Saw 15 minutes of this a couple nights ago and was having fun watching it, but could only watch the first 15 minutes of it. Did anyone like it?
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I like it. I think it's one of the few remakes that actually works. If a remake can add something new and it's slightly different and doesn't conflict with the original material then it can work. It worked for Twelve Angry Men but it didn't work so good with Night of the Living Dead. Now I want to see the 80's blob all over again, I remember watching the first blob and getting pretty creeped out about it but when I saw the new blob only a few years ago I was scared. The new blob just morphs into stuff and it's far more aggresive and faster to! Doesn't the Blob scare (freak/creep out) Andrew a little? I think he said that once. I like both version a lot.
yeah i seen the new blob a couple times when i was younger. for a giant piece of jello that thing is creepy. the scene i always remeber is when the lady is in the phone booth and the blob comes and surrounds and oozes in. that scene always creeped me out for some reason.
"Dont be a fool for ur tool"
I like the new Blob, but I don't care fort he texture of the blob itself. In the original, it really looked like it could all squeeze through the tiniest hole. The new blob kind of looks like a giant piece of chewed gun and I have a problem believing it would actually fit under a door.
I saw it during its original theatrical run and I liked it. However, repeat viewings aren't nearly as good as the first time. I still like the original Steve McQueen version a lot better. One thing I do not like about the remake is the fact that the Blob has tentacles. I think that a slimey, oozing mass is much scarier than something with tentacles.
It was a really fun movie. I remember it had this plot about the town's good girl (sheriff's daughter?) and the town's motorcycle riding, black jacket wearing bad boy. Then there was theat really spooky preacher guy. Cool movie. The special effects worked well, it was nice and creepy.
Mr. Hockstatter wrote:
> It was a really fun movie. I remember it had this plot about
> the town's good girl (sheriff's daughter?)
...played by Shawnee Smith, who went on to be the ditsy medical assistant on the TV sitcom "Becker".
She's cute, but really really weird.
I like the original way more. The part I always remember in this one is the sink drain scene, eck.
>I remember it had this plot about the town's good girl (sheriff's daughter?)
Nope, she was the pharmacist's daughter. Remember, her date's friend is buying condoms at the drugstore and when the town priest shows up, the friend pretends that the condoms aren't for him, but for Shawnee Smith's date. He ends up getting ribbed ones. Later, when the guy goes to pick up Shawnee, she invites him into to meet her father. He puts down his paper and it's the pharmacist. He takes one look at her date, his smile fades and he says "Ribbed".
Ah yes, how could I forget that! Classic scene.
Tenticles are a dime a dozen. Not a red oozing mass you don't dear even touch...THATs scary! When i was a kid, i saw it, and it made me want a phaser so bad! I pretended i was setting for "Disintrigrate". Hey, it worked on the Mugato!
Well, it seems that everyone enjoyed this remake. Encore Channel Mystery (or regular) showed it this month. I'll have to check the listings to see if it's coming on again. Encore usually repeats films during the same month.
Gore generally doesn't get to me in movies, but for some reason the effects in The Blob struck me as incredibly gruesome, even difficult to watch. In that regard it's unique, but the dialogue's awful (not awful enough to be entertaining).
>I'll have to check the listings to see if it's coming on again.
Go for it, it's a fun movie. :)
I like it, not as much as the original, but still liked it enough to buy it from the $5.50 Bin of Terror at Wally World. A buddy watched in high school and was most creeped out by the guy getting eaten while trying to cop a feel from the drunk girl. He seemed to think that was "unfair" and couldn't handle the idea that the blob was eating the girl from the inside out apparently.
I can remember seeing the original on the early morning movie one Sunday when I was about 5 or 6 and being creeped out when the blob became a ball, rolled silently and cornered the nurse. After we got to church I kept trying to peek around and under the pews and into the aisle since I was convinced the blob was coming for me and no one would hear it coming. Couldn't explain it to mom to save my life when she got on to me.
I know the 1988 version wasn't a hit but I always wished they had made a sequel, since the ending with the preacher was so creepy. It couldn't have been any worse than the 1972 Larry Hagman directed sequel "Son of the Blob". One of the few times I can remember feeling sorry for every actor I recognized in it: Robert Walker Jr., Burgess Meredith, and Godfrey Cambridge.
That Larry Hagman one is another I haven't seen, but I do like the original so much with Steve McQueen and that groovy music at the beginning.
I have seen both, and I for one like the original better then the remake. What I found interesting was how cynical filmmakers think filmgoers have become, since the original. In the remake, religion is a drunk, the medical profession is in it solely for the money, law enforcement is only there to hassle teens who want to have fun, and it's all the government's fault.
What the remake does get right, is getting actors who are closer to the actual age of the characters they portray. As much as I like Steve McQueen in the original, a 28-year-old actor cannot pass for a 17-year-old character.
It's been years since I've seen it but I remember it being pretty enjoyable.
There were only 2 things I didn't like about it and they were
a.) The casting of Kevin Dillon..(I never liked him very well for some reason)
b.) the fact that The Blob was man-made...
I think that having outer space as it's place of origin is so much cooler!
Other than those two things, it was a fun romp of gruesomeness.
I did like the 1988 version- my husband and I both watch "Becker", so we saw it out of curiosity (Shawnee Smith). We both liked it a lot- campy fun.
