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Sias Odendaal's South African answer to ET, Nukie is being released on DVD in April 2010. I just got the word from the film's rights holders and I'll be writing the liner notes for that DVD. :smile:

Sorry: I meant "quick" not "quck".  :lookingup:

 :buggedout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC8hAWGcF4s

Sadly, still no DVD for either Cellar Dweller or The Boogens...

Or House of The Long Shadows.

make sure you say it's magic!

I know the director so I can't say things like %$#@! and )(*&^% about the film at all.  :wink:

Writing the liner notes for Nukie. I can't decide whether that's really cool or really sad. :question:

Ah, who am I kidding? I'd buy it just to say I know the guy who wrote the liner notes. Is it going to be released in Region 1 right away?

Neat a Liner Note writer....Thats something. 

Some of the descriptions in this Stomp Tokyo Classic review could be helpful:
http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/n/nukie.html

I'll ship a packet of Y-fronts a year for a decade if you can get the phrase:
who looks like a shaven Oscar the Grouch dipped in chocolate

into the DVD notes.
-Ed

And if Ed will ship them up here first, I'll embroider your name on them.

Well, I'm totally buying it!

I really do want to buy this.  Keep us posted when it comes out and if a Region 1 release is going to happen.  Hell, I'd buy it even if I can't play it.  I'd find a way. :wink:

 :teddyr: :teddyr:

Cool when the releasing company uses what I provide: not so cool when they don't.  :bluesad:

All the releases are on the O region so I don't know if they will play in the US and Canada ~ they should, I think.

I've done about fifty liner notes in the last year and more to come: remember, I don't get paid for doing it and I can't be ~ I just do it for the love of it.  :smile:

I think you have a deal there, Ed: I've read that review and it's great.  :teddyr:

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

Just not on the front, please: zey get ieetchy.  :buggedout: :wink:

All the current releases are on Region O and the DVD should be available from www.kalahari.net (http://www.kalahari.net) by April.

That's so awesome!!! :hot:
Thanks for letting me and the world know!

I'm glad that it's not going to die VHS graveyard!
I'm totally buying a copy!
There is a god!

You've gotta write about the snot!

Region-free. Good to know. It wouldn't be a big deal to play a Region 2 disc here, but this is much better.

I used to see the box for this movie at the local video store for years, and never had the nerve to rent it. Too much of an obvious subpar ET knockoff. I think a friend and I might have snickered at it once or twice and moved on. But after seeing just how hilariously bizarre it is, I can't wait for this DVD.

I'll buy That for a dollar!  :teddyr:

The great Apostic on BNotes really laid a smackdown on the film especially where he said that co-director Sias Odendaal hadn't done another film and "may be this is a good thing".  :bouncegiggle:

What if the co-director see this thread?

No problem with that at all ~ he'll probably be pleased that his film has an audience. Don't forget, I know the producer, director and cinematographer of Space Mutiny too.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

Ooo, Space Mutiny. Starring Slab Bulkhead! Dirk Hardcheese! Fridge Largemeat!....

That's awesome! I think it could be as big as Troll 2 if the rights-holders get it released in the USA. But they can't expect that much of a return initially. Most people wouldn't pay $20.00 for it here in USA-- I would, but I'm not most people. I think people would be willing to buy it for $5 at Wal-Mart, that's not a bad thing though, that's how most people bought the Troll 2 dvd. Plus there's also Redbox, I've seen that Brazilian Pixar knock-offs have been able to rent through that source.

Did you write the linear notes for the release of Space Mutiny too?

No I didn't, actually: While I know the people that made it, I've never seen that film in its' entirety, except parts on Youtube.

I know it's a bit soon but I'm dying to know what the new cover will look like!

It will probably look something like this ~ there is a generic cover for all the MNet / NuMetro releases:

(http://5g8.net/uploader/12657831273401_6003805100368.jpg)

Just by the way ~ the film above is a film that Dr Trevor prescribes to people who are in need of a very good cry.

