86.2: Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Living Entities

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Yes. It's time for Sofa Theater. There were only two who saw the meteor fall into the lake long ago. One was an Indian brave, hunting for food. He saw the fire streak arc down over the water. and was afraid, because it was an omen of ill favor when the stars left the heaven and drowned themselves in the water.

The other witness was a fish who snapped greedily at the meteor as it fell. Quite reduced in size now, the fish swam away, and presently he died. That was 300 years ago. You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain Imagine love like the man you sang You broke my wind, but what a thrill Cause when this get wrecked it's just whittin' balls of fire I learned to love all I thought it was funny You came along and you blew me honey I changed. My mind, but it's fine.

Cause when this get wrecked it's just whittin' balls of. Fire Welcome to Moving Out Down Sofa Theater. Once again, I am Brian. Marlena. I'm Greg.

All right. We're back. And welcome to the second installment of Greeno Bloody Greeno. What? There was no blood.

I'm sorry. It was horror-esque. There you go. Science fiction-y. I don't know.

Our series looking at the other films of Maria de Aragon. This week's Sofa Theater feature is The Cremators. The year, actually, it was a little off. 1972 is the year. The director, Harry Essex.

The plot, and I'm going to have to adjust a little from the IMDb plot because I disagree with some of it, as I usually do. An alien life form that is a huge ball of living matter, a.k.a. fire, invades Earth and replenishes itself by absorbing people, a.k.a. incinerating people. That's how they put it. A lot of that's kind of off, but, you know, it's IMDb. But before we delve into it, it is time.

And as part of this little Maria de Aragon film festival here, we will hear a few thoughts of hers on these movies. Today, we will see what she remembers about The Cremators. Oh, yes. Oh, an interesting little film. Another one ahead of its time.

That was David.... I can't think of his last name at the moment. He was crazy about this movie. Well, he did The Black Lagoon. We took him to The Black Lagoon.

And he found that I looked just like another actress. I can't remember her name. But Adams. Miss Adams. And....

Hired me for. The part and I did like to work. There's a film, there's a picture rather on the corner here of it and. I really like science fiction. That was my first science fiction but then Star Wars as I said was the role of all time.

So see sometimes it pays just to remind your director of someone else. Because that was the Julie Adams that she was talking about that I guess the director thought she looked like her and that got her foot in the door on this project. So sometimes, you know, that's all the edge you need in Hollywood is just to look like somebody else. Isn't that right, Keira Knightley? Yeah, that's true.

Or the girl that looks like her. Take that. Her and Skeet Aldridge and all the rest of these bastards that wouldn't have a career if they didn't kind of look sort. Of like somebody that's a little more popular. Or has, you know, anybody heard of, so.

Fuck. I don't think Keira Knightley looks so much like Natalie Portman now. She did at the time. She was, yeah. Because at the time, I think when I saw that Phantom Menace, I don't think I realized they weren't just shooting double on her.

Like a lot of them were a little further off on some of those scenes. You know, they tried to shoot it from across there because I don't know how much they inserted her. But yeah, there was a lot of the time I don't think I realized that. And it was like years later, I think we were, you know, as usual, I was at discussing some sort of geekery with Misty. And she was like, no, that was her.

She's credited in the movie. And then we had to go and check the credits. And there she is. Again, I can't remember. What?

Why was she? She was the stand-in queen. She was there to throw them off. She was there. It was her handmaid.

And then she was there to step in when she needed somebody to look like her so she could go off and gallivant around the galaxy with a nine-year-old. Like an Elvis impersonator. Kind of. Yeah, or why didn't they just do the Patty Duke route and have two Natalie Portmans? See, that's what I figured.

It's not like that was cutting-edge technology. They were doing it on the Patty Duke show. That's right. At first, I thought that's what they did on most of it because I wasn't really paying that much attention. But, yeah, only years later.

So, yeah, many, many an actor has gotten their foot in the door just by kind of looking like somebody else. All right, all that having been said, we'll throw out the spoiler alert here. But I don't really know what the hell we're. Going to spoil, actually. I think the most you can get out of this, I just gave you in the plot synopsis.

But, hey, you know, we said it. So, all right. Let's go to town. All right. Where shall we begin?

Where's point A? Um.... You said spoiler? Okay. What the hell was the Native American dude doing running down an ATV trail?

That was the first thing that came to mind. Well, hundreds of years ago, when the ATV trail was there, there was a giant meteor thing, some sort of ball of fire that fell to the earth. Right. And there were only two creatures that saw it. Right.

One was an Indian dude hanging out on the ATV trail. What was the significance of the only two creatures seeing it? Because the earth was empty. 300 years ago. 300 years ago.

300 years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth. And a hammerhead shark. And a hammerhead shark and an Indian. But they didn't even call it a hammerhead shark. They called it a fish.

It was a fish. I'm like, that's not a fucking fish. That's a shark. Well, technically you still fish. Whatever.

It's not a mammal. They just told some production assistant, get a picture of a fish. Yeah, they just. You know the guy doing the voiceover, which I think is the director, had no idea what the hell they were piecing in, probably. He was doing that like six months beforehand, and then they're like, oh, well, whatever.

He's a fish. Just run it. That's the only thing we got? Hammerhead? Oh, fuck it.

Go with it. They make specific, you know, like an Indian brave, not just like a person. Some dude. But then a fish, and it's not a fish. It's a shark.

If you're going to be specific down to the fact that this... to like what tribe he's from even though they don't go into that but I mean they could. Have Northern California hippie. Name Jimmy right. It's just a little off balance they could have been like some okay some land mammal and a fish not. Like they didn't do any research you think this is the only thing in this movie that's off balance no there's a good amount off balance in this movie oh So, yeah, there's two creatures that see this thing fall to the earth.

