Qualities of a bad giant monster movie.

[Baitball Blogger]

1) In the credits, one of the actors is identified by one name, that you never heard of.

2) Helicopter panning of Hawaii. Also, the obligatory waterfall scene--the same one that you see in all the movies. And, of course, the monster emerges from that pool of water.

3) Hip music that's about two decades too old for the time the movie was actually filmed.

[DebJ]

1. 4) There are no good giant monster movies. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Monsters behaving as peeping toms of women in various states of undress

And monsters that can't cooperate by crawling across photos of buildings without crawling across the sky.

[magical thyme]

3. um...who's in the audience there?

[Callmecrazy]

4. That's Mystery Science Theater 3000...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000

[magical thyme]

6. I knew I missed most of the good movies...

looks like I missed the good tv too!

[Baitball Blogger]

8. The critics were made out of discarded junk.

Crow is a gold-colored puppet composed of, among other things, a split bowling pin mouth (an Empire Bowling Pin), an ice hockey mask head (Cooper XL7 FG), and a Tupperware (Floralier) body. During the KTMA season, he only had one Tupperware tray, and his eyes did not include a separate movement mechanism, leaving them with a bulgier appearance. He is painted with Testors Green-Gold paint, which looks basically gold. Another version of Crow is used for the theater segments. This version is painted flat black. This flat black version was also used as his alter-ego "Timmy" in the Fire Maidens of Outer Space episode.

http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Crow_T._Robot

[magical thyme]

10. I read something like that and feel such a huge creativity deficit...

it must have been hysterically funny...

I was wondering where the name Crow came from, and then Wiki answered it.

Satellite of Love? Or Shit Out of Luck?

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Some of the most creative t.v. for that era.

[Earth_First]

5. You beat me to it!

MST3K was my immediate thought!

Well played. Well played.

[hobbit709]

7. ALL giant monster movies are bad, but some are so bad they're good.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Do you watch Face-off?

They now have a spin-off called Foxy & Co. It's following in the footsteps of Monster Man, where the special effects geniuses get real-life job assignments to make unique creatures for horror movies. It's really cool.