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Bill Nunn, a veteran actor who appeared in Spike Lees film, Do the Right Thing, has died. He was 62. Before it became the juggernaut it is today, there was the influence it had on the film making community, an influence that spawned countless Star Warsploitation films. One such film is the subject of this months walk thru The Humanoid 1. George B. Lewis, who not only borrowed aspects from Star Wars but also co oped a name very similar to George Lucas. I thought The Asylum was shameless. The directors actual name is Aldo Lado, a name befitting an anagram master or a master sampler of other peoples work. Oddly enough though, for all the appropriation in The Humanoid, the movies title doesnt have the word star or war like most of the other Star Warsploitation films. I guess there was a line Lado wouldnt cross after all, though I am scratching my head on that one. That said, lets see just how much Lado sampled in this walk thru of the 1. Star Warsploitation, The Humanoid Open Space. Or, more precisely, open to various 1. Orbital esque electronica. An expositive crawl is read by a lifeless voice, likely planetarium employee who loaned the background images. He recounts the story so far Earthnow Earthopolisis in a whole mess o trouble. Lord Growl has escaped from the prison satellite where he was incarcerated and is seeking vengeance on his brother, Great Bruh, for imprisoning him. The crawl disappears and wait for itWait for itWait for itEventually Lord Growls Sun Destroyer floats across the screen. A space police patrol ship races after the tardy Sun Destroyer. Hopped up on space machismo, they order the Sun Destroyer to pull over, copping some fake charges that the Sun Destroyer is flying in a space HOV lane with only a hundred henchmen on board, clearly violating Space Statute 4. Lord Growl, like NWA, has adopted a strict f k the police attitude and blows them up for their obvious racist bulls t. Push into Sun Destroyer. Lord Growl, a Rent A Center Darth Vader in black Samurai armor and helmet, monologues, My brother has made his army bloated with peace Uninterested, the command crew keep about their business. After an uncomfortable silence Lord Growl growls, How far are we from EarthopolisWe are approaching gravity, says Sun Destroyer pilot, Ensign Peon. Ah, so in this version of the space future gravity is a unit of distance, which means this movie is in the tradition of strictly separating the science from science fiction. When they reach Earthopoliss gravity Lord Growl commands his elite Squalltrooper strike team to launch. Their mission grab the Crapatron and kill that Barbara Gibson. Wait. Barbara Gibson The space future is populated with women named Barbara GibsonOh, right. This is a 1. Star Warsploitation. No one goes to the dollar cinema to actually watch this movie. The audience is either necking or using the back row as a toilet. My bad. Carry on. Cut to Barbara at Work. Barbara works at Earthopolis Central, a building in the middle of the desert where people either wander around aimlessly or sit at randomly placed desks flipping switches, turning knobs, and watching blinky lights. Barbara is middle management, evidenced by her telling some flunky to check the imprint, before returning to her panel. A call comes in for Barbara from Tom Tom, a pre teen asian child who is her son Whatever the relation, hes some kind of mentalist, chocked full of mini chutneyans, because he uses a Jeti Mind Ruse which sounds like space jibber jabber to get Barbara to leave work and come home. Incredibly it works. Barbaras face droops into even less expression as she rises from her desk and mechanically walks away. At the outer gate, she guns her X. Ground Speeders engine and pulls away just as Lord Growls elite Squalltroopers attack. Earthopolis guards are no match for an assault by Stephen Hawking, much less competent soldiers Squalltroopers can actually hit their targets. The security forces dont even bother to look up when the Squalltroopers stroll in, despite obviously being there for nefarious reasons. I know its not politically correct to stereotype, but theyre Rent a Center Tie Fighter Pilots helmets that cover their faces, all that shiny black leather, and blaster riflescome onOnce theyve eliminated everyone, security forces and office staff, the Squalltroopers start on their first objective scour Earthopolis Central for a container marked K for Crapatron. In the storage room, that is, a walk in closet with 4 inset cabinets, the Squalltroopers find four containers, but are confounded because none of the containers are marked with a K. They rack their brains trying to decide which container has the CrapatronTheres only four containers, which could all be grabbed as there are four Squalltroopers, its not like they have to worry if they holster their guns because everyone is dead, but whatever. Kryten, lead Squalltrooper, remembers Lord Growl said the Crapatron might be in an odd shaped container. So they check each. One is round. One is square. The final is octagonal. Thats it Or, wait. Did Lord Growl say it was possibly in a black containerOr maybe it was in Earthopolis West