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Post by Xenorama ™ on Sept 9, 2005 14:29:42 GMT -8
this is the first movie, not that stupid ill thought out remake of a year or two ago.
just picked up the DVD, and it's great. lots of extras, three features, commentary by Silvia Anderson (Lady Penelope) and the director. it's well worth the $9.99 i paid for it, i'll tell you what.
gotta love those Martian rock snakes!
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Post by Zone Fighter on Sept 9, 2005 15:17:40 GMT -8
I plan to rent it, eventually.
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Post by amphiboid on Sept 9, 2005 15:32:36 GMT -8
I'm very glad you liked it. Of course, I saw there was a Thunderbirds post here, and so I had to rush in and see what all the hubbub was about!
My favorite thing about that movie is that cooooooooooooooool dream sequence. Granted it has very little to do with the story, but jeez, who cares.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Sept 9, 2005 16:25:32 GMT -8
it's really cool to listen to Sylvia's commentary during the dream sequence, about how they set it up, contacting Cliff and the Shadows, how pleased Cliff and the Shadows were with the sequence, how much the crew enjoyed working on it, etc- i'd better stop listing stuff or you won't need to listen to it.
when i first saw this movie, in about '73 or so, i had never seen the tv show, although i had a coloring book. i thought the characters were supposed to be real people, not marionettes. i was really disappointed at first, but the movie is so good and cool that i forgot by the end of it!
i did want to see more of Thunderbird 1 in the movie, but i've since read that T2 is the most popular of the ships, so that makes sense now.
David
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Post by amphiboid on Sept 9, 2005 17:06:14 GMT -8
When I first saw this around five years ago, I had no real familiarity with the series, and was very very confused. (It had been years since I had seen anything of the original show.) The film assumes you know who the International Rescue people are and what the whole schtick is, and doesn't bother to introduce and explain.
(The 2nd feature "Thunderbird 6" is different, giving you a quick rundown of the vehicles and sort of establishing who the "main" people are.)
So when I saw "Thunderbirds Are GO," I pretty much scratched my head. I thought the big ship at the beginning was a Thunderbird craft, and that those astronauts were International Rescue people. It was a while, a couple of years, before I had enough eduma-cation to properly watch "Thunderbirds are GO" and know who and what everything was.
That said, though, my lack of familiarity with the material made it very easy for me to "get lost in" the story, and I found it compelling anyway...
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Post by Zone Fighter on Sept 19, 2005 13:45:10 GMT -8
In the series I'd like to see more of Thunderbird 3. I would think Alan would get tired of being a tagalong on Thunderbird 2.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Sept 19, 2005 14:45:47 GMT -8
i'd really like a small set of all five Thunderbirds. that would be cool to have. if anyone comes across them, let me know.
i remember being upset that the Airforce had used the Thunderbirds name for their jets. what a silly kid i was! 
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Post by amphiboid on Sept 20, 2005 11:52:49 GMT -8
I have seen small die-cast sets on Ebay quite frequently, apparently everyone wants little Thunderbird ships! And the original two-pack release of the feature film DVDs had a die-cut metallic cardboard "model kit" of all the ships included. I still have mine, and I can't bear to punch out the pieces and fold them to make the models, so there they sit...
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Post by Zone Fighter on Nov 3, 2005 16:14:26 GMT -8
I just watched the movie. I probably wont listen to the commentary. I noticed one small difference between the movie and tv series right away. On tv the opening credit include "Lady Penelope London Agent" in the movie its "Lady Penelope Fab 1". Since they had a larger budget with the movie they could do things like actually have a shirtless Gordon in the pool and the disguises at the end. There were also a lot more close ups on the character's hands (live actors not marrionettes for those). They do some such scenes in the series but not so many. Tintin's father and the Tracy grandmother was not in the movie, otherwise all the regular characters were in the movie, including that spy who keeps surviving crashes that should kill him. He'll be back. The movie wasn't bad but I think the tv episodes are faster paced. I still have 6 episodes to go then "Thunderbird 6".
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Nov 3, 2005 20:10:33 GMT -8
i think in the show Alan doesn't like being the tagalong. it's still a fun movie. Thunderbird 6 is good as well, although i don't like it as much. end is clever though.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Nov 3, 2005 22:34:17 GMT -8
In one episode the brothers are in Paris and go to see a show, but tell Alan he's too young. He's dissapointed until Tintin shows up to spend the evening with him.
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Post by amphiboid on Apr 8, 2006 7:23:00 GMT -8
This is one of those rare shows for me in that it weaves a sort of "magic spell" that has me thinking about and worrying about the characters. I guess it was just well written...the recent live-action feature was amusing, but could have been more engaging, I think.
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