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Steampunk Fleet Destroyed by Lighter Fluid Conflagration
Pros: The steampunk fleet of space ships' design is novel and stylistically creative. There is plenty of tongue-in-cheek dark humor, irony, and an epic amount of obtuse military strategic dialog that may elicit some wry smiles from the audience. Although space ship fleets are constantly seen tracking across dim star fields, they sometimes effectively appear like an ominous swarm of dark locusts invading the galaxy.
Cons: Aside from Tobler's soon to be discarded family, this film is populated by a retinue of nihilistic and amoral characters that the viewer won't care about. The SPX in this film are on par with early 70's Dr. Who eps (i.e. table top sets decorated with plastic toys and paper mache landscapes), but with a seemingly unlimited budget for lighter fluid fires (e.g. burning space colonies, ships, etc.). Needlessly jump cutting to a different crudely drawn space war maps every ten minutes becomes tiresome. Superfluous zoomed-in close-ups of eyeballs and mouths should and have ended on the editing room floor. In addition, the Asian concubine of the 6th Fleet Admiral had several exploitive naked scenes that were uncomfortably unsavory.
For something startling offbeat, WTATDOT6F offers a very different kind of scif film, but most genre fans will probably walk away while shaking their heads in disbelief.
Cons: Aside from Tobler's soon to be discarded family, this film is populated by a retinue of nihilistic and amoral characters that the viewer won't care about. The SPX in this film are on par with early 70's Dr. Who eps (i.e. table top sets decorated with plastic toys and paper mache landscapes), but with a seemingly unlimited budget for lighter fluid fires (e.g. burning space colonies, ships, etc.). Needlessly jump cutting to a different crudely drawn space war maps every ten minutes becomes tiresome. Superfluous zoomed-in close-ups of eyeballs and mouths should and have ended on the editing room floor. In addition, the Asian concubine of the 6th Fleet Admiral had several exploitive naked scenes that were uncomfortably unsavory.
For something startling offbeat, WTATDOT6F offers a very different kind of scif film, but most genre fans will probably walk away while shaking their heads in disbelief.
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By what name was Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte (1972) officially released in Canada in English?
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