Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: MESSAGE FROM SPACE (RE-UPLOAD)
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Ever wish "Star Wars" had a disco soundtrack & robots with pink salad bowl boobs? Well the 1978 Japanese sci-fi flick "Message From Space" has got you covered! (Originally aired 05/30/2020)
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To bad "Message From Space" didn't become a trilogy, I'm kinda curious to see what this universe's Ewoks would've been like...
That would've been cool.
Pretty weird would be my first guess
You get a wookie (sort of) in Swords of the Space Ark.
Probably would've looked like cursed af furry Care Bears or something
I'd be interested in seeing their "Slave Yoko"
The costuming for the Vader equivalent was actually pretty badass.
Space capes, and bathrobes, sort of like swords and sandals.
Fun fact: "Mother" was played by the same actor who portrayed the over-the-top Dr. Who in _King Kong Escapes,_ the toymaker neighbor in _Godzilla's Revenge/All Monsters Attack,_ and the weird prophet dude in _GMK._
Also Doctor Shinigami in Kamen Rider.
I had a crush on Etsuko Shihomi, the actress who played Princess Emeralida, later finding out she was a skilled martial artist who starred in the Sister Street Fighter trilogy.
Same
Also the director apparently directed Battle Royale.
Loved her Nunchuck skills in movies.
The movie is supposed to be a Star Warseque adaptation of a Japanese legend called the Satomi Hakenden, a lot of the weirdness in the plot is due to the fact that the legend didn't translate that well to space opera.
The director Kinji Fukasaku later did a more traditional version of the Satomi Hakenden called Legend Of Eight Samurai. It's a much better film and stars some of the same people.
One of the other actor's of note is Hiroyuki (Henry) Sanada. He's won a number of acting awards in Japan, was in the original Japanese Ring film as the father, and has even appeared in some of the Marvel Films (including Endgame).
Of course, director Fukasaku would make Battle Royale many years later...
I wonder if Star Wars would do a version of that.
Damn, I knew he was that guy from Wolverine.....
I do like one thing about this movie: It features probably the first movie spaceship powered by solar sails.
Then George Lucas ripped it off for Attack of the Clones!
@@jeffpadilla9891 Let's not forget, this was 1978, so Lucas also copied the "bad guy falling a great height spewing lightning-looking-stuff before exploding" thing for Return of the Jedi too. :P
Yeah Jeff, Lucas ripped off the solar sail ship-a standard of science fact and fiction for over a century-from this movie, therefore, he's a hack.🙄
@@doublemonkey4833 And while this movie swiped the Death Star Trench Run, Lucas swiped it right back along with the "let's move this indoors" angle.
@@Neville60001 Go home, troll.
15:24, that's Tetsuro Tamba from the James Bond movie, You Only Live Twice
"What a piece of junk." I'm not talking about the Millenium Falcon.
You got that right about this movie.
Sailing ship in space, WW2 battle ship in space, can't Japan afford any space ships?.
"I'm just not getting involved in this craziness..." Well then why are you in this movie?
Ouch didn’t realize I was still so tender about Firefly.
And red dwarf too.
Great video thanks for the laughter.
At least Red Dwarf is still getting new material.
@@jackkain7141 There was a series of Firefly novels that came out over the last few years. Surely that counts as new material?
Movies like this show you just how amazing Star Wars actually was.
"Star Wars" was the second name for lucky coincidence. And so is "PREDATOR".
*Was* being the key word there.
Well it shows how amazing Surakawa and Judorowsky were. Just a pity that those thieves, George Lucas, and the rest of Hollywood didn't give them credit or pay them for their hard work and the ideas they stole from them.
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k
Stealing from other artists is not a new concept of course especially in Hollywood. I know George Lucas has pretty much spelled out the fact there's huge samurai influences all over the Star wars franchise.
I mean it's pretty clear where all the various influences came from of course they would call it an homage to them not particularly flat out ripping em off.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Precisely!
Brandon, have you reviewed Ralph Bakshi's "Fire and Ice'? It also features a mother & son pair of villains.
Nostalgic. Had the model kits for the ships from this movie when I was a little kid. They were labelled in Japanese and my parents had no idea what they were when they bought them as a random birthday gift along with the Spindrift from Land of the Giants. Took me more than a decade before i finally figured out what film they were connected to. Hard to look that sort of stuff up before the internet came along.
Oh god... I remember watching this thing. I assumed I was really drunk the first time. Then during the second viewing, I realized I wasn't nearly drunk enough.
Even a Tenold re-upload makes a day!
