Dark Corners - First Spaceship on Venus: Review
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- You are there... on man's most incredible journey! We review First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
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Summary: In 1970, debris from the 1908 Tunguska "meteor" are found which turn out to be recordings from a spaceship crashed there. The ship's origin is determined to be Venus, and an international team sets out with their spaceship "Kosmokrator" to visit the "Silent Planet", which is shrouded in clouds, and doesn't respond to contact attempts. While the "Kosmokrator" is in flight, the record is decoded and it turns out that the Venusians seemingly planned to invade Earth in 1908. Should the "Kosmokrator" still attempt to get in touch with the Aliens? And why are they silent now?
Written by & starring Robin Bailes @robinbailes
Directed and Edited by Graham Trelfer
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Just watched this again an hour ago , possibly for my tenth time or more. I really enjoyed watching on my 57" TV. I could really enjoy the alien landscape. Who needs a story - the exploration is plenty. And yes I wish this was 45 minutes longer. Cool movie!!!
The original German-language film isn't bad. Lem notoriously disliked EVERY adaptation of his work. Andrei Tarkovsky said in an interview that Lem was very insistent that Tarkovsky's film adaptation of SOLARIS be EXACTLY like the original book, which is impossible for most book-to-film adaptations to begin with.
Authors rarely like the adaptations of their work, but books and movies are different mediums and they tell stories in different ways.
Um, thanks for having comments turned on so i can tell you thanks for having the comments turned on. Great video.
That was a "Fantastic" and "Incredible" review "We have learned much" from seeing this :)
Love the quotes of dialog. I liked the interior of the space ship from what I could see it looks like the best interior compared to all those other 1950's rocket ships.
I, too, noticed that cool ship's interior and it doesn't surprise me that a fellow Jupiter 2 fan should appreciate it.
Uncertain if I agree with critical assessment; though I am most familiar with MST3K version, have since viewed "unriffed" version and found it literate and compelling, with interesting and unique characters, and a good grounding in science. Maybe I'm just a nerd, but it still strikes me as a surprisingly intelligent film, deserving more respect than it gets.
Especially considering the time it came out. If the characters fall flat, at least they weren't as overly melodramatic as they almost certainly would have been in an American sci-fi film of the time, and, in some technical aspects this was the equal of "Forbidden Planet". And considering that it was made at the height of the Cold War, kudos to the film makers for keeping those sentiments out of the film.
Actually, the plot was essentially H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" set in space instead of Antarctica, complete with the climactic Shoggoth attack.
Oh, great. They had to ripoff one of my favorite authors to make this! If you want to see the closest we may get to the real one, they have an animated version that uses comic book pages on RUclips broken down into chapters.
MSA 21's channel? Those are good. My favourite version of Haunter of the Dark.
I see the final chapter of Mountains of Madness is out now. Off to watch it.
@@tenhirankei- This is based on a Stanislaw Lem novel. Nothing to do with Lovecraft, or 'At the Mountains of Madness', unless you want to stretch it out of all recognition.
I've read a couple of Stanislav Lem's books. They are entertaining, but in a very intellectual way that doesn't really lend itself to cinematic treatment. One of the "novels" was a series of reviews of non-existent books, and much more interesting than it sounds!
I saw the original spaceship model at the Babelsberg Film Studio(DEFA when the film was made).
You should review the Horrors of Party Beach!
"What does a Hemingway?" "About a pound"
"Looks like the Maypo wants them!"
Robin, have you considered reviewing ON THE SILVER GLOBE? I haven't seen it but have read about it, and it sounds like something you'd be very receptive to.
this is one of those films that sucks by itself, but is really fun when it gets comedy commentary like this or MST3K. good job! :D
When it comes to commentary on bad movies, Robin is one of the best. I vaguely remember seeing this film over ten years ago (VHS rental) and I'm afraid to say that outside of the spaceship design and the melted city, I couldn't recall anything about it. Thankfully, you guys at Dark Corners didn't seem to find it interesting or memorable as well.
As for a film that has bad science interfering with an interesting story, I would have to go once again with "Attack Of The Crab Monsters". It is genuinely creepy and decent tension, but to have everything "explained" as effects of nuclear radiation makes it fall short. I would love to see the film remade, but with a different reason for the Crab Monsters existence. Maybe an alien experiment long abandoned or even a paranormal entity (like an ancient island curse) that tries to manifest itself into living things.
Or nobody knows why the crabs are monstrous. All we have is speculation.
+Dark Corners Review (@DarkCorners3 on Twitter) - @TGGeeks were mentioning an offbeat project - an operatic tribute to 'Hercules in the Haunted World' (1961), called 'Hercules vs. Vampires.'
We (@LookieShow) know you've covered one or two iffy flicks featuring the character of Hercules (myth. fig.), but perhaps the original film is another one for your titles pool. The possibilities for Bailes' (host) commentaries and asides on this mildly perplexing bit of celluloid - they are legion.
To wit:
* Epic 1960s campy gladiator-ness.
* Plus Christopher Lee (see: Dracula (char.), Hammer Films).
* Plus direction by Mario Bava ('Planet of the Vampires' ('Terrore nello spazio') (1965), etc.).
