Sunday, April 4, 2010

Movies

Test Pilota Pirxa (1978) Polish/Soviet SF based on a story by Stanislaw Lem. Test Pilot Pirx is sent on a space mission with a robotic crew member and he drives himself crazy trying to figure out which one it is. If it is your goal to see every SF film ever made, include this. It's a bit slow. The future city scenes appear to be Chicago. 6/10

The Bulldog Breed (1960) A Norman Wisdom film. Unsuccessful in both love and suicide, Norman joins the Royal Navy. Because of his absolute incompetence he is put in charge of the ship's dog, and thus accidentally becomes the first man in space. Moderately entertaining at times. 6/10

Be careful what you wish. Now that I am seeing many movies I have wanted to learn about for a long time I am finding that most of them are not very good.