Flash forward to 2021 and the Japanese lead of this (Hiroyuki Sanada) is now playing Scorpion in Mortal Kombat live action movies.
what is your favorite movie theme song ?
me : GREEEEN ♪ SLIIIIIIIMEEE ♫ , GREEEEN ♪ SLIIIIIIIMEEE ♫
Green Slime & Baby Ghost are the catchiest theme songs
I forgot Hiroyuki Sanada also appears in this movie. He later plays the main character in the TV adaptation, Message from Outer Space: Galactic Wars.
3:25 Ahh After 10,000 years I'm free! Time to conquer Earth!
ALPHA, RITA HAS ESCAPED, BRING ME 9 TEENAGERS WITH ATTITUDE
@@BroomPusher2024 GO GO LIABIE WARRIORS!!
This was really a 7 Samurai, Magnificent 7, Battle Beyond the Stars movie than a Star Wars copy.
Considering that Battle Beyond the Stars was based on The Magnificent 7, which itself was a remake of The Seven Samurai, that is some Inception level rebooting!
And Kurasawa needs the credit once again.
Hakkensen actually
It's actually a sci-fi remake of Legend of the Eight Samurai, which was also co-written, and directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Which means Fukasaku is ripping himself off.
For the record, Kinji Fukasaku was also the director of Battle Royale, I only wanted to point that out because nobody ever seems to mention it when they cover this movie.
Now I want a Star Wars movie that combines element of all of them.
I'd like to get a sequel where Rich Evans as Space Cop shows up in his space Crown Vic to get revenge for the death of his former partner, who also happens to be named Space Cop.
When Brandon made the "Vic Morrow burying his career" joke I thought he was going to mention Twilight Zone The Movie
This isn't Red Letter Media, Canadian's have class.
The booing would have played
@@jbard9892
Yeah, but RLM is way funnier.
I would've suggested calling Roko the "Captain Antilles" of this movie. Even if the villain doesn’t choke him out.
I just said that.
I suggest “Sayonara, Jupiter.” I haven’t seen it, but the special effects look cool from the trailer
Holy $#!+ I thought I was the only person outside of Japan that had seen that film! Now that was an expensive movie! Beautiful though!
It's just as bad
It has a great theme song too, that is more well-known from being used in Shin Evangelion.
Toei made this? I guess that's why this had to be re uploaded.
Yep exactly. Those bastards are as litigious as Nintendo.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu The Copyright Laws in Japan just Sucks.
@@Nestalgba92023
That's really saying something considering how awful they are in the rest of the world. (the US especially) But yes Japanese companies seem to just abuse the heck out of the copyright system.
Like I said Nintendo is definitely top of that list they just don't like people using their stuff no matter how much people enjoy stuff.
battle beyond the stars was the one star wars ripoff that actually did well on it's own
What a gem!!! Saw this on cable when I was 8 or 9 years old. Thing was: I had not seen Star Wars yet, therefore I went into this completely naive and unprepared. Found it quite cool and entertaining. Sure, it's not the original it ripps off, but it's still fun enough to hold its own ground. PLUS: Notice that at the climax the fly INTO the space station? Just what they did in "Return of the Jedi" 3 years later... ;)
So now we are waiting for re-upload of 102 - Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires :D
You never forget your first Star Wars knock off. For me, this film was that. I can remember watching this many years ago on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I thought to myself," It is not Star Wars but it is trying so hard!". I will always have a soft spot for this one. Now that Brandon has reviewed it, I kind of hope Decker Shado will as well. After that, maybe we can get GoodBadFlicks to review it as well. I want all my favorite You Tube reviewers to partake in this gloriously cheesy cocktail.
Jeez, starfleet/x-Bomber used all the good ideas from this and added its own awesome. Please cover that too!
Yup, with a soundtrack by Brian May and Eddie Van Halen amongst others.
I totally expected the villain to have an eye which was a metallic face at one point. Damn, Commander Makara was one of the greatest sci-fi villains.
@@ash_durant6071 Yes, they did a cover version of the theme song, but, were not actually involved with the show itself in any way.
I recommend checking out Joystick. It’s a 70s or 80s video game movie
Oh! Live action Battleship Yamato!
They ACTUALLY pull that off 30 years later...
I do hope you can review "Warning from Space" one day. It's a tokusatsu sci fi movie from the fifties with the aliens being in what look to be fabric starfish costumes.
Sorry, the title of the video just made me think of that.
The villain's mother reminds me a lot of Vera from "Superman III"
Ah! Female Braniac...
The Villain's mother is an older guy playing a older woman by the way.
Excuse me mr Brandon Tenold. I have a question is the main killer (antagonist) in the movie The Baby (1973h the Wadsworth family or is it Anne?
