War of the Robots 1978

With all the classic cheese a 1970’s science fiction movie can muster, a group of aliens who look like members of a 70’s rock band, only they all look and dress alike, arrive on earth to kidnap a delicious looking blond scientist and her professor to help save their race. Word gets out about the kidnapping. Professor Karr and Lois are gone! Taking by aliens! The main reason for the kidnapping may be due to Professor Karr learning how to create life. So a team of scientist are sent out to space to find where they may have been taken.

During the trip to outer space to try and save Karr and Lois, the ship is attack by alien ships that are protecting the mother ship that has the two scientist. So the ship has to land on a planet to make repairs. The crew has to make an emergency landing on a nearby planet to make repairs. For some strange reason, instead of making repairs, most of the crew leaves the ship to explore the planet. While exploring the planet, one team member uses something that look and operates a lot like a metal detector to seek out life. Strange!

It is learned that the aliens from the planet Anthor are kidnapping the inhabitants of the planet the ship crashed on to take their internal organs so members of Anthor can have eternal life. This explains why Lois and Karr were kidnapped. Once the repairs are made, our hero’s are off to the far away planet of Anthor to save Karr and Lois and put an end to the terror caused by the alien race.

There are plenty of fun plot twist in this cheeky little adventure. Enough twist to help you stay awake once you make it past the first thirty minutes. I fell asleep four times in the first half hour trying to revue this movie. I had to keep starting over! This movie was made in 1978 and does it's best to cash in on the big Star Wars craze that was going on in the 70's. You can find a little bit of everything influencing this dandy ditty. The space ships and scenes where the ships are damaged come right out of classic Star Trek. The fight scenes use swords that light up like light sabers in Star Wars and the final battle looks like something we would see on the old Battlestar Galactica. The use of lighting was excellent. The colors used helped make up for the lack of originality.

First Spaceship on Venus

A spool has fallen from outer space and discovered in 1985. A group of people led by dr. chin feel this meteor is actually a fragment from a spaceship that blew up while trying to enter the earths atmosphere in 1905 from then planet Venus. The aliens from Venus make an attempt to contact the people of earth. The decision is made to send a crew and ship to Venus. The ship is called “Cosmotrator one”. African Americans and women are shown in non traditional rolls for when the movie was made. Black scientist and a female astronaught.

The crew chosen for the Cosmotrator is made up of several white males, one female and one black male. The movie was made in 1960 and considering how women and African Americans were looked upon, this movie did a nice job of placing minorities in leadership rolls.

After hundred’s gathered watched the successful launch of the ship and it’s crew, the astrounughts encounter a massive meteor show that damages the underneath of the ship forcing the crew to do a spacewalk to repair the damage.

Just days away from arriving on the planet Venus, the scientist on board were able to decode the message received from the fart away planet. It is learned that the Martians on Venus were planning to launch an intergalactic atomic war on planet earth. The crew had to decide if they should proceed with the mission knowing how dangerous it could be, or to proceed as planned. They choose to move forward. However, a few of them would never return!




Once on Venus, the crew discovers small mechanical bugs. They take one back to ship and after several painstaking hours of research, it is discovered that the bugs are like little encyclopedias that have information about the technology used by the inhabitants of Venus and their plans to destroy the earth!

The print this movie was taken from if any print was used at all was very poor and at times the images were very dark and hard to see. When the African American member of the team was on screen, all you could make out were teeth and eyes. The sound near the beginning of the film was slipping and it took at good twenty minutes into the movie for the sound to sync up. Still the movie was fun and the dangers encountered by the team made for some great storytelling.