College Republican nonsense:

My friend and co-host of Race to Right Tony Garcia has been having some fun with certain nameless comment leavers on his website.

Let me just say that I always sign everything I write. I don’t do any anonymously posting or blogging. Sorry if this is a little in right field, but everytime an anonymous anti-Hoplin blog comes up, some CR hack accuses the author of being me. You can read about what I really think of Eric Hoplin here.

Bargain Bin Movie Review

Warning from Space

AKA The Cosmic Man Appears in Tokyo.

(1956)

Location: Best Buy

Price: $5.99 (included two other films, “Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet” and “Assignment: Outer Space”)

This beauty had my name written all over it. First we had the terrible costumes of space aliens that were shaped like starfish. Starfish that had a giant fluorescent eye smack dab in the middle of their bodies, and they had no arms or usable appendages, so they were psychic. Second, there were the state of the art special effects, like the gold spray painted cardboard that made up the space aliens’ fleet. Third, there was the completely unbelievable plot. Let’s see, a planet from another galaxy that is sort of like a star in the sense that it is really hot, is coming straight at Tokyo. An alien race (those starfish Cyclops things) is trying to warn the world, but everyone just freaks out whenever they see these guys (Doesn’t anyone own an aquarium?) so that the starfish people have to morph into really almost semi-attractive Japanese s to get old nutty scientists to notice them. On top of all that, the film was dubbed into English.

The best part about this film is that it was a serious effort. The acting is that of deep drama and intensity. The special effects are used a tremendous amount (strangely enough, the effects even get better as the movie goes on). The viewer even begins to share concern with the characters as their acting careers end tragically.

But alas, this movie is terrible. During one scene (the “Panic Scene”) people are seen fleeing Tokyo for no reason whatsoever. There are images of people jumping off moving trains, the police chief of Tokyo decides to have the city evacuated. It’s an illogical order as the Earth is being threatened by A PLANET, moving away from Tokyo is not going to help much. In fact, after the one eyed aliens make contact with the Japanese scientists, the viewer spends the rest of the film completely confused. The aliens come and go as they please, only appearing when really, really necessary. But, thankfully (spoiler ahead) everything turns out fine, except for the millions of people killed by heat stroke and panic.

I highly recommend that you go out right now to Best Buy and get this movie. Mainly because, though I’ve never met you, I probably don’t like you.