Daily BirthdaysCosmos: War of the Planets (1977)
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| Directed by | Alfonso Brescia |
| Cast | West Buchanan, Katia Christine, Anthony Eisley, Pamela Mason, Yanti Somer, Mamie Van Doren and John Richardson |
| Theatrical Release | November 30, 1976 |
| DVD Release | July 31, 2007 |
| Running Time | 89 minutes |
| MPAA Rating | NR (Not Rated) |
| UPC Code | 018619178447 |
| Buy this item | $9.95 at Amazon.com As of Aug 29 15:53 EDT (details) 1 DVD, MUSIC VIDEO DIST, Usually ships in 24 hours, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Languages: English (Original Language) Or 7 new from $5.67, 2 used from $6.66 |
About Cosmos: War of the Planets
A team of astronauts led by Mike Hamilton (John Richardson) is sent to investigate an unstable planet which turns out to be inhabited by a race of green people under the control of an evil computer. The astronauts pledge to help the inhabitants of the planet escape their enslavement and succeed in destroying the computer. Unfortunately the ensuing explosion takes out the planet as well. The spaceship crew and one surviving alien set off for Earth only to face further difficulties when a member of the crew is possessed by the computer and goes on a killing spree. System Requirements:Running Time: 89 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 018619178447 Manufacturer No: 17844DVD Product Description
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This is either 1/5 if you are looking for a quality rating, or 4/5 if you flip it upside down and watch this b-movie that way too.
Truly awful in a really wonderful way. When they finished filming, the director said, "post-production? Whassat?"
The thing is a patchwork quilt of completely unrelated scenes and plot lines. Switch from computer expert analyzing a strange audio signal, to two crew members passing each other in the hall and, "smootchie, smootchie... lets have totall non-commital, non physical, mental sex." Cut somewhere else where something "evil" is happening, then back to the "smootchie, smootchie." In fact, a common theme through the entire movie is "bad guys, space walk, evil robot... meanwhile back at Spaceship A'moure"... we-ve GOT to find that red button... YAY!"
Gads.
One thing I'll give it is that in just two places, they have a great "special effect" that is really kinda mesmerizing: it's nothing more than a highly solarized "alien planet panorama" where the huge "sister planet" looms up over the mountain ridge and they pan across the plain. The "solarization" effect (don;'t know what you really call it - it's just a highly color distorted/heavy static view) is really kinda solemn and captivating.
This movie stinks like a rose. Whaddaya expect when you buy it on a DVD of four complete sci-fi movies for a dollar at Walmart? This movie isn't even worth fixing my typos in this review.
Next up: "Assignment Outer Space." I'll let you know.
December 6, 2007
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