Friday, July 12, 2019

546 - Old Invaders, Rotten Plans, and Email Dude

[3:04 PM] 
Haven't watched Teenagers From Outer Space in a really long time.  Was it in the Netflix list?
[3:07 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
i think it still is
[3:07 PM] 
I mainly remember "Really OLD teenagers from outer space", a skeleton in a swimming pool, and the classic chevron space suits.
[3:07 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
nope.. not there anymore
and “bring him back for TORCH-UH”
The old guy in it was in a *ton* of bad movies, many of which mst3k screened
He was in 3 Ed Wood films alone
Imagine seeing Ed Wood direct first-hand and still continuing to work with him
Teenagers from Outer Space was insanely low budget even by B movie standards
And, i dare say, it's not *that* bad
i mean it's bad but not like, Manos bad
It's coherent
A dime store Hubley's "Atomic Disintegrator" toy as the aliens' disintegrator ray gun.
[3:31 PM] 
Fairly nice looking though
Did I I wear that chevron costume here back in ancient Katzenjammer days?  Think so.
Mrs. Silver had one too
We were really old teenagers from outer space.
Toy! 
"Ages 9 to 99!  Fun for everyone!  Favorite of the Green Berets!"
[3:38 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
FIRE
come closer
come closer
BLAAAAM!!!
 [3:39 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
i remember seeing the pictures of your TfOS costume but i wasn't here for it
That thing looks heavier than most modern *actual* guns
[3:40 PM] 
I was trying to find the gun I had when U ran across the Austin Magic
There was the air torus launcher that got banned pretty fast too



[10:14 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I've noticed a trend of time travel movies and shows last few years
We are starting to get away from zombies
lol
[10:14 AM] 
Zombies ran far longer than I expected.
[10:15 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Vamps fell
[10:15 AM] 
yup
[10:15 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Had like a two year run
All they need to do now is make a time traveling Vampire fighting zombies
lol
but Bill and Ted is coming back
so time travel is coming back hard
[10:17 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I think money was a factor in the zombie thing
Pretty easy to just film at old rundown warehouses or buildings and have a bunch of extras in makeup meandering around
no CGI needed
[10:22 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Get the gray paint & rubber eyeballs.
Zombies was a hot item, so yeah, grab ahold and run with that one
Especially if it is cheap to do
[10:27 AM] 
Even if the scenarios are rather silly.
"So they died..."
"Yeah."
"And stood back up..."
"Yeah."
"And wanted to eat people..."
"Right." 
"So this plague...it lasted like a week?"
"Oh no...still rolling."
"Full body necrosis?  You'd think the first warm day...y'know..."
[10:30 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Or the first sub-freezing day
[10:30 AM] 
yes
"Yay!  Spring thaw!  The trees are budding, the birds are singing, and the late season ghouls are thawing out!"
[10:31 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Somebody needs to do a true Zombie movie
[10:31 AM] 
Like voodoo chemical slaves?
[10:31 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
28 Days Later was kind of like a rabies type thing
aggressive rabies
[10:31 AM] 
See, I can get behind diseased living people
Dead ones?  Not for long.
After the initial surprise I'd think it'd just become a standard thing for the coroner or someone to carry a mallet and big nail on cases.
"Otherwise he might wander around for a couple days, ma'am."
"Isn't there another way?”
"Well...we can put 5-point manacles on him.  But it's not really pleasant to watch."
[10:39 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I feel like a zombie outbreak would be over in about 8 hours
Pretty much like NotLD
Everyone grabs their gun and they do a full sweep
[10:40 AM] 
Yes on NotLD
It seemed like the only people really having trouble were the ones who ended up isolated somewhere.
With fresh dead people
So…like…extremely unlucky people.
The house they were in must have been right near a Jewish funeral parlor or something.
A big one
After...like...one of those picnic disasters where 30 people get fried by the same lightning bolt.
We should make that movie
"The Afternoon of Watching the Living Dead Coverage on TV"
(Barbara on couch) "CNN keeps showing the same clips over and over."
[10:47 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Kinda like a Shaun of the Dead
Except you hold up in the house because they really can't get in
No strength to break anything
So you just sit there look out the window every so often
Watch the news
LOL
[10:48 AM] 
Johnny "They're coming to bore you Barbra..."
Barbara "I'm gonna put on Big Bang Theory."
[10:49 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
News reporter standing with camera guy doing a piece with a zombie in shot
Just keeps stepping to the left
lol
"So what is it like being a zombie?" 
"mmsmsms"
[10:50 AM] 
Holds it back with a stick in his off hand while talking to the camera
[10:50 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
haha
Then they bring out the big guns sportscaster
For commentary on the zombies moving around
[10:57 AM] 
(Interviewing man with rifle) "Does it upset you, shooting these people?"
"Well...kind of.  There's not very many and they are about as challenging a target as a turtle."
It would end up like those Local Interest piece on the evening news:
(Talking Head) "And a local man woke up to find a bear wandering around his back yard!  He sent us these videos of the visit as the bear rooted around in the garbage cans.  Local authorities in pest control captured and removed the bear with little difficulty and no one was hurt!  Now Sports!"  
Just swap "zombie" in for bear.
[11:07 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heh
[11:08 AM] 
How long til vigor mortis was just a normal thing to people?
"How long would you say the victim has been dead, detective?" 
"Oh...he's still stumbling around, so like an hour?  Should be stiffening up soon."
Swap rigor for vigor and a zombie of this type gets like 52 hours according to this.
[11:14 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I was thinking that a good name for the movie would be "The Day of the Stiffening"
[11:16 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Starring Vigor Mortissen
[11:17 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
lol
But for zombies that are hard to fight that would be a mind-altering virus
They are alive capable of using all of their senses
[11:20 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Like a human rabies
Maybe something that just makes their body produce a burst of adrenaline
but doesn't last long - a 24-48 hour frenzy
[11:21 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Maybe like the military trying to make a super soldier and screwing up.
[11:30 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
How about an alien-engineered plague
Say a "Plan" (one of any number of plans) to resurrect the dead
[11:49 AM] 
"Plans 1 through 8 have been unsuccessful..."
"What did those entail?"
"Well.  Plan 1 was passing out flyers on the street asking Earth to surrender..."
"Plan 2 was getting a crook elected their president."
"Plan 3 was getting an actor elected their president.  We got both of them IN office but their system is so primitive..."
Plan 4 was causing mass hysteria over toys...like these dolls or this laughing red monster...but subjects found them too grotesque.  We tabled those."
[12:34 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
"We went back to presidents. Tried a retarded guy and then a megalomaniacal corporate super-villain... no dice."
[12:48 PM] 
"So 2, 3, 5 AND 6 were all president stuff?"
Well 5 was Social Networks and then 7 was Smart Phones. But their stupid minds...”
So that brings us to Plan 9...”
Unfortunately.”



[3:29 PM] 
We need a smarmy Chrome programmer on our webmail team.
"What does the error say?"
"Whoops! Ha ha ha!"
[3:30 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
"Email Fatality"
"Why are there skulls with attached backbones all over my screen?"
[3:32 PM] 
"Anyway, I clicked on 'Delete from server: Never' and it popped up a box that just says 'Dude...' and a button that says 'S R S L Y and a question mark."
"That's webspeak for 'Seriously’, ma'am.  Click it if you're sure."
"Ok...I did... Now it says "Dude...  Okaaaay...".”
Click the Okaaaaay.”
[3:33 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Now it says "C'mon...".”
[3:35 PM] 
:D
[3:35 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
"Now "I Give Up"."
[3:38 PM] 
"I hit that. Now it says 'Fine.  Whatever.' "

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