Space Transformers
The earth is under attack from sinister, crudely drawn aliens. We meet them at first when they attack an orbiting space platform that looks suspiciously like the Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, or like the orbiting space platform that showed up at the beginning of Space Thunder Kids. These aliens look human and command robots that pilot larger robots that shoot meteors and carry axes. Why you would need to carry an ax if you can already shoot meteors is a bit of a mystery, but then I reckon you need something for close quarters combat. After the attack has begun, the space fleet gets a transmission from Ivy, the world’s most special girl, warning them of an eminent alien attack. Her ability to warn people of things that started happening a few minutes before she warned people of them somehow makes her the lynchpin in Earth’s plans to defeat the aliens. Exactly how this helps in the fight against aliens or why Asians are always pinning the hopes of the galaxy on twelve-year-olds is never really explained.
#1 by Blake Matthews on January 30, 2008 - 5:13 am
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Joseph Lai produced “Ninja in the Claws of the CIA”? Wow. That was the John Liu-softcore/kung fu flick also known as “Kung Fu Emanuelle.” I saw some of the fights between John Liu and Casanova Wong and they were pretty good.
#2 by Matthew Fudge on January 30, 2008 - 5:42 am
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Could it be that none of this footage was supposed to be inside a human body and they just decided it was during the ‘reconstruction’? It wouldn’t be the first time the dubbing and re-editing managed to blatantly contradict what was on the screen.
#3 by KeithA on January 30, 2008 - 10:41 am
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Oops. I was wrong about the CIA and Jospeh Lai. My bad. I’ll correct that.
Matt: Oh no, they specifically refer to being inside her body once they are there. You just don’t understand enough about human anatomy.
#4 by Blake Matthews on January 30, 2008 - 11:18 am
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And here I was, studying for college exams reading biology textbooks. I should’ve just checked out this film…it would’ve been a lot more entertaining.
#5 by Matthew Fudge on January 30, 2008 - 12:05 pm
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I guess I was asleep during the ‘aliens in your kidneys’ class.
#6 by lyzard on January 30, 2008 - 3:43 pm
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Wow…. I guess even back in the early eighties, I wasn’t watching much television. *Now* I’m sorry.
#7 by Tom Meade on January 31, 2008 - 6:08 am
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The recent spate of films on the ABC has been pretty wonderful, though. And the SBS theme nights.