One side note, though: EVERYTHING IS COOLER WITH STEVE MCQUEEN!
THE BLOB (1988) is on FLIX east and west again a couple times today. I'll try to catch the rest of it today.
I remember when this movie came out and I was 5 years old. i was convinced that the blob lived in the sewers with Michael Dukakis (a politician who my father hated at the time) I hadnt seen the movie, but I had seen many previews for it andbeing 5, my imagination did the rest and I was terrified of the Blob.
Anyways my dad took me to a jacuzzi for my first time ever, had never seen one. He told me when the Blob attacks people bubbles fly out of the drain and then it gets you. Needless to say I got in slowly settled down and then...
FLOOSH... BUBBLES
Havent run that fast ever since.
I did see the movie when I was older and enjoyed it but did not fear it at all.
Oddly enough the 80's/90's had a few remakes that worked in their own way for me. I liked the Blob, it's cheesy and the perfect saturday night popcorn flick, guilt free with the price tag at walmarts discount bin. Body snatchers was another ("where ya gonna go? where ya gonna hide? Nowhere...cause there's no one like you left!") My god, matt dillons uglier brother tried - did he ever establish a real career?
Wasn't there a son of blob?
Yes, there was. Though, I haven't seen it. I have heard it had litttle to do with the original "The Blob." Probably its greatest fame, beside its supposed badness, was that it was directed by Larry "J. R. Ewing" Hagman.
>I have heard it had litttle to do with the original "The Blob."
I don't know if I'd say that. At the start of the film, a can containing a sample of the original blob is dug up at a construction site. One of the workers takes it home and accidentally lets the blob out. Then just like in the first one, it goes around killing people and getting bigger.
Yaddo42 wrote:
"It couldn't have been any worse than the 1972 Larry Hagman directed sequel "Son of the Blob". One of the few times I can remember feeling sorry for every actor I recognized in it: Robert Walker Jr., Burgess Meredith, and Godfrey Cambridge."
True. The 1972 sequel is one of the really bad (but fun) movies of the 70s. It was known as "Son of Blob" as well as "Beware! The Blob." (The DVD version that I have uses the "Beware! The Blob" title). Not only did Larry Hagman direct it, but he also has a small acting role in it.
Would anyone be interested in viewing another blob movie? Maybe a sequel to the 1988 version of the blob?
Deon wrote:
> Would anyone be interested in viewing another blob movie? Maybe
> a sequel to the 1988 version of the blob?
Nope, i'm blobbed to death plus all the CGI would bore me. How about a horror with the stay puft marshmallow man that turns into The Stuff?
Susan,
How would they kill him :-D ?
Susan,
It wouldn't be as bad as all of those friday the 13th movies.
Well, if you got a chocolate candy bar, a graham cracker, a stick, and a campfire, and they were all large enough, you could have have the largest smore anyone had ever seen. Sweet!
Susan,
How about the tried and true method of freezing?
Susan,
Since the Blob can't be killed. Freezing it is only a temporary solution and sets the movie up for another installment. This version picks up after the 1988 version. If you would like to see a synopsis for this movie, let me know where to send it.
Deon wrote:
> Susan,
> How would they kill him :-D ?
I dunno, but somehow i see an ending involving one mother of a smore...
>Since the Blob can't be killed.
How do we know it can't be killed? All attempts were made while it was still active and could get away. Maybe if it were frozen, broken into small pieces (original blob) and then dropped into either lava or molten metal. Not many things can physically survive several thousand degrees of heat and if they can't physically survive, they can't live. Or what about acid? Or feeding it a piece of meat infected with anthrax, ebola and a few other diseases?
Kory: YOU WATCH BECKER?!?! Since it's with your husband, is it some kind of sado-masochistic ritual?
HEY! Don't knock Becker!
I think it's funny to us because my husband is a LOT like Becker- it's like watching him on TV.
Re. The groovy music at the beginning of the original Blob:
Burt Bacharach's first screen credit. He still performs it at his live shows.
peter johnson
peter johnson wrote:
> Re. The groovy music at the beginning of the original Blob:
> Burt Bacharach's first screen credit. He still performs it at
> his live shows.
> peter johnson
Neat! Shows a sence of humor, if nothing else. Does he actualy get requests for it?
Oh, you bet he does. He mentioned it in the same paragraph as his collaboration with Elvis Costello in his last published "Onion" interview.
peter johnson
This thread is still going? Sheesh! Oh well I'll add to it.
I figured Bacharach had a sense a humor about himself when he turned up as himself playing musical accompaniment in the first Austin Powers film, but playing the Blob theme just proves the guy is alright.
And never mind killing the Blob, I wish they'd kill the twice a day "Becker" reruns on my local UPN station. They advertise the show so much you'd think it was "Friends" or "Seinfeld".
And. lets face it, muscily, the Blob theme is too cool by half.
"Music to eat cherry jello by!"
I saw it in the theater when it first came out and I enjoyed it. A couple of years later I saw it again on video or cable or something and I didn't like it as much. Overall, it's a fun movie . . . but not great. I still prefer the Steve McQueen version.
Just caught the end of THE BLOB (1988). Great stuff ! Rates right up there with NIGHT OF THE CREEPS also of the 80's