There ain’t a whole lot out there about
this movie. What I have read about it,
leads me to believe that I shouldn’t expect much.
[...]
[Couple hangs out on the beach, lights
flash on a rock.]
Lovelock: Were those lights supposed to be
something?
Starkwell: The music leads me to believe
that 'yes'…
[Two lights flash in front of their
windshield as they drive away, they crash… into… nothing?]
Starkwell: How did the guy’s arm end up in
the back seat?
Lovelock: I’m still trying to figure out
what the fuck is going on.
[The music is completely insane and
loud. Credits play.]
Lovelock: So… were they possessed by those
lights?
Starkwell: I guess. Holy Hell, this music needs to stop. My head already hurts so much.
[...]
We see laboratory shots, rockets flying,
plenty of Cape Canaveral stock footage, and shots of people looking surprised. Then the rocket blows up.
[...]
Lovelock: I love that they put huge glasses
on an actress and assumed that would be enough to make her look like a
scientist.
Starkwell: She looks more like a scientist
than that old guy. He looks like a
homeless man.
[...]
This movie is incredibly hard to follow,
partly because it is incoherent and makes no sense, and partly because the
director chooses to occasionally use camera angles that I assume are supposed
to be “FIRST PERSON VIEW”, but really do little more than give the audience
motion sickness. Lovelock imagined what
this would have looked like in a movie theater, and then he puked. Starkwell wondered if this camera trick was ahead of its time. Then he puked for inadvertently complimenting the film.
[...]
[We see the possessed zombie alien people,
being chased by dogs, and they pull his arm (back) off.]
Starkwell: If they have the technology to
travel across the universe, and inhabit the bodies of other lifeforces… you’d
think they’d be able to do a better job sewing an arm back on.
[The aliens decide they need a new arm, so
they need to find a living arm to replace his stump with.]
Starkwell: Why wouldn’t he just possess a
new body entirely? Why would keep the
broken torn apart one?
[Lovelock had nothing to say, because after
he vomited, he fell asleep.]
[...]
Apparently the aliens are there to prevent
humans from figuring out how to space travel.
At one point the alien woman said “PERFECTLY CLEAR” and looked directly
at the camera. Starkwell laughed out
loud so hard it woke Lovelock up from his slumber. The missile explosions are actually pretty
impressive, considering how shitty balls the rest of the film is.
[...]
Lovelock: Seriously, why did they bother
have him lose an arm? It would be one
thing if the actor only HAD one arm, so they wrote it into the story, but
instead, we get a lame ass dude with an arm tucked into his pants.
[...]
Rather than focus on their mission, or how
they will prevent man from traveling through space, the aliens spend the bulk
of their time finding healthy specimens to farm body parts from. It’s all much lamer and more boring than it
sounds. I think the aliens teleport two
humans to their planet, for their hometeam scientists to examine. Did I mention that there’s a bad actor
playing a hillbilly who waves around a shotgun wearing full body onezee
pyjamas?
[...]
Lovelock: Detectives ALWAYS have mustaches
in these old movies.
[...]
Eventually, and thankfully, the film ends.
[...]
Lovelock: They were just trying to get
home. Like E.T.
Starkwell: No. No they weren’t.
Lovelock: Weren’t they? Geez… maybe they weren’t. What the heck was this movie?
Starkwell: Bad.
[...]
After all is said and done, the humans blow up the cave where the
aliens had their lab, the cops drive away and then you hear screaming and a
crash and we see the lights again. Do I
smell a sequel? No. Not ever.
Thankfully.
Sounds like a must-miss! I think you deserve a hearty "thanks" for taking the hit with Cape Canaveral Monsters.
ReplyDeleteBoring AND incomprehensible. A truly losing combination.
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