Point well-taken. Though I've always considered Plan 9 its own genre. And
it's funny, which has to be worth something.
At 10:35 AM 5/18/2005, you wrote:
>Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>>I'll second this--a must-see.
>>
>>It's not the worst sci fi film of all times, however. That distinction
>>belongs to The Monolith Monsters, killer piles of stones from outer
>>space.
>>
>>Mark
>
>I beg to differ. I forgot the champion cheapo sci-fi film of all time,
>Plan 9 From Outer Space, directed by the inimitable Ed Wood. I bought a
>VHS of this junkoid film after watching the movie of Ed Wood's life.
>When I my wife and I split up in 1997 I left her Plan 9 and I took
>Citizen Kane. I won, bastard that I am:-). No, actually I forgot it
>was there. Either way, it's appalling. Bela Lugosi, the elegant
>Dracula of 1931, was the only "name," and by 1955 he was a burned out
>old junkie who died before the filming was done (the body double didn't
>even have Lugosi's build, he was Mrs. Wood's dentist). The best
>parts--first, the paper plates that were supposed to by flying saucers
>but were still obviously from the planet Chinette; and the space alien
>who decomposes on some guy's patio, followed by the man exclaiming "How
>about that?"
>
>I recall that some group at Harvard voted Plan 9 the worst film ever
>made. I suppose it can fight it out with Lepus and a big-budget dog (as
>opposed to a rabbit), The Silver Chalice, a film so bad that even Paul
>Newman has refused to talk about it.
>
>Steve Buscemi wasn't in any of these, either.
>
>ken
>
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