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Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: dws on August 17, 2000, 10:19:14 AM
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Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Scott T. on August 22, 2000, 02:29:15 PM
   Can you believe this movie is actually stocked at a chain video store?  I rented this (and I don't know why) at Hollywood video a few summers ago.  This was the most boring movie I have ever seen.  I started yawning 8 minutes or so into the movie.  At first, I guessed that it would improve after the rubber monster showed up.  Not at all.  This is incredibly hard to watch, simply due to the intense feeling of listlessness through viewing the film.  If this film was translated into music, it would be the slowest piece of music ever written.  On the topic of music, though, the pure snazz involved in the soundtrack at least provided a few chuckles.  That wasn't any great equalizer, though.  Stay away at all costs.


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Chris K. on August 31, 2000, 07:41:43 PM
I loved THE X FROM OUTER SPACE. What can I say? When I love Japanese monster films with fantastic special effects that look more convincing that that crapy CGI junk that looks so fake a five year old cand do that stuff, THE X FROM OUTER SPACE is one of those films. Yes, it takes a while to get somewhere. But the effects were worth it. I was dissapointed that THE X FROM OUTER SPACE was issued directly to American Internationl Pictures-TV (AIP-TV) because the panning and scanning was just God awful. But still, it was a good film but the title really throws you off. The monster is called Gulila, it is not called X. It doesn't even look like an X. But when a film is made and needs distribution it has to have a catchy title. A four star movie right here, but it goes down to three due to the bad dubbing. But it goes right back to four due to the great specail effects. The Japanese are the masters at that knid of stuuf. The company that made this film which was Shockuku Films, Inc. also made the equally scary BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL (1968; aka GOKE) so seek that one out too.


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Heinie Bowe on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM
Oh this one is a SCREAM--where do I begin? The Jeepchase from hell? Truck carrying wagonload of Goo doing 80 chased by the ravenous X-shuffleshuffleshuffle, HAND, shuffle shuffle shuffle HAND, etc.  



Or the great demo of low gravity on the moon-they take two guys in really BAD tinfoil space suits, stick them onto a trampoline hidden behind a 'crater' and have them boink up and down a few times...oh my god what a riot....



Then there are the little toy tanks that DON'T MOVE, the toy planes....the changing of scale-See X tip over Oil Tanker. See X whap at a plane that is THE SAME SIZE as the Tanker.



See the Pie from Mars flying round the ship. See the goo on the ship.



See the big Chicken track in the lab and dirt. See X up on the mountain.



See the X's fingers bend all the way back when it slaps the side of the mountain--gee ya think the stunt guy's fingers were in there? Nahhhhhh



Gotta love the Hugh Hefner(TM!) style spacestation on the Moon...the whacky line by the blonde at the end--'Guilala taught me how to love bravely-sniff! sniff!' etc.



Yeah really bogus, loopy, Kookoo, what have ya.



Gotta love it--*** outta ****, good fun if you like a movie that is SCREAMING for MsTK3 to be brought back...



Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Chris K. on October 03, 2000, 04:56:50 PM
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 is one of the worst shows ever made. And if THE X FROM OUTER SPACE played on that show, it is just an insult to the movie itself. MSTK3 really needs to be taken off the air. How dumb can that show get!


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Megaloman on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I love this movie, and have since I saw it many years ago.  The monster is so preposterous looking how can you not love it?  The movie isn't really very standard until Guilala shows up- it's more space opera than monster movie.
All you need is some controlling aliens and some ray fights and this movie would be perfect.
And I have to agree about the talking vacuum cleaner show!


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Matt on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I have yet to see anyone else mention one of the most peculiar things about this movie... How many of you noticed that the Caucasions are speaking ENGLISH, and the Japanese are speaking Japanese, yet both are overdubbed? (How do you know your queue, when you can't understand the other person? Tone inflections, I suppose.) I've never seen this in any other movie.  But don't get me wrong, I loved this movie as a kid, and I love it now... not because of how good it is, but because how bad it is. Analyzing this enjoyable movie for imperfections, mistakes, and holes in time is as much fun as the go-go music that plays throughout. And by the way, F.A.F.C. stands for Fuji Astro-Flying Center... it's on the big sign above the Center door at the beginning of the movie. Every time I watch this movie, I pick out something new.  You will, too!  Enjoy!


