Watch the Skies!: Sci-Fi, the 1950s and Us (1 of 6)

[conewells]

THANK YOU for posting this!

[Hairlesswookie62]

"When you finally show the monster, it's a disappointment." When I heard George Lucas say this, I mentally conjured Admiral Akbar spinning around in his chair, yelling about how it's a trap. George Lucas, master of subtly.

[dornravlin]

i always wonder how old mentaly steven speiberg. out of all thes guys ridley scotts the coolest

[ageshero]

How do we make giant insects scary again? lol that would be fun if possible.

[ridlazz921]

WTF is george lucas doing htere. who the fuck cares about what he thinks, i wanna hear more from Ridley Scott !

[LukeLovesRose]

Thanks, TheAltair4. I don't say that kind of thing lightly. There have been so many good to great filmmakers that have played with the science-fiction genre. A lot of filmmakers have failed to really connect audiences. Some filmmakers - like Stanley Kubrick with 2001 - have proven themselves to understand the genre as an art. They are certainly great at what they do. Ridley Scott did the same thing with Alien. Spielberg did it with ET, Close Encounters and AI.

But, Cameron is A #1 IMO.

[LukeLovesRose]

James Cameron mostly made science-fiction into an A-quality genre himself, mostly. lol. There is no end to his genius.

[TheAltair4]

@LukeLovesRose lol. Good one! I agree.

[soccerprog226]

George Lucas raped the Star Wars Saga. He negated his accomplishment of the first film with the last three.

[thoriful]

Good man Steven Spielberg!!

[marksmartus2]

Interesting. This documentary is on my anniversary DVD set for Forbidden Planet, but it's missing the stuff from the 2005 War of the Worlds. Maybe they didn't want to pay for the rights.

It's apparent watching "Them!" that Cameron was heavily influenced by it for "Aliens". There is the traumatized catatonic little girl with a doll, and they are burning the eggs with flamethrowers in the egg chamber at the end!

[Snurremegrundt]

I was I could have been a kid growing up in the 50's. The effects back then were cheap compared to what is possible today, but the atmospher was special, the content had often more imagination, the enthusiasm was bigger and the quantity more impressive, when comparing to much of the present science fiction.

[munsterr777]

Cool flying brain.

[Celidus]

LMAO - George Lucas talking about making aliens look real... lol

[torchkit]

Father Speilberg?

[Bullettube]

@torchkit Or at least parson Spielberg! I wonder who dressed him for this doc?

[davidfussellfilms]

Sitting in the cinema watching the film again and again that was so cool.

[tokarski21]

Now that was entertainment.

[CalgarSkull]

I have this on tape from 5 years ago....I use to watch it all the time.

[verticalcinema87]

curious that that probe sequence is similar to the raptor/kitchen sequence in JP.

[GIMMEDANGERX1]

I'm enjoying this so far, cheers for posting mate!

[teetertotter68]

In order of awesomeness:

1. James Cameron

2. Steven Speilberg

3. George Lucas

4. Ridley Scott

[km9OOO]

@teetertotter68 Maybe if you were ranking their beards.

[dardangashi95]

james cameron and steven spielberg rocks

[hilarioph]

Before i talking about sci-fi tv and movies. I have a good

news. Said on Wikipedia Power rangers season 18 will

return on tv on Nickelodeon by 2011. Now that's a good news.

Now sci-fi classic tv and movies are great. Com per

to the new once like Smallville and Buffy. I stick to the

sci-fi classic tv and movies

[MintythecatIsABeast]

Does anybody know the name of the film at 9:56/10:20 at all please?

[handofsutekh]

@MintythecatIsABeast This Island Earth

[VegimorphtheMovieBoy]

this documentary's a lot of fun. It always puts me in a nostalgic kind of mood and its a discussion with some of my favorite filmmakers which is totally awesome. I saw THEM! about a week or two ago. Its awesome! I gotta see it again

[super8951]

cameron is the best of the 4

[nergvol]

I did duck and cover but later stepped on landmine in crazy Asian war. Ruby then took love and pickup truck to town. Life is good though.

[DuggerProductions]

Speilberg is so BAD ASS.

[Fade9150]

You must have missed the new Indiana Jones movie.

[mshefik1]

speilberg looks like a priest with his dog collar

[BuddhaMaster84]

duck for cover when a nuke goes off... wow

[crabsyman]

These 50s sci fi films are the greatest of all time. Please give them the respect they deserve. You stupid, ego centric hacks. Alien? relies on gore. ET, Close Encounters? 90 mins of nonsense. Cameron-- Aliens sucked , like everything else he's done. The best current sci fi was Tremors and Starship Troopers (even though a little PC).

[crabsyman]

Oh my God , Santa Claus! If you believe that I'll sell you some swamp land. Where is the sincerity in these folks. I'm very depressed for these great films.

[crabsyman]

Spielberg is an idiot. Where is is great ness? Et?Close Ent? What garbage. Schindlers List and the battlles of Ryan are great, but copied from Kubricks style.

He's so manipulative and patronizinig it's obvious, ET and Close Encounters are ridiculous.

[crabsyman]

These 50s sci fi films are so much better than current because of their imagination and atmosphere. No gore, just thought.

[crabsyman]

Sorry, no intelligent life out there. SETI friends say it's a failure. Sorry, folks.

[Beamshipcaptain]

The Silly Effort To Investigate is only looking for Radio-signals, which attenuate with distance, and only travel at 'c'. If they looked for BILOLOGICAL signals, and Scalar Waves (electrogravitational), they world find signals from intelligent life evrywhere. Nikola Tesla, the inventor of Radio, by 1912 was sending signals thru the Earth and air at many times lightspeed. Non-Hertzian. SETI automatically assumes all cultures use electromagnetic waves for communication. Big mistake.

[Dynamitrios]

great documentary on sf. thx for sharing

[Gallifrey1991]

Spielberg has such an eccentric mind: filling the bath tub etc haha XD What a genius! :D

[SaundersKira]

06:23

I love the ant impression hah

[johnstevens1978]

Nice to hear good ol' Mark Hamill as narrator at the beginning!

[STUTREE]

dont worry about how it looks george just CGI it!

[ohrmets]

Sweet, thanks for posting this!

[neutronnorman]

Yup, thanks for posting the series. great fun.

[leon327]

The Mighty Berg looks like a priest. Father Spielberg.

[tstysel]

Goood little show

[SaundersKira]

Thanks for posting the series