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He's back! Starman, "the creature made of the strongest steel," fights monsters, chases flying saucers, and defeats evil-minded aliens in two deliriously surreal mixes of science fiction, surprisingly moody photography, and wild superhero action! Wanting the Earth for themselves, scaly-skinned Salamander Men from the planet Koolamon begin eviction proceedings by assaulting humans with their radioactive breath, a space virus, high-decibel sound waves, a salamander nurse with a penchant for scaring kids, and most fiendish of all, a diabolical dance company! Thankfully the Emerald Planet sends Starman, their cosmic crusader in bulging tights, to stop the amphibious Invaders from Space. As expected, Mr. Starman turns from peace-loving-alien-and-friend-of-children-everywhere into a frenzied karate machine out to kick reptile butt! Then Starman worries that nuclear radiation may "poison outer space" and tries to stop the country of Magolia from becoming the Atomic Rulers of the world. But, uh oh, after wiping out a nest of Magolian agents (who all dress like film noir gangsters), Starman is rudely arrested for murder! Worse, a Magolian nuclear weapon is stolen--by a bunch of little boys! Double wow.
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SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT !.......2003-01-21
Anyone craving outstanding late-night entertainment has got to check this dvd out! 2 incredible nearly forgotten 60's sci-fi / superhero / kung-fu action / thrillers with zero budget special effects. If you're a fan of grade Z sci-fi (think FROM HELL IT CAME or THE BRAINIAC) this is a must for you. As usual, SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO does a nice job by including lots of fun extras. But it's the feature films that are just unbelievable! I can't express how much i enjoyed INVADERS FROM SPACE! Part kiddie show, part action adventure, part sci-fi nightmare. Truly truly the stuff of bad dreams. Grab a 6-pack, turn off the lights, and get ready for a strange strange trip.
Strange "Invaders" gives Starman Vol. 2 edge over Vol. 1.......2003-01-03
For an overview of Starman movies and both Something Weird discs overall, see review under Starman Volume 1.
Unimaginatively titled, Invaders from Space is actually the most campy fun of the four Starman features. Starman is sent by the ruling council of the Emerald Planet to stop seriously ugly Salamander-like aliens, from the planet Koolamon in the Marpet galaxy, who are spreading a plague-like disease on Earth and who can adopt semihuman form. At the Yamano theater, an "unusual dance troupe gives a weird performance." (I couldn't have said it better myself!) Seems the Koolamonians, who have established a spherical undersea Earth base, are also operating undercover out of the theater as an avant garde dance ensemble! Starman gives a "signal ball" to a group of little kids (whose scientist dad has been kidnapped by the aliens) with which they can contact each other; dozens of fire-twirling Salamander men attack the kids near a weird castle in the woods; and they're also menaced by a way-creepy nurse in a surgical mask who then metamorphosizes into an even uglier witch in a long cape with glitter in her hair (the kids vaporize her into a puddle of goo). The Koolamonians then start messing with our gravity, stopping baseballs in mid-flight, and making everything run backwards! Starman battles the Salamander men in midair, underwater, and inside their flying saucers, while the alien leader slowly croaks, "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha." Finally, the professor invents a special gun that kills the Koolamonians and Starman floats off into space as the children wildly wave goodbye. Print quality of Invaders is quite watchable overall, with tonal values, brightness, and detail/sharpness ranging from very good to excellent, although it suffers the most of the four films from moderate speckling/blemishing throughout and occasional light lining. Still probably as good as it has ever looked.
Atomic Rulers is, for my money, the least entertaining of the four Starman features. The plot involves evil agents from the country of Magolia who are carrying nuclear devices around in suitcases in some sort of plot to take over the Earth. Of course the little kids get ahold of one of the suitcases, so Starman, "friend of all children," battles the Magolian gangsters, saves a plane in flight, and eventually tracks the bad guys to their Bondian lair inside a mountain (that jittery helicopter and Magolian base miniature make Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's Supermarionation look like Industrial Light and Magic). Unfortunately, the bad guys just look like gangsters (there are no wild aliens, space stations, etc.) and Starman is in his suit-and-tie mode a lot. There's lots of running around, but only a modicum of crazy gymnastic fight scenes. Print quality on Atomic Rulers is, ironically, as good or better than the other three movies, with perhaps a bit less overall speckling and blemishing than Invaders or Evil Brain.
Volume 2 extras include another 25-minute B&W Prince Planet manga cartoon, circa 1965; dreadful 12-minute color Super 8mm amateur short (Mercury Amazing vs. Vampyrum), most charitably described as extremely crude; mildly campy 1960 16-minute color educational short, Exploring the Moon, wherein Dr. C. H. Clemenshaw, director of the Griffith Observatory, and annoying buddy Art take a simulated trip to the moon to study its topographical features; and my personal favorite, a 1960 Bell System-produced 10-minute color short, Talking of Tomorrow, a highly amusing, Jetsonian look at the "city of the future" where helicycle travel and outer space construction projects are assisted by such as-yet-unnamed but surprisingly accurately described telecommunications technologies as call waiting, teleconferencing, fax, picturephones, satellite TV, desktop computers, e-commerce, wristwatch radios, etc. (No hack job, it was designed by Tom Yakutis and Corny Cole [Inspector/Pink Panther], and animated by Disney/MGM/Hanna-Barbera artists Ed Love and Don Towsley, with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas [1940s/50s Warner Bros./Pink Panther]). Volume 2 also includes the highly detailed and interesting essay on the Starman/Super Giant phenomenon. Extras on both discs still have the crummy logos in the corner. Bottom line: the greater preponderance of action sequences and outlandish mutants, not to mention those avant garde dance numbers, give Invaders from Space a clear edge over the other three movies. For this reason, plus the superior Talking of Tomorrow short, those new to the Starman series or Starman fans with limited funds would be well-advised to make Volume 2 their first buy.
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-George Vs. Space Invaders
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ASIN: B000AE8KYO
Release Date: 2005-05-05 |
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This is a very bad bootleg........2006-05-15
Avoid this one. It is panned and scanned and converted from an old VHS tape and has the credits changed and is missing bits and pieces. Track down the Substance version - day and night comparison.
Female Space Invaders.......2006-03-02
If you are looking for better picture quality than VHS, well,
keep looking. This appears to be a disc copy of a tape. The picture is not bad. If you simply want the Movie on DVD then
this is a good buy. Can't beat the price!
This is Starcrash, a lost classic for sf buffs.......2005-11-07
Where did this odd title come from? This is the classic Starcrash, often written off as a rider on the tails of Star Wars, but actually an intelligent spoof of lots of SF films. See how many SF films you can identify watching this...
Obviously not to be taken seriously and not a comedy, it is nevertheless a warm hearted sf film, and you get to see Caroline Munro as Stella Star, not wearing much too. My videotape copy is pre-1984 so this is one DVD for my collection.
This is Starcrash! with Caroline Munro, Marjoe Gortner, Christopher Plummer, David Hasslehof. Director was Lewis Coates (aka Luigi Cozzi) with a breakneck direction producing a lively style in the manner of the old SF film serials such as Flash Gordon. The movie version ran for 91 minutes.
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George Shrinks (8 pack)
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1. George Shrinks - Down the Drain 2. George Shrinks - Speed Shrinks 3. George Shrinks - Coach Shrinks4. George Shrinks - Toy George5.Zoopercar Caper (Vol. 1) 6.Sunken Treasures (Vol. 2) 7.George vs. Space Invaders (Vol. 3) 8. Snowman's Land (Vol. 4)
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- Fun if you don't really expect an update...
- Pure retro gaming fun!
- If you loved the original Space Invaders you will love this
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Space Invaders XL
Starring:
Tommy Walsh
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Release Date: 2001-06-12 |
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Fun if you don't really expect an update..........2002-12-01
Overview: Retro-gaming, arcade classics, Atari, Space Invaders. These are terms that instantly take you back to the Golden Age of gaming, the days when Pac-Man & Donkey Kong ruled the arcades, and Atari was THE game in town. Enter 2001, and all this has changed. Retro-gaming is a buzzword, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong are past their prime and some company called Microsoft is the new game in town, but there is a constant, Space Invaders. Appearing in its original arcade forms for NUON-enabled DVD players, some things can be left unchanged, and remain a potent mix of reflexes, simple gameplay and the desire for the now fabled 'High Score.'
Graphics: 2.5 To be honest, Space Invaders XL (Special Edition) is a real disappointment in the graphics department, not so much because we didn't know what was coming, but because of what it is in consideration to what the NUON technology is. What we have here is a port of a classic title being passed off as a Special Edition, an XL if you will, on a 128-Bit technology that remains to be fully utilized. Taken to that necessary step, the visual state of SIXL is a shame, from the title screen on. As for what it is, it's a faithful port of the original Taito coin-op (right down to the flashing 'Insert Coin'), with a couple of extra gameplay modes tacked on for good measure. Of these, the Versus Battle Mode is only a very slight grahical upgrade, with Time Attack on par with a PC Engine title. On a platform such as NUON, especially on the heels of true Space Invaders updates on the Playstaton and N64, there is no excuse.
Sound: 8.0 Sound is an area in which SIXL was given the proper treatment. While the original sounds like the original, right down to the 'blips' & 'bleeps,' the other modes have been given the gift of music. With 15 different tracks, there is variety, and it's notably well done. Including remixed versions of tracks from several Taito games (such as Darius) the music is very cool in an old-school, PCM, Mega Man sort of way, a way sure to appeal to a more, shall I say, aged game-player, such as myself. While the effects in all the modes are unchanged from the original, this is not a bad thing, as it seem to be attracted more to one's sense of nostalgia more than the archaic graphics.