* Plus bodybuilder Roy 'Reg' Parks as his own special effect (he plays Hercules (char.), as if there was any doubt).
* Also, lagoons, villainesses and heroines (actors Ida Galli, Leonora Ruffo, et al.), crypts, fog, petrified stone monsters, ghouls, rivers of lava, and Hercules throwing giant rocks.
ALL OF THAT.
Also, some sketchy dubbing.
Although that's mainly just the icing on the double-decker cake, compared to, as noted, all of the above...
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Fair enough to compare this film to Wizard Of Mars, but there is no real comparison between a film featuring Floating Head John Carradine and one that doesn't. It's like comparing the taste of a Dilly Bar to a ball of lint.
FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS is a science-fiction thriller. WIZARD OF MARS is a 'space fantasy' film.
One is deadpan serious, the other is popcorn entertainment, and they have different stories, characters, & plots. Why do you compare them?
Because astronauts go into space. Come on they are basically the same film!
Really, not because they are kitschy, and retro- - as in these movies were 'filmed' before we and the Soviets had sent space probes to these worlds revealing how uninhabitable, how hostile they are to any kind of life as we know it, past or present
Well truly apples and axles or something....THE SILENT STAR (aka FIRST SPACESHIP...) was a big budget major production with some beautifully imaginative settings and images (must be seen in its original version/dvd available) and WIZARD OF MARS a shoestring affair at best (the director was a friend of mine and even he held his nose when talking about it: The most hilarious thing he said to me--making good-natured fun of his own folly--was, "I didn't know a director actually had to direct!")
Great review! 👾
The original East German cut is available through the streaming service Kanopy, which many libraries subscribe to in the United States. Don't know if there's a U.K. equivalent.
At 0:55 I like the mechanical cooties they found on Venus!
All descriptors of planets and anything connected with the deities after whom the planets are named are derived from the Genitive case of the name of the deity. Therefore, it is “Martian ” and “martial” from “martis”, the Genitive of Mars, “Jovian” and “jovial” from “jovis”, the Genitive of Jupiter and “Mercurian” and “mercurial” from “mercuris” the Genitive of Genitive of Mercury. So, it is actually “Venerian” and “venerial” from Genitive of Venus. Robert Heinlein got this right in his book “Between Planets”, but most people use the incorrect “Venusian; yes, I get the problem with venerial, but it is still incorrect etymologically.
An atmosphere 96 % carbon dioxide atmospheric pressure 92 times earths. mean temperature of 737 K (464 °C; 867 °F) Strong 300 km/h (185 mph) winds at the cloud tops sounds like just the place to go visit LOL
Nobody knew that at the time.
Just how many attempts did you have to make to watch this through to the end without falling asleep after the first ten minutes out of sheer boredom?
I keep trying to through out the dvd but someone tells me yet some other crazy thing about it like it was written in a all male boys school by pygmy alien sonambiants with BA's in Noh theater.
I've been thinking about rereading some Lem, so I feel like I'm being pointed that way 🙂
I really wish more Lem books had been turned into movies
I love Danny Boyle's Sunshine, but the science in that film isn't much better than the science in this one.
One of the stupid things about that movie was that the sun shield could only be repaired from the sun-facing side. A bit of a design flaw, wouldn't you say?
Who cares? My girl Michelle Yeoh was in it, and that's the important thing. 😊
Yeah Blake's 7!!!!! Love that show!
MST3K was decades ahead of the culture.
It's adorable that you think if this actually happened in real life people wouldn't find it boring
I actually read the book as a kid. I was a sci fi nerd.
Guess what-it's much better than the film.
Yes Galaxy of Terror PLEASE.
Also, I'm curious; when will the next Dark Corners Classics video air on RUclips?
Very soon. It is written and I have started editing.
Btw, can you Review "Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D." Please
A film that gets completely trapped in its own ideas is X-Men: The Last Stand. It suffers from having two big storylines from the comics (Dark Phoenix Saga and Gifted) being packed so excessively inside of an hour and forty-five minutes, when it should have been at least half-an-hour longer, or, preferably, just have one of those stories. And it's a big shame because you can get some good ideas and social commentary out of both stories.
Now that we know Venus is an acid-raining lead-smelter of a planet, we can't remake this. Too bad, because it had the potential to be a very good movie.
You forgot to add that the pressure on Venus is 900 times (I think?) stronger than Earth.
Never noticed it was the Blake's 7 rocket.
Just set it on another planet.
Two years after this movie was released a spacecraft mission pretty much confirmed that Venus was extremely hot and inhospitable to life. So the window of opportunity to shoot a "believable" remake was quite short!
@@robertodell9193- That misses the point: they were going to Venus because of the recording, which they learned was an attack plan. Venus is our next-door neighbor, making interplanetary war feasible. Making the source a planet orbiting Barnard's Star or Proxima Centauri removes the threat.
review galaxy of terror please!
coming in a couple of weeks
Dark Corners Reviews I'll be looking forward to your review of Jim Cameron's first film (he was second unit director).
