Comments on: Mind Blowing Movies: Village of the Giants (1965), by Peter Bebergal

By: wilsonti7

wilsonti7 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:23:00 +0000

That fantastic music is by Jack Nitzsche, who, among other pieces, also did the arrangement of the chorus in “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. He’s someone who shaped the musical world we live in, but never made it to mass awareness. Look him up.

By: MelancholyBaby

MelancholyBaby — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:03:00 +0000

another mst riff — utility pole with cross bar leans at an angle after their car plows into it: “So, Jesus was run down by a Tbird …?”

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 03:55:00 +0000

Saw this on MST3K.

Sucks without robots.

By: Greg Scavezze

Greg Scavezze — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:45:00 +0000

I was watching one version of the video and the guy that played “Ozone” in “Breakin” and “Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo” was in it wearing a big hat and playing drums on Toni’s butt, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW7VnHnX3LQ

By: Dwen Dooley

Dwen Dooley — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:57:00 +0000

One of the best MST3K riffs ever… local hanging from the bodice of one of the young rebel girls (now 50ish feet tall) and crow says “Careful what you wish for!!”

By: malindrome

malindrome — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:24:00 +0000

Kids these days, with their rock-n-roll music and their gigantism! Get off my lawn!

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:10:00 +0000

I watched it (just this clip, I mean) with the sound off. Try it

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:27:00 +0000

I think I’ve seen this a dozen times. It was a staple on late night television in the 70s. Beau Bridges is hot.

By: unclemike

unclemike — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:10:00 +0000

I loved loved LOVED this movie when I was a kid. The local indie TV station would run the same movie 5 nights in a row and I could not get enough of it!

By: Tim McDonough

Tim McDonough — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:58:00 +0000

The sexy blonde giant is Joy Harmon, best known as Lucille the buxom car washing girl from “Cool Hand Luke.”

By: PinkWithIndignation

PinkWithIndignation — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:48:00 +0000

The bare bellies and hips of the ladies. Dudes barely dance!

By: Mike Vogts

Mike Vogts — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:09:00 +0000

And of course MST3K did a pretty good treatment of it as well. Lots of Mark McCain jokes.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:06:00 +0000

“It’s not Lysistrata. I like it, but it’s not Lysistrata.”
-Tom Servo, Mannos Hands Of Fate

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:47:00 +0000

That movie also featured a VERY young Ron Howard as the boy genius whose discovery made the giants possible. You have to wonder if he and Beau Bridges ever talk about this one any time they get together…

By: ashypete

ashypete — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:43:00 +0000

Village of the Giants followed by Mr. B.I.G’s Attack of the Puppet People makes for an awesome double feature… Both are wonderfully nuts.

By: TimmoWarner

TimmoWarner — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:25:00 +0000

This is the same music Quenten Tarantino used for the opening credits of Death Proof which seems fitting to me. I always watch it as the kind of movie you see on a Saturday afternoon where the film just becomes your reality and time stretches forever. It makes me feel like a kid again.

I’m glad to see what might have influenced him to use it.

By: CraigDanger

CraigDanger — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:15:00 +0000

I stumbled across this on some deep cable channel a few months ago and was riveted. Young Ron Howard as the annoying little brother. And O Mickey! Toni Basil as one of the teen girls! (Admittedly, I ran to IMDB while watching it because I kept going, “that girl looks SOOOO familiar!” but could never place her).

It was a swinging good time, and just beats you over the head with a “power corrupts” cautionary tale. It is certainly time better spent than watching/reading “Twilight”