One is an Indian brave who then gets chased down the ATV trail and run over and is then. So once again, they really shouldn't have called this movie The Cremators as much as The Cremated. Right. Because there really aren't any cremators. It's not like a crazy plot about a mad cult that lives in a crematorium and kidnaps people and burns them alive.

That'd be pretty cool. I'd be up for that. No, this is just people who get incinerated by a giant ball of fire. So The Cremators is kind of a misleading title. Much as. blood mania it's a theme and once again if you look at the box art it's awesome and it has nothing to do there's like a girl tied up being you know their clothes ripped off and a burning city behind her and none of that takes place.

In this movie not even close. So yeah i don't know what to do with it so yeah the second one was the hammerhead shark Who saw it and snapped at it and then swam away and died. Right. So, yeah, it took out the first two creatures that saw it. That kind of gives you an idea of how it's going to go for the rest of the creatures involved.

Oh, Lord. Then we cut ahead 300 years, and it felt like it, to our hippie friend running on the beach. Yeah. Now, you might as well get used to that shot, because you're going to see a lot of it. Yeah, that was weird.

Hippie boy running back and forth on the beach, which I believe you said was David Carradine. Yeah. Or David Cassidy. David Cassidy. David Cassidy.

More like David Cassidy. Yeah, so David Cassidy. Yeah, he definitely. Until they did a close-up. Wow.

From a distance, he had the lame hippie... hey kid, get a haircut kind of hairdo going there. So yeah, he definitely had that look. So it shows him running and running for a long time as the credits are going on. And then it cuts to what may be my favorite scene in the entire damn movie. When it just jump cuts, he's running with his hands by his side the whole rest of the time.

Bam, jump cuts to him with his hands up in the air holding a cat. Running down the beach. Then this cat enjoys being thrown in the air next to the water. What cat doesn't love to be by the water and being run up and down, you know, slung around through the air? Because cats love that sort of behavior.

I hope this stupid hippie got his eyes clawed out after the scene got shot. No, that cat died. Yeah. Well, that's what happens when you eat rocks. Yeah.

Which. we're getting ahead of ourselves but um yeah that's the that's the funniest damn thing ever that hippie flailing a cat around on the beach is the funniest thing i've seen it's. Like he pulled it out of his pocket yeah it's just. There it's just there and then it cuts and it's not there anymore and we go on with the rest of the story and that had nothing to do with anything but. I just like the irrelevance of the whole scene it was like It doesn't matter if he was running on the beach by himself or with a cat because it had no significance in the movie otherwise. This movie's a little too short and we got this footage of the guy running with a cat.

Let's throw that in. Yeah, we got a lot of footage of this guy running. What do you want to do with it? Just splice it in anywhere. Whatever.

Just randomly throughout the movie. And you know, splice is a good word to use with this movie because normally I don't notice editing that much. Yes. But this. It would jump in and out of a scene.

You're like, why are they driving? They were just having sex. Why are they... And you had no... It was about two seconds into every scene when they would actually cut in.

Yeah. We can veer off into the technical aspects here for a minute. No, because there's quite a few. I was getting to them one way or another, so now's a good time as any. I don't know if I've seen anything that made its way out on a regular labeled release.

And granted, this is a really cheap DVD. But still. that is as choppily edited, and some of it I can't tell if it's just the print, because obviously the people making this DVD didn't put any time or money into restoring it. So this is just whatever print they found, they made a copy and stuck it on DVD and slapped it out there. So I blame them for half-assing the DVD. But again, I can't tell how much of it is also just original, because you can also, I can say this is some of the worst lighting ever. or lack thereof, of any movie I've seen, maybe ever, certainly as a major release.

And they never focused any scene at any point. It was like, is that supposed to be? Is that the print? No, they just didn't focus. It's just not really in focus.

Oh, yeah. Some of the lighting was just like... It would just be off in the darkness. Sometimes there were silhouettes. There was once it almost looked like it was on purpose.

I gave them that. That was maybe trying to be artistic. The rest of it was just bad lighting. And here's the big question I have. If....

If you already have trouble lighting your scenes during the daytime, why shoot so much at night? Because half of this movie takes place at. Night, and you really can't see what the hell's going on. No. That just seems like bad thinking on your part.

I mean, even then you could run back some dailies and be like, wow, I can't even see the actors. Well, six weeks and I choose. Right. I mean, does that seem like a good plan? I think it's.

Because you couldn't see the out-of-focusness. Well, yeah, and the cremator. You wouldn't be able to see the cremator during the day, which is funny. It's this glowing hot. Massive fire people didn't notice until it was 15 feet from them yeah look directly at it.

It's it's huge it's this uh bigger than a schooner i think they say so this this fireball bigger than a schooner. Just sneaks up on you yeah. You don't see it coming it's just there it is. And they can't run from it no if there's a path they think to run down that path they don't run to the side. Or that's where the atvs win i mean it's obviously the best way to go and.

Then as soon as it's near them they just stop lay down on the ground wait put. Your arms in the right wait wait move your arms a little bit there we go that matches the stock footage of the the dust blowing away that is left over after they're cremated. You get a nice little person outline of dust, and then it just immediately... It gets really windy all of a sudden. Yeah, the wind kicks up all of a sudden.

And blows your cremated body's remains away. But I like the fact that at one point, a man. His car.... Everything he owns is incinerated, but the one thing intact is this canvas mailbag. It destroyed the metal of a car, but this canvas mailbag is totally fine.

But it was canvas. Right, and it was U.S. Mail. That's untouchable. That's true.

