Wednesday, May 21, 2025
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Saturday, May 10, 2025
Tonight's Stinker: Cosmic Journey (1936)
Tonight's Stinker
Cosmic Journey (1936)
https://youtu.be/hDhJKzuOb2w?si=u8MWbTg56yTKXTkR
Soviet era silent movie, with captions & creepy techno music & sound effects....
A scientist has built a moon rocket.... Meanwhile, a fellow scientist tries to stop him, not out of spite, but because all his lab animals keep coming back dead, & he's worried about losing someone so prominent....
The only solution is to steal the ship, along with his assistant & a schoolboy....
But once on the moon, a mechanical failure & navigational error could leave them stranded....
Fairly decent little fantasy for the first half, but then gets a bit plodding....
The sets, props, scale models & animated sequences are pretty cool...
Thursday, May 8, 2025
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Tonight's Stinker: Ghost Planet (2024)
Tonight's Stinker
Ghost Planet (2024)
https://youtu.be/4z_XODtkWqA?si=BkI0mhOeufxB6SYd
Shot on video, the CGI sets & backgrounds, and the practical sets are pretty decent....
One of the characters narrates, starting with a back story about how mankind found technology from an extinct alien race, & learned to use it....
So anyway, these three siblings find a planet with more of this tech, but hafta split when the realize it orbits a ball of radiation, & lose the coordinates....
A year later, all three of them are in dire straits, & things go sideways one night... The next day, they get an offer from a corporate raider who makes them an offer they can't refuse.... They find the planet again, but in what they find out is a stolen ship... And the owners have tracked the ship & plan to beat them to the claim...
The acting is pretty stiff at first, but gets better, & the pacing is pretty decent...
For low budget shot on video, I found it to be a pretty fun little gem...
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Tonight's Stinker: Battle Beyond The Sun (1959)
Tonight's Stinker
Battle Beyond The Sun (1959)
https://youtu.be/R7Zp0BNQ3IU?si=WSV-eA3fF19fxPc9
Narrated for the first ten minutes (I quit paying attention at one point), WW3 has come & gone, & now the Earth is split between the north & south hemispheres, but the cold way rages on....
The south is about to send the first rocket to Mars.... As they're getting ready to leave, a north spaceship request to dock at their space station for repairs....
After making the repairs, scientific idealism kicks in, & someone reveals they're going to Mars.... the northerners think they can beat the south, & take off without a plan.... Things go haywire....
Whoever wrote the script suggests that the sun is between earth & mars....
At some points, the dubbing is so bad, that words come out while nobody's lips are moving, & it's kinda obvious at times that a label has been placed over the red star on the ships....
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