover of the copy I saw said that Bela Lugosi was replaced by the producer's wife's chiropracter.

- The flying hubcaps become a toolshed when they land. There is a ladder to nowhere on the side and two windows and a door that don't correspond with the two windows and door inside.

- When the military tries to shoot the hubcaps down, they fire round after round of missiles at them, but they do not affect the hubcaps at all. The hubcaps just stay there. Even though they're so obviously superior, they don't attack. Even though all those explosions were probably getting annoying, they don't retreat. They just sit there, shaking by the unsteady hand of the guy holding them up. When the military is done firing, the hubcaps leave.


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