You can't destroy it. I've got chucks I've had for years. They're pretty indestructible, that canvas. Postmaster General, they know what they're doing. Flame retarded retarded yes i said that on purpose.

Oh man so yeah just to wrap up the technicals there um yeah you have some of the worst camera work ever just right shaky cam before they knew it was cool just because they didn't you know bother to put it on a tripod or find some way of securing it so there's a lot of very uh shaky footage going on here You know. The one time I did notice at the beginning they were panning with the camera in a few moments and you could tell it was on a tripod and using the hand-mounted, you know, I don't know the technical term. Handle. And you could see where it would get to a spot that would jump because it wasn't a smooth motion. And you're like, just pick it up off the tripod at that point, please.

You need to lube up your tripod. It ain't running smooth. No, but. Yeah, it was pretty bad. I think everything was just fucking.

Go with it. It really was. And granted, they had no budget. I'll give them that. I think at best they guessed it was $ 50, 000, which I think we estimated last week.

I think that was a little high, because to me last week was about twice the budget of this one, at least. So yeah, last week we might have been off a little, because I think they actually said this was like $ 50, 000, which. Is pretty minimal for a movie, but still, you can come out. With a little better quality finished product than this. Right.

So, yeah, the only other one I wanted to mention technical-wise is that the, again, this is probably more editing after the fact, and as we stated with the random hippie shots and whatnot, there were just pieced-in insert shots of whatever. If I saw one more shot of that badly framed top of the lighthouse. It was out of focus. Jesus. I mean, seriously, it's not even framed.

It's like in the bottom fourth of the frame. It's barely in the picture. And that's such an awesome shot. They put it in there 13 times. At any given moment when they had nothing else to do in the scene, they're just like, cut to that shot.

Of the lighthouse no i i think that was it was it was symbolic because it would it was the beacon just like the little rocks were the beacon to its mother that's that that was symbolic usually i'm the only one reaching for this bullshit you didn't take that from that that's what they were. Trying to do thank you thank you for going there because i i need that usually i'm the only one coming up with this shit so yeah i'm sure that's what it was uh. Just horribly um horribly. Executed yeah yeah it's it's just again i think i think you're right i think it's just that fuck it go in it yeah we gotta have this out in the theater by next week just piece it together right what. Do we need to fill uh.

We need to be over 60 minutes because it's very short so i think even with the insert shots they were like push in like an hour and 15 minutes or something. It's really because it seems a lot it seems. A lot longer but i'm pretty sure it's very short run time There was five solid minutes of him walking through the woods in poorly lit light. Poorly lit light, that's horrible. Out of focus, and you had no idea.

You could have done it in 30 seconds, but no, it was five minutes. Yeah, which I think is towards the end, right? Okay, we'll get to that then. I'm sorry. Well, just to.

Finish, let's see, where else? Then we get to the mail carrier who brings him his bug magazines. I wish I would subscribe to Bug Magazines. Why haven't I? can i know they're out there i really need to get a couple of subscriptions going to. My bug magazine i know people who get reptile magazines.

Well there are there truthfully there's a magazine for anything no matter how ridiculous and what you think is your own personal thing that you're into there's a magazine devoted to it and it's waiting for you out there. And there's somebody more interested in it than you yeah and there's somebody just waiting to call you out for not being uh schooled enough on whatever the hell it is And then they write an article for that magazine. So, yeah, then we get to where we introduce the female lead, which would be Maria. And they come in and immediately almost go into this weird... I don't know if they were trying to be artistic, or they were just trying to not have to shoot anything extra.

Because they're showing these random shots of them together, but then they're doing voiceover that's. Like, it's not matching. It's just voiceover and almost in this weird dreamy little, the whole thing sort of seems like a dream sequence. It's just like a romantic dream sequence. Yeah, they don't know each other, but all of a sudden they're like, oh, nice to meet you.

Oh, I love you. I haven't seen you since I was nine. You look so hot now. And these are all during shots of them just like walking down the stairs and him like, helping her he like grabs her by the waist and picks her up as she like walks over i don't know i was like she he's already getting a little hands-on dude's a little uh overstepping the bounds already you know he's. Been stuck on that island with the he's got his bugs he's got his bugs and he's a researcher it's like me yeah and and a lighthouse what you know they said he was a hermit so i'm sure he was just a.

Girl exactly actually many listening to this right now will have that same reaction Sorry, guys. I include myself in that. That's OK. I can call you out. So, yeah, I actually.

Thought at the moment when they when they had that scene, I thought that's intentional. That's actually kind of it's kind of a it was like. an established montage of, yes, they spent time together, and now this is after the fact, and they're talking. It almost worked. If that was intentional, that was a pretty good part of the movie. I think, yeah, I was trying to give them credit at that point.

It's still early on, so I'm just sort of like, yeah, it's almost artsy, but at the same time it's being, like, succinct. It's also like, well, we don't need to see them stand there and say all this, you know, normal nonsense to each other, so we'll cut it, we'll show the little... relationship as it were progressing in this 20 minute period but we'll cut it down to like you know 90 seconds top. I really think they just had terrible. Editing skills because you know it's like as much as you don't want to focus on this relationship aspect you want to show this stupid hippie running down the beach for 45 minutes and then the guy walking through the woods for like another 45 minutes it's a whole movie right there they're like oh this relationship stuff it's gonna take up too much time let's cut it out.

Well, they cut it out of the entire relationship. Because once again, we'll enter into the same thing I called him out for last week. Sluts. They knew each other for like a day. And bam, he's already nailing her.

I was just like, really? Come on, guys. Have a little restraint. A little taste. It was the 70s.

It was the 70s. Things are not different now. Oh, I know. Once again, I just said I'm a dork. I don't come in contact with girls.