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Matt on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Speaking of dubbing, check THIS out...

While in the space ship en-route to Mars, Dr. Stein is complaining to Lisa about the food.  His dubbed dialoge says, "When meals become a trial, rather than a pleasure, it IS a crime. If Dr. Kiawana hadn't been taken ill, I would be back on Earth with my wife, and not eating garbage unfit for humans."

But what he is ACTUALLY saying is, "...If Dr. Kiawani hadn't been taken ill, I would be back on Earth with my wife, and dining on my fat-free food!"

No kidding... READ HIS LIPS! If the makers of this movie only knew that VCR's were on the horizon!

Later on the trip, Dr. Stein exclaims, "Looks like I'll be able to keep that date with my wife after all!"  Then Miyamoto replies (and we all KNOW about Miyamoto), "I'm looking forward to eating REAL food!"

Maybe this movie should be rated R for subliminal content.  What could be more fun than this?


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Mecha-Godzilla on March 02, 2001, 07:51:22 PM
I love that theme music.  So this is what you get when you hire a mariacha band to do the sound track for a japanese sci-fi flick.


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Steven on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM
This is the worst film i have ever seen.It,s a lot worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space.The Monster is hideous looking,
the aircraft,tanks,and cars are all models.The acting is terrible and if anybody could think of a worse film than this i will be amazed.


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Gary on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
   I can't believe you didn't mention the one thing about this movie that really gets annoying, mostly to me.  That one thing is the constant repeating "A-A-B-GAMMA,A-A-B-GAMMA".  GEEZ, after a while it can really drive you bonkers!  Otherwise, this flick is definitly for the hardcore 'man in the rubber suit' fans!


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: AIM: dragonlady220 on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I love this movie. I have seen it four times. There is so much, like the stellar space pee, or the amazing scientists who said "from it's footprints we can clearly tell it's headed towards Tokoyo." See this. Multiple times. See the plane get stuck in the monsters costume. See the monster randomly turn into a glowing orange ball than dunk into a lake randomly. See an orange ball that the monster (Gulala) emits at a plane, and see it bounce off a flying airplane, THEN the plane explodes. See Gulala step on a tree, and see it bounce back up. See the awesome chase scene. See it four times.
This is the world's best movie.


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Swamprat on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
They stole all these movies from me when I was a kid. I built nearly every Tamaya Model kit there was and blew up, torched, threw, and stomped each and everyone after a shelf life of maybe six months...little did I know the Japanese were watching...tricky little devils. Why do their 1960s soldiers look like doormen? I consider all these sushi burners more cartoons than films. I know! The anti-war anti-nuke message angle, but let's be honest, a good reptilian ass kicking and a burning plastic airplane is just the thing at three in the morning with the wife-girlfriend p**sed off and snoring away with all the sheets and pillows yanked to her side. And those Japanese girls in the jumpsuits and skirts...my God...I wish somebody would rerun the old Astroboy cartoons somewhere! If you've seen one of these, you've seen 'em all. With the occasional exception of Nick Adams or other Career-was-in-the-s**tter actors from the states...the people in these films are harder to tell apart than the monsters and the plots. When I was a kid I watched them all and loved them, now I watch them all and realize how much I loved being a kid. I wish they would stop making them, with computers and modern methods they loose the charm they once had. The tiny singing twins with the giant moth caused wet dreams when I was a kid...I still gap at them when I pass a cable station and they're standing there hugging each other...I think it's like eating powdered blowfish...I'm paralized. My wife and daughter just can't understand the facsination people have for these movies. My daughter is a rabid bad movie fan, but draws the line at the Nippon Lizard Fests. Maybe it's the jumpsuit thing...or the smell of burning plastic? Anyway...I find it pointless to buy or rent any of these movies, any weekend, even without cable, you'll find one on the tube anytime after midnight...and any single one is just as good as any other. Makes me wanna go out and pay 30 bucks for a Tamaya kit and sit in the yard with a can of lighter fluid and a magnifing glass on a sunny day. And to think, my mother used to worry about how much glue I inhaled while building all those kits over the years...


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Mike Avery on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Wow, I've seen this movie like three times in the last month (it's playing on the stars channel) and every time that I pass that channel, it's on and then I get sucked into watching it, again.  

And anyone reading this page understands why.  Everyone's already listed all the great things about this flick.  My favorite continues to be the interim/theme music played throughout, CLASSIC.  Yes, yes, yes...watch it as many times as possible, your life could depend on it!


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: M on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Little known factoid: this is actually the final entry in the famed Japanese series of dozens of films, that began with the low-budget "The A from Outer Space". There were plans to shoot two more sequels - "The Y from Outer Space", and the concluding "The Final Fight - the Z from Outer Space" - but the producer died of apoplepsy.


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: night heron on August 14, 2004, 09:02:25 PM
Looks like a cross between godzilla and a chicken or what ever its got a birds head and a dinasoars body and its stomping around a city deviled eggs anyone?


Title: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Mark Radburn on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Don't listen to people thinking The X From Outer Space is a bad movie, The X From Outer Space rocks I loved this film and besides Guilala does not look like a Space chicken for crying out loud. The attack scenes are very well done and the Monster's Roar sounds scary even Guilala looks scary. I think The X From Outer Space is the best 1960's movie 10 times better then King Kong Escapes Guilala rules.


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Abraham on December 06, 2007, 03:58:40 AM
I am 32 years old now and I have been searchin for this movie for allmost whole life. I have seen it when I was 4 years old and I had a nightmares for over a week ! I couldn't recall the name of the beast because I thought it's name was "Gamma" - because the whole movie they repeated "AAB GAMA". Two things were  burned into my memory - the chase scene and the muzzles of tanks firing at Guilala.

I have seen it 3 days ago - after 28 years - and this is the clearly BEST B movie ever made. If you want to scare you childs, let them watch this gem of cinematography ;-)

Best regards to all fans

Abe


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: George on March 18, 2008, 03:36:26 PM
Hello Andrew and everyone else out on the Badmovies review commentary board,I belive I have the best news concerning The X-From Outer Space,Showa Video has the Orion version,complete with dubbed reporters!.Finally and at last a great version along with the original Japanese version,the one TCM keeps showing,why that can't show the Orion version is beyond me.It's unfortunate though that the sceens where Dr.Lisa was experimenting with the gulanium on moonbase and Galiela going through the oil field seems to be lost,on someones cutting room floor,also a shame no one has come out with a real color version of War of the Monsters,I have one but not in the best condition wouldn't you know.I few points of fact,one like Chris.K I'm certainly glad this great classic was not on MST3K,even though they were of  Sandy Frank versions of the Gamera movies,I still to this have mixed feelings about them being on MST3K,like wise I'm glad they didn't show Atragon either. I suppose the reason this film was titled X-From Outer Space is due to the fact that X in the dictionary is referred to as an unknown element ,as in the case of this spore released by that UFO,we never did find who these aliens were,but now come word the Japanese are planning a new Galiea film oh one can only hope and pray they do like the way monster movies used to made in the good old days.


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: George on March 20, 2008, 03:33:25 PM
I believe it was two years ago when ordered The X & Attack of the Monsters from Keith at Showa Video.The X was an old AIP print,and AOTMs wasn't very good,in fact scenes were missing,when I told Mr.Picozzi about this he looked at it sent me an email saying I was right,so I asked him if there was anything I could do. He said if I had a really good video of either X-From Outer Space and he could easily fix AOTMs but he needed a new 2mins. of Gurion & Gaos,well I had both,the rest as they say,is a fantastic job by Keith Picozzi,dubbed reporters & the 2mins of SF on the AIP classic AOTMs!. As for this new Galiela or Girara which ever way you want to spell it,"Please Fellas Please!,"Don't make the same mistakes the people responsable for those new Gamera did!!". You know changing his looks,and have a decent storyline,you know just like the good old days when Creature Feature was Creature Feature. Of the new Gamera films,that Irs movie still bugs me the most,now when will we get an English dialogue version of Gamera The Brave??.


