csakell1 Review of Message from Space

Message from Space (1978)

Pretty Entertaining, but the Rip off is of Star Blazers, not Stat Wars

[6/10 · 8 April 2019]

I find more incidents of borrowing from Star Blazers than Star Wars, and this makes sense since Star Blazers (Yamato anime movies) is a product of Japan from a few years earlier. Gavinas vs. Gamilas, planetary space station vs. white comet, blowing up the moon, mission to blow up station reactor, not destroying earth because of its beauty, wanting unconditional surrender, ships, uniforms, gun designs. More taken from the Comet Empire or Be Forever Yamato specifically. Regardless of the 'borrowing' or inspiration, I enjoyed it and being a huge Star Blazers fan, this might be precisely why I did. Vic Morroe was brilliant in everything he did.