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Think Perry Rhodan books are bad? Watch the movie
Submitted by Capt. Xerox on November 16, 2006 - 11:09pm.
PCL Linkdump dug up a great YouTube find of a science fiction film so horrible that I've never even heard of it. The movie in question is called Mission Stardust and it's a Perry Rhodan movie. I've never been able to even finish one of those books so I'm not surprised that the movie adaptation is so terrible. If you need an easy way to download Flash video, check out VideoDownloader, a nifty Firefox extension that makes it a snap. They've also got an FLV player with which you can watch your saved videos.
That being said, I did find a copy of Perry Rhodan #1: Enterprise Stardust, so I'm compelled to read it since it's the first in the series and perhaps reading that will unlock the mystery of the others for me. The character does have a cult following so the books can't be all bad. Can they?
The YouTube contribution of Mission Stardust is from a member called Torgo who's uploaded a bunch of other crappy B-movies and labelled them as Torgo's Drive-In. If you liked the Perry Rhodan movie, then you'll love some of his other picks.
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Mission Stardust - been there!
Yeah, I've got a few of those Perry Rhodan "novels" laying around. I stepped up to the plate a few years ago and read that first one, "Mission Stardust". Very cheesy, cliche stuff from what little I remember. I checked my 'database' of book reviews, but alas, I don't have a copy of what I posted at the time.
A colleage reminded me the other day of the internet archive site (www.archive.org) and I decided to see if there was any salvagable books reviews there. I found some a few old reviews from when this site was www.sfmontreal.com, but the earliest records there also pretty coincide with the time I started saving the information myself. Too bad.
Was sfmontreal the URL for the first internet incarnation of BATEOTU, or was there one before that? I'd like to see if there are any other archives of book reviews I can save.
~ Lazarus ~
Old domains for this site
Alas, this site has gone through a few domain names over the years. I first ran it off a web server on a 486 that was modifed with some sort of Pentium overclock add-on thing-a-ma-jig. Since I needed a static IP address for people to find me, I used the services of dynip.com so the very first URL for the site was www.dynip.com/~sfmontreal. At that time, there was still dial-up access to the site as a BBS. Unfortunately, you won't find any of those pages on archive.org
That setup asted until my computer died. Rather than invest in a new machine, I shut-down the BBS and moved to a web host where I then was able to establish a new domain for the site. That was sfmontreal.com. You may recall that I didn't renew the domain when it expired a year or two later and it was snagged by some domain squatter who tried to sell it back to me at a premium. Screw that. I then registered scifimontreal.com.
That lasted for a while until I decided this was the World Wide Web and it was time to drop the Montreal moniker and went for the current domain. I vacillated over whether I should go .com or .ca, but decided it was time to be patriotic and chose the Canadian extension. Actually, someone already owned the .com version of the domain, even though it's not being used.
C.X.
Cybersquating sfmontreal
Yeah, I remembered the cyberquatting incident. I forgot to add in my report about the internet archive that in fact most of the content listed for the old sfmontreal URL are nothing but pseudo pages put up by the squatters.
I would have been very interested in those dynip pages. Even better would be archives of the actual BBS offline mail reader files. Rincewind was at one point quite prolific a book reviewer. I found his reviews interesting in that I could never peg him down one way or the other until he actually commented on a book. Every time I thought I had his tastes figured out, he would surprise me. Except for the Discworld series of course.
~Lazarus~
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