What do you want? So. once again this seems very strange i i don't understand why he just all of a sudden he doesn't even have to talk to her really i haven't seen you since you were nine years old hey let's go screw right and it works so you got to give him credit because uh yeah then we see the the what did you say the most romantic love scene oh no wait how did you describe it. Uh they just kind of laid their lifeless and she pinched his back a little. Bit yeah yeah and then it was over back action and then there were birds running on the beach and you know what. That means hey if you ever make the birds run on the beach uh-huh you you're going at it pretty good You know, I don't even know what the point of that scene was.

You didn't show anything. Yeah, this is probably the only movie of the trilogy here that we don't get nudity. So, yeah, it's kind of weird that they bothered even having a love scene when it didn't really... I mean, I guess unless they just wanted to immediately solidify the fact that now they're a couple. Right.

They're not just random people that sort of know each other. Now, you know, they're a couple, so nothing solidifies that like sex, so. I guess that's still true. In the real world, too. I don't know.

Oh, Lord. Yeah, I don't know. Since they didn't show anything, it is kind of weird that they even bothered putting that in there. Right. We had to see his back.

We had to have that. Hot man back. Oh, boy. Anyway. I was confused by his job.

He was into bugs. But people kept calling him doctor, which, I mean, you can be like a doctor of biology or whatever. Bugology. Well, whatever. Entomologist?

Yeah, entomology. I don't know. Well, I was trying to think, because that's the thing. As they said it in there, the other guy referred to him as a biologist. I was like, well, if he likes bugs, isn't that an entomologist?

I mean, yes. I'm a dork, but even I was kind of like, I know the name of a bug doctor. He was collecting rocks. Yeah. Yeah, he could have been.

Any number of these things. I guess they just looped it in one big doctor-scientist category. Because, like you said, they referred to him as a biologist. He was clearly an entomologist or a geologist. But then people kept bringing their dead pets to him and calling him doctor.

Like he was like a vet. Like a vet or just town doctor or something. No, but this is my favorite part of the whole weird science thing. This is how you know he's into science. Because you go into his house slash lab, whatever the hell that was.

They only had one room in there, so they kept going to that. They had a clock on the wall. It was pretty fancy. Paneling and a clock on the wall. So you go into this fancy set, and you know he's into science because there's a fish tank there.

But it wasn't... And it's a bubbling. But it wasn't serving the purpose of a fish tank. It was part of his. lab set like there was like a jar of barbicide and a bubbling fish tank and some other jars of stuff that would like bubble and do stuff but it's. Not like it was a fish tank like there was gravel in the bottom and fish swimmer it's a 10 gallon tank completely empty other than water with bubbles coming up what the fuck purpose does that serve.

And there was a microscope in front of it He was bunts and honeydew at that point. Yeah, a bubble and fish tank and a microscope equals science. At least he didn't have a beaker with a green liquid foaming or something like that. He still needs a little bzzz. Unless you have the, what the hell are those called?

Unless you have one of those. I mean, how are you going to call yourself a mad scientist? So I guess he was like a sane scientist. Boring. Boring.

And it was boring. But one thing I do know that he was not, his buddy the physicist, when he came to town, he made sure to clarify that he was the physicist, not the biologist. Yeah, he pointed out a couple of times he was the physicist. And they were both well-regarded in their field or something to that effect. They liked to point out that they were quite schooled.

Are you saying this is what killed that seaman? That's the container that I mailed those two droplets to you in. Only when I found this, the two droplets were missing. Anything that can do that to a piece of metal can do a pretty good job on a human body, wouldn't you say so? Ian, I'm a physicist.

As you're a biologist, we both deal in scientific facts. What's yours say? But Willie, two men were burned to death. Well, it could be what the medical examiner thinks. A car overturned.

Or lightning. You're not really that skeptical, are you? No. I'm just baffled. Which didn't really help him in most of this.

Well, I guess if you don't have the acting skills to portray that you're a physicist and the director or the person writing the movie can't. How do these people know that this guy's a physicist? Oh, he's going to have to say it four times. We can't spring for lab codes. He had like a blazer.

Come on. I mean, in that town, that makes him a scientist. You've got the town hick that's the sheriff, and you've got the guy with the giant beard and the bald head. I mean, among these yokels, the guy in the blazer is a scientist, let me tell you. I don't know.

I guess we can address now what the. What these creatures are at best we can because i'm still not 100 sure right so should we start with the rocks or the fireballs no start with the rocks they started with the okay there's rocks they look like rocks they kind of have a weird paint job or something there's some yellow paint on them or something and then they glow and sometimes they make a little titty noise but nobody else seems to be able to hear that except for us that's the magic of movie making I guess because they see them glowing but they don't really hear the noise like we do we get that benefit at home so yeah they're living entities I suppose pieces of a larger living entity and they think.

And they can roll and they can burn through things. And they scoot. And they can scoot. But not too far or too fast. No.

Because you can just put them back if you want to. And you'd think that would piss them off since they have personality. I feel like Mexican jumping beans. They really should have been. Yeah, that would have been cool.

And then like giant moths would have busted out of them and attacked their face. Right. Once again, I'm making many better movies. Actually, yeah, because I'm horribly afraid of moths. I mean, today I was locking my door and this moth flew at me and I screamed and Started jumping and almost fell off my step, which is about four feet tall, so I could have been killed today by a moth.

I thought you were locking it from the moth, like he was going to turn the doorknob and. don't know why I'm so afraid of them. I think it's because they're just so. Fluttery? I don't know. They're dusty and they're just ugly.

A nighttime butterfly? I don't like them. I don't like butterflies either. Oh, well. That's anti-girly.

