Queen Of Outer Space

The movie is the movie is the movie - campy, stupid, silly, fun, and dopey. It was not made in the year 2019, it was made in the year 1958. Therefore, if you watch it and get annoyed with its portrayal of the male and female species ignoring the era in which it was made then you're as campy, stupid, sill, fun, and dopey as the movie. Zsa Zsa's acting gives the word "acting" a whole new meaning, and the only excellent performances come from the wonderful character actor Dave Willock and Laurie Mitchell. Let's face it, the rest is pretty much from hunger, but if you like these 1950s sci-fi things, it's very entertaining in its own dopey way.The new Warner Archive Blu-ray looks great with perfect color - yes, the stock footage, which is stretched because it was originally flat and is now scope, looks like merde, and yes the opticals are opticals, but this probably looks better than the release prints did back in the day (and yes I saw it back in the day, Mary). And there you have read all you need to know so the it become "to buy or not to buy" - that is the question. I bought happily.

Queen of Outer Space (1958 – Color)The digital transfer is excellent. Terrific color and clarity. As far as the movie itself, as with all reviews of early science fiction movies, one must view it not with today’s standards and knowledge base, but with the social mores, values and knowledge base of the time. Queen of Outer Space was made in 1958, 59 years ago as of this writing. So, I give it some slack in some areas, none in others.Queen of Outer Space is a maddening, fun movie. Set in 1985, the story puts forth a crew of 3 military men (Air Force?) ferrying an older, portly scientist to a space station a thousand miles above Earth. On the journey, some type of ray destroys the space station and then is turned on to the rocket ship. They try to outrun it and somehow are sped up and seemingly crash land in the snowy area of a tropical planet. As they move towards the warmer area, the scientist, with no particular scientific means, determines they have crashed on Venus. The four are later captured by a bevy of lovely, lovely women wearing short skirts, low-cut shirts and carrying ray guns. They’re brought before the masked Queen and her council. The men find out the women of this planet overthrew the men and sent them to another planet. How they expected the population to continue is anyone’s guess. Convinced the four men are there as a prelude to invasion from Earth, they are sentenced to die. But the Queen is smitten with the Captain and has him brought to her quarters where we find out the Queen is having built a disintegrating ray to destroy the Earth. Why the existing one which destroyed the space station – only 1000 miles from Earth wouldn’t do the job is never explained. We also find out the Queen is horribly disfigured due to radiation exposure. The reason for her hatred of men (except for the Captain, who she thinks is the vanguard of an invasion – don’t ask). Anyway, the beautiful scientist (a young Zsa Zsa Gabor) and some of the women who still like men set their sights on the three military men (of course the portly scientist doesn’t engender the sex appeal necessary for one to get with him) to help overthrow the Queen, save Earth, and have some fun with the men. It all turns out great, the ray is destroyed, as is the evil Queen, the scientist is promoted to Queen, and the men don’t have to return to Earth right away so they can stay and have some fun.Don’t look for logic. Just marvel at the long, long legs and how much Queen of Outer Space used from other movies. The uniforms, and one of the women’s costume was taken from “Forbidden Planet”. Footage of the rocket ship in space, the speed indicator, the ship’s crash landing in the snow, and the over-sized spider are taken from “World Without End”. I don’t know how it happened that most science fiction movies from that era determined women, whether from Earth or other planets, will be walking around in very, very short skirts. Heck, even going through “Star Trek” (the original series) women are shown with a great deal of leg showing. But, being a leg man, I’m grateful.The one aspect I have a problem with is how the men are portrayed. I’m sure there were a lot of men who looked at women as second and third-class people. But this movie really goes overboard. “What can they do? They’re only women!” “Well, you heard what the babe said.” “Oh, come off it! How could a bunch of women invent a gizmo like that?” “Sure, and even if they invented it, how could they aim it? You know how women drivers are!” Really cringe-worthy stuff. The Captain is the only one who seems to have some semblance of respect for others, and himself. One of the Lieutenants is a womanizing cad, and the other seems to be a hayseed doofus. And the portly scientist is there as the voice of reason. But the writers have given him decidedly unscientific dialogue and assertions (i.e. declares they are on Venus with no actual explanations on how he determined it, as well as stating Venus has a couple of moons – even back in 1958 we knew Venus had no moons).In some ways, the movie’s fun. Other times, maddening.

