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Reviews tagged ‘1980’ by rend_it
1980
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This doesn't make my Space Truckin' list because everyone is so damn earnest. Including Hannibal from the A-Team looking poignantly like Bob Pollard now.
What makes this an effective movie, if not necessarily a good one, is that it keeps blasting you with (generally, genuinely) interesting SF concepts and genre tropes such that you don't have time to think critically. I mean, it's a Star Wars rip in that it's more blatantly Seven Samurai in Space than Star Wars, but…
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1980
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I'll spare you the Star Wars knockoff claims or Alien comparisons, the cheap-o 2001 allegations.
This is THX 1138 in space. Only with Amis's anxieties and insecurities instead of Lucas's depression.
Some of the set designs and visual effects are nice. Others look like basic cable in the 90s or vintage Doctor Who. A dubbed-over Keitel mouthing "Blue Dreamers" is ... unsettling.
Amazing how much I'm willing to give this script by shrugging, "Oh, Martin."
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