User:Ravening Wolf on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:22:39 +0000
In internet speak, I believe the correct phrase for this movie is "WTF?". Many people rail against "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Robot Monster" as the worst movies ever made, but after watching "The Galaxy Invader" it is obvious that this charge is unfair. TGI (The Galaxy Invader) appears to have been made on a budget of about 50 cents and stars a cast of weirdos who are also related to the director in real life. This is not to say low budget movies with unknown actors are necessarily bad (think "Bad Taste" by Peter Jackson) but TGI is just awful. The effects are poor. The actors cannot act. The storyline is incoherent. One sympathises with the alien who in one scene offs a load of hillbillies who are chasing him; this is a mercy for the audience as it halves the cast of wannabes in one go. Anyway.... A "meteor" comes to earth in a remote American wood. One of the local hillbillies (Hillbilly 1) discovers and shoots an alien whilst out chasing his errant daughter and retrieves a source of alien power. Deciding the alien has the potential to make them rich, Hillbilly 1 and his spiv mate arrange a posse to hunt and capture the alien which they eventually do, wasting half their inbred mates in the process. Unbeknownst to the hillbillies, a pair of liberal college types are tracking the alien at the same time. Horrified by the treatment of the alien by the hillbillies they manage to free him and take off into the woods with Hillbilly 1's family. And that's about it really. At the start of the movie, the alien offs two innocent people in their house for no good reason, but when he falls into the hands of the hillbillies, we are supposed to feel sorry for him. It is these kind of plot holes which make this film so bad. That and the fact that Hillbilly 1 spends the whole movie in a t-shirt which has been ripped in the centre of the chest, exposing a small semi-circle of flesh. Odd. And sadly not even quirkily funny to make up for it...
User:Ravening Wolf on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:22:39 +0000
In internet speak, I believe the correct phrase for this movie is "WTF?". Many people rail against "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Robot Monster" as the worst movies ever made, but after watching "The Galaxy Invader" it is obvious that this charge is unfair. TGI (The Galaxy Invader) appears to have been made on a budget of about 50 cents and stars a cast of weirdos who are also related to the director in real life. This is not to say low budget movies with unknown actors are necessarily bad (think "Bad Taste" by Peter Jackson) but TGI is just awful. The effects are poor. The actors cannot act. The storyline is incoherent. One sympathises with the alien who in one scene offs a load of hillbillies who are chasing him; this is a mercy for the audience as it halves the cast of wannabes in one go. Anyway.... A "meteor" comes to earth in a remote American wood. One of the local hillbillies (Hillbilly 1) discovers and shoots an alien whilst out chasing his errant daughter and retrieves a source of alien power. Deciding the alien has the potential to make them rich, Hillbilly 1 and his spiv mate arrange a posse to hunt and capture the alien which they eventually do, wasting half their inbred mates in the process. Unbeknownst to the hillbillies, a pair of liberal college types are tracking the alien at the same time. Horrified by the treatment of the alien by the hillbillies they manage to free him and take off into the woods with Hillbilly 1's family. And that's about it really. At the start of the movie, the alien offs two innocent people in their house for no good reason, but when he falls into the hands of the hillbillies, we are supposed to feel sorry for him. It is these kind of plot holes which make this film so bad. That and the fact that Hillbilly 1 spends the whole movie in a t-shirt which has been ripped in the centre of the chest, exposing a small semi-circle of flesh. Odd. And sadly not even quirkily funny to make up for it...