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Just Imagine
1930 · Film · 113 min
Directed by David Butler
ComedyMusicScience FictionFantasy
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
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You need to watch Just Imagine 1930.
The movie has countless things we know from much later productions and countless things not seen elsewhere.
It takes place in the distant future, 1980, a place where everyone has a flying car, people have numbers in stead of names, the government decides who you can marry and babies come out of vending machines.
One IMDB comment described it as: I sat on the tip of my chair wondering if it could get any stranger and then it did!
Kin-dza-dza! takes a bit of getting into and it has it's weak moments but there are few movies that made me laugh so hard.
Everyone should watch "Just Imagine (1930)" it takes place in the distant future 1980. It is so full of original concepts we know from [much] later movies.
I ran into the short film "Slice of Life" the other day. It was rather impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDQ2SSsmEk
Bad old movies, may not be always youtube. But the Internet has given me the ability to watch a lot of classic cinema drek.
Some examples - Queen Kong, Just Imagine (1930), Space Probe Taurus, Planet of the Vampires