I think I whatched this movie years ago but I'm not sure. I watched a "communist" movie about an international team of astronauts traveling to Venus after a concerning signal from that planet reached Earth, but I'm not sure is the same film. It's name was apparently "The Silent Star"... what I remember the most was the mildly sterotypical way most of the crew died: the American guy crashed a scout ship because he was too impulsive, the Asian guy felt victim of a lab accident and the African guy sacrificed himself so the damaged spaceship could launch back to Earth. The film ends with the Soviet guy and the girl giving an small speech about the importance of nuclear disarmament.
I'm pretty sure by 1960 they knew Venus was too hot to land on
Not only that, by then they would have used spectroscopy to have determined what elements and compounds make up the atmosphere and formaldehyde is not one of those.
The Soviets and obligingly the states behind the Iron Curtain seemed very interested in Venus. This movie came out just before the Soviets began to send probes to it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera The planets atmosphere ended up destroying the probes in a short time, so the idea of sending humans was dropped.
Prior to space probes sent by the USSR and America, Venus was a still a big mystery, a Planet of Storms( covered by clouds)
Lewis Doherty
"Among the other results, probes of the series became the first human-made devices to enter the atmosphere of another planet (Venera 4 on October 18, 1967),"
Very little information was known about Venus at the time. The surface was obscured by thick layers of clouds, which is why that planet was considered mysterious. There were theories that Venus was still in a prehistoric state, covered in steamy swamps, and some suggested the surface might be kind of a dry dustbowl. The extent of the "greenhouse effect" there hadn't been fully realized. The Russians got there first and discovered the truth not too long after this film was made.
I always thought The Exorcist II kinda had.....something, almost a plot.
I want to see the dinosaur!
2:06 -> laffingas attack
Oh well I thought it was kinda fantastic and incredible
Review the great movie The Lost Continent.Thanks
Rinoa, you requested it, but you didn't comment on it.
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Reminds of those two Russian sci-fi films put out by AIP in the late 60's ; JOURNEY TO A PREHISTORIC PLANET and JOURNEY TO A PLANET OF PREHISTORIC WOMAN. Both those movies had slightly better plots ( not by much ) and better FX.
Dialectical Materialism: The Motion Picture
3:55 we have to ask the p0litbur0 for permiSSi0n 1st !
What other film is its own worst enemy?
Contact.
Holy crap that movie got lost up its own ass.
I kind of miss horror smack down
Shaw I feel satisfied because my favorite film won but still love your videos just me
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0:30 "put their differences aside" - - they were both living under communist dictatorships at the time, and client states of the Soviet Empire.
2:49 That is the crime of amateur or juvenile or forced science-fiction (screen)writing: narrate or exposite everything they do or see
2:49 they do it to disinform (fake news) any potential spy.
I thought "put their differences aside" was obviously a joke.
try Rocketship XM. there's one scene of such blaent sexism you just have to laugh.
Their Ship is not the Liberator from Blake's 7
1:25 -> con-mie hypocrisy
I have to disagree with you. So many sci-fi movies today are ruined by shoehorning in too much "story" in the gues of interpersonal relationships. I want the sci-fi, not the Hallmark edition.
3:17 -> 3:19 that's the whole point 'bout evryding con-mie. 3:21 not ''The Petrified Forest" ? J.G. Ballard would sue.
The US version (on top of the atrocious dubbing) had 20 minutes or so cut from the original so a lot of the plot is missing.
Just be thankful you didn't watch the italian version: not only it's even MORE butchered in footage and from the dubbing but they also completely fucked up the ending by substituting the final sequence with a bit of voiceover telling the audience that the SOYUX-111 (that's how they translated "Cosmokrator") was lost in space. Horrible.
Meh, could be worse. Could be a comic book based super hero movie.
Believe it or not: but the East-German Original was worse (mostly because of politics)
This movie is just idiotic garbage…and I LIKE IT!
Wtf is this movie??
It's time to review the work of one of the absolute worst directors ever--Andy Milligan. Maybe Bloodthirsty Butchers or The Rats Are Coming the Werewolves Are Here.
Will checkout his work.
Ryan D Tibbetts What, the films of Ray Dennis Steckler aren't the worst? What about classics like: Rat Pfink A-boo-boo, or Blood Shack(the first slasher film)
Weird slime Martian creatures
I don't understand why the host of this series didn't try to see the original version of this film (THE SILENT STAR---which has long been available)--rather than this pathetic, dupey-looking, poorly-dubbed version released by the cheapskate Crown-International pictures. (And why is this shown cropped? As bad as this americanized version was, at least it was released in widescreen!) This is a wonderfully picturesque film which can be enjoyed for it visual imagination, striking color, scope and, at times, surreal beauty. Not without its faults---the storyline dissolves at critical times into technical complications that are fairly obscure which, as a result, lose the viewer. But there is often more to consider and value for many films than story alone , as I suggest in this case. Some of the host's complaints seem to arise solely so that he has something clever to say---kind of shooting fish in a barrel. And there are far far more fish deserving easy blasting than THE SILENT STAR.
People should watch this movie through a programme called mystery science theater 3000
+Nelson Bennett might be the only to get through it.
it's the only way to get through it.