It’s all sci-fi, all month at Teleport City, and this is the right way to kick it off:
Mission Stardust is the only film to be based on the long running and voluminous series of German pulp novels featuring the science fiction hero Perry Rhodan. It is universally hated by Perry Rhodan fans for the very good reason that it is quite terrible — that is, if you’re definition of “terrible” can be stretched to encompass a film featuring amusingly smarmy, two-fisted astronaut heroes, a truly swankadelic soundtrack, some quite good looking women, pop art set design, and a climactic sequence that finds sexy nurses with machine guns doing battle with robots who shoot lasers out of their eyes.
And coming in just before we devoted ourselves entirely to science fiction for the month of November…
Fireball teaches us the valuable lesson that you shouldn’t try to solve your problems by competing in a brutal and dehumanizing bloodsport tournament; you should solve your problems by shooting people in the face.
#1 by Blake on November 7, 2010 - 5:47 pm
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I kind of wanted to see FIREBALL, although my enthusiasm has been dampened now. I wonder if I’ll get to live to see the future in which all of society’s problems get concentrated into a single brutal sport.
#2 by KeithA on November 7, 2010 - 11:24 pm
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Blake, you probably have more than enough experience with martial arts movies good and bad to extract the good out of Fireball. I say give it a try but be prepared to not being able to see what the hell is going on half the time.
#3 by Blake on November 8, 2010 - 3:30 am
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Well, considering that I liked LEGEND OF THE WOLF, maybe you’re right.
#4 by KeithA on November 8, 2010 - 10:45 am
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Gods, man! If you can digest that movie, then FIREBALL will be no issue at all.
#5 by Doc on November 10, 2010 - 8:11 am
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I was waiting for someone to review Mission Stardust–I must have been 6 or 7 when they showed a preview on television which included the scene where the robot takes his helmet off and shows off his innards. Never forgot that scene in all my years.