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Aaron1375 I saw this film as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and though it was featured on the show, I thought it had its moments. In fact, I would say it is a rather fun film featuring a city on the moon and a heist in space. Hammer generally makes an entertaining film, though usually they are known for horror films. Donald Pleasence was in a couple of their films, and I could so see him as the bad guy in this one mainly because the main villain here wears some rather strange outfits and if you have seen Donald in a film, you know if he is a good guy he dresses in a distinguished way, but if he is the bad guy, prepare to seem him in leather and other completely insane outfits. The effects are dated, but look good for the time and my guess is the budget as well. Sure, you see a lot of lines holding the actors and actresses when in space, but you saw those in the Disney film, "The Black Hole" which was made later and featured a bigger budget and they were more obvious in that one as you could see the clothes being pulled by the wires in that one! So, while not a great film or perfect it is a rather fun film to watch.The story has a pilot of a spaceship who salvages things in space like satellites who comes across a woman who has come to the city on the moon in search of her brother. The pilot is also approached by another man who is rather wealthy who has a business proposition for the pilot as he proposes crashing an asteroid onto the moon. Why you ask? It is basically a huge chunk of sapphire. They have all the details worked out and they complete the first portion of the mission fine, but while waiting for the second phase back on the moon the pilot is once again approached by the woman who has not seen her brother. They go to try and find him and find out there is something sinister behind his disappearance.This movie made for a rather good episode of MST3K, but not because they riffed particularly well, but because they didn't. The movie was good enough that I watch this episode mainly to see the film and maybe chuckle here and there at a riff rather than watching it exclusively for the riffing. It is a first season episode which is why the riffing just is not quite up to the later years on the show, so it is nice that the movie itself helps carry the episode. I did like the bump where Joel recreated the anti gravity fight, like I said, they just were not quite as sharp during the first season, but the film itself made this a good one to watch. They also would riff an Oscar winning movie about space, but if I had to watch either this one or that one, give me this film. It is more fun while I found that one had some okay moments, but was a bore in other.This was not a bad film to me. I like a Hammer made film, and this one had some crazy stuff going on. I would actually like to see the film without MST3K as the film had to have at least twenty minutes cut from it and I am curious as to what is missing. They definitely left enough in so that you are not lost. I like the actors for the most part, but I think someone else in the villain role would have been preferred. I do not know, I just like the way the portrayed the city on the moon and the bar in particular, with the really crummy alcoholic beverages. So, sure it is lame and the effects are dated, but the fun still remains.

Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) Interesting effort here by the usually predictable Hammer Studios, best known for all those low budget Dracula movies with Christopher Lee and Frankenstein movies with Peter Cushing. Hammer actually worked in a number of genres during their heyday, with spy films and crime thrillers, wartime potboilers, pirate escapades. They had already crossed their usual horror motifs with a heavy dose of science fiction with their "Quatermass" series, but for whatever reason Hammer never made a traditional looking western, even though some of their principal talent had contributed to a couple. Too bad, I am sure they would have had an intriguing go at it.This was their compromise, a clearly 2001 inspired concoction mixing some of the more obvious elements of a western -- six guns, saloons, claim jumping gunslingers, a fetching damsel in distress, a cynical hero -- with the then familiar trappings of science fiction space epics. Space suits instead of cowboy attire, moon buggies instead of stagecoaches, and a lady moon sheriff who packs twin pistols in holsters attached to her thigh-high Go Go boots. Whatever. The idea was viable enough for Peter Hyams to revisit in a more sober manner with 1981's "Outland", a subtle remake of "High Noon" set at a mining complex on one of Jupiter's moons.The blend of genres will either go over well or create profound disbelief, as is evidenced by the film having been enshrined in Mystery Science Theater 3000's hall of fame of parody screenings with all those annoying, smug comments from the dorks in the front row superimposed on the screen. The film is silly enough in itself without their schtick (I'm not a big MST3K fan, sorry), and just as with Elvira, just because they choose to send up a given movie that doesn't mean it may not have some redeeming parts.This one does, mostly in an endearing willingness to try anything, and for Hammer what was actually a pretty significant budget that let them pull off some ingenious little effects sequences. My favorite touch are the little Moon Fargo buggies, which sure are radio controlled models in the long shots, but by golly they have a sort of charm about them that belies their phoniness. We forgive because in the context of the kind of entertainment we are looking at, namely 1960s European made science fiction, they work just fine.The story isn't much, but then again the whole show is in the production design, which as others point out apes Apollo era technologies as much as it does a 2001 inspired antiseptic, shiny rubberized look. Some may poke fun at the silly hairstyles and clumsy looking costumes, I say they fit in perfectly with the movie's aesthetic. There is even a healthy dose of realistic science thrown in alongside such recurring SF themes as artificial gravity, miniature space colonies, and foxy babes who casually strip down to their space age underwear once the air conditioning gives out.Newly re-released by Warner's on a double movie DVD along with the equally long overdue "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth". Couldn't recommend them more, beats the crap out of anything currently projecting onto screens in empty theaters at the cineplexes in any event, and just stupid enough to warrant repeat casual guilty pleasure viewing.6/10

Woodyanders A gang of nefarious criminals lead by arrogant evil rich jerk J.J. Hubbard (nicely essayed with deliciously wicked relish by Warren Mitchell) plan on hijacking a small asteroid made of valuable sapphire and landing it on the moon. It's up to stalwart space pilot for hire Captain William H. Kemp (a likable performance by James Olson) and plucky Clementine Taplin (the fetching Catherine Schell) to stop them. Competently directed by Roy Ward Baker, with an endearingly cornball script by Michael Carreras, a hilariously dated "groovy" psychedelic rock theme song, sexy go-go dancers at a funky nightclub, a funky-diggin' score by Don Ellis, an astonishingly inept slow motion barroom brawl sans gravity, a nifty animated opening credits sequence, and several clumsily staged action set pieces, this hopelessly ridiculous sci-fi/Western handy dandy combo hybrid makes for a good deal of amusingly campy fun. The cast struggle gamely with their silly roles: Adrienne Corri as fiery sheriff Elixzabeth Murphy, Ori Levy as Kemp's jolly engineer Korminski, Bernard Bresslaw as Hubbard's hulking henchman Harry, Dudley Foster as smarmy brainiac Whitsun, Sam Kydd as the gregarious Len the Barman, and Michael Ripper as a testy card player. Paul Beeson's polished cinematography, the cool special effects, and the bleak lunar landscapes are all surprisingly up to par. A total laugh riot.

verbusen I rate this film a 3 (its average here) but as a 10 as a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode (it was in season 2 I think, the version I just watched), so I'm averaging it around a 6. I noticed a lot of British reviewers here who mostly love this flick. I suppose if I watched this movie in 1969 when I was 6 I would have thought it was cool. Problem is I didn't so it doesn't get any sentimental points from me. This flick is a big rip off of 2001 and UFO, and I suspect they intended to steal from both. It starts off with an extra long cartoon intro with some extra loud jazz bond type intro, it is funny to a point than really irritating, its sooo long. All the reviewers who love this flick seem to think its realistic, ummm I don't think so. I love the realistic part where they find the dead astronaut and its a skeleton, yeah that was soo realistic, did the space fly's get to his dead body? They could have used some sexy green moon women in this trash flick, because if they were trying to be realistic it was a waste of some good camp. The MST3K writers did a fantastic job skewering this flick and it was one of the better episodes I've seen, the time Joel uses the anti gravity to mimic a scene in the movie is dead on hilarious! See it as a MST3K episode and you'll be entertained. You have been warned.