Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons Review

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1960's, angels, animation, captain black, captain blue, captain scarlet, color, dark, Gerry Anderson, mysterons, shout tv, spectrum, Tubi.tv

 

First saw this on either the Shout TV! App or the Tubi TV app, thinking it would just be like Thunderbirds but in different outfits. This was different, the good different, this show first takes place on Mars in 2068 where some people destroy a Martian City. It feels like a misunderstanding but because of that, the Mysterons think of the Earth as a threat.

The Mysterons can recreate an object or person but they have to destroy the original form first. It seems at first the Mysterons have on physical forms so they use Captain Black of SPECTRUM as their agent. The first episode gets everything rolling and explains who Captain Scarlet is and what happened to him.

SPECTRUM is also this organization that combats the Mysterons threats every episode and is who Captain Scarlet works for. They also have a Flying Fortress with a crew and a squad of female jet fighter pilots called “the Angels”.

After the first episode, it’s the established that Captain Scarlet is himself again and is indestructible. Even though when the doctor explains his condition it sounds like he can regenerate than be indestructible. Captain Scarlet ends up being the way to combat the Mysterons when they tell SPECTRUM what the will do.

When the first few episodes were done I was hooked! The story feels dark and the episodes are around 30 minutes which isn’t very long compared to Thunderbirds. Give this a watch when you can since it has the same Thunderbirds animation but a bit of a darker story to it. You can find this on either the Shout tv! App or the Tubi tv app if you don’t mind commercials in the videos.

Thunderbirds Original Review

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1960's, amazon video, color, Gerry Anderson, hd, pop art, Puppets, shout tv, shout tv app, Stingray, Team America World Police, Thunderbirds, thunderbirds are go, tv

Watching this reminded me not just of the reboot, Thunderbirds Are Go!, but of the movie Team America: World Police. Since this uses puppets or marinates like that movie did. After binge watching Thunderbirds Are Go! on Amazon video it made me want to see the original show.

Watching it on the Shout! Tv app I was surprised at all the sets and the little vehicles made for this show. The original is about an hour long and the pace might be kinda slow to today’s audience. Since this was made in the 1960’s and television was more in your face at the time.

It’s also pretty colorful it being a 1960’s animation show, has that pop art feel to it and is even more amazing in HD. This show was also considered to be the crow jewel in Gerry Anderson’s shows with the puppets. You can give this and his other works a watch since they all have their own strengths to them as well. There’s also my Stingray review if you want to know about that show as well.

Stingray Review

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1960's, animation, APF, color, dvds, fish tank, imaginative, Puppets, Roku App, Shout Factory, Shout Factory TV App, South Park, Stingray, supermarionation, Team America World Police, Thunderbirds, TV show, underwater, WASP, water

Watching this I kinda thought it would be just Thunderbirds underwater but these shows are pretty imaginative for the time. Pretty much anything by APF around the 60’s was creative in there own way with the puppets too.

This starts with WASP the World Aquanaut Security Patrol investigating a why a submarine was destroyed. They take Stingray, an experimental submarine WASP made to check it out.

The people who pilot Stingray get kidnapped by some underwater people and then they stand for some weird trial. After that the pilots get saved by this mute girl Marina and they add her to the WASP team.

I also heard what Stingray had that Thunderbirds didn’t was character development and that kinda interested me. Making you feel for these characters that might not be as wooden as Pinocchio sounds good. Even the South Park people used this kind of animation for Team America: World Police and it was amazing. This show is also on the Shout Factory TV Roku app and maybe online if you can find it, as well as DVD’s too. The show for the underwater scenes looks like it was done in a fish tank but I think that was the beauty of these shows. Since some shows in the 1960’s taught you that you didn’t need a big budget for a show. As long as you have some good writing and good visuals.

Dawn of the Dead Review (Original)

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1970's, bikers, Cinema Snob, classic, color, Day of the Dead, helicopter, Hell of the Living Dead, High Definition, mall, night of the living dead, SWAT, The Goblins, Tom Savini, TV studio, zombies

I never really saw the original Dawn of the Dead until now. Saw the remake but the original is better than that remake of Dawn of the Dead. It starts off at a TV station showing how the zombies are slowly attacking. Also The Goblins, the band used for the Dawn of the Dead, I first heard they’re music from Hell of the Living Dead when the Cinema Snob reviewed it. Dawn of the Dead also looks good in color especially in High Definition. Then at the TV studio a girl and a guy try to leave the studio while some SWAT guys do a raid on some building. When the shootout happens it’s kind of terrible seeing the living kill the living in these movies. Zombies are also at the building where the SWAT team is and they try and kill them. The makeup I think is okay for the movie and in color, so was the Walking Dead too. A black guy and a white guy from the SWAT team try to talk, bond, and escape the SWAT team. The guy and girl meet the SWAT guys at a police station where they take a helicopter. When going around in the helicopter they see the activity on the ground of the living trying to kill the zombies. They go to refuel and when the guy gets in trouble the girl doesn’t seem to help. There’s also a scene where a zombie gets his part of head cut off from one of the helicopter blades too. Also black guy kills some zombie kids as well. They then discover a mall where they decide to live there. Also they lure and contain the dead so the place can be safe inside. There’s also some subtext about mall shoppers as well in the movie. Even though mall are kind of dying today with all this online shopping now. They seem to enjoy the place and most of the movie I think is this. They also find out the girl is pregnant even though there’s scenes of her smoking and drinking still. Then some bikers come by and try to raid the mall and Tom Savini’s one of them too. The gore in this movie isn’t too over the top like in Day of the Dead and I’m kind of glad. Then the guy, I think his name is Steve, gets shot, then bitten by the zombies. Black guy and girl then finish him off to save him from a fate worse than death when they get inside. The end I can say is a bit on the lighter note then in Night of the Living Dead I can tell you that. I also heard they did the movie at night when the mall was closed. Which would seem kind of hard if you think about it. Anyway this is a great movie and a classic regardless of the zombie craze. give it a watch if you can or not as scared easily.