This Movie Sucked

 I wasn't sure what to title this one.  This being our last full day here in NY, I didn't have anything for this morning until I watched a sci-fi movie on YouTube last night before going to bed.  It was "Planet of Prehistoric Women."  The women take up the last fifteen minutes of the movie.  Otherwise Venus, according to 1956 standard,  had waterfalls, oceans, bizarre creatures that look like humans in costumes, man-eating plants, and trees.  

Okay, it was filmed in California.  But what we know today about Venus, they didn't know in 1956.  It wasn't until 1960 the first probes were sent to Venus.  We have since learned a lot about Venus.  But the name for the title was probably chosen because Venus represents women. Venus was the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility in Roman mythology.  The planet Venus is the brightest planet in the night sky.  It's clouds reflect its sunlight like a mirror.  It is considered to be a twin to earth as it is believed to have originated from the same part of the solar system as earth.

By 1956 standards it may have been a sexy movie with about a half dozen blonde women dressed in tight fitting white pants each wearing a bikini top.  They communicated with each other telepathically and one was crowned the goddess by the others.  But it seems our space travelers only got glimpses of them.  But they are almost not a part of the plot.  It's just a scintillating title for drive-in movies back in the day.  

Anyway, back to the plot.  The movie begins by introducing the three astronauts who board this spaceship that blasts off that I have seen in other movies from that era.  It has white fins with a red star on one of the fins.  The year is supposed to be 1998.  And there is a refueling station somewhe between earth and Venus.  Why it's there for the ship to Venus, God only knows.  But after refueling about 100 people dressed in space suits stand outside on a platform waving goodbye to the ship as it takes off after refueling.  

The movie is one hour and fifteen minutes long and the take-off from the refueling station is about a half hour into the movie.  The spaceship is as one would imagine a spaceship from 1956 to be.  But I watched the entire movie because...  I'm not sure why.  I could have spent my time on doing something else.  But it would be my last night here before I'd go to bed early tonight after packing.  

Was my time wasted on mindless tripe such as this?  Actually, I've seen a lot of sci-fi movies from that era.  They were grade B movies done mostly for the drive-in theaters at the time.  That was the perfect date movie of it's day.  I didn't mention the robot named "John," but no loss there.  In fact, I could have written about something else this morning.  Maybe I needed some canabis in order to enjoy it.  Not sure anything would have helped.  

But it gave me something to write about this morning.  I'm smoking my Boswell pipe this morning with some Haunted Bookshop.  My coffee this morning is the last of my generic Guatamalan coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave