Sunday, August 1, 2010

Movies

Prince of Space (1959) Inexpensive, primitive children's SF adventure from Japan. Bad guys from space, model spaceships wobbling on wires, goofy dubbing, silly and fun. 6/10

The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) Apparently they spent 100 million dollars on this Eddie Murphy SF adventure, and 20 million to promote it, and got back 7 million in the theatres and 24 from rentals. If I can still add right that makes an 89 million dollar loss. I wanted to see how that could happen and I did. What happened was it is actually lousy. It's like they pulled a crummy action movie script out of the trash and puked dollars on it. (The good news is it appears to have ended the screenwriter's career.) Bad guy wants to buy good guy's night club, good guy won't sell, bad guy's goons blow up night club and kill good guy's friend, good guy goes after bad guy. ON THE MOON. Those were some really expensive looking sets they were blowing up. See Moon Zero Two or Leonard Part 6 instead. 1/10

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