DVD Day: April 29th, 2008
Posted at 12:10 PM Apr 29, 2008
• The Golden Compass
The movie no one saw of the book many people read. How often does that happen?
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Volume Three
I totally forgot Anne Heche was in this. That really freaks me out.
• All Monsters Attack
This 2001 Godzilla movie, and I quote from Amazon here, "re-imagines the beast as a mythical creature harboring the souls of the Japanese victims of World War II." That is beyond fucked up. Regardless, this is one of those really nice Godzilla DVDs, as is, Terror of Mechagodzilla, which is also out today.
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch: The Animated Series
100% Melissa Joan Hart free.
• Death Note Volume 4
I tell you, Death Note is good shit, and the best newanime I've seen in a long, long time. I wanted to tell you in case you're one of the five anime fans who didn't download it three years ago.
• Lone Wolf & Cub TV Volume 1
A '70s show from Japan about a samurai and his baby working as assassins? Yes, please!
• The Beast in Space
So I was actually sent a copy of The Beast in Space last week, so I wanted to let you guys know if you're looking for a beyond low-budget Italian sci-fi film full of full frontal nudity, insanity and '80s soft-core Italian sex, you're probably looking for The Beast in Space. There's a hero with a pencil thin mustache, a possibly gay Han Solo, several women in states of undress, a planet that makes people have sex, virtually no continuity, a crowd of gay male robots in blond Prince Valiant wigs, terrible special effects (they don't even try with the lasers; people just fall down), stock footage of horses having sex, and a woman having with both the titular beast and a robot. It was wonderful. My favorite is when the crew lands on the sex planet to be immediately menaced by a robot, run back into the spaceship, then exit again about 30 seconds later and the robot's gone and not even mentioned. Incidentally, despite the cover, there is no centaur, but the naked lady is pretty accurate.
Comments
So, does Frank Frazetta's estate get any money for the cover of this turd, or did the production company get around that by saying it's a shitty copy of a Frazetta painting? Which, by the way, it most definitely is.
Posted 04/29/2008 at 10:49:33 AMWow. I'm not surprised that that Beast in Space movie doesn't have a centaur in it. That DVD box art is an old painting by Frank Frazetta, possibly titled "The Moon Maid." Tim Bruckner sculpted a statue of it for Dark horse.
http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=15-092
It makes me wonder if that DVD is even using it legally.
- Z
Posted 04/29/2008 at 11:02:06 AMBy the way, the description for All Monsters Attack is incorrect (Amazon's mistake, not yours). That's the description for Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack, which is a pretty decent flick. All Monsters Attack is a 1969 film that was released in the U.S. as Godzilla's Revenge.
Posted 04/29/2008 at 11:24:00 AM