ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Doctor Skellington So, according to this movie, everyone in the early '70s was constantly drunk and/or stoned and goofing off, talked in a constant steam of consciousness even when alone, occasionally broke out in spontaneous comedy skits for no apparent reason, and nobody listened to anyone especially if they were screaming about death.The 'effects' of the titular creature start off pretty well with some deft use of reverse photography and goo wrangling, but later once it gets big enough to require expensive optical effects the characters constantly look behind the camera and describe what's going on in the hope we can imagine we saw it.It's god awful, I love it, why hasn't MST3K done this yet?

Dick Stroker Okay, if you're tired of the same old thing... I'm giving this a '10' rating because, as I mention in the title, this is a time capsule that is required viewing for students of 60s and 70s film. It was filmed and written by a couple of spoiled Hollywood kids who maybe received a 'C' for poor camera work and writing, and no direction. Fortunately for the world, these two never wrote another filmed screenplay. However, these kid's parents knew a lot of talented people, and it's fun to see them goof off in their sad class project. Shirley without Laverne, Robert Walker who was alien boy 'Charlie' on Star Trek OS, classic black comic Godfrey Cambridge, classic Jewish comic Shelley Berman, Sid Haig (devil's rejects), Dick Van Patten ('Spaceballs'), Gwynne Gilford ('CHiPs'), and do you know Del Close? You should find out, and see him here in a short improv next to Burgess Meredith and Larry Hagman as drunk hobos about to meet their demise. Really lame jello blob effects and one take footage at a Hollywood cocktail party.

tavm There were plenty of funny and somewhat scary moments in perhaps the first hour of Beware! The Blob like the beginning scenes with Godfrey Cambridge, Marlene Clark, and a cute, white, furry kitten. That between Cindy Williams and Randy Stonehill discussing how good their music is while smoking pot before a cop confronts them and that creature shows up. A hilarious one between Shelley Berman who doesn't consider himself a barber but an artist and his customer, John Houser, whose long hair certainly needs Berman's treatment. And another funny one concerning Tiger Joe Marsh who plays a Turk who's forced to streak naked (a '70s trend) down the streets after that creature invades his bathtub. Oh, and one more with director Larry Hagman, almost unrecognizable with beard, as a bum encountering him. But after that, I lost my patience especially whenever Richard Stahl showed up constantly complaining about some teens played by Robert Walker, Jr. and his girlfriend Gwynne Gilford whenever they usually accidentally caused some beverages either to fall from his car or they smash them up because of some other thing he keeps them from doing. I wouldn't have missed him if he had been killed. This wasn't as enjoyable as two other grade-Z horror films, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter and Dracula vs. Frankenstein, I recently saw. So on that note, Beware! The Blob is worth one look and none more than that. P.S. I just found out Tiger Joe Marsh was born and died in my birthtown of Chicago, Ill.

Boba_Fett1138 The ending of the first 1958 movie made it very apparent that a sequel would be a possibility. Yet it wasn't until 14 years later that a sequel finally got done.The 1958 movie "The Blob" was a bit of a weird case. It was a '50's B-movie, in every way but yet it all came together just fine. It made it a very enjoyable and even somewhat original genre movie, that surprisingly worked out way better than it really should had. But how is it possible for a '70's movie to try and recreate the same sort of style of atmosphere that was the case with an '50's B-monster movie. It's part of the reason why this movie just doesn't work out well at all within its sort.This movie is insane. It's cheap looking and makes an unfinished impression, which is partly true since this movie got mostly shot without a real finished script. It must be also one of the reasons why some of the movie its sequences go on for far too long, while they also seem to add very little to the movie or its story. It even makes this movie at certain parts an annoying one to watch. Some characters pop up in this movie and than suddenly disappear out of it again, which make them incredibly redundant ones. This is just not a very good example of good film-making.The actual blob itself also shines far too little in this movie. There is never really a real sense of danger when the blob is involved and the movie does a bad job at handling its build up and tension. It's also all real predictable and all of the deaths are quite unimaginative.Good thing I can say about this movie is that it has some decent humor at it times. Obviously the movie is at parts attempting a more humorous approach to its story and concept, which has as a result a couple of entertaining moments and pieces of humorous dialog.But above all things the movie remains a bad one, a real bad one actually, even within its genre.3/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/