Man, we’ve got this AIP thing covered. Liz took you back to the studio’s very earliest days when they were still ARC. The Teleport Boys have covered the middle years. And here you can read about the film that finally killed AIP off. Samuel Z. Arkoff went big budget and learned to regret it with the 1979 disaster flick Meteor.
#1 by lyzard on February 28, 2009 - 3:11 pm
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Trust you to pick a Box Picture.
#2 by Ken Begg on February 28, 2009 - 3:17 pm
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Not a very good one, though. There aren’t any credits under the pictures: Sean Connery IS The Scientist! Henry Fonda IS The President! Karl Malden IS Hitler!
#3 by lyzard on February 28, 2009 - 3:28 pm
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Martin Landau IS haemorrhoidal!
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I love Meteor.
#4 by Ken Begg on February 28, 2009 - 3:32 pm
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What’s not to love? I’d still rather have the chance to see stuff like that in a theater again than 95% of the stuff produced today.
#5 by Dave Causey on February 28, 2009 - 4:38 pm
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Excellent review Ken! I’ve been hoping that you (and Lyz -maybe later,huh?) would cover this one. As a child in 1979, I was fascinated in everything about space,and ‘Meteor’ and “Star Trek:TMP’ were my biggest want-to-sees of ’79. Just shows what a 6-year-old knows. Anyhoo, I finally saw ‘Meteor’ on cable when I was 19…..wow! The excellent,realistic scifi film I was hoping for it was not. BUT, the hilariously stupid big-budget opus that it is! 😀 Martin Landau’s performance is screamingly funny,the SPFX decidedly not special at all. However, I could watch this movie a thousand times and still find it funny. How many modern movies can you say that about?
#6 by Brett Wood on February 28, 2009 - 6:09 pm
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Box Pictures… That reminds me of when I went to see The Dark Knight. Me and my friends realized that the cast for that would make one hell of a box picture poster. It did have Michal Caine. As for Meteor, I do think I saw the last ten minutes of it. At least I saw something that had Sean Connery covered in mud.
#7 by Ed on February 28, 2009 - 11:39 pm
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Always nice to see something new from you, Ken. I’d love to cheesy stuff like this in theaters as well. Hell, when you stack it up against some of the crap that is usually released….
#8 by lyzard on March 2, 2009 - 6:42 pm
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Life imitates art. Well, not “art”, exactly…
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200910/3093/Earth-in-near-miss-asteroid-encounter