What's wrong with you? I don't know. I hate. anything with butterfly motif on it naturally but no just in general like my friends porches infested with butterflies and they always want to like attack my face like laying on. My face and bait on my face I'm like. I'd hate them too if they were mating on my.

Face please stop fucking on my face it's not too much. To ask. God that would have been a better. Movie yeah really once again we're up to like three more awesome movies sorry the cremator. Yeah but um I don't even know why we're talking about.

Moths but Mexican jumping beans that these rocks weren't so yeah they just sort of lay there and glow and glow and lay there most of the time I really don't even see them move until the very end I thought they just were rocks and then toward the end I was like oh I guess they're semi-functional living beings and they move around and yeah I don't know so and if you touch them Your hands will glow. That's right. Only if you slap them together. If you clap like a hippie, because the hippie loves to clap his hands and show you that his hands glow. Yeah.

It makes no real sense as to why they glow. I guess it's just residual space dust on your. Hands, but. I don't know. It doesn't really serve any purpose.

Nothing really happens because of it, right? Your hands just glow. I think they suspected that they may come after them, too. But they didn't really. No.

They were just coming after the leftover rocks. Right. So that's basically our plot here. What it comes down to is the big entity, the fireball, is the mama. And during the crash landing, you lose a whole bunch of the little baby rocks.

So then basically the whole movie is just the mama collecting the babies. And in the process, anybody who gets in the way or pisses them off gets taken out incinerator style. That's pretty much it. You'd think she could have... She's had 300 years to do this.

Yeah. And can't she make the ting-ting noise and call them to her? I mean, they can scoot. Can't they just come and, like, find her? And, you know, she collected 30 of them in the course of two days.

300 years. Yeah. Well, and they never really spell out exactly what's going on with the timeline because then there's, like, the legend that says it's, like, every 100 years it comes out. So it's like. why i mean why does. This entity from another you know planet or wherever need to rest for 100 years at a time and then come out and eat people or whatever the hell it does just incinerate them and then go back to napping in the bottom of the lake.

Or wherever whatever it. Does i mean again it doesn't spell out any of the specifics in this for two guys who know so much about science You think they would tell you exactly what the hell's going on in this scientific plot, but. He said physicist, but not astrophysicist. So, you know, he was kind of. Physicists?

They're dumbasses. You're not an astrophysicist. Don't waste my time. That's right. If you're a physicist, I'm sorry.

So, uh, yeah. I'm sure we have a huge listenership of physicists. Neil deGrasse Tyson actually listens to the show. He wrote in last week. I don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah, we never really figure out exactly what the scenario is as to why it's gone for certain periods of time, why it's taken 300 years to collect all these. And we're sure that they don't know either. Yeah, absolutely. Harry Essex, the writer and director. Well, while we're covering the mother, I did want to point out that the flaming ball is, what, 15, 20 feet high, probably?

Bigger than a schooner. Bigger than a schooner, but it does look like a glowing cheese ball. A planter's cheese ball. A planter's cheese ball, yeah, that rolls after you. So if we need that visual image, that's pretty much what it is.

Truthfully, I have to say, of all the cheesiness and bad stuff going on in here, I like the fireballs. Once again, I'm, like, perpetually six years old, and I'm like. Cool, rolling fireball. Like, I still, there's part of it that, yes, it's cheesy. Yes, the images look really bad, but there's part of me that's still.

Like, oh, awesome. Fire. Fire. In a ball, rolling it. People, look, it ain't that dude.

It never leaves a charred wake behind it. And they didn't even throw down some dark dust. Yeah, I like that it didn't. Incinerate anything other than the person. Except that one time it incinerated the car.

But not the ground or the bushes or anything else. And again, am I just reaching? Or was it underwater the whole time? Mostly. So...

How does fire keep being fire underwater? I mean, I know it's an alien entity and it does whatever the hell it wants, but I mean, if it were following the rules of fire, which it seems to when it burns the hell out of these people, wouldn't water be a bad place for you to go and hide? Some, yeah. I mean, really. Right.

You know, it did say that if you put the rocks in a bucket of water, a bucket of ice, wasn't it, that it would probably melt the pail before it melted the ice? Yeah. I don't know how the physicists knew. That or why that would work. Or what that means.

What's the science behind that? In physics, that doesn't work. It's a cool fact. Right. I don't know what it means.

I don't know how you tested that theory in a lab, but he did. I got a bucket. Let's test his mother. And apparently the best physicist in the world is in Ann Arbor, Michigan. So it must be at University of Michigan?

I believe, yeah. That's where he was shipping it off. So, yeah. Michigan. That explains a lot, actually.

Michigan. Look out. Look out, like Harvard, Yale, and Brown. Yeah. MIT, no.

Just go up there next to the crazy gunmen off stockpiling ammunition. And if you're a physics student at University of Michigan, let us know if you've got a good department. Or if you have a militia up there. Whichever of the two. Man, I hope we hear from Michigan now.

We're trying to get different areas to come in. Last week it was like Connecticut. This week, Michigan. Michigan. Call out a whole state.

There you go. Each week we pick a state. Let's hear it, Tennessee. They generate heat, as you probably know. I found out the hard way.

Sure you didn't try to do your own cooking? Where did you find those little mouths? The two I sent you came out of a dog's stomach. Observe my findings. And you were almost right when you said it generates heat.

It gives off long infrared rays. mostly stacked up around 200,000 angstroms. But its energy is way out of proportion to what you'd expect of the equation. Also, it's an individualist. Sometimes, a slight nudge will set it off like a rocket. And then again, you can hit it with a sledgehammer, and it won't perform at all, even some.

