Seen any good movies lately?

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Cane Fire, in theaters. Documentary.
Hawaii. Tourism. Kauai. Sugar plantations.  Plundered.

Interview with director:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/movie...rview.html

Review:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/movie...eview.html

[TomK]

terracore - I certainly watched Dr Who as a kid. It used to be on kids' TV in the late afternoon and I remember the days when Jon Pertwee was the Doctor. That series scared the sh*t out of me, especially the episodes when they had dinosaurs and I think it was the last episode before he transformed into Tom Baker that had a bunch of large spiders. I'd have been about six or seven years old then.

Tom Baker was great along with K9, but then it lost its soul when Peter Davison took over because he was a vet on All Creatures Great and Small and it just seemed weird - how could a young vet become the doctor? I grew out of it after that. I might enjoy the more recent series if I sat down and watched them for a bit, but they'll never replace the terrifying memories of earlier!

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PS. For old Brit sci-fi, The Day of the Triffids was good, but I think the book was better.  But there is of course Hitchhiker's Guide and Red Dwarf, which I definitely did enjoy, although again I preferred the books for Hitchhiker. For some classic Brit sci-fi, the novel by H. G. Wells is a great read as is the music album by Jeff Wayne with Richard Burton narrating.

[terracore]

I was always told that when originally aired, Doctor Who was a serial (like in 20 minute segments (?)) but when it got to PBS in the states they aired the entire chapter as one long 90ish minute episode (if I remember right). Is that true? I liked watching it as a kid and young adult, but haven't seen anything after Colin Baker. I met John Pertwee, Peter Davidson, and Colin Baker in the 80's. One time they had a traveling-circus style wagon that came through that had a bunch of props including K-9, complete with wiggling ears etc. I think that was with the Pertwee visit. Colin Baker was the funniest of them all, and since he had been recently fired from the show was especially brutal in his routine.

I did notice a couple of original Star Trek episodes that were uncannily similar to some plots from Doctor Who.

When I was a kid (12) in West Germany as it was called at the time, they were showing Star Trek episodes as serials. Split each one into 3-4 different episodes. I didn't speak enough German to understand them but I had watched them so many times I didn't need to, I just got a kick on how badly they were dubbed. Then again, anything dubbed into German seems to take on another life.

Been a sci-fi nerd my whole life.

[kalakoa]

Doctor Who was aired in serial form on "my local PBS station", the conjoined format was a rarity.

Early seasons (Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee) did not have a standard number of episodes per story. Later seasons tended to have either 4 or 6.

Favorite story arc: the Key to Time.

Would be interesting to watch Horns of Nimon again; the writers could not have foreseen their story coming true.

[terracore]

Favorite story arc: the Key to Time.

Tom Baker was the best Doctor.

Since moving to Hawaii I've considered watching the series again, beginning with those.

[TomK]

Yes, the Tom Baker stuff was always four episodes per story and each episode was about 20 minutes. I recall it being the same with Jon Pertwee, but yes, they may have not standardized the story length earlier, I don't remember. I really was quite young then! However, looking back at things now, the highlight of kids' BBC TV back then was the last five-minute show before the serious stuff began with the evening news. It wasn't sci-fi but was definitely fantasy. There was the Magic Roundabout which was about drugs (we didn't know it at the time) and Captain Pugwash which was all about sex and some seriously disturbing stuff that would never be shown these days.

[TomK]

Of course, when it comes to great sci-fi from the UK, you can't forget the Clangers.

https://youtu.be/HArUmqqiL0s

They even did a sequel.

https://youtu.be/iqjPZcWOZFM

[Ccat]

I recommend “Dog”.

An excellent, traditional style movie.   Great story, nicely told.

No horror, sci-fi or nonstop special effects. 

I think it’s just beginning to stream now.

Ccat

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Definitely, get out to a big screen theatre for “Top Gun: Maverick”.

It’s probably the best movie I have ever seen!  As good, maybe better, than the original.  10/10.

Ccat

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Fire of Love, a movie about two French volcanologists who died in 1991 during an eruption of Mount Unzen in Japan will show at the Palace Theater in Hilo on July 29th.

https://films.nationalgeographic.com/fire-of-love


Ken Hon, the scientist in charge at the United States Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, knew the Kraffts beginning in the late 1980s, and remembers that filming volcanoes then was unusual.

“There wasn’t a lot of footage of volcanic eruptions at that time, and certainly not stuff that was up close,” he said. “You had to be a volcanologist to film like they did because you had to be able to point the camera at the correct thing to understand the process that’s going on.” Today, such footage is much more common thanks to lighter and cheaper equipment. Maurice, he said, “would be so in love with drones right now.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/movie...rafft.html

[kalianna]

Coming July 28th to the Palace Theater.