ULTRAMAN MEBIUS (2006)

Wanna talk about a Wacky Wednesday? I think "Ultraman Mebius" fills the bill!

I'm a little bit out of my league here, but I'm pretty sure this was episode # 4 from a Japanese TV series that ran for one season from 2006 to 2007.

This is like a test-tube baby of a big but funny little monster named Miclas!

He is the property of a group of youths called GUYS that consists of Marina, George, Konimi, Teppei, Ryu, and Captain Sakomizu, a network of paramilitary monster fighters! 

So what are they gonna do with him?? 
Miclas, play the Intro!

The plan is when a monster comes to Earth, they release Miclas, and he kicks the other monster's ass, and everything goes back to normal again!

What makes it interesting is that Miclas is not exactly a prefect monster!

Konimi, the kindergarten teacher is kind of the Mommy of Miclas!

The GUYS give Miclas a holographic monster to practice on, but Miclas turns out to be very clumsy!

This is Miclas's way of trying to scare you!

And he's got this big nasty looking creature to contend with!

And if that ain't bad enuf, Miclas is also a pacifist, which is kind of rough when you're a monster!

I won't say he's a coward, he's just scared stiff!

Of course the guy who ordered Miclas in the first place is the one who bitches the most about his lack of horrific performance! Budget cutbacks!

Oh, Damn! I almost forgot this was an Ultraman show!

This is actually Ultraman's son, who is one of the GUYS!

What can you do? Get in there and kick some monster butt!

I only watched one of these shows, so I have to admit I have no idea what's going and why this Japanese Gene Simmons reptile woman is just hanging out watching the whole proceedings with me, all I know is that it's weird for a kid's show!

Finally, Ultraman shows up!

This monster's name is Kellbeam!! He's pretty bad!

Kellbeam is on a rampage but there is yet another problem with Miclas.......

Miclas has a very short shelf life, and only exists for 60 seconds at a time, so if he spends 55 seconds goofing off, being scared etc, it doesn't leave him much effective monster bashing time! It was kind of a minor flaw in the program!

Is this a great shot, or what?

Poor little Miclas is very distraught over the whole situation, but his Mommy cheers him on!!

Finally, Miclas kicks it into gear, and with some help from Ultraman, sends this monster back to wherever the Hell it came from!

Ultraman has been around 50+ years now, and it's funny how sometimes he looks like a Mexican wrassler!

 Makes me hungry for some Mexican Sushi, ala Sushinola!  The perfect blend of East and West!
Yum!

FIFTIES SCI-FI MOVIE MONSTERS ON ALIEN PLANETS

Last Monday I posted FIFTIES SCI-FI MOVIE EARTH INVADERS, so, today I have the Monsters on Alien Planets that we encountered there. When I decide to do one of these posts, I have no real idea how it will turn out until I make the list. With the Earth Invaders, there were 40 movies, with this post, there are only 12 movies! We were invaded over three times more than planets we explored with Monsters! So, check it out...

First up is ROCKETSHIP X-M from 1950, the Martians were messed up primitive mutants and some were blind. Something definitely went wrong on the Red Planet years ago...

Next is CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON from 1953, there was this giant cave spider that would love to strip that tasty flesh off your bones!

I remember seeing this photo of KING DINOSAUR from 1955 in FAMOUS MONSTERS back in the day. This movie is pretty whack but fun to watch for the over the top acting!

THIS ISLAND EARTH from 1955 has one of the finest weird monsters from the Fifties. I mean, wow, what a thrill it must have been to catch this great movie when it came out!

Then we have FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE from 1956, it had this weirdo creature I think was known as The Dark One... All he could do is throw some rocks at you and I guess choke you if you got too close to him, wow!!

My all time favorite fifties creation is The ID Monster from FORBIDDEN PLANET in 1956. What a movie, besides that, there was Robby The Robot and those amazing sound effects!!

In IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE from 1958, Paul Blaisdell came up with this mighty Martian to terrorize the crew when they return to Earth in their spaceship...

MISSILE TO THE MOON from 1958 was a remake of CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON, this time besides the giant spider, they threw in a couple of very cool Rock Monsters.

In QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE from 1958, the only monster was this giant spider reused from WORLD WITHOUT END. It looks so fakey when our hero holds on tight to the big thing to make it look like it has a hold of him!

A pile of terrific monsters appeared in THE ANGRY RED PLANET from 1959 including The Martian, the Bat Rat Spider and the giant killer Amoeba!

Also in 1959, these two bizarro monsters show up in BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN from 1959, they have to be some of the craziest creations of the Fifties!

The last movie in the post is for the Stooges' HAVE ROCKET WILL TRAVEL from 1959, it had lots of cool monsters to chase our guys around, making for a ton of laffs... Check in again on Wednesday as we keep chugging down the tracks, bringing you the goods!

WESTWORLD - Michael Crichton - " Where Nothing Can Go Wrong" (1973)

Tonight we've got a Saturday Night Special classic from 1973 called...

WESTWORLD! 
"Westworld" was created and directed by the brilliant Michael (Andromeda Strain) Crichton, and that has a whole lot to do with why it's so good!

I liked "Westworld" when I saw it in 1973, and I enjoyed it again when I watched it a couple of days ago! What I didn't like was that right before I started to write this, my computers, two of them, started acting just like the computers in the movie, and that would translate as totally fucked up!! There's no better way to describe it! Luckily, here at the house, nobody has got killed yet!

"The vacation of the future." Couldn't we all use one of those?

Just a couple of guys getting away for a couple of days in Fantasy Land! James (Way Way Out) Brolin and Richard Benjamin play a great pair of buddies!!

What fun it's going to be to relive the olde west for real!

The bad guys are all robots, and if they give you any crap, you just dust them. The whole thing is supposed to be safe and harmless! Guns won't fire at a warm target like a human!

And besides killing bad guys, there are other advantages to living in the olde west!

So, really, at this point, do you care if she's a whoreborg or not?

At the end of each day's events, the robots are taken back to the laboratory and patched up so they can get right back to work again, even the animals that were involved!

Behind the scenes, these guys are running the show! It's the same guys that are watching you right now!

So everything is cool and groovy in "Westworld," and then piece by piece, the whole thing comes tumbling down, like this robot rattler who suddenly bites for real!

Things over in Medieval World aren't going that swell either!

What the heck? He.....shot me!

And the chase is on...............!!!
Yul Brynner is The King of Badass for more than one reason!!

Steve Franken has a small but memorable role as a fleeing technician! Steve was not only Chatsworth Osborne Jr. in "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," but he was also Cardinal Colbert in Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons," among a horde of other things!

That's a fine looking steed they got for Yul Brynner to ride!

So, like the best way to deal with guys like this and/or the mummy, is to just set their asses on fire!!

Aw, She....ittt! That didn't work either!!

I had a great little sound clip for you from the brilliant mind of the composer Fred Karlin, but the computers just didn't want it to happen, and it was a good one, so may they all burn in Computer Hell! It's filling up fast, better reserve your seat today because the future is now, the future is here!!