Dune rollers is what they're called right officially that is the legend and it actually is um it's based on a a book that was uh originally was published as julian c may who then later it's actually a woman named judy so it's judy um i think what her last name then becomes she gets married and she's judy diskeys which is um how they credit her in the in the beginning of the movie there but yeah it's based on her short story the dune rollers Which I'm kind of interested to see if they actually spell anything out in the short story. Right. I don't know. Maybe if the book was better. Could be.

Maybe this is. There's also a... I don't think I'd ever seen the show Tales of Tomorrow. No. There's a.

Around that. It's like a Twilight Zone, Outer Limits time period. Like 52, I think. So it's... Right?

A little early, actually. But yeah, there's an episode of that called The Dune Roller that's also based on the same story. So I kind of need to go track this down and see if they make sense of it. All other formats of this were much better. The hell you say.

I can't believe that. Where do we even go from here? We have the big boat scene. Right. Then we get Maria driving a boat, not very fast.

No. And suddenly the guy realizes she's got the rock in the boat with her. So then Mama decides to chase her. So you've got a big boat scene or a big chase scene on the boat, on the water with fire on the water rolling, which again, I'm not sure how that works. And she's not going very fast.

And she avoids it by turning. Well. Yeah. That buys her more time, which... Serpentine.

Right. Just like the Indian running at the beginning. It can't keep up with you if you keep changing directions. Right, right. It's true for alligators.

Yeah, see? Alligators, balls of fire, whatever's chasing you, just. And it didn't have an ATV trail to follow, so. It gets lost. That's how you do it.

Right. You know, I. didn't understand her whole point in the movie they needed a girl right that's about it we need a female lead hmm. How about you right what do i do i don't care there's. Really but there's really other than a to a love interest which really doesn't yeah the thing there's not. Much they don't they don't really pan out the love interest thing and they don't really um go into anything oh i mean she doesn't do anything other than that big chase scene and then sort of show up at a other occasions along the way.

But yeah, she's not really involved in anything other than that chase scene pretty much for the rest of the movie. You just want her to squeeze his back. I guess. Who doesn't want a little back squeezing? I mean, come on.

That just sounds gross. Isn't that like in a perverted gross way? It just sounds gross. I don't know why. They're squeezing my back.

Ugh. But what's funny is I've seen an interview with her, not even of the one we did, but there's another one where she's talking about this, and it's funny how much... I guess even in these... I mean, I guess you're an actor, period. You know, regardless of what your project is, no matter how low budget or how cheesy it is, it's like you still sort of approach it the same way.

Because she went into. And she was talking about her character's motivation and how she... You know, why she's coming back to town and how she'd gotten out of a relationship. And that's why she initially doesn't want to be involved in him. I'm like, well, 20 minutes later, you're screwed.

But. But, yeah, she doesn't want to be involved with him, and she's still kind of, you know, she's standoffish, and she doesn't want to get into it. So, I mean, she brought all this into the storyline, and I'm like, but it's not even in the storyline. So it's, I don't know, it's sort of interesting just the artistic process that she's still, you know, trying to put this much work into the character, even when it's not in the script itself. I have a feeling that, you know, no one involved in this movie could see how bad it was.

They thought it would be this, like, amazing artistic masterpiece. So they just went with it, and when they watched it at the end, they're like, are you fucking kidding me? I don't even think it was that. I think it was more of, I mean, again, look at a lot of the stuff at this time period, some of which we've watched in the last few months here. I mean, granted, the quality on the lighting and editing is a little worse, but I mean, the plot line and the acting, a lot of it's not really any worse.

I think this was just a whole period of like... Just get it out. Yeah, well, just like Grindhouse kind of stuff. And it was like, just get it out there. Just, you know, we've got a poster.

Make a movie that sort of matches this poster. Go. You know, so they weren't really overly concerned with specifics or sometimes even screenwriting or any of that. Which is weird because this is actually a, you know, we can give the director hell just for making this movie. And keep in mind the year before this, he also made the movie Octoman.

Yeah. A man with eight arms and looks like an Octoman. Look it up on YouTube. Yeah. Octoman.

So he maybe made some questionable choices as a director, but we have to give him credit as a writer. This is the guy who did co-write the original classic creature from the black lagoon. So, I mean, he, he wrote that, he wrote, it came from outer space. He wrote the sons of Katie elder. I mean, he actually worked consistently for over 30 years in Hollywood, just writing scripts like year in and year out.

And, um, seemed to be drawn to sci-fi and westerns and crime dramas did like a lot of dragnet and did like a just a bunch of them along the way that were just fell into like those three categories and i don't know i give him credit as a writer which is weird because it doesn't come off in this movie right but um yeah he may have just should have stuck to writing. There was a whole lot of mystery elements to this story i mean they really played it wasn't just a monster movie or a drive-in yeah we're gonna you know it was it most of the film was hey let's figure out what's going. On yeah they set it up like it is yeah i mean the conventions of it is almost like because early on really i said this is kind of like the blob and i'm like well i mean there is that aspect of this thing falls to the planet and then you know people are wandering around trying to find something there's there's elements that could have fallen into it's just another monster movie like the blob Granted, this isn't here as cool as the blob, but...

No, the. Reason I was comparing it to the blob, though, is because it's just like this big mess that people have no idea how to escape from. Oh, my God, it's going to get me, and I don't know what to do. That's why it's like the blob. But go ahead the blob's awesome so um but yeah i don't know what were you saying before.

