Cinema Subterrain

This past Saturday night, Mike and I went to Cinema Subterrain in downtown London. It takes place in the basement below the L.A. Mood comic shop. They have a free evening of geek movies once a month and this time the theme was "Forgotten Heroes."

We opened with the original live-action Japanese Spider-Man pilot from 1978. It came complete with alien space ships, ropes for webs and a giant Spiderbot that looked a lot like the Voltron robots. We followed that up with various live-action superhero TV pilots, each worse than the last.

We capped the evening off with the 1994 Fantastic Four movie. There's a new big-budget FF movie coming out this summer, but this was done back in the day for almost no money. Bad effects all over the place, although the Thing was all right. Mr. Fantastic's stretching ability was mostly displayed via clothing draped over a long stick. This movie was never released because it was so bad so I never expected to see it. Lucky me, living in a town with such geekfests.

On an unrelated note, I'm having various guys over to my house for penny-ante poker this Friday night at 6:00 pm. If you're interested then just give me a call.