Message From Space is kind of special for me. When my two boys were 5 and 10 every time my wife and I took them to a movie they would fidget and fuss and sometimes we would have to leave before the film was over, even Disney and other kids movies. We took them to see Message From Space and they were enthralled. They never made a peep. their eyes were glued to the screen the whole time. Great movie, my wife even liked it usually she hated sci-fi movies. Ive still got a copy on VHS. A highly underrated film.
id also like to point out that Brandon DIDN'T make any jokes about what happened to Vic Morrow on the Twilight Zone movie, sooo thank you brandon
This gives me a lot of Legend of the Eight Samurai vibes, the mystical items that pick 8 heroes, the villain and his mother, heck, they even got Sonny Chiba.
Great review, The Tv Series based on this movie was quite popular in France and Latin America (it was renamed as San Kuo Kai) back in the 80', It starred Hiroyuki Sanada (the only actor also featured in the movie but playing a different character) some may recognize him as the Yakuza boss killed by Ronin in Avengers End Game. Also an interesting Fact, the director Kinji Fukusaku also directed Battle Royale (and a lot of other films), and the cowritter Shotaro Ishimori created also Kamen Rider and The Super Sentai series (adapted later into Power Rangers).
Do you do horror classics or only knock offs i was gonna say do 13 ghost i feel like no big movie reviewers have done that & its a fairly underrated movie
@Gary Hall yeah your definitely right there's some underrated smaller channels I've found down the rabbit hole🕳 lol
Every once in a while you find some good 1s on the content you looking 4
That ship the girl kept piloting was put out in America as part of Mattel's "Shogun Warriors" toy line-- I got one in the late 70s, with NO idea what movie it actually came from!
I actually really like the space ship sequences of the film. Not because they’re realistic, but there’s something really charming about their hokyness
+1 for the mention of Space Dandy.
In the words of another cartoon character..."i loOove that show."
The Green Slime...only the greatest sci-fi EVER!!!!
I have no idea how I came across Brandon's videos but I really enjoy his videos and I know he be paying attention to these movies.
You should review Ice Pirates.
They aren't the heroes we want, they're the heroes we ... seed. (fml)
booooooooooooooooooooooooo
A Re-Uploaded Message From Space.
Gotta love knock off star wars movies
Toei was always my favorite production studio (even growing up in the States); this was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I still remember staying up late with my Dad to record it on cable one weekend.
2:07 who else thought after Brandon says this. The narrator was going to bring up trade disputes and senate debates? Hahaha.
"Okay, fine, what's the other way to kill a Rockseia?"
"Falling out a window! Onto a bomb!"
I'm so pleased to see several comments regarding StarFleet / X-Bomber, because the main villain totally had Makara's uniform - just the masculine version without naked thighs - or a robot eye. Man that show was wild.
I JUST finished watching all 24 episodes of the UK version. I usually love this kind of stuff, but by halfway thru, the writing was so bad I couldn't wait for it to be over. (It happens with serials sometimes.)
@@henrykujawa4427 Even MCoG had a few slow filler episodes in the middle. But I found Star Fleet generally fun - the clipshow episode was the real low-point for me.
Still better that Rise of Skywalker.
Hahahaha... So true.
Bro how emperor Palpatine/Darth sidious returns and finally got killed
Gofund a starwars movie.
Spacecop? Did they just kill off Rich Evans?
The Space Firefly Joke still hurt..after all those years
I could have sworn you had done this one before, great review keep them coming!
The movie reminds me of a dream I had in wich Bob hope and Bing Crosby are on a road to destroy the one true ring but were played by Bruce Lee knockoffs
You need to lay off the cheese before bedtime. 🤣
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k Not when it results in such awesome-sounding dreams!
That sounds like a movie that would be on this show.
Blows up the moon everyone on earth dead
Brandon did you play in the movie (rampage) with The Rock or your twin brother?
So much G-force, Voltron, Transformers, Power Rangers all in all getting a lot of vibes here.
I see I'm not the only one who thought of Power Rangers watching the early part of this.
The funny thing is that Shotaro Ishimori who co-wrote this movie is also the creator of the Super Sentai series, which was adapted later into Power Rangers.
The word Tacky would be an understatement , this thing is like the cheese with the rind, all it needs to be a A+ camp movie is a disco ball, platform heals and a custom shag wagon.
11:52: Honestly one of the greatest lines ever spoken.
10:25 "Yeah.No wars for me." THE END
loved that one XD
Yeah I love this music 12:29
Hold on, first there's a scene like pod racing, then they need a part to repair the ship? Did Lucas rip this off for the Prequels?
