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Post by deadsword on May 19, 2006 2:36:19 GMT
Anyone seen it? This movie is kind of rare but it has the manta ray ships in it too just that they have no swan eye. And wow they move super-fast.
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Post by mctoddridesagain on May 19, 2006 16:22:54 GMT
I saw it donkey's years ago. IIRC, it was an actual miniature from WOTW that was used as the weird, ultra-fast alien ships (I recall them sort of 'zipping' about, stopping really abruptly, but I may be wrong). Both RCOM and WOTW were directed by Byron Haskin. EDIT: Yay! I found this site with screencaps! I'd forgotten Adam 'Batman' West was in it! www.dismalswamptraders.com/space/robinson-crusoe-on-mars/robinson-crusoe-on-mars.html "You're floating upside down! Holy weightlessness!"And here's one of the weird, zippy-as-heck alien ships:  |
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Post by deadsword on May 20, 2006 5:42:07 GMT
[/img][/quote] lol yah that is the one. what do you mean by IIRC though and donkey's? |
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Post by mctoddridesagain on May 20, 2006 8:43:20 GMT
Sorry!  Although I usually strenuously, and sullenly, resist email acronyms, I do use that one a fair bit: IIRC = If I Recall Correctly 'Donkey's years ago' = English slang for 'a long time ago' Don't know why it's donkey's, to be honest... |
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Post by Max on May 21, 2006 7:30:31 GMT
Didn't they have red wing tips rather than green?
Remember it was deeply unconvincing how they zipped around.
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Post by the Donal on May 22, 2006 21:34:15 GMT
I watched this dozens of times on the Telly when I was growing up- a great movie! I never spotted the manta-rays though! Very clever!
Puts me in mind of that episode of Battlestar Galactica where Starbuck is stranded with a Cylon he reprograms as a companion ('Whatever happened to Captain Starbuck' I think- either a filler between series or the only good bit of the awful final series on Earth)- I also loved this and it was on quite often if I recall.
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Post by Commandingtripod on May 23, 2006 8:22:59 GMT
Dunno how reliable this is but:
- Wikipedia
Anyone else about to support that claim?
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Post by SEAN on May 27, 2006 9:29:30 GMT
Yay!
This was a great film, and I would love to see it again, though sometimes when you watch something years later you can end up feeling dissapaointed.
Anyone seen it recently?
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Post by Lensman on Jun 16, 2006 6:44:43 GMT
I dunno. As I recall we always see the alien ship from the same angle in "Robinson Crusoe on Mars", so I thought it was a matte painting. If it was a model, why did we always see it from the same exact angle?
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jun 16, 2006 11:14:35 GMT
Looks like a model to me, plus you can see clearly in the stills on the linked site two different angles in two different stills. In any case, cheaper to use a model that's already been built than pay someone to do a new matte painting.
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Post by Lensman on Jun 23, 2006 8:34:18 GMT
Well, perhaps the one image is a still photo and the other is a matte painting. Or perhaps they're both matte paintings, with one better executed than the other, using the shape of the Martian stingray ship. Certainly the shot of the more distant ship looks like a painting and not like a model. I remember the way the ships slide around in the sky during the movie, always seen from the same exact angle. I've never seen that sort of thing done where there was an actual model. If you have a model, it's just about as easy to photograph it from different angles as from only one.
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jun 23, 2006 13:00:52 GMT
Not necessarily - they could have been still photos of one model. But my question still stands - why do expensive matte paintings (expensive if they're to look at all realistic; and you're doubling the cost if you paint two) when there's an already-built model available?
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Post by Zoe on Jul 31, 2006 9:22:57 GMT
Not necessarily - they could have been still photos of one model. But my question still stands - why do expensive matte paintings (expensive if they're to look at all realistic; and you're doubling the cost if you paint two) when there's an already-built model available? I think the answer is that the models require a small army of technicians to operate and quite a few of the shots in RCOM are repeated. Incidentally, I think that the machines used in the fitst episode of the TV series used images rather than models - going on the way they looked and moved - i.e. not as well as in the movie. Anyone know? Zoe |
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