The original "Planet of the Apes" is on!

[Goreripper]

 

[Celestial-Todd]

I don't want to watch a movie where half the dialogue is grunts and groans unless it's a porno!

 

[KoichCPA]

Fuck that,war of the worlds is on.


If only Day of the Triffids was on to, and my night would be complete.

 

[Goreripper]

Yeah "War of the Worlds" is on too! But I've seen that hundreds of times. I like the part where the scientist says he's from the "Pacific Institute of Science and Technology", or "P.I.S.T." for short.

 

[KoichCPA]

I am going to hie Day of the Triffids tommorow.

That book/movie rules.

 

[Dave_Mustaine84]

I don't know which one to watch

 

[Celestial-Todd]

Day of the Triffids..... wasn't that the one where the mutant girl shacks up with the old bloke?

 

[Goreripper]

Switch between them during the ads! But seriously, POTA is heaps better than War of the Worlds.

 

[Goreripper]

Day of the Triffids..... wasn't that the one where the mutant girl shacks up with the old bloke?

Ummm... No. At least I don't think so. 'Day of the Triffids' is about a bunch of poisonous plants that can move and communicate, and they take over the world after everyone is struck blind by a meteor shower.

 

[Dave_Mustaine84]

i've seen War Of The Worlds and only the remake of POTA's, so i guess i'll watch some un-arrousing grunst and moans.

 

[KoichCPA]

Brian is correct.

It is an old b&w film, that fuckin rocks.

 

[Goreripper]

The book is better

 

[KoichCPA]

Jah, i might track down a copy sometime soon.

Or even better, find one on the net for free.

 

[Celestial-Todd]

Actually gore, thinking back to reading the book in like year 10 at school.... there was a girl who was sent blind by the nuclear war (that also caused the triffids). She was left with the old bloke by her family and went on to breed a whole clan on mutants, which became the next generation of "humans".

Then again, I could always just be confusing this with something else...... someone around here has to have read the book!

 

[Goreripper]

I think you're thinking of "The Chrysalids". That was a fucking awesome book. There are no mutants in "Triffids", but there's a lot of blind people.

 

[KoichCPA]

I have always wanted a pet triffid.

 

[Celestial-Todd]

Well mutant is probably a strong word....

 

[Wrathchild]

I studied The Chrysalids in Year 9. Brilliant book and I couldn't believe it was on the reading list because my arrogant wanker of an English teacher always said he hated science fiction .

I read a couple more John Wyndham books back in those dim dark days as well. Chocky rocked the house, and my Mum recommended Day of the Triffids to me after she pointed out the similarities between that and a Doctor Who story called The Seeds of Doom.

I always wanted to read The Midwich Cuckoos (and watch Village/Children of The Damned) but never got around to either. Or Planet of the Apes for that matter. God I'm slack .

W

 

[Celestial-Todd]

Just checked up, and going by that Wrathchild read the book at school as well, it was The Chrysalids I was talking about before

 

[Goreripper]

The Midwich Cuckoos is great too. I've read most of Wyndham's stuff. It's all good.