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An error has ocurred. Please try againI excluded non-science fiction movies like Apollo 13 and superhero movies like Captain Marvel, which are more fantasy than science fiction. The list is already quite long, that's why I didn't include television series and animated features, but television movies, miniseries and shorts are listed.
Reviews
Wong so Kong Nam chat ba tin (1962)
Disappointing first Jackie Chan movie
This old black and white Hong Kong movie was considered lost until it appeared on YouTube in 2016. The camera work is very static, wich is okay for the conversations, but it makes the action scenes extremely boring.
The only reason I watched this film was for the first movie appearances of martial arts stars Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, credited here as Yuen Lo and Yuen Lung. Jackie Chan is one of the three older boys, the one with the darkest costume. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo is one of the little kids, in a white costume with decorations. Yuen Wah and Wu Ming-Tsai (as Yuen Ting), two other children of the Seven Little Fortunes can also been seen, but I'm not sure who they are. Since Yuen Wah is older than Jackie Chan, he's probably the other boy in a dark costume.
On Wings of Fire (1986)
Nice movie about Zarathustra
Nice film about Zarathustra, who is portrayed here more as a philosopher than as a prophet. It is only fitting that "A Quest for Zarathustra", the original title of "On Wings of Fire", starts with Richard Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra", which became widely known to the general public through Stanley Kubrick's film "2001, A Space Odyssey". I find it somewhat strange that Zoroastrianism, which dates back at least 3,000 years and has had such a great influence on the world's religions, is today only a small faith community. The Parsis, as they are called, originally lived in Persia. Today they live mainly in India, but many have spread all over the world.
As a Star Trek fan I know at least three Parsi actors who have played in Star Trek: Persis Khambatta (Ilia in Star Trek: The Motion Picture), Nazneen Contractor (Rima Harewood in Star Trek Into Darkness) and Erick Avari (B'iJik in Star Trek TNG en Vedek Yarka in Star Trek DS9). Too bad none of them played in this movie, although Persis Khambatta was apparently considered, see trivia page for more information. Other famous Parsi were Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and Jamsetji Tata, founder of the Tata Group. The Tata group was also one of the film's financial backers.
Doragon Bôru Sûpâ Saiya-jin Zetsumetsu Keikaku (2010)
Basically the same movie as Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, with some differences...
"Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans" (2010) is essentially the same movie as "Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans" (1993), with some minor omissions and a slighty different ending.
In the new movie, the five Saiyans don't get their information from Mr. Popo, they don't travel to other places to fight monsters and destroy more Destron-gas machines, and they don't fight Goddo Gadon on the Dark Planet, which is much closer to Earth than in the old movie. In the last fight with Hatchihyack, all five saiyans combine their powers to fight him, but in the 1993 movie only Goku, Vegeta, Gohan and Trunks fight him. Piccolo is beaten up too much and gives his Senzu Beans to the other Saiyans.
Agent Ranjid rettet die Welt (2012)
Dumb but funny
I liked it! If you're seeking for witty, elevated humor then this movie is not for you. Blundering secret agent Ranjid reminded me of Rowan Atkinson's Johnny English. Main villain Freak van Dyk is played by my favorite actor Rutger Hauer, of whom I've seen more than a hundred movies.
A lot of the jokes are a little lame, but I still had to laugh a lot. As a Dutchman I appreciated the many, many jokes about Dutch habits and peculiarities. I especially liked the orthopedic clogs, orange clothed henchmen, and of course Freak van Dyk's car with very Dutch travel trailer. Production design and visual effects are very nicely done.
De zeemeerman (1996)
Terrible & unbearable
De Zeemeerman is by far the worst picture I've seen this year, and certainly one of the crappiest movies I have ever seen. There are a lot of horrid films where you can laugh at how funny and bad they are, but unfortunately this isn't one of them. Director Frank Herrebout and producer Rob Houwer should be ashamed of making this movie. De Zeemeerman has an extremely poor script, terrible special effects and the most appalling acting I've seen in years. This piece of trash might even take on Honneponnetje for the title of worst Dutch movie in history.
Even if you like bad movies, don't bother with this one. There are millions of better ways to spend almost two hours of your life than this. Go see Plan 9 from Outer Space, or Howard the Duck, or even Battlefield Earth, but don't waste your time on this abominable piece of rubbish.