Gameplay: 6.0 Space Invaders is Space Invaders is Space Invaders. No matter how I try to imagine it, I really can't think of a single, good way to advance the gameplay in any way that would still hold to the basic gameplay, aside from new weapons (moving aliens would turn SIXL into Galaga ;) It holdsup fairly well, and is still a blast to play, but the motivation of 'HIGH SCORE' isn't quite what it used to be. The other modes are competent, particularly the versus mode which adds several elements of modern puzzler to the mix (wipe out a row of invaders on your side, and their deposited at the top of the enemy), but all in all, there still isn't much to it. Then again, it is an arcade game after all, and that is al it ever tried to be.
Theme: 7.0 As with all games of its era, Space Invaders carries with it the memories of many of us, so with that comes a sense of nostalgia that lets us relive those moments whenever we play that special game (see the Seinfeld Frogger episode for reference ;) Space Invaders was the first video game I ever owned, a game I received Christmas of '87 with my NEW Atari 2600 Jr. While this kind of intangible seems a bit ridiculous to factor into a video game review, without that 2600, without that Space Invaders cart, I would probably never been into games like I am now, and hence not into NUON. I would not have bought Space Invaders XL. Sure, the game hearkens back to the 'Good Ol' Days' of videogaming, the gameplay is tried and true, the control is spot-on, and it's a whole lot of fun, but for many, just to be able to relive a moment of our youth on that expensive, new DVD player will be well worth the cost of admission.
Overall: 6.5 A great classic could have made a great update, but unfortunately, that's not really what Space Invaders XL was intended to be. Sure, they could have added a museum mode, added an additional version to the mix (I hear the PC Engine, Amiga and Saturn updates were all nice), or simply add an obscure Taito original or two from the same era, but when all is said and done, this is the classic, in all its original glory, rereleased for a new generation, not to mention some of the older, who are still young at heart. In an industry overrun by 3D fighting games, first person shooters and cinematic RPG's, Space Invaders XL exhibits what gaming was, and in a way, how it was better. It could very well be overlooked by many for faster, better-looking and more advanced fare, but for those who would rather stop and smell the roses, SIXL is a fresh blast from the past.
Pure retro gaming fun!.......2001-08-29
You either love Space Invaders or you hate it. Anybody who frequents the Nuon message boards will see that this game gets poor reviews on a regular basis, usually regarding the fact that the game lacks any updates or improvements. Believe it or not, SIXL offers quite a lot of bang for the buck. Yes, it may look dated and tired. However, once you look past the graphics and get a few games in, you'll be hooked! Despite what you may hear, there ARE enhancements to SIXL. You get the battle mode which is immensely enjoyable, as well as various two player modes. If nothing else, the multiplayer modes are worth the price of the title alone! Plus, you get 100% perfect conversions/emulations of the original Space Invaders games. You can pick from Black and white, color, overlay and reflection background modes. To add some variety, you can opt for moving shields and different movement patterns for the aliens! If you're looking for a game with pretty eye candy and no substance (ie: any game out on the PS2, Xbox and GameCube), SIXL is not the right title for you. However, if you want something that actually requires some skill to play, buy this game right away!
If you loved the original Space Invaders you will love this.......2001-07-11
... cause it IS the original Space Invaders! Well, it's really hard to decide - I would have loved an advanced version, maybe something like Tempest 3000. OTOH they did nothing wrong with that one - meaning they didn't mess it up. The gameplay stays true, there are some nice options. Battle Mode and Time Attack is really fun and is at least somehow enhanced compared to the original versions on that DVD.
I decided to give it 5 stars cause the game is fun and the price is low (compared to other systems). Sure, you could get a ROM for an emulator, but that isn't really legal, is it? And playing on the big screen is also more fun.
But if you like frenzy graphics rather than gameplay ... stay away from this one!
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Sci-Fi Movie Marathon Volume 5: 8 Movie Pack
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- BONUS: Each movie comes with a portable-media friendly version that can be downloaded to your Apple iPod!
- Eight feature films on four DVDs
- The Giant Gilla Monste,Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet,The Lost Jungle,Phantom From Space,The Galaxy Invader,Prehistoric Women,Destroy All Planets,Tales of Frankenstein
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The legends of Science Fiction are gathered here for you in this definitive DVD collection of some of the greatest Sci-Fi classics to ever come out of Hollywood. This 8 DVD collection is sure to provide you with countless hours of entertainment. Volume 5 includes: The Giant Gilla Monste directed by Ray Kellogg and starring Don Sullivan; Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Basil Rathbone; The Lost Jungle directed by David Howard and starring Clyde Beatty; Phantom From Space directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring Ted Cooper; The Galaxy Invader directed by Don Dohler and starring Richard Dyszel; Prehistoric Women directed by Gregg Tallas and starring Laurette Luez; Destroy All Planets directed by Noriaki Yuasa and starring Carl Craig; Tales of Frankenstein directed by Curt Siodmak and starring Richard Bull
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George Vs. Space Invaders: Vol 3
Starring:
Various
Manufacturer: Jwl Sales
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Release Date: 2006-05-09 |
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-Zoopercar Caper (Vol. 1)
-Sunken Treasures (Vol. 2)
-George vs. Space Invaders (Vol. 3)
-Snowman's Land (Vol. 4)
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