AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Curtis G. "U.F.O." (pronounced YOU-foe by Ed Straker) was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. I still have my original Dinky Interceptor toy. When the remastered DVD box set was released, I bought it immediately. I finally finished watching the series, and although it brought back fond memories, it struck me how wonderfully inept the show actually was.Derek Meddings' models were fantastic, of course, and the effects were on par with the other Gerry Anderson shows like "Thunderbirds," but dramatically, technically and logically, it was downright awful. (For example: On Moonbase, you can shut off your roommate's oxygen supply and no alarm will sound. And the best way to deal with an alien-controlled woman who wants to blow up your base is to spend 6 hours falling in love with her and then TAKE HER TO THE BASE.)It's like it was written by kids and realized by adults. It's a kids' show masquerading as a show for grown-ups. (I'm still fond of it, of course.)

catey-49 I was hooked on this show from episode one, although I seem to be one of the few of my friends who remembers it. I was maybe twelve years old, but I loved the adult themes and personal stories. Plus I had a huge crush on Paul Foster....bet I'm not the only one. He was front and center for the whole last half of the series, by Straker's side every moment. Poor bugger, in almost every episode he gets the crap beat out of him. Or gets to kiss the girl. Or both. So glad I bought the series on DVD.Straker is a super cool character. The platinum hair gives him just the right icy touch, and he is believable as the commander of this life-and-death organization. He is constantly fighting for funding against beurocrats who can only see the bottom line, and his devotion to his work has cost him his marriage and his family. His isolation and loneliness are a constant theme, although they're never spelled out....only illustrated by Ed Bishop's wonderful performance.

jefffisher65-708-541158 UFO is another of those great childhood memories of mine of 1970s TV sci-fi & horror films, and television programs. I believe the series had a delayed showing in the Sates, as it seems to have been around 1972, or 1973 when I recall first watching it. Something of a surprise it ran at all in my area, really. I was too young to appreciate Gabrielle Drake's stunning beauty at the time(it's a shame she wasn't in all of the episodes), but the various spacecraft stuck in my mind, of course, as did the moon base. It seemed reasonable in those days we would have a real-life moonbase fairly-soon, after all.Upon watching the series through as an adult, some problems become obvious; i.e., how a moonbase could remain hidden on the Earth side face of the moon from even small telescopes, how SHADO technology was pretty much equal to the alien's craft, and how remarkably poor shots the aliens generally were. That said, it's a classic series which deserved better when it was originally produced, and deserves to be better known yet today. No doubt the various vehicles will elicit laughter as models from today's young CGI-jaded fans, but are still quite cool, anyway. Some of them stuck in my memory for years, like the one where the alien tried to defect to our side, and the installment where a SHADO probe follows a saucer back to their home planet.Yes, a darker series than most in the genre, as matters didn't always turn out for the best for everyone, but this perhaps made it a bit more realistic in the end. Highly recommended.

karlfred In the early 70ies I saw it in B&W, but something that struck me firsthand was the main theme by Barry Gray: what an incredible music! Then there was all these "realistic" future production design: Ed Straker's turbine car, the fighter jet that was launched from a submarine (Sky Diver), the moonbase with these three girls (later I become aware that their hair was purple), and the space interceptors. Another very cool thing were the UFOs, they rotate making a very funny noise. When I buy the DVD collector set, after more than 35 years, I became aware that it was undoubtedly retro, but a very serious approach to a fictitious future environment. The SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization) sounds too much like SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) and all those Cold War's codes and organizations. Highly recommend it for the Sci Fi fans.