Moving hastily onAnd, yes, I do realize that was only three containers when there was originally four Dont blame me, blame the movie. Cut to Sun Destroyer. Back on the Sun Destroyer, Kryten admits to Lord Growl that they didnt kill Barbara but they did get the Crapatron. Well probablyfingers crossed behind his back. Lord Growl almost puts Laser Hands on Kryten, but that would involve special effects and Growl doesnt want to spoil the Big Boss fight later, so instead he opts to punish Kryten. The punishment Kryten loses of his privileges for 1. No interwebs Ouch Thats why hes known as Lord Growl The Unfair His evil know no bounds. Cut to Earthopolis. Divx Movies Dvd A Cat In Paris. Princely Hero Nick the dashing protagonist of the movie visits the Grand Council of Bros Before Hoes. Great Bruh, leader of Earthopolis and Chugmaster Most Rad, is greatly disturbed by the Squalltroopers attack, yet is thankful Barbara survived. She was the one he drank tequila shots from her you know what, never mind. Although the nuclear stockpiles were untouched the Grand Council of Bros Before Hoes calls for the security forces to inflict death on the enemies of Earthopolisbut only if necessary. Oh So thats why they were such useless dorks. Before the special decree of Inflicting Death all the security forces could do was whimper, Hey and shake a finger reproachfully. Cut to Barbaras House. As it turns out, Tom Tom called Barbara home to play video games. Well, kind of. Tom Tom is too busy reading to give his full attention to the game, which annoys Barbara to no end. Really Tom Tom is such a dork Does he want to grow up what for to be all smart and stuffBarbara, like the champ she is, asks Tom Tom for permission to cheat by consulting the computer it can solve 1. Even with the help of the computer, and Tom Tom being distracted, he manages to kick her butt with one move. Maybe Barbara should crack open a book now and again herself. At the very least read the cover of the book Tom Tom is readingHow to Win at Viddy Games Programmatically by Stephen Hawking. If she had done so maybe she might have had an inkling why Tom Tom was willing to let her use the computer to cheat. All of this might have you wondering, so what Whats going on here Who is this Barbara and Tom TomThe answer is discouraging because script. The kicker Tom Tom is Barbaras pupil. Uhm. Okay. Shes as smart as a dusty gummy bear. The Thing 1. 98. Wikipedia. The Thing also known as John Carpenters The Thing is a 1. American science fictionhorror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The films title refers to its primary antagonist a parasiticextraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms and in turn imitates them. The Thing infiltrates an Antarctic research station, taking the appearance of the researchers that it absorbs, and paranoia develops within the group. The film is based on John W. Campbell, Jr. s novella Who Goes There, which was more loosely adapted by Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby as the 1. The Thing from Another World. Carpenter considers The Thing to be the first part of his Apocalypse Trilogy,4 followed by Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness. Although the films are narratively unrelated, each features a potentially apocalyptic scenario should The Thing ever reach civilization, it would be only a matter of time before it consumes all life on Earth. Carpenter acknowledged that the work of H. P. Lovecraft also inspired the film. On June 2. The Thing opened in 8. It remained in the top 1. The lower than expected performance has been attributed to many factors, the main ones being the runaway success of Steven Spielbergs E. T. the Extra Terrestrial, which was also released by Universal Studios two weeks earlier and featured a more optimistic view of alien visitation,89 and that another major adult oriented science fiction film, Ridley Scotts Blade Runner, was released by Warner Brothers the same day. However, The Thing went on to gain a cult following. The film was eventually reappraised by critics, and is now considered to be one of the greatest horror films ever made. The film subsequently spawned a novelization in 1. The Thing from Another World, published by Dark Horse Comics in 1. The Thing, in 2. 00. October 1. 4, 2. 01. In 1. 00,0. 00 BC, a flying saucer flies towards Earth, landing in Antarctica. In 1. 98. 2 in Antarctica, a Norwegian helicopter pursues an Alaskan Malamute to an American research station. Upon landing, a Norwegian accidentally drops a thermite charge, destroying the helicopter. The surviving Norwegian raises a rifle at the station personnel and is shot dead by Garry, the station commander. The Americans send a helicopter pilot, R. J. Mac. Ready, and Dr. Copper to the Norwegian camp for answers, but they find only a charred ruin containing corpses. Outside, they discover the burned remains of a humanoid corpse with two faces, which they bring back along with some video tapes. Their biologist, Blair, performs an autopsy on the corpse, finding a normal set of human internal organs. Clark kennels the Malamute with the stations sled dogs it soon metamorphoses and attacks them. When