ok,so ive been down the pub yet again and yet another film has come up and noone seems to know the title! i really need to help my mates out because this has been goingon for quite some time now.....
ok, so, lets get to the film....all they have told me is that they rememeber a film about a bunch of alien life forms that represent themselves as oversized ball bearings.... they all remember a scene where the balls come out of a cerial box of some kind...thats about all i know...all i know is,is that this film is definitely not batteries not included,however they all swear it is 80s! if anyone can help that would be muchos cool! just remember, aliens being ball bearings?? i know it sounds nuts but at least four people i know swear by the desprition of this film....thanks to anyone that knows!! trash man xx
Posted by The Wizard (Member # 533) on :
I know what you're on about I saw it too when I was a kid, I distinctly remember some kid befrending the 'alien life form' which suspiciously looks like a ball bearing, dropping it into a pan of custard (or something) and it ate it all up and he took it along to a pylon and it got power. I found this name & description on http://tv.cream.org (don't go wandering around there unless you've got lots of time to reminice!)
"GLITTERBALL - IT'S THE late '70s. STAR WARS is causing much damage screenwise. The Kids are deserting your nice, honest, provincial, low-budget adventures in droves. What to do? Put on a cheap-as-cheap-can sci-fi winner, that's what. The "aliens" in this effort were - wait for it - animated ball bearings/silvered golf balls, who trundled jerkily around, devouring cakes, Marathons etc. while emitting a high-pitched bleepy noise. CFF mainstay DUDLEY SUTTON was the obligatory nasty grown-up who was out to exploit them for some reason or other. Two kids found one of the balls and "befriended" it somehow. It all came to a head "down the rec", where the balls had their revenge, massing up in less-than-spectacular manner to clobber the foe. The decorations on an archetypal seventies trifle never seemed the same again..."
haha your the man wizard, a little nuts.but still muchos muchos coolios eh grandey! haha thanks a lot for yet another awsome response and a good excuse for me to seem more intelligent down the pub when im ****ed! keep it real and take it easly. never forger to keep it real on your wheels of steel! muchos gracious
