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Saturday 13 May 2017

Na'vi Jedi?

Watching James Cameron's famous sci-fi film Avatar (2009) and the Star Wars canon space opera film Rogue One (also known as "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" or "Star Wars: Rogue One") I noticed that are some common items: in fact, the Rebel Rogue One squad and their Zeta-class cargo shuttle SW-0608 are very similar to the rogue scientists lead by "Jakesully" and their helicopter: Rogue One!

But it's not all: the Battle of Scarif is similar to the battle on Pandora from Avatar: the scientist's pod is like the Imperial security complex and the Citadel Tower on Scarif, Colonel Quaritch is very similar to Orson Krennic, Trudy to Bodhi Rook, the outcome of the battles is almost identical,...

Wednesday 10 May 2017

Ghostbusting Titanic


The picture below is a screenshot from the 1989 sequel of the famous 1984 film Ghostbusters: Ghostbusters II. In this film, shortly before the soul of the Moldovan tyrant Vigo the Carpathian takes power by exiting from the painting where it was trapped, many people called the NYPD after seeing ghosts in Manhattan, where the Ghostbusters Peter Venkman, "Ray" Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore and their friends Janine Melnitz, Louis Tully and Dana Barrett lived.
One of thes ghosts is the ghost of the wreck of the famed British ship RMS Titanic, that appears in a gag scene during Chapter 21 of Ghostbusters II.
The Royal Mail Ship Titanic was a White Star Line Olympic-class ocean liner launched on May, 31, 1911; that sunk on April, 14, 1912 after the collision with an iceberg and was found underwater in 1985, four years before the release of the film, but the Industrial Light & Magic model used in the film is clearly different from the real ship wreckage and any other ship that sunk after the collision with an iceberg!

Saturday 6 May 2017

"UFO" over the TV

Not so many people know that Gerry Anderson's TV series UFO wasn't only a TV series: there were some comics, films and more, too.

In Italy, for example, were produced many UFO compilation movies, because the Italian-language UFO was aired on the regional television channel of the Swiss Republic and Canton of Ticino and only in northern Italy people watched it: UFO - Allarme rosso... attacco alla Terra! (1973), UFO - Distruggete Base Luna (1973; this movie served as namesake for a board game, too), UFO - Prendeteli vivi (1974) and UFO - Contatto radar... stanno atterrando...! (1974) and UFO - Annientate SHADO... Uccidete Straker... Stop! (1974).
In 1971, 1972 and 1973, American magazines Countdown and TV Action published fourty-eight UFO comic strips, too.
But it isn't all: in 1970, Pan Books Ltd. publixhed a book titled Gerry Anderson's UFO #1 (ISBN:0330026445).