he hears the commotion, Mac. Ready pulls the fire alarm, and Childs incinerates the creature. Blair performs another autopsy which leads him to believe the creature perfectly imitates other organisms. The Norwegians records lead the Americans to the now buried flying saucer. Blair becomes increasingly paranoid and withdraws, calculating that if the alien escapes to a civilized area, all life on Earth will be assimilated within a few years. Fuchs tells Mac. Ready that he is worried about Blair, and according to Blairs journal, the creatures dead remains are still active on a cellular level. The camp enacts safety measures designed to reduce risk of assimilation. The creature assimilates Bennings, but Windows catches him outside before his metamorphosis is complete and Mac. Ready burns the creature. They discover Blair has wrecked all the transports and killed the remaining sled dogs. The team subdue Blair as he is destroying the radio and lock him in an isolated tool shed. Copper recommends a blood serum test to determine who is assimilated, but the paranoid men turn on each other when they find the blood stores have been sabotaged. Mac. Ready takes charge and orders Fuchs to continue Blairs work, but Fuchs disappears Mac. Ready, Windows, and Nauls find his burnt corpse outside. Windows returns to warn the others while Mac. Ready and Nauls investigate Mac. Readys shack, noticing that the lights were on even though Mac. Ready states he turned them off earlier. On the way back, Nauls cuts Mac. Ready loose from the tow line, assuming that he has been assimilated when he finds a torn shirt with Mac. Readys name on it when they were at his shack. As the team debate Mac. Readys fate, he breaks in and threatens to destroy the station with a bundle of dynamite if they attack him. Norris appears to suffer a heart attack after he and Nauls unsuccessfully attack Mac. Ready from behind. When Copper attempts to revive him, Norris transforms and kills Copper by biting his arms off. Mac. Ready incinerates the creature and orders Windows to tie up everyone for a new test. Clark attacks Mac. Ready, but is killed. Mac. Ready explains his theory that every piece of the alien is an individual organism with its own survival instinct. One by one, Mac. Ready tests everyones blood with a heated piece of copper wire. Everyone is still human except Palmer, whose blood flees from the hot wire. Exposed, Palmer transforms and infects Windows, forcing Mac. Ready to burn them both. Leaving Childs on guard, the others head out to test Blair, only to find that he has tunneled out of the tool shed. They realize that Blair is assimilated and has been scavenging equipment to build a small escape craft. Discovering that Childs is missing and the stations power generator is destroyed, Mac. Ready speculates that the Thing now intends to hibernate until a rescue team arrives. Mac. Ready, Garry, and Nauls decide to dynamite the complex, hoping to destroy the Thing. As they set the explosives, Blair kills Garry and Nauls disappears. Blair transforms into a much larger monster and attacks, destroying the detonator, but Mac. Ready still triggers the blast with a stick of dynamite, destroying the base. Mac. Ready sits nearby as the camp burns, and Childs reappears, claiming he was lost in the storm, pursuing Blair. Exhausted and with no hope of survival, they acknowledge the futility of their distrust and share a bottle of scotch. ProductioneditA number of early drafts for the film were written by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel, co creators of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The final screenplay was written in 1. Bill Lancaster, son of Burt Lancaster. Carpenter later recalled that he did not meet or collaborate with any of the screenwriters. The film was shot near the small town of Stewart in northern British Columbia. The research station in the film was built by the film crew during summer, and the film shot in sub freezing winter conditions. The only female presence in the film is the voice of a chess computer, voiced by Carpenter regular and then wife Adrienne Barbeau, as well as the female contestants viewed on a videotaped episode of Lets Make a Deal. According to the sign post outside the camp, the Antarctic research team is stationed at the United States National Science Institute Station 4. However, in early drafts of the script, the base was called, U. S. Outpost 3. 1. 1. When making a recording of events, Kurt Russells character, Mac. Ready, signs off as, R. J. Macready, helicopter pilot, U. S. Outpost 3. 1. The film took three months to shoot on six artificially frozen sound stages in Los Angeles, with many of the crew and actors working in cold conditions. The final weeks of shooting took place in northern British Columbia, near the border with Alaska, where snow was guaranteed to fall. John Carpenter filmed the Norwegian camp scenes at the end of production. The Norwegian camp was simply the remains of the American outpost after it was destroyed by an explosion. The Thing was Carpenters eighth time directing a full length feature and his first film under the production of a major film studio Universal Studios.