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 Earth vs The Flying Saucers (DVD)
 Earth vs The Flying Saucers (DVD) ... Marlowe, Joan Taylor ... / DVD released 14 October, 2002 at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Black & White, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / Notable neither for its director nor its stars, Earth vs the Flying Saucers has been given the widescreen DVD treatment rather because of its special-effects man, the legendary Ray Harryhausen. A Twilight Zone styled voiceover introduces Dr Marvin Russell and his wife of two hours as they're buzzed by an overhead flying saucer--the first of many. When a translation device reveals the saucer-occupants' fiendish plan to take over the world, it's time for a good old army-alien punch-up. Cue screenfuls of avuncular patriarchs, loads of techno-flannel space-speak and plenty of gratuitous American-monument destruction. A by-numbers B-movie, this is only really notable for Harryhausen's stop-motion FX work--and though this, his fifth feature, isn't a patch on his later Technicolor masterpieces, his trick of demolishing facsimiles of recognisable landmarks is cited by many premier filmmakers as being hugely influential on their work. This is very much of its time, the saucer-people arousing few of the thrills engendered by his later creations (Sinbad's Cyclops, for example). And with Cold War fears now just a memory, the Ruskies, or rather aliens, can no longer prevail upon a zeitgeist of xenophobic paranoia for their power. On the DVD: Earth vs the Flying Saucers's black-and-white picture is clean and crisp in this anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen transfer and the Dolby digital mono soundtrack is clear enough. The theatrical trailer will please fans of kitsch, as will the featurette "This Is Dynamation" produced at the same time as the first Sinbad movie. The real corker here though is the generously proportioned documentary "The Harryhausen Chronicles": narrated by Leonard Nimoy, it features a stellar cast of devotees (George Lucas among them) waxing lyrical about the influence of Harryhausen's films, and allows the man himself to ramble fascinatingly over clips of his filmic canon. If you're a fan, it's Harryhausen heaven. --Paul EisingerNewest Review: ... they are disappearing. Then the aliens make themselves known and at first seem amiable but then they turn nasty. An all out ... more ... war then begins with some of the worst special effects ever seen. Wobbly space ships and UFOs crashing or being thrown into buildings. You can actually see wires in some on the scenes. The military come in and turn, at first useless, weapons on the invading UFOs.
We invent an antigravity machine and win out over the baddies.
Some dodgy acting at times but the plot actually rolls along at a good pace throughout the entire movie. But it is let down by the script, the special effects and the obviously tiny filming bud...more |
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Earth vs The Flying Saucers (DVD): Earth vs The Flying Saucers. (178 words)
by - written on 11/01/09 (Useful, 2 readings)
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Earth vs The Flying Saucers. ====================== Aliens plan to invade and take over the Earth. A strange thing is happening to all the test rocket sent up into space, they are disappearing. Then the aliens make themselves known and at first seem amiable but then they turn nasty. An all out war then begins with some of the worst special effects ever seen. Wobbly space ships and UFOs crashing or being thrown into buildings. You can actually see wires in some on the scenes. The military come in and turn, at first useless, weapons on the invading UFOs. We invent an antigravity machine and win out over the baddies. Some ... Read the complete review
Invasion of the Wobbly UFO's (317 words)
by - written on 11/10/08 (Very useful, 127 readings)
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Earth vs The Flying Saucers. ====================== ~Introduction~ Aliens plan to take over the Earth. ~Synopsis~ Operation Skyhook, headed by Dr. Russell Marvin, is having problems. It seems all the rockets they send up into space are mysteriously disappearing. Dr Russell gets to meet the Aliens but he is tricked by them and a war between the Earth and the UFOs has begun. Humanities only hope is for our hero to invent an anti-magnetic weapon which will bring the UFOs down to earth with a bump, literally. Not much of a synopsis but to be honest there's really not much more plot than ... Read the complete review
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