Quote:
Originally Posted by MrPliggins
The episode titles were often a play on a movie name: "Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers", "It Came From Beneath The Sewers", "Attack of the 50-foot Irma", "Four Turtles and a Baby", etc. Sometimes heavy-handed ("Son of Return of the Fly II" title enforcing the idea that it's a sequel of a sequel of a sequel).
|
Plan Six from Outer Space is a play on one of the worst films ever made.
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrPliggins
The writers were definitely movie buffs.
|
Yeah the writers grew up with 50's B-movies so when creating episodes they took from old movies. I thought they did a good job there although the immediate difference between how sci-fi is presented between the FW show and Mirage is FW was based on classical sci-fi while Mirage was based on cyberpunk.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Prowler
King Kong and many of the big mobster movies aren't from the 80s though.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by turtle1237
I don't recall a 1980's King Kong remake though. There was the 2 King Kong films in 1933. Than he dukes it out with Godzilla and has a island escape movie in the 1960's. Than the 1970's remake. After that, we had to wait until 2005 for Peter Jackson to put his print on the film.
|
I know it's a stretch but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_Lives