Kind of an okay "men meet exotic outer space babes" kind of flick that's in a gray area of send up and parody, but without any real jokes in the thing, just a kind of loose mockery of the scifi genre. I saw it once or twice on TV growing up, didn't think too much of it, saw the DVD of the whole thing after thirty years.Eh, it's entertaining for what it is, though I'm not sure I'd buy it again if given the chance. I purchased a copy because I simply hadn't see the whole thing in its entirety from start to finish. And based on what I can remember from watching it on TV all those years ago, it seemed pretty boring.To me scifi needs to have some action and philosophy in it, otherwise you get reflective films that are just purely story driven with some stock characters. And that's kind of what this film is.It's more or less a cheering session for nerdy 1950's teenagers and college age types to get interested in girls and romance, and not to hide their inner carnal and heartfelt desires with studying and pursuing academics. At least that's what I think of it.As for the comedy ... it strikes me as being intentionally-unintentional. That is it comes across as half serious, and if someone thought the thing was funny, then that would be an excuse for some pretty shoddy and basic film making. That is I think the film as concieved was meant to be a serious film, but that there really wasn't enough material to make a good serious scifi film, and therefore it was ham-fisted through the production process without regard to the final product.that's my story and I'm sticking with it...As for any other elements, intentional or non, well, it's not one that I'd recommend. If you're looking for serious scifi, look elsewhere. If you're looking for a film that nobody knew what to do with, then scope this thing out. A product of its time.

This movie feels familiar in the sense that it's probably the source (or one of) for a lot of the campy looking sci-fi scenes, recreated in remembrance of this era. There are lots of women in mini-dresses with ray-guns and they live in a technological society without men, but they all secretly want a boyfriend/husband. You, the potential viewer, can probably guess all of the plot points correctly prior to seeing the movie. Still, it's sort of worth watching, if you can get past all of the dramatic falling-in-love in at first sight. The transfer is great and the colors are bright and vivid. The special effects are a blend of crude set pieces and cruder animation, but still, it's a fun watch.

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The women are beautiful

Bild und Ton Qualität sind hervorragend.Was die Trickaufnahmen betrifft, kann sich der Film Sehr Gut mit anderen Klassikern der späten 50er messen. Gut gemachte Raketensequenzen, Futuristische Einrichtungen welche nicht an das typische Wohnzimmer der Zeit erinnert ect. Auch Statistiten gibt es jede Menge (Männer in Militäruniformen und Frauen in Minikleidchen im Übermaß) Was mich immer wieder hervorragend unterhalten hat, war das typische Geschlechterbild der damaligen Zeit, welches selbst für einen Film aus der Zeit die Klischees über die Maßen bedient. Wäre dies ein Film aus der heutigen Zeit, könnte Er nur als Satire durchgehen. Alles andere würde (zu Recht) zu jede Menge Proteste führen. Alleine schon der Satz:" Aber den Todesstrahl können Sie doch nicht ohne Hilfe gebaut haben. Denk nur an Frauen im Umgang mit Autos" (gefolgt von allgemeinem Kopfnicken).Ich auf jeden Fall habe mich prächtig amüsiert. Ein Film für jeden SiFi Klassik Fan, der gerne über die Weltansicht von Damals (völlig unpolitisch) lachen kann.

Wunderschöne,alte und knautschige Sci-Fi-Welt!! Nicht über Logik oder korrekte wissenschaftliche Dinge nachdenken, sondern entspannt anschauen!! Die alten Farben, die einfach gestrickten Filmtricks, kurze Röcke und allzu menschliches Liebesgehabe einfach entspannt anschauen!!!