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Smokin' hot (and I'm not talking about Mars)

posted 17 years ago by birdman3501
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OK, this nobody has addressed this yet....seriously, how hot was Paul Mantee in this movie? When he walks around in the zipper pants and black t-shirt, I never wanted to be stranded on Mars so much before.

As a huge fan of 1950s and 1960s Sci-Fi, I really liked the movie, and I thought use of mattes and rocky location shoots were well done. Cheesy at times, yes, but, viewed in context, other films of the period are way cheesier (not that I have a problem with that, as I believe things should always be viewed in context).

But I must admit that having Paul Mantee in the movie was a BIG plus. He was way easy to look at, which the filmmakers obviously played up. I want to thank them personally for the bathing scene (a highlight of the film, to be sure, hehehehe!).

What else has he done?

[–] ezracobb366 13 years ago

I'm straight so I really can't comment on hotness, but I thought he played a good role. A approachable tough guy type. It's so different nowadays when every tough guy is understood to be some indestructable, nihlistic, antihero type.

[–] Zoomorph 13 years ago

Pity this movie wasn't about a female astronaut who was trapped on Mars.

Would be more interesting to watch but I guess the credibility of the survival story would be undermined.

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[–] Blueghost 11 years ago

by birdman3501 » Mon Feb 11 2008 08:19:47 Flag ▼ | Reply |
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OK, this nobody has addressed this yet....seriously, how hot was Paul Mantee in this movie? When he walks around in the zipper pants and black t-shirt, I never wanted to be stranded on Mars so much before.

As a huge fan of 1950s and 1960s Sci-Fi, I really liked the movie, and I thought use of mattes and rocky location shoots were well done. Cheesy at times, yes, but, viewed in context, other films of the period are way cheesier (not that I have a problem with that, as I believe things should always be viewed in context).

But I must admit that having Paul Mantee in the movie was a BIG plus. He was way easy to look at, which the filmmakers obviously played up. I want to thank them personally for the bathing scene (a highlight of the film, to be sure, hehehehe!).

What else has he done?

Uh, I can't say I noticed. To me this is a sci-fi film, not some subvert hidden social sexual agenda ... which it may have had, but I didn't detect it.

Why would you make such a comment?

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No answer. Oh well.

I wont deny any hidden agenda, possibly dealing with homosexuality, but as a sci-fi fan, as a sci-fi fan who saw this when he was younger, and watches the film in that said same vein today, to me it's still simply a sci-fi film about a couple of guys and simian trying to escape some pretty nasty aliens.

How anyone could see anything else is beyond me, but I believed it important to reinforce this message.

It seems, to me, that if there were some OTHER agenda in operation, that it would be more obvious and not so "coded" as to be undetectable by normal folks. Otherwise you run the risk of insulting the author of the work.

Again, what you say may be so, but would it not be more obvious if it were so?

[–] AdrianD2 11 years ago

This movie was pretty dry, even compared to other 60s sci fi affairs. There was a good looking man in it thankfully, that kept me watching. The entire movie, I stared at three things, Mantee's face, his chest, and his crotch. I wouldn't have been looking at his crotch as much except the zipper was so oddly placed that, my gaze was led there by the zipper.

Lucy: "I didn't tell a soul, and they all promised to keep it a secret."

[–] Blueghost 11 years ago

Did you pay any attention to the story? The wandering fireballs? The alien slavers?

[–] ObscureAuteur 11 years ago

Too bad the "Men on Film" pair from In Living Color were not on hand back then to give this film the review you think it deserves. I saw this movie on its first run (would not say "when it came out" on this thread!) and had no notion at the time, or at all until finding this thread, of viewing it as a gay cult classic. So you might say it had a run in 1964 but still hasn't "come out"?

Think of what you could do with it in a remake with Draper and Friday all alone on Mars. Brokeback Planet? Nothing more I suppose than what most audiences would expect if Friday were a woman (that is, a female alien, unbelievably human-like right out of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, with all the right parts, a libido to go with them and susceptible to hunky male aliens, a cliche that never dies, even if the alien is not even a living thing as in Screamers. Has there been a same sex version of this cliche on film yet?) and think nothing of it, or worse find it their favorite part of an unexpectedly great date movie.

Perhaps you will get a chance to expound on this in more detail in the sequel documentary The Celluloid Closet II: Everyone's Gay or Should Be.

CB

Good Times, Noodle Salad

P.S.

By the way, to some of the other responders, there is no Hell, so why not keep your biblical cherry picking to yourselves, or show us how you follow ALL those laws. It is a relief to know that there is an authoritative guide so that if I find it necessary to sell a daughter into slavery, I can do it properly.

The Celluloid Closet was a fine documentary apart from the annoying and absurd implication that the Edison lab test film with men dancing should be considered early gay cinema.

[–] jarrodmcdonald-1 11 years ago

I agree...he is truly hot in this film. Watching this makes me want to have sex, a lot of sex.

[–] rainbowfever64 10 years ago

Yes yes yes very hot! Love that bath scene.
he was so sexy.

[–] liscarkat (19427) 6 years ago

Predictable and sad that responses to an innocent and cheerful original post quickly deteriorated into a flaming ideological battle. To respond to that original post--yes, Mantee was attractive, as well as charismatic and a good actor. It's hard to understand why he didn't become a bigger star.