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: M.W. on September 21, 2008, 11:19:44 AM
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Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Saucerman on January 07, 2009, 05:16:09 PM
Guilala has made a return...he's appearing in a commercial for job search agency "The Ladders", first in dozens of tiny (12" tall) version, being ridiculously cute in their attempt to be menacing (the worst they do is take a hubcap off a car), representing other job search agencies, and a full-sized version shows up, breathing fire (representing "The Ladders").

I was amused.


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: George on April 05, 2009, 01:07:35 PM
Oh Oh!!,I just read the review about the current X movie over at Sci-Fi Japan.

Not good,I was afraid that might be the case,only proving once again,old school was better,everyone just seemed to know how things had to be made,back then.

Fortunately you can get a great copy of the AIP original from Showa Video,I gave it to Keith.

Maybe one day,people who make these movies will get the hang of it again,hopefully.
I did see that Ladders commercial on You Tube,sweet,at least one good thing I can say,he's still the same old Girara,which considering the awful incarnations of Gamera these days is quite a complement in itself.

If a monster's right the first time,don't try to change it the second time.
Thanks guys for keeping Girara the way he was!,now if only makers of Gamera movies would get the hint.


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: George on August 10, 2010, 06:53:16 PM
Unfortunately now that Showa Video is no longer what it used to be,I don't know what happened to the only really great DVD AIP version of X-From Outer Space that I gave to Keith.
I only hope people who really liked X-From Outer Space got this DVD version from Showa Video when they had the chance.

And no matter what the critics over at the imdb say,this is a classic 10 of a Creature Feature,just like Return of the Giant Monsters and Godzilla vs. The Thing!.


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: judge death on August 10, 2010, 08:19:49 PM
Anyone else notice the elaborate but almost never seen and never used claw on the end of the monster's tail?


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on August 16, 2010, 06:09:23 PM
Guilala has made a return...he's appearing in a commercial for job search agency "The Ladders", first in dozens of tiny (12" tall) version, being ridiculously cute in their attempt to be menacing (the worst they do is take a hubcap off a car), representing other job search agencies, and a full-sized version shows up, breathing fire (representing "The Ladders").

I was amused.

Yeah, lmao. I've seen that commercial and Guilala was instantly recognizable.  How did they get the licensing for the character though?  In any case, so odd that an obscure monster would show up in a commercial like this. Someone must really have liked the character and had a great memory from their childhood.


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on August 16, 2010, 06:12:49 PM
Anyone else notice the elaborate but almost never seen and never used claw on the end of the monster's tail?

Actually, yeah you're right there is a claw at the end. I guess it was just an extra gadget, LOL  Also, Peggy Neal, that blonde with the big-ass lips, is back in this movie. Previously she played alongside Sonny Chiba in Terror Beneath The Sea. Now THAT one was a hoot.


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: judge death on August 16, 2010, 11:32:03 PM
They might have made the movie a little less ludicrous if maybe they'd make it clear that the monster used it's twin vertical antennae to detect energy, and the curly horn thing  under them to drain energy. least then those things would have had purpose.


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Svengoolie 3 on February 16, 2019, 06:39:15 AM
This was a pretty amusing little kaiju flick, the american bashing didn't even bother me the movie was so funny. I notice the guy who played the whining Dr. Smith like Dr. Stein also played the scientist in the far funnier "the green slime" movie.

If you expect an explanation for the flying omelette you should know you never get one.


Title: Re: The X from Outer Space
Post by: Svengoolie 3 on February 16, 2019, 06:40:52 AM
They might have made the movie a little less ludicrous if maybe they'd make it clear that the monster used it's twin vertical antennae to detect energy, and the curly horn thing  under them to drain energy. least then those things would have had purpose.

You expected a movie like this to have sense in it? What do you smoke?