Well.
So much for good intentions.
Although I can attest that my good intentions did in fact lead straight to hell.
Sigh.
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In which the first expeditionary party to the moon, consisting of three people involved in a love triangle, a venal individual who only wants to exploit his experiences for profit and a young man looking for “the right girl”, encounter the all-female remnant of an ancient civilisation.
Unbeknownst to most of the Earthlings, the moon women intend to hijack their rocketship as the first step towards conquering humanity.
But fear not! – humanity will be just fine, as long as the male members of the expedition don’t have any “weak points”…
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
#1 by Jen S on October 29, 2013 - 6:53 am
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Science was more fun when we didn’t know anything. At least, movies were more fun. Hell, the moon was full of lost cities and exotic females and you could smoke like a chimney and still qualify as an astronaut.
I’d write about the gender politics on display here but I think I’d rival your fifteen pages in no time..
#2 by lyzard on November 2, 2013 - 3:27 am
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I was restraining myself. I hope you could tell. 🙂
#3 by Luke Blanchard on October 30, 2013 - 1:35 pm
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The earliest film I can think of in the men-discover-a-society-of-young women genre is the Arthur Askey opus BEES IN PARADISE. I’ve long suspected you’d regard as a movie from hell.
The link in your tag line doesn’t work for me. The one to the review does.
#4 by El Santo on October 30, 2013 - 5:20 pm
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None of our sig line links seem to work now. Comparing what’s actually in my sig with the URL that it sends to makes me think it’s a malfunction somewhere in WordPress itself– kind of like how, when I quoted you just now, I had to go into the code and add your name by hand so that it wouldn’t say I was quoting “undefined.”
#5 by Braineater on November 2, 2013 - 6:59 pm
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It’s a misconfiguration, one of a million little things that crept in when we tried to bulk-restore what was left of the B-Masters’ site. I can fix it.
EDIT: This should be fixed now.
#6 by RogerBW on October 31, 2013 - 9:08 pm
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I think that making a good performance out of a ghastly script, direction, and so on, is a rare thespian skill that many actors manage to go their whole careers without testing. Michael Caine has it. Richard Burton didn’t.
The idea that the first rocket to go to the moon would be numbered something other than “one” could even be considered prophetic…
Picric acid (2,4,6-trinitrophenol) is highly explosive; I’m not aware of its having been used as a rocket propellant. I’d guess that that was the scriptwriter’s inspiration.
ObPeeve: nearside and farside, dammit. (Which I’m sure most people reading this will know, but scriptwriters stubbornly refuse to learn.)
#7 by lyzard on November 2, 2013 - 3:30 am
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Peter Cushing had it. Venerated horror film icon Christopher Lee does not. 🙂
I know enough about picric acid (which I too assumed is what was meant here, though it’s certainly not what they call it) not to make it my first choice of material to travel into space with.
#8 by RogerBW on November 2, 2013 - 10:56 am
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Ooh, I don’t know. Have you seen The Return of Captain Invincible? 🙂