DVD : First Spaceship on Venus
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381870923
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Crown International Pictures
Manufacturer: Crown International Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Crown International Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 79 minutes
Sales Rank: 55118
Studio: Crown International Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1962
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In a utopian future of universal peace and brotherhood--1985 to be specific--a mysterious artifact found in Siberia is discovered to be a message from Venus. While the recording is studied, an international team of scientists is rocketed off to make contact with the mysterious planet. It takes the film some time to get going (worldwide harmony makes for a beautiful future but pallid drama when everyone gets along so nicely), but things begin to cook once they land on the misty wasteland of Venus. Swarms of metal bugs hop from glassy mutant trees and bubbling black mud oozes after our astronaut heroes, but no Venusians can be found amidst the geodesic architecture and buzzing power plants. What they discover instead is a terrifying conspiracy wrapped in an anti-war parable. Based on a novel by Polish science fiction legend Stanislaw Lem (whose work also inspired Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris), this German science fiction adventure is a visual treat, from the sleek, grand, silver spaceship and a funky purple Venus landscape of alien ruins and crystalline bubbles. Decently (if prosaically) dubbed and trimmed down to a brisk 78 minutes, it's an entertaining triumph of psychedelic art direction and desolate alien weirdness presented in all its brightly colored, widescreen glory. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  -
Yeah, that should be the real title of this turkey -- I've read where this is a German/Polish foreign film, 1959. The story happens in the 1980s where we have a space station on the moon and we all live in peaceful harmony, which makes for a boring passage on board this ship. No one is a real hero, and although there are hints of a love triangle, nothing materializes there either.
I did like the take on the Venusians -- a civilization that was on the brink of atomizing the Earth, but something went wrong and they blew themselves up instead. Whew!
Cute little "R2D2" type robot that plays chess but has no heart. He even warns of danger, danger (no Will Robinson here, however).
An international multi-racial team, quite unusual in that time period. At the end, their ship is being subjected to extreme gravity since they accidentally turned back on the atomic whachamacallit (OOPS) -- two guys go back to turn it off and a third comes to rescue them, but then something else goes horribly wrong -- you get the idea.
Special effects are pretty good -- straight-flying rocket, meteor storm (why is there always a meteor storm and a spacewalk in all these??) and so on. Eerie clouds and storms on the formaldehyde surface of Venus...OOOOH>>>
The dubbing was passable and the story plodding along. Rocketship XM was made at about the same time and is the superior scifi. The story is based on the writings of Stanislaus Lem, ... Read More
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Unfortunately, even though First Spaceship on Venus was filmed in 2.35:1, the film is presented here in 1.33:1... might be less!!!!
I can't even begin to speak about the second film.
The case reads Fully Restored...hhhmmm.... do they mean they took it out of the garbage can and ran in through a projector onto a wall, then filmed it with a digital camera!?!.... Yep, thats not an overstatement... its that bad.
Beside the horrendous quality of the presentation, both films are highly enjoyable !!! Really!
So, if you can get this double set for $1 or 2, then go for it. If you want to see it in a quality presentation, go for another, seperate edition.
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First Spaceship on Venus There's something enjoyably unique about Japanese Sci Fi that's hard to identify. It shows in the early Godzilla and Mothra films, then there's Gamera that hot blooded turtle. Then there's the brilliant Mysterions and Battle in Outer Space. More recently it shows in their best Anime films like the quite intelligent android naval gazing in the Ghost in the Shell series (Star Trek's Data with soul).
The Brits? Well they make intelligent, clever if talky Sci Fis ( the wonderfully fun Dr Who an exception). The Americans like their Sci Fi brimming with special effects with little significant interaction between characters, unless they are the focus of the film and then they're superheroes (though their earlier Sci Fis like Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds (orig), Them and Day the Earth Stood Still were amongst the best ever made).
But the Japanese Sci Fis seem very much into imaginative action, hokey and at times cluttered, but there's a feeling something is always happening. There's little time for deep and meaningful contemplation like the Brits films and the special effects would be comfortable in the early Dr Who series ( though recent efforts are vastly improved).
But the Japanese like to experiment with ideas, some weird, some down right absurd but always fun. And they use what they have in effects to the best advantage. And they also almost always play the old Western formula of good guys and bad guys, and the ... Read More
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The movie was a good entertaining movie when I was a kid. This dvd product looks like a 1985 vhs quality tape. It is of extremely poor quality. The movie is a decent and intelligent movie. I am sending the dvd? Back.
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i hope i got this movie right i liked it alot at first it seems to be made by foreign type and has some asian person, black person and whites in it, it like star trek thing which i like. it has touch of what venus must of or could of been like and it could be what another palnet is like somewere in our galaxy. if like older stuff this is another winner, the polish guy smart to who did this movie. i think there a robot whois real short. if your IQ is above 150 you will understand some of it better and if not its still got some great scenes. it may seem funny for venus butt not for if it was another planet thousand of light years away from earth.
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