This is high school level filmmaking, and I'm talking freshman year first submittal. It has an always-present musical score that can only be described as the "B" side of Olivia Newton-John singles sung in Japanese, but not half that entertaining. The horrific music is not only unrelenting, but the entire movie is repleat with musical interludes featuring song-length servings of nature scenes, or people frolicking on the beach. You do realize I'm still talking about Sayonara Jupiter, right?
The premise is very compelling; a black hole enroute to collide with our sun, some alien life type discoveries, and a novel way of rescuing the earth. Now I like all types of sci-fi, including low-budget Kaiju film, so I knew what to expect (or so I thought). But that torturous music WILL NOT STOP. At least the stilty dialog and terrible acting is punctuated by a line occasionally being delivered believably (though rarely), but that music...
All scenes take place in only five or six rooms and one small beach area. The "giant space station" is comprised of about four of those rooms with a mission control type room being the other. The approach to planets and so forth are all shot by the camera zooming in or out on a grainy still. A few slow-flying laser bullets, too. You know the kind.
Did I mention the fat Japanese Jerry Garcia who heads a Jupiter cult? He's intent on seeing this space project stopped. Well, he is until his pet dolphin gets bit by a shark. But hey, if you want to hear him perform some lengthy numbers while watching old Wild Kingdom stock footage, don't pass up this cinematic wunderkind. Otherwise, I haven't wanted two hours back this badly in a long time.
The premise is very compelling; a black hole enroute to collide with our sun, some alien life type discoveries, and a novel way of rescuing the earth. Now I like all types of sci-fi, including low-budget Kaiju film, so I knew what to expect (or so I thought). But that torturous music WILL NOT STOP. At least the stilty dialog and terrible acting is punctuated by a line occasionally being delivered believably (though rarely), but that music...
All scenes take place in only five or six rooms and one small beach area. The "giant space station" is comprised of about four of those rooms with a mission control type room being the other. The approach to planets and so forth are all shot by the camera zooming in or out on a grainy still. A few slow-flying laser bullets, too. You know the kind.
Did I mention the fat Japanese Jerry Garcia who heads a Jupiter cult? He's intent on seeing this space project stopped. Well, he is until his pet dolphin gets bit by a shark. But hey, if you want to hear him perform some lengthy numbers while watching old Wild Kingdom stock footage, don't pass up this cinematic wunderkind. Otherwise, I haven't wanted two hours back this badly in a long time.