Awww man  it say's it Region 2!
on the plus side with out S&H it's about $8.00
http://www.kalahari.net/dvd/Nukie/2/36257829.aspx (ftp://http://www.kalahari.net/dvd/Nukie/2/36257829.aspx)

Strange - all the releases I've worked on in the last six months have been region free. As soon as I get the DVD sleeve, I shall confirm.  :smile:

Also, when you get the DVD sleeve is there a way you could post a picture of the cover?  I'm really curious to see what it looks like.

Will do ~ the picture of the sleeve of Katrina posted down below will give you some idea of what it looks like as there is a generic cover for each DVD in the MNet series.

My notes for the Nukie DVD ~ not approved yet.

Along with the David Winters / Neal Sundstrom directed Space Mutiny, Nukie is a famous South African film of the 1980’s. Famous, yes but for all the wrong reasons unfortunately. Both the former and the latter productions were made ~ in the horrible terminology of the South African 1980’s ~ for ‘the international market’ and failed, both here and overseas. Nukie ~ an obvious take-off of the Steven Spielberg film ET The Extraterrestrial ~ deals with two aliens, Nukie and Miko who are at first visible as two stars that crash-land to earth and later, in a physical form described by one critic as “looking like a shaved Oscar The Grouch dipped in chocolate” and another as “the only baboon ugly enough to frighten his own kind” which pushes their resemblance to ET a lot closer.

Ostensibly a children’s film ~ indeed, it was praised at a children’s film festival in the late 1980s ~ Nukie is the story of two lost alien brothers whose spaceships crash land on different continents (one in America and the other in Africa) and their search to find each other all the while communicating through their minds. Nukie befriends ~ or tries to befriend ~ various animals en route to locating his brother and, while dodging the attentions of a drunken White Hunter, makes a connection with two young African boys who attempt to help Nukie in getting home.

The first summary's hilarious!
The second is funny too, I like the subtly of "the attentions of a drunk white hunter". Which children's festival was it praised at?

Thanks, N2. There was a children's film festival in Italy where kids were the judges and they expressed their liking or otherwise of a film by the length of time they let the film run. According to the report, Nukie stayed the course and they ran it several times.  :buggedout:

That boggles my mind! I've heard about this movie sharing the crap out of little kids!
Wow, I hope their parents were nice people. Yeesh!

Say, does Sias Odendall happen to have any of these lying around...
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/Fernee914/Nukie%20promotionals%20and%20media/bestnukiemovieposter.jpg)
I wonder If could get it autographed!

So, everybody is chasing him in the same Rover? Including the two boys, an elephant and a giraffe?

It's confusing isn't it!
I like how they have Nukie covering up his face, like they were unsure what he was going to look like.
Also note the hunter aiming his gun at Nukie, how wholesome, right?

One thought: how do the lil' Nukesters reproduce? He has no pee pee on the poster...  :question:

They are beings of pure energy... I dunno probably like those flat worms.
Cut them in half and you get two.

When I watched the VHS we have of that film for the first time the other day, I wished I could have hired an editor to cut the negative in half.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

"Hired" did you work on this movie?

No, I was still in college here www.tut.ac.za (http://www.tut.ac.za) when it was made. I have worked on a lot of doccies, though.  :smile:

Howdy, Trevor, you're certain its zone "0" right? Even though it says "2" on Kalahari?
I think my player can do zone 2, but I'd have to mess with it.

I should know for sure by the middle of this month what region it is in and will let you know as soon as I do.  :smile:

Nukie2 alerted me to the fact that the DVD was now available for purchase ~ thanks for that ~ but the releasing company chose not to use any of my information on the sleeves. Not fair and not nice.  :hatred: :hatred:

That said, Nukie is available and is playable on all players bearing the mark Zone Sh*t.   :hatred:

Sorry about that Trevor, what total douches! I wonder how many other people have been strung along by submitting sleeve notes and info to them?