Probably
Eh. He claimed he was inspired by the race from Ben-Hur
Can you please do a review of Christmas 🎄 Cult Movies like Christmas Evil (1980) Santa Claus 🎅 Conquers The Martians 👽 (1964) or Silent Night Deadly Night (1984)?
4:24 That says Planet Mirazelia
5:20 and 21:30 Rebel Assault, yeah it's a pretty hard game. Fun fact, this footage at was used in a 1983 laser disc game by SEGA/Bally Midway called Astron Belt
Message from Space is rather special for me, When my two boys were small we couldint take them to movies. They would fuss and fidget and whine and carry on, even at kids movies. Most of the time we would have to leave the theater. We took them to see Message and they were fascinated, watched the movie all the way through and never made a sound. I found the movie on VHS and they would watch it over and over again, never got tired of it. Not the greatest movie, but its special for me.
Forgot how good the longer hair looked on you, please keep it.
It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere...
Was this like a live action version of the marvellous puppet show: Star Fleet-cos the ships and baddies all look like they come from that show?
My wife walked into my office from laughing so hard at the Firefly gag. Oh god that was too good.
Broooo, that Firefly reference hurt. Like damn man.
This is basically Starfleet, which I loved as a kid. I even loved the Brian May soundtrack.
I'm also a huge fan of X-Bomber! MFS does feel very similar!
@@maxcooper6554 X-Bomber being the US name I assume? Did it still have the Brian May music? :]
@@LeeHobbies X-Bomber was the original Japanese series, sadly I don't believe Brian May's epic music was not included...
@@maxcooper6554 I often annoy my wife by telling her that Starfleet is Queens finest work! Thanks for the info :]
It's very Star Fleet-y. Any connection to that show?
Firefly joke..too soon! Love the video.
I love these fun reviews of campy B and C and D movies!
At 8:53 those ships look like Species 8472 bioships from Voyager.
I think thats what I said when you uploaded this the first time. ...and maybe something about nuts.
Speaking of toei i wonder how long until we get a brandon review of alakazam the great
Now,are you going to review Galactic Wars?
Message from space: Galactic wars was titled SANKUOKAI in France, and that versión was distributed to Latin América, it was a really popular show in severa countries at the time.
Sadly all we got of the show in English was a TV movie they made by editing together the first two episodes and the last 3 episodes of the show. Which made for a pretty bad movie entitled Swords of the Space Ark. Discotek released the whole series on Blu-ray recently.
9:53 In fairness the crew of Red Dwarf are two vending machine repairmen, a sanitation droid and a fashionista, they were never meant to be in charge of a ship in the first place. From that point of view they don’t do too badly considering the low standards they have to work with.
This was taken down? I didn't know.
Copyright. From Toei
Toei is particularly bad about that.
...they don't need no new style Canadian PR?
Say, how do you and Ashens schedule couch time? Do you just wait till he's finished or do you have regular meetings?
Brandon, have you given any
thought to reviewing Kinji Fukasaku's
Virus, aka: Day of Resurrection?
Seems as timely now as ever!
When you said "There's a Home Depot just down the road," I thought you were suggesting picking up some day workers to use as cannon fodder.
Red Dwarf reference, love you man!
1:40 -- Hey! It's set in the same place as VOLTRON!
Pretty good looking ship models. Bro, where did you get the Godzilla shirt? I'm definitely digging it!
Looks like they also "borrowed" the ship and weapon firing design at 8:53 for species 8472.
Another great video! You should consider doing a bloopers video as well
BRANDONS HAIR, lookin good man
review Fear no Evil from the 1981. It's bizarre.
I didn't see that movie, but I saw the TV series when it aired in France in the '70s. Here, the movie was called "Les Évadés de l'Espace". And the TV series was called "San Ku Kai". Of course, they reused the SFX shots.
“There’s no wind in space!”
…so who’s gonna tell him? 😜
This movie is ok. I watch it on rainy Saturday afternoons when I'm at my drawing board
Honestly, those ship SFX are better than most things that didn't have ILM's computer controlled cameras back in the late 70's. The spacewalk catching space fireflies, though? Nope.
The scenes of them flying through the tunnels reminds me of Star Fox 64 when you’re trying to reach Andross.
Saved a planet by destroying it sounds like a miltary commander in Vietnam, that said we had to destroy the village in order to save it.
Must have really wanted to go surfing. The prick.
Sometimes you gotta Exterminatus them to save them
If that isn't a murderhobo campaign il eat my helmet
@@firstnamelastnamethirdname Indeed, if a major Chaos incursion happens, Exterminatus saves the loyal Imperial citizens from the tender mercies of the forces of Khorne and Grandfather Nurgle--by destroying them...
now _thats_ nuts