Shoulder piece inspired by Gerry Anderson's UFO?
Our first invisible spacesuits? Should be good for the ratings
Steve
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Sayonara Jupiter (1984)
Sayonara Jupiter (aka Bye Bye Jupiter for the English release) is the 1984 Japanese film directed by Koji Hashimoto and produced by Toho. The script was adapted by pioneering science-fiction author Sakyo Komatsu from his novel Sayonara Jupiter (1982). I've yet to see this but it sound and looks like it could be good
While extracting water from the Martian polar ice caps, ancient carvings are uncovered describing an alien spacecraft crashing into Jupiter, postponing plans to turn Jupiter into a second Sun....
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UFO shoulder piece? JTTFSOTS or Doppelganger please. ,My first thoughts. Last image.....looking into finding a copy.
ReplyDeleteMy bad, yes it was made for and seen in JTTFSOTS before UFO. In fact it was seen in Doomwatch before UFO as well. My assumption was that UFO would have more likely been the inspiration over JTTFSOTS because I think the UFO series was bigger that the film in Japan - Pure speculation on my part though
DeleteIts one crazy muddle of a film,whoever edited it should have been shot or exposed to hard vacuum without a suit.It just predates 2010 by a few months,funnily enough one of the sets is a straight copy of hals memory bank on discovery and I suspect that the red shirt opening the memory cassettes is opening exactly the same ones that bowman did in 2001 and I think he might even be using the same tool as well,theres even a jaws reference in there with a shark attacking the eco terrorists pet dolphin[no,I`m not making this up],it has some excellent model work/special effects as one would expect tho` I think 2010 did the destruction of jupiter/ignition of lucifer a bit better.Its one of those films I wish I could have seen when I was 13 and loved virtually anything sf uncritically,these days however I look at films like this and think:what a waste,it could have been so much better than it was
ReplyDeleteA much appreciated first hand review, Tim. Many thanks
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