Re: Why does this ad sound so wrong?

Susan wrote:
Mike Fleming wrote:
In article <GfSvi.72801$g86.46624@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Susan
<sjd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

My favorite movie, outside of the first two Star Wars movies is "Day of the Triffids" - the original with Howard Keel.

That is one of the most truly dreadful annhililations of a brilliant
sf book ever. The BBC made an excellent six-part series which mainly
followed the book closely. That is worth watching (it's easy to find
it for download), and the book worth reading, but the Keel "Triffids"
is about on a par with "Night of the Lepus".

Oh, I believe you that the BBC version is truer to the book and in fact, I wouldn't mind seeing it. I'm a hard sci-fi fan, Arthur C. Clarke may be my favorite writer. Though I like Heinlein's Future History stuff a lot too. And Asimov.

But the Howard Keel version is really fun, if you like 1950's "B" sci-fi movies. Some of them were really great and had important messages (the ban the bomb flicks) and some were really cheesy. I don't tend to like a lot of more modern sci-fi movies because they are all about effects and lost track of the story telling and suspense. The Keel version is just fun, something that my friends and I laugh at. Plus I can scream like that lady at the lighthouse:-) Which is actually not such a bad self defense thing, unless you are confronted by a hungry plant:-)

What's "Night of the Lepus" I've never heard of it?

-Susan
I believe it's a very camp film about giant rabbits.... Oh the Horror, The horror
http://www.agonybooth.com/lepus/

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