Friday, October 30, 2009

I Finished Radar Men From The Moon

First, the good. Of Radar Men From The Moon. The flying effects were great, for Commando Cody. Probably not so great for the spaceship.

It might've helped that Cody had a big mask on. Because some of it was obviously a dummy and the mask would help cover up this fact. And the rest, when it was Cody, it could be played by anyone. How am I supposed to know the difference?

There's one especially good flying scene when he comes swooping across the screen toward the viewer, or more toward the left of the screen. So that's the good.

There's plenty of bad. One of the worst things I saw was an episode toward the end of the thing, when he did a couple flashbacks for the sake of the government guy. That meant replaying large chunks of episode 1. Boring! I skipped through most of that.

The rest of the bad I covered in my other blog posts. Cody made very very stupid moves all through the thing, which of course is needed so that he can end up in a cliffhanger every few minutes. Talk about an idiot though!

The ending has Cody's assistant doing something funny. I didn't buy this, since he didn't do anything funny all through the rest of the shows. You can't have a guy as a comic foil in the last minute who hasn't been that all along.

Cody's crew trying to bring back their captive from the moon was also stupid. Why did they need him? That's bad enough, but they've got him running loose on the ship! Then he rebels and about destroys their entire mission. It makes you wonder, why isn't this guy strapped in or confined? Fortunately he was killed and "buried" in space.

The rest of it -- I wasn't fascinated in the least. And I normally like campy stuff like this. Way too many and too prolonged of fist fights. They seemed endless. Boring stuff.