Agreed. The Martian war machines were pretty futuristic for the time and
allowed George Pal to get around the problem of "how do you get a
three-legged machine to walk". Think about it; it isn't easy. Arthur Clarke
came up with a nifty solution though in "Rendezvous with Rama".
Robby did get around. I seem to remember seeing him in "Lost in Space"
and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" television shows.
Charlie
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> Stopped by a supermarket on my way home from work this evening to pick
> up
> >>> some fruit and a few odds
> >>> and ends. Walking out to my car with my purchases, I noticed an
> >>> interesting image (at least I thought
> >>> it was interesting), and since I never go anywhere without a camera, I
> >>> was able to capture it:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3616236337&k=8sDQv2K&lb=1&s=O
> >>>
> >>
> >> Those lights look like the weapon stingers from the Martian war
> >> machines in the original "War of the Worlds" movie with Gene Barry.
> They
> >> later appeared in "Robinson Crusoe on Mars". The war machines in the
> >> remake with Tom Cruise were much closer to what the novel described.
> >>
> >
> >Right you are, Chris. And here I was thinking I was the only person ever
> to
> >have seen "Robinson Crusoe on Mars".
> >
>
> I like the scene where he's watching the survival videos and the
> instructor says "Water is where you find it." That's an absolute truth for
> desert survival, but it's still funny in a dark sort of way.
>
> I very much liked the anti-gravity war machines in the Gene Barry
> version. Much more futuristic and more fitting for modern science
> fiction. They still look decent even by today's standards.
>
> Speaking of which, I recently watched "Earth Girls are Easy", and in
> a scene where Gena Davis is having a nightmare there are a couple of brief
> views of Robby the Robot from "Forbidden Planet". Hadn't noticed that
> earlier. Robby has really gotten around since he first appeared in 1956:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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