I'm the only people who has done that ~ I supply all info for their local releases ~ and this isn't the first time that they've turned info down. If it wasn't for Nukie2 sending me a PM about the Nukie DVD release, I wouldn't have known.  :bluesad:

What b@stards! I'm sorry man!

It appears they may have cut some stuff out as this release is 84 min, when the VHS and laserdisk are at 99 min. So they're probably taking it seriously, as they say on the cover its a "golden oldie", a "golden oldie" with 15 min cut out of it, from 1988. They're not going to do well in sales saying it's a classic in the conventional sense.

They should have went with your idea-- the unintentional comedy.

(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/Fernee914/Nukie%20promotionals%20and%20media/take2nukie.jpg?t=1272895364)

Thanks for the heads-up anyway ~ I would never have known if you didn't send that PM to me. They certainly didn't want to let me know ~ I even supplied them with bios for Sias Odendaal and Michael Pakleppa.

Yeah, the heartwarming cover photo is a pretty good indication of where they want to go with it. That in itself is pretty funny, since it's a heartwarming picture of two cute kids, a kindly nun (so far so good) and a hydrocephalic Ross Perot with leprosy. These people really don't have a clue, do they? And labelling it a "South African golden oldie" just makes the whole country look bad. :teddyr:

(Is that Nukie's skin, or is it his undergarments?)   :teddyr:

That picture is hilarious!  :teddyr:

And what's with Nukie's posture? Looks like he's saying "Word." he just needs a sideways trucker hat and some gold chains.

It's like Seth Brundle got in his telepod with a jacket potato!  :bouncegiggle:

I'm curious: did they pay you for the extra work you did, or did they just mooch off your services as a film archivist?

Put it this way, Rev: my middle name is no longer Thomas, it's Mooch.  :buggedout:

BTW: I wish the people that ignored my information could see some of the replies like AndyC's ~ they would pull the sleeve quickly.  :bouncegiggle: :teddyr:

Then they'd probably use this one!
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/Fernee914/Nukie%20promotionals%20and%20media/nukieETmiko2.jpg?t=127290619)6

I can't say anything to that except  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


True words, brother.  :bouncegiggle:

My submitted info is on page 3 of this thread and I stole several pictures from www.stomptokyo.com (http://www.stomptokyo.com)'s review of the film. All that effort.....wasted.  :bluesad:

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

No, it's his advert for the AbRoller.  :wink:

So as I was typing Sias Odendal into the google search bar, and a "Sias Odendaal" came up instead,
it wouldn't surprise me if he added one more "a" to his name to distance himself from the movie for 20 years until now.
But I found a facebook account and a photo:
(http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php?oid=AAAAAwAgACAAAAAP1wF_-3FeNPZpXo32xM2mPMEoWm5FHSJfWUG3SMLzdi8qvjkdQZ4deVvMKRrYgrp07QFJJwGYBKAp-16eV_efMFjjFropLEG5eMmdvS2i4mhafQSAraFJnyShXxQtN0_D&size=normal)
is this the face of the man who wrote and directed Nukie?

That is most likely him: 'Odendaal' is a very common South African name and I think they removed an a from his name to make it more international. Remember that South Africa was the outhouse of the world back then.

I spoke to Sias once, way back but I have never met the man. I have a pic of him from 1970, a tall skinny bugger sitting in a car's boot / trunk holding a camera.

That certainly explains Nukie's appearance. :teddyr:

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

I had the Nukie DVD in my hands yesterday afternoon and while I am still very p****d at the company for not using my information, they did in fact use the cast and credit info that I supplied.

Oh yes ~ the sleeve says ALL ZONE.

Sweet! How many minuets, and do you know how good the transfer quality is?

I only had it in my hands in the shop ~ I will check again soon.

I got bored:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/Fernee914/spacefoundation2.jpg?t=1274300052

(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/Fernee914/spacefoundation2.jpg?t=1274300052)

I only just heard that Sias Odendaal passed away last year. Just thought I'd let you know.