The X From Outer Space - 2.24:1
The Living Skeleton - 2.50:1
Genocide - 2.47:1
Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell is listed as 2.35, which is what I thought these all were.

Funny, I was just rooting around for a DVD an hour or so back and I came across a Roger Corman set which includes 'X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes'Jeff wrote:Anyone know what's up with the wacky aspect ratios quoted on the packaging? I haven't had a chance to put these in yet to see if they're accurate.
The X From Outer Space - 2.24:1
The Living Skeleton - 2.50:1
Genocide - 2.47:1
Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell is listed as 2.35, which is what I thought these all were.
I'd assume it's just the standard variation in the mastering of the CinemaScope ratio. Like how a lot of American CinemaScope films (such as Bigger Than Life) were, until recently, scaled down to 2.35:1 instead of their full 2.55:1 shape.Jeff wrote:Anyone know what's up with the wacky aspect ratios quoted on the packaging? I haven't had a chance to put these in yet to see if they're accurate.
I can't waitCSM126 wrote: I don't think I've ever laughed so hard as when watching Guilala blindly stumble and trip through a cardboard city as the actor struggles to see through the constantly flapping mouth. Or when the model planes accidentally fly right into it's head because the guy forgot to swat them out of the air. Or...
I could go on all day. This is the kind of movie that is right up my alley: disastrous, cheesy and totally non-self aware. I'm glad to have bought this set just for this one movie.
Well, you simply must pluck it out! Of your DVD pile, that is.Yojimbo wrote:(I've never actually seen the Corman)
Will co, sarn't major, sahr!colinr0380 wrote:Well, you simply must pluck it out! Of your DVD pile, that is.Yojimbo wrote:(I've never actually seen the Corman)
I only finally caught up with The Incredible Shrinking Man within the past year; that ending completely blew me away.MichaelB wrote:The Corman film is magnificent - right up there with Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Incredible Shrinking Man when it comes to the gulf between the schlocky title and the probing intelligence of the actual film.
Also has one of Milland's very best performances. That entire last act is just heartbreaking on every level.MichaelB wrote:The Corman film is magnificent - right up there with Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Incredible Shrinking Man when it comes to the gulf between the schlocky title and the probing intelligence of the actual film.
Speaking of terrible films I've just been watching one of the films in the German Edgar Wallace series (set 3)knives wrote:Criterion have been getting pretty erratic with the eclipses lately though unlike the Mailer set the two terrible films here are at least amusing in a 'how did this get made' sort of way. Genocide in particular is marvelously transgressive and grotesque in a way that is altogether amusing like a psychedelic John Milius film. Just the idea of casting the WASPiest woman in the world as a Holocaust victim is jaw dropping in a way I can't get offended by even though by all logic I should. The film comes across as really conservative and xenophobic even by Japanese monster movie standards and yet it features a plot point straight from Quantum Leap and ends in a nuclear holocaust.
Yep, it's getting a Blu-ray sometime in the near future - http://milestonefilms.com/collections/l ... s/maborosi" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;joshua wrote:The Japanese Disc is still available over at Yesasia. There used to be a Korean port of the Japanese disc that ran significantly cheaper but it looks like it's long out of print. Over in the Milestone thread there was some news about it coming out through them some time in the future.
Finally caught up with this last night. The monster was, of course, hilarious, but I thought the film took far too long to, as it were, 'get off the ground': far too much talk, and not just jargon, and some repetition of plot. I loved all of the model work, though, and the cheesy space-travel shots.CSM126 wrote:Having finally received this package I eagerly dug right into The X from Outer Space for the first time in a long time. Dear God what a delight. As the liner notes describe it "idiotic and irresistable". I'm hard pressed to think of films as stupid and hilarious as this - well, aside from The Room I suppose. It's pretty hilarious right from the start but forty minutes in, when the monster finally shows up, it accelerates into side splittling, tear-inducing, laugh-til-you-puke insanity. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard as when watching Guilala blindly stumble and trip through a cardboard city as the actor struggles to see through the constantly flapping mouth. Or when the model planes accidentally fly right into it's head because the guy forgot to swat them out of the air. Or when the puppet strings operating the beak show up clear as day (all the time). Or when Lisa's legs get crushed under a nuclear reactor and she walks away unscathed when they lift it off of her. Or...
I could go on all day. This is the kind of movie that is right up my alley: disastrous, cheesy and totally non-self aware. I'm glad to have bought this set just for this one movie.