The Green Slime (1969)

Great horror sciences fiction story. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. 4.5 is underrating it. This is a very underrated movie. This a 10. It one of then best science fiction movies of all time. This so mush better the that overrated crap 2001 a space Oddyssey. See this movie. It is the best movie ever. Great movie great movie great movie. See it see it see it. I do not know why people do like. The special effects are not that good. But really this is a great movie. Then maybe I could see why you would give a 9. But a 4. Oh come on.

This movie is very strange but not as bad as I was expecting.My favorite thing about it is that all the outside scenes are just toys.I think that's cool.The rocket launch tower was made of Legos, no lie.So the story starts in a NASA type place that is full of extremely odd looking men.They discover that an asteroid is heading towards Earth so they call in the hunky main man to stop it.The hunk has a ridiculous dye job that makes Donald Trump's hair look realistic and a bit sexy.So he goes to the space station and it's full of equally odd looking men and dozens of extremely hot chicks.The men all wear matching prison uniforms of varying colors while the only female who speaks starts off dressed like a space hooker from the future.Later we find out that her and all the women on the space station are doctors.What?!?!!Ironically I just watched a movie yesterday(It! The Terror From Beyond Space) where all the women on the space ship were doctors.What a weird coincidence.Of course this lady doctor is in love with hunky boy and the space station commander because what's a sci-fi movie without a pointless love triangle?So hunky takes a crew and lands on the asteroid to blow it up and they accidentally bring back some green slime.When they get back to the space station the slime morphs into Sigmund and The Sea Monsters.At that point every time there is action they go to a super tight shot and switch angles every two seconds so that it's hard to notice that there isn't really any action.Overall it's not too bad for a 50 year old b-movie.Give it a shot.

Green Slime is one of the most ambitious and most fully realized futuristic sci-fi films lensed prior to 1968 and has the further virtue of wrapping the sci-fi suspense and action set-pieces around a well-conceived set of dynamic conflicts and shifting alliances among its central three protagonists. With the exception of Forbidden Planet, I can think of no other film prior to 1968 that attempts to put on screen the range of futuristic devices, sets, and special effects in the service of such varied and well-paced action and non-action sequences. Flash Gordon serials come to mind but are frankly inferior. Aliens are admirably inhuman with interesting powers. Successive attempts at containment and their failure are well-conceived. Tensions are reconciliations among characters are realistic. Weak link is the canonical scientist figure. Judged against all future-based SiFi films from 1968 or earlier, it is hard to think of any other film besides Forbidden Planet that actually put more visual and narrative imagination and spectacle on the screen. Along with FP, it must be regarded as an apotheosis of futuristic SiFi films from 1968+earlier. It is important to remember that 2001, released in April 1968, actually was REVOLUTIONARY in terms of visual effects - GS as well as ALL preceding (and no little amount of subsequent) SiFi films fall short of the 2001 effects standard for which Kubrick won his only Oscar but 2001 is an irrelevant standard by which to judge GS or any other film from 1968+earlier. GS holds up exceptionally well and is near the top of the class against all other futuristic SiFi from 1968 and earlier.

Before you can say, "Sock it to me!" a giant asteroid is on a collision course with Earth. Ivan Reiner, Kinji Fukasaku and the gang get western TV star Robert Horton (as Jack Rankin) to command a mission dealing with the problem. He clashes with future "Oscar" nominated site commander Richard Jaeckel (as Vince Elliott). These two "Gamma 3" rivals both dig luscious doctor Luciana Paluzzi (as Lisa Benson). They decide to land one of their groovy spaceships on the giant rock and lay down some explosives. The mission gets a little hairy, but winds up successful. But the team has inadvertently picked up "The Green Slime" - a bubbly mess that grows into energy eating beasts even "Mr. Clean" can't wipe up! ****** The Green Slime (12/19/68) Kinji Fukasaku ~ Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel, Luciana Paluzzi, Ted Gunther