Quick heads-up for Nukie2

Trevor · March 23, 2010, 04:01:53 AM

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.

Nukie 2 · March 24, 2010, 09:53:52 AM

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?

Trevor · March 26, 2010, 12:35:08 AM

Quote from: Nukie 2 on March 24, 2010, 09:53:52 AM
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.

Nukie 2 · March 26, 2010, 11:23:24 AM

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...

I wonder If could get it autographed!

AndyC · March 27, 2010, 06:12:14 AM

Quote from: Nukie 2 on March 26, 2010, 11:23:24 AM
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...

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?

Nukie 2 · March 28, 2010, 01:02:15 PM

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?

Psycho Circus · March 28, 2010, 01:11:29 PM

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

Nukie 2 · March 28, 2010, 02:06:29 PM

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

Trevor · March 29, 2010, 01:04:08 AM

Quote from: Nukie 2 on March 28, 2010, 02:06:29 PM
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.

Nukie 2 · March 29, 2010, 10:05:00 AM

"Hired" did you work on this movie?

Trevor · March 29, 2010, 10:09:33 AM

Quote from: Nukie 2 on March 29, 2010, 10:05:00 AM
"Hired" did you work on this movie?

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

Nukie 2 · April 07, 2010, 10:17:56 AM

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.

Trevor · April 08, 2010, 01:24:20 AM

Quote from: Nukie 2 on April 07, 2010, 10:17:56 AM
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.

Trevor · May 03, 2010, 02:52:55 AM

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.

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

Psycho Circus · May 03, 2010, 06:15:39 AM

Quote from: Trevor on May 03, 2010, 02:52:55 AM
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.

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

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?