SciFi
The Angry Red Planet (1959) Eggplant.place TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Angry Red Planet
director: Ib Melchior actor: Gerald Mohr / Naura Hayden
other title: 디 앵그리 레드 플라넷 / Weltraumschiff MR-1 gibt keine Antwort
The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?
Sept. 22, 2025 watched
A movie that, like a great artist, steals from others (The Blob, Godzilla, Forbidden Planet etc). But great art, it ain't.

Watched in #Monsterdon #WatchParty on Mastodon
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Spaceballs (1987) Douban IMDb Min reol ReviewDB TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Spaceballs
6.3 (21 ratings) director: 梅尔·布鲁克斯 actor: 梅尔·布鲁克斯 / 约翰·坎迪
other title: 스페이스볼 / スペースボール
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?
Sept. 19, 2025 watched
A level or three below other Brooks' other parodies like Blazing Saddles, but still with some funny moments.

(Re)watched in #Comedon #WatchParty on Mastodon
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Tank Girl (1995) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Tank Girl
6.2 (24 ratings) director: 瑞秋·塔拉蕾 actor: 罗莉·佩蒂 / 娜奥米·沃茨
other title: 탱크 걸 / タンク・ガール
After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee — head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government — has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee's tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl and Jet Girl rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system.
Equalizer 2000 (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Equalizer 2000
director: Cirio H. Santiago actor: 理查德·诺顿 / Corinne Wahl
other title: Defender 2000 / 废土战士
In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
Aug. 15, 2025 watched
Directed by Roger Corman protégé Santiago, who brought us flicks like the Filipino Blaxploitation women in prison movie The Muthers. And multiple Mad Max 2 ripoffs. (About 2 a year in the 80s and 90s?)

This one seems to have every single outdoor scene take place in the same quarry (except for the world's crappiest canyon car jump?), just shot from different angles.

Slade (Norton) builds the world's most redundant assault rifle with like 6 barrels, which automagically wipes the floor against all opponents.

If they had put one tenth of the effort into the story as they did the (pretty awesome) action, it might have been half-way decent.
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Eliminators (1986) Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Eliminators
director: Peter Manoogian actor: 安德鲁·普莱尼 / 丹尼斯·克罗斯比
other title: 霹雳战神 / 回到未来续战篇
A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.
Sept. 4, 2025 watched
The plot, the acting, the effects, the pacing... none of them were anywhere near as bad as I was expecting. They were often downright good. Is this movie... kind of great???
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The Man from Planet X (1951) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Man from Planet X
director: 埃德加·G·乌默 actor: Robert Clarke / Margaret Field
other title: X星来客 / Der Mann von Planet X
One of the five sci-fi's I remember every single detail of from my earliest days as a fan. For the genre, I think it's considerably above average. The moor is nicely atmospheric. There's one of every character in the book: the good guy, the bad guy, the local sheriff, the lovely damsel, her father the old professor, etc. The scene where we're looking for the first time through the window of the ship and the visitor peeks out from the other side is easily as good as the three-fingered-hand-on-the-shoulder in War of the Worlds. Nice "character" to the visitor, for whom, like Karloff's Frankenstein, we end up feeling some empathy .
Space Freaks from Planet Mutoid (1995) TMDB IMDb
Space Freaks from Planet Mutoid
director: Dionysius Zervos jr. actor: Denis Adam Zervos / Henry Coleman
From a galaxy further than far, far away, comes a movie of solar proportions with a stella soundtrack. Tyler hates life - his rock band are going nowhere, the world is collapsing and girls don't take him seriously. BUT all of that is about to change when a sexy space siren seeks Tylers singing to snuff out the growing stream of violence. Adding fuel to the fire is Freaky Fiend fixed on frying our planet - it's up to Tyler and his musical troupe to turn the tables and restore the name of rock and roll.
Sept. 8, 2025 watched
So bad it's hilarious, especially the musical parts.

The star/producer/writer/director also sings, and every time he did, I cracked up laughing.

Watched as part of the #Monsterdon afterparty on Mastodon.
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