NUDE ON THE MOON -- Raymond Phelan & Doris Wishman, dirs

©1961
studio: Image Entertainment
production company:
director: Raymond Phelan, Doris Wishman
cast: Marietta, William Mayer, Lester Brown, Ira Magee, Lacey Kelly, Shelby Livingston, Robert W. Kyorimee, Joyce M. Geary, Charles Allen, Evelyn Burke, Joyce Brooks, Hugh Brooks, Mary Lassey, R.C. Lassey, Robert B. Lassey
screenplay: Raymond Phelan, Doris Wishman

Astronauts discover a nudist camp on the moon! A brilliant young rocket scientist and his professor friend decide to build a spaceship and blast off to the moon. Donning idiotic pajama-like space suits, they land on the lunar surface and discover a nudist camp populated by shapely telepathic moon gals with antennae on their heads! After first being rendered helpless by a moon doll's magic wand, the men are eventually allowed to wander about and witness the naked marvels of life in outer space. [amazon.com]

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I decided to rent this after reading a short review from one of my favorite sci-fi authors, John Varley. It's pure camp, with lots of bare female breasts. And the purpose of it is... I think I just said...lots of bare female breasts. What more do you want in a campy film?

There's no plot, just an excuse to get a couple of guys in among the naked girls. What strikes me as amusing is that the guys don't seem to really care much that these women are shapely and naked. All they care about is documenting it for scientific research (such as it is).

Being a very low budget skin flick, one would expect lots of gaffs and errors, and there are plenty if you're bored watching the breasts and butt cracks. My favorite mistake is the fact that the earth is rotating in the wrong direction!

If you like watching the occassional 'B' movie, this is a classic. It's maybe more a "C" movie.

TRANSFORMERS -- Michael Bay, dir

©2007
studio: Dreamworks Video
production company: DreamWorks SKG, Hasbro (in association with) Di Bonaventura Pictures, Paramount Pictures, SprocketHeads, thinkfilm (Washington DC scenes)
director: Michael bay
cast: Shia Labeouf, Megan Fox, Jon Voight, Hugo Weaving, Josh Duhamel
screenplay: Roberto Orci (screenplay) & Alex Kurtzman (screenplay); John Rogers (story) and Roberto Orci (story) & Alex Kurtzman (story)

An ancient struggle re-erupts on Earth between two extraterrestrial clans, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a young teenager.

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I'm not quite sure why I watched this except that it's been sitting around and I just wanted to get it over with.

I'm a tad too old to have enjoyed the Transformers series in animation or any of the comic books, but I thought I'd give it a try. Mostly I found this to be an annoying film, difficult to follow the action sequences. Which Transformer is which? A couple of them were easy to identify, due to their colring, but not all of them.

This seems to be mostly a film about watching the cool effects of electronic gadgets and cars transforming into something else. In fact, this might make a great college drinking game -- down a beer everytime there's an on-screen transformation!

The only positive thing about this film was Megan Fox. Not her acting...just her being there.