Friday, April 6, 2012

Passing the Time with a 50 Ft Woman

I wrote this last Saturday morning before I knew I was going back to work this week.


Honest to God, laying around recovering from surgery is just about the most boring thing you can do.  It's 2.5 weeks since the operation and I'm ready to climb the walls.  The first two weeks were a groggy daze.  They went by and I barely noticed.  I'm now off the serious pain meds and my head is clearing up.

 This morning I watched "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman"...the original.   I was spellbound by its' awfulness.   Not sure I understood the plot; a woman exposed to radiation from a spacecraft discovers her husband is cheating on her and grows 50' in height.  Gigantic papier mache hands lowered onto or into the scenes, grasping dolls supposed to be actors, crushing cars, ripping off roofs.  In onc scene, a 50's era Dodge station wagon with giant fins, is lifted aloft and thrown to the ground.  The camera cuts to the damaged car, a Woodie.  The 50' woman is wayyy better looking than the husband's new floozie.  It's no contest.  Go figure.


Meanwhile, found these send-ups of the original poster.  Not sure which one I like better.






















Here's a less than 2 minute trailer of the original. Don't even bother to watch the movie after this.  No reason or need.




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10 comments:

brian miller said...

hehe..saw this forever ago...i do like some of the old movies...so any new hobbies you can take up while you are lying around healing?

Betsy said...

sounds like she got her revenge. lol.

DJan Stewart said...

This is one I think I might have to watch, it's so awful. I enjoyed your post-drugs soliloquy. It's fun! Hope you're actually beginning to move on...

Grandmother (Mary) said...

Guess you need to heal quickly!

P Tillett said...

I remember seeing that one as a kid at the movies. It was a stinker even then. 
Healing thoughts coming your way...

CaliforniaGirl500 said...

Thanks Pat.  I'm doing better every day.  Happy Easter!

CaliforniaGirl500 said...

This is true.  The sooner I am out and about, the less time for really terrible old movies.  

Happy Easter

CaliforniaGirl500 said...

I am.  If it weren't for one nagging adhesion from the scar tissue, I'd be 90%.  

Happy Easter!

CaliforniaGirl500 said...

Happy Easter to you and your Five Men!

CaliforniaGirl500 said...

It was soooo awful.  I couldn't turn away.  It was like a twenty car pile up.  You just had to stare.  

Happy Easter Bri.