Yeah no just oh the mystery mystery yeah and detective story i think i think you can see those elements in it now that you say that about dragnet so. Yeah yeah i mean it does again i think it sets it up much like a like a monster from space kind of movie early on and there is that little like trying to figure out what it is that comes in later. Once the other physicist comes in, and there are a lot of scenes with them just going back and forth and talking, occasionally you can't understand them because, once again, somebody on the foley needed to get together because sometimes things don't match up. Sometimes sound effects just sort of don't happen, you know. And then, yeah, even just the dialogue doesn't come through sometimes.

But, eh, you don't really worry about it, really. So. Yeah, but there is. A lot of explanation thrown in or them throwing theories back and forth in the middle. I mean, you can see writing there, but I don't know.

It's still not enough to really save the whole of this movie. But you can see where there's still elements of what he had done the whole rest of his career. This was actually towards the end. He did a few other things like... I think one in the 80s and one in the 90s.

But this was about the last big project that he had. This was at the end of, seriously, year in and year out, consistently putting things out since the 40s. Wow. Yeah, he did a lot of work over the years. Burnt out.

Yeah, I think he just burnt out. Giant ball of fire. Anyway, so yeah, I think this was just sort of coming to the end of his career. And after Octoman and this one, I think he was ready. To wrap it up.

The one thing that I know, and this is one that, because, again, we've watched a good amount of, like, movies from this time period, and it involves some sort of giant creature, usually, or something along those lines that comes in, and they always end up having. A huge, like, ecological angle to it. This really doesn't. For a guy who's all about science, and, you know, you've got this thing from outer space, and there's so many ways that they could have worked it where they really sort of, you know, heavy-handedly played upon that, and, like. Well, the reason it's here is because.

You're ruining the planet Earth, or just it's here because your whole system's out of balance, especially with a hippie in the middle of it. This hippie character could have been there really preaching, or the scientists could have been given all these scientific reasons that were destroying the ozone, and that's why the fireball came down, which I don't think they care about ozone yet. That's like 10 years later, but. five but so yeah i don't know it definitely could have gone that way and most movies at this time period seem to and this one doesn't it's just missing. But they he's his little dialogue at the beginning when he's reading into his recorder he did talk about how ecologically and biologically we're not seeing things that we used to see yeah things aren't showing up where they should be and it almost seems like either they started out trying to go down that route and then thought, you know, we can't mesh our fireball with ecology in any way, but we have to throw that in there or after the fact they threw it in.

Yeah. Cause it was a voiceover. Right. So it could have been, it could have been either, either or, but the, they did try for a little while. It seemed like, yeah, it seemed like they set it up, but then they just don't like most of the other, like just about all of the giant monster movies we've watched for the last, or is all like, really heavy handed with you and your DDT or your whole, you know, ecological systems out of whack.

And you have this creature has to be there to balance out this creature. And like, they all have this message of some sort that they're trying to put out there. And this could have gone that route and really tried to, you know, shove something down your throat. I'm kind of. pleased that it does. I mean, after a while, some of the other ones all get too heavy handed about it, where this was kind of like refreshing the fact that they.

Just let it go. That's a big ball of fire and it kills people. So let's go with that. You know, and, but there, you know, there was no morality to it. Actually, it didn't, it wasn't even searching these people out.

It just wanted it's the rest of its being backed with it. And it didn't even acknowledge that, that we were human or alive. You know, I just said, well, we just, happened to be in the way it wasn't chasing anyone down it just was going after what it had so um we were bugs i think and him being a bug doctor yeah maybe that's why we were seen as bugs and we'll squash it to get what we need. He yeah he mentions that that's probably the the only minor thing they work in it's probably a little bigger aspect that they were going for that we are It is sort of looking at that or just trying to introduce that type of thought that, you know, that you're not the center of the universe. That really, you know, what we think is so important here to some other being somewhere else, you're insignificant.

So we are the top of the food chain here and everything revolves around human beings. But we don't pay any attention to bugs and they're just as, you know, they're living creatures too. So why is it that on some other planet this giant ball of fire can't do whatever the hell it wants and we're. Just as insignificant? So, yeah, it definitely... works.

That in again pretty minorly it doesn't overwhelm you with it but that's probably the only other bigger sort of theme that could be coming into. This if there is anything on this one No. They just threw it all together and put it out. Yeah, pretty much. I think they tried.

I think they were going to, and I think they were just like, you know what, let's just get this out. Hurry up. More dead bodies blowing away in the wind. They could have had some more dead bodies. Yeah, it's actually pretty minor on the killings there.

There's what, like three, four total? Yeah. You never get a woman who dies and is screaming. You always expect that. Maria does a little screaming along the way.

Spoiler alert. She survives. I think you might have already mentioned it. Yeah, I know. She must have survived.

I was talking to her. That's right. Oh, Lord. I will go into the music. In the beginning, I kind of liked the music.

As the credits are rolling and the hippies run on the beach, there's a whole lot of really loud blaring. To me, it's very like Planet of the Apes. It's like that whole little orchestrated, huge horns just kind of blaring away. And it's kind of fun for a minute. As you go into it, they do work that blaring horn like when they have a dramatic moment of The doctor picking up a rock.

I mean, yeah, it works that like it's the most mind bending thing that could ever happen. Oh, my God. Play that music. This is a shocking moment. As he looks at a jar.

He puts it in the jar. I know. So, yeah, it's odd where they place those key little musical notes. And then as we get like halfway into the movie, we get this little like drum beat thing. That won't stop.

It's like Chinese water torture. It's just, and it just beats this little thing. And in all the parts where they're wandering around in the dark, as you, as you lovingly refer to those scenes. Yeah. Yeah.

All this part of them walking around, which granted there's a lot of downtime in this middle. There's a lot of people walking around and looking for a rock or, you know, there's a whole lot of time spent on that. That probably didn't need to be, which is why this movie feels. A lot longer than it is. But, yeah, there's just this one little musical cue that just plays over and over in a loop.

