Comments on: The Deadly Mantis (1957)

By: PublicCyberfreak

PublicCyberfreak — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:48:22 +0000

Ok, I’ll think about it.

By: Guts3d

Guts3d — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:31:17 +0000

No pressure! I was skeptical when a friend gushed about how funny it was, but was a convert after I watched ” Puma Man ” and laughed myself silly.

By: PublicCyberfreak

PublicCyberfreak — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:49:37 +0000

Maybe I could give it a try, but it won’t be anytime soon. There’s a couple of other things I would watch rather than something I’m not so sure I’ll like. However, in case I would run out of ideas of what to watch, then perhaps I could give it a shot and see if my opinion changes.

By: guts3d

guts3d — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:43:35 +0000

To each his or her own. I usually will give a show, program, restaurant, etc. a chance or two to impress me before I condemn it. If you do decide to give MST3K a chance, the movie put out on the big screen lampooning “This Island Earth” would be a great one to start with.

By: PublicCyberfreak

PublicCyberfreak — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:26:02 +0000

And to be honest, from what information I could get from IMDB, I think the show MST3K actually seems a bit childish…

By: PublicCyberfreak

PublicCyberfreak — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:40:37 +0000

Naah, not really. I looked it up on IMDB, and MST3K doesn’t really seem like something I would consider watching. (I’m not a big fan of comedies.)

By: Guts3d

Guts3d — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:50:11 +0000

Then you are in for a superb treat, my friend! If you have access to Netflix, there are a few episodes on there.

By: PublicCyberfreak

PublicCyberfreak — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:15:57 +0000

I could mention that the version I’ve seen isn’t the MST3K version. I watched the regular one. In fact, I’ve never watched any episode of MST3K ever.

By: guts3d

guts3d — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:16:18 +0000

While I agree that it is like comparing apples and oranges to compare a turd like this to a new big budget turd like “Lost in Space” ( I think that there was a recent review of that somewhere! )I must admit that these older movies have charm. I shudder each time I hear a character say some thing like ” It’s almost as if there was some kind of… ” and fill in the rest with whatever the movie was about, a big bug, monster, virus, etc. But I rarely hold a budget against a movie, but bad acting, props that are obviously common household items with some glitter applied to them used as wonder weapons, etc. drive me crazy. I am sorry, PublicCyberfreak, but I will have to agree to disagree with you on this movie. Don’t get me wrong, I watch the MST3K version 3 or 4 times per year, so I have a warm spot in my heart for it, but I’ll never think of it as good cinema.

By: PublicCyberfreak

PublicCyberfreak — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:02:23 +0000

There’s one thing I’ve been thinking of. Hollywood always reuses sound effects, and there was a specific one that I thought of when I watched “The Deadly Mantis”. Approximately a month before watching “The Deadly Mantis”, I watched John Carpenter’s “The Thing” (1982). (I’ve seen both the 2011 prequel and the original “The Thing From Another World” (1951) as well, but that’s irrelevant in this case.) Anyway, I believe that a sound effect from “The Deadly Mantis” might have been reused in “The Thing” in the scene where they burn the Bennings Thing. (The one with the not-yet-completely-transformed hands.) Right before they switch on the flamethrower, the Bennings Thing (standing on “his” knees in the snow) shrieks. That shriek sounds (according to me) exactly like the mantis in “The Deadly Mantis” does when it roars. Did someone else notice this or am I just imagining things?