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« on: February 26, 2005, 11:21:09 PM »

This week's Scifi original  was a not too terrible way to spend a couple of hours.

The beginning shows the arrival of Kulku, a humanoid alien race that looks exactly like us except  for the creepy white eyebrows (talk about a cheap makeup effect). Anyway someone who I guess is the president is shown  intermingled with flashes of news  scenes explains that the Kulku need 8 million humans in order to save their race and since they can wipe us from existence  we should volunteer them.  The US quota is 850,000, which are being selected by lottery..

Brad Johnson is a scientist  who was working on some alien material from a  UFO crash in 1947 (the Roswell incident sure get misused a lot)  whose daughter  has just been selected  to be turned ofver to the Kulku.  Of course mayhem insues when he agrees to help the resistance if they will get his daughter back . Seems the alien material that he thought inert  'activated' when the aliens arrived  and they now have a powerful weapon  to use against the Kulku.

I don't know how much they paid Carl Weathers for this , but I hope he made his house payment.  He plays the general in charge of rounding up the lottery winners.
Of course he ends up on the other side when the Kulku start harvesting instead of waiting for the quotas to be filled.

The effects were really pretty good for a UFO picture.  The ships and the ray guns all looked pretty impressive.  All the gruesome gunshots to the head looked okay too.


Next week Skeleton Man which looks like another creature feature.  Here's the scoop from IMDB

A co-ed group of Special Forces agents search the wilderness for a predator type creature that has been on a killing spree.

Trivia;  Originally titled  Cotton Mouth  Joe

This one features Casper Van  Diem .

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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2005, 12:06:55 AM »

Kind of an interesting movie.  Some of the characters were noticeably above average (the scientist and especially his daughter, she's quite a good actress).  some were not (the leader of the resistance, and Carl Weathers).  Some of the special effects like the spaceships were really nice, other stuff like blowing up the car - and the neon light gun they used to do it - were really cheap looking.  At times it was a very good B movie, at others it was plain funny, like when the scientist is holding a guy at gunpoint and forcing him to lead him to his daughter, then turns his back on the guy when he finds her.  And when they originally rescued his daughter - what was the plan there?  Just sort of, we're out in the woods, don't know quite what the heck is going on?  Sort of reminded me of Earth:  Final Conflict.  

Small problem:  if they had a weapon that could destroy the aliens (as is revealed at the end of the movie), why didn't they just use it in the first place?

Oh well.  I was kind of surprised at how good it was.  And certainly amused at the uneven quality of it.  It would go from a good movie to a laughable B movie and back again.

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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2005, 12:07:20 PM »

Of course he ends up on the other side when the Kulku start harvesting instead of waiting for the quotas to be filled.

I watched "Species" last week and in an early scene were the young Sil escapes I kept wondering to myself "I wonder how we would react if the tables were turned and it was a human being kept captive by aliens unti lthey decided to kill it for security reasons, and the human escaped.

I wonder that sometimes in terms of Alien movies and  how we react to tthe way we treat them and how we treat other life forms on this planet.  The low-budget  sc-fi film Endangered Species did have some interesting lines along this thought (The bad guy alien is hunting humans simply because he is a poacher and human skin clothers are fashionable.  The good guy alien doesn't really want the human cops help because he views humans as not quite intellligent enough to be useful; they're just animals)

I suppose I should go see "The Colony"

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