It's a loop, yeah. And then the very end, like the last 15 minutes, is another weird one that's sort of annoying, really. I've heard it was sort of ripping off holes, so I don't know. I'm not sure why they put that in there because it's sort of grating as time goes on. Oh, I don't know.

What did you want to do on the end of the movie as they're wandering around? You know, I could have dealt with some kind of, this is what I intend to do. I mean, yes, you're trying to figure out what he's going to do with it or how he's trying to deal with it and everything. Can I spoil and tell what he was... He brought some dynamite with him.

Once again, it hurts it that you can't see what he's doing because the scene is so dark and at night. Once again, good planning. But yeah, go ahead. But they actually show him these rocks that can incinerate things. He puts them in a bag right next to his TNT and throws it over his shoulder and wanders around the woods for half an hour.

They're not so smart. You could say dumb as a rock, but that's a little too on the head. Right, those rocks were actually smart. And then, you know, I guess he's going to try to trap the mom. But it just. trapper or just destroyer.

Why did he have to travel so far they were coming after. It was coming after you anyway wherever you were wouldn't. It have come to you and. Then he digs a little hole so he can bury the dynamite right and like you know so then he covers it back up with dirt which is fine right but then he like puts like straw over top of it so it looks like it's normal right except that's the only part of the area that has any straw Everything else is like barren dirt and then some little grassy stuff over around the corner by the rocks. Right.

Nothing looks anything like where you just covered that up. Right. So number one, it would be very obvious to somebody on this planet that you just buried something there and tried to cover it up. But number two, it's a fireball from space. Are you tricking it?

Why? Why do you need to like. Pull the wool over its eyes. It's not going to know. It doesn't even acknowledge that you exist.

It doesn't care about the TNT. Yeah, it's not really going to notice that you casually threw a little straw over top of this wool that you just dug. It's a fireball from space. And he puts the rocks in a nice, neat little circle. And they crawl away.

And they crawl away, and he puts them back. And they crawl away, and he puts them back. You'd think if they could burn him, wouldn't they just burn his hand when he picked him back up? Right. If you pissed them off.

Because that's what we realize is these rocks and the fireball are like emotional creatures, and you can piss them off, or sometimes they're just in a bad mood, or they go into these weird descriptions about the rocks, and then I guess, again, about the giant entity there that... sometimes it'll just let you slide sometimes it'll just be like i don't feel like killing that bastard right now and then other times you'll just barely you know light your pipe on it and you'll light a match off of it and that semen got burnt yeah which they kept using terms semen he was a semen. And he well we all did but once again we're like six years old He's a demon. So, yeah, there's a longshoreman that gets taken out midway through.

And, yeah, that's all he did was he lit a match on that rock. That pissed it off. And then here comes Mama and just torches his ass. Didn't appear until she was ten feet away, even though she was there. I think she was hiding behind a tree.

She was hiding behind a tree, yeah. You should have noticed that that tree was on fire because it's hard to hide by the tree when you're a giant fireball. And then they would cut, when she was coming up out of the water, they would cut back and forth the scenes of a volcano. That was smoldering, and I'm like, you're either in the northeast or northern California by your geography. There are no large, smoldering, conical volcanoes anywhere near there.

But they're in there. Well, I mean, if we want to call that out, they also just randomly cut the scenes in space in the middle of it. They're like looking up at the sky, and then all of a sudden it cuts the shots from like 10 billion miles away that... A nebula you could never possibly look up in the sky and just see. You know, they've got the biggest, you know, space telescope mounted on a satellite somewhere that got this shot.

And suddenly he looks up in the sky and it's like it's parked next to the moon. So, yeah, I mean, they insert a lot of weird scientific little shots. Even in the credits early on, what was some of that stuff? It was just, like, random footage of some sort of scientific something or other. They don't even, like, call out what it is.

It's just images of weird blobby things on the screen, and you're like, ooh, science. So it works. That's all you need in a science fiction movie. That's all you need. Science.

It was fantastic. Truly amazing. Oh, so is that how we want to go out on a date? Fantastic. Utterly amazing.

Yeah, we blew it up. I mean, what else are you going to do? You can blow up TNT and be 10 feet from it. A ball of flame can blow up, but you're fine. Well, she was fine because he laid on top of her.

Right. Laid on top of her. He protected her with his love. With his madness. Squeezed his back.

While we're down here, don't you squeeze. so i. Can't even explain it she can't be a masseuse that's for. Sure so yeah then then i mean it does that wrap up in like all of two minutes i mean it's it blows it up then we see random shots of space again and then it zooms back into planet earth i guess and then it's them like well too bad we couldn't learn anything from it instead. We just got to blow it up and then that was pretty much how they wrapped it up and credit have a curse So it's a shame that, you know, we can't have contact with other beings and have communication and have some sort of intelligent interaction. No, we just have to blow them up.

So years before ID4 came along, we realized you just have to blow it up to aliens. That's all there is to it. And speaking of ID4, Jeff Goldblum was in it. That's true. We forgot to mention.

The lead actor here. Let's see. He's Marvin Howard. who I believe this was his first movie, and I believe this was his last movie. I'm not making that up. He really wasn't that bad in it.

I mean, his acting wasn't... He wasn't that good, either. I mean, he wasn't that great, but he wasn't, like, the worst actor ever. Yeah, he has a one credit in 1980 from the TV series Gunmen. And, yeah, other than that, his theatrical run was The Cremators.

That was his acting career. Once you start out on top, why do anything else? That's right. I mean, when you're the biggest actor ever in the biggest movie ever, The Cremators, there's nothing but downhill after that. You just wrap it up.

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