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- 1979 Weekday Afternoon Lineup
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- Saturday Morning Cartoon: Tarzan and the Graveyard...
- "I Can Laugh. That Is Better than Tears."
- Four Interminable Minutes from 'The Shape of Thing...
- Double Dose of David Friedman
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3 comments:
That Ultraman opening is brilliant in both audio and visuals. Struck me so hard growing up. The bizarre SFX paired with psychedelic oil swirl, cutting to hip, poptastic sing-along married to awesome silhouettes is so perfectly executed. I love that the backgrounds aren't just static flat color but are tinted footage of smoke. Genius. Love Spectreman and Space Giants, but didn't discover them til much later.
I always liked that "Pinball Wizard" theme to Spectreman's opening credits. But that and "Space Giants" were two shows so weird, they were kinda scary. Dr. Gori is one Futurechimp I hope to never meet.
"Ultraman" was the first show I was engrossed with. My dad finally caught a few seconds of it, and told me to never watch it again because it would make me stupid. The next day I pleaded to see one more episode, because it was the completion of a two-parter. He capitulated, and I was so grateful to see Ultraman just one more time.
Now it's all on DVD and youtube, and I haven't bothered to sit through any of it.
YOU'RE DAD WAZ WRITE. Dr. Gori truly is a scary ape, and it's not just that mask,hair-do or voice that's frightening. Whoever is in that suit moves in such a furiously spastic, yet controlled manner that I've long postulated that it feels less like a man acting like a gorilla, than an ape struggling to act like a man. I think there's a hideous secret hiding here.
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