A unique and beautiful film. Try this Scandinavian fairy tale around Christmas time to see reindeer a whole other way.
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Women of the Prehistoric Planet 1966
Most people, even lovers of bad sci-fi movies, seem to hate this movie. It's dull, there's only a couple of unconvincing prehistoric monsters, the story is lame and predictable.
Yet it somehow holds some charm for me. Namely:
*I like extremely cheap sets they used for the "prehistoric planet".
*Robert Ito and Irene Tsu are a very attractive couple.
*I was heartened when my friends and I discussed the "giant iguana" scene, and the consensus was that it did not seem they actually torched a real live iguana in the making of the film.
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Central Station 1998
Interesting sort of a road movie here about a cynical middle aged lady (a retired teacher who makes money writing letters for illiterate people) who reluctantly takes a boy whose mother was run over by a bus on a long journey from Rio to northeast Brazil, to find the father that she had been tasked with posting letters to prior to the mother's demise.
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Terror in the Jungle 1968
This bizarre film is one of the inspirations for Airplane! It is a laughable mess of a story but one I found I enjoyed watching repeatedly, even with the little boy sobbing pathetically for half or so of the running time.
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