Sci-Fighters

Starring:Roddy Piper, Jayne Heitmeyer, Billy Drago, Tyrone Benskin, Richard Raybourne, Donna Sarrasin, Karen Elkin, Chip Chuipka, Ricky Mabe, Andy Bradshaw, Richard Zeman, Danielle DÃ©sormeaux, Howard Rosenstein (II), Philip Pretten, Carl Alacchi, Doris Milmore, Gaeton Cusson, James Rae, Johni Keyworth, Alvin Tam
Director: Peter Svatek
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko directed this 1989 feature based on his own manga. The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before it's captured by Ishtar. She falls in with a bunch of teen-agers who live for a sort of motorcycle version of Roller Derby. Daredevil rider Hiro and his friends reluctantly join the struggle to free Aphrodia from the invaders. Not surprisingly, Hiro proves an ace at piloting the mono-cyles that are the Aphrodians' secret weapon in the key battle. Venus Wars holds better than many early anime features. The American-influenced designs may annoy purists, but the characters are well developed and the battle scenes well staged, despite the limited technological resources available at the time. (Rated 13 and older: violence, profanity, alcohol use, risqué humor) --Charles Solomon

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On the hostile world of Venus, where vicious gangs roam the streets and nations battle for supremacy, a hotshot motorcycle jockey and a feisty Earth journalist are caught in the crossfire as war erupts.

Customer Reviews:

This war could have happened on Neptune or Earth.......2007-06-18

This is a mixed bag for me. Its not a bad anime but it was nothing breathtaking for me either. What little it had was entertaining. To include the very cheap price I paid for it was worth it.

Venus Wars didn't have a very interesting story to me. The characters weren't very likeable to me either, regardless how developed some of them were. The saving grace was the plot. Venus is inhabited by humans. It was later invaded by humans. The invasion was very quick and decisive. It took no time for marshall law to set in. A few digruntled rebels decided to put a plan together and fight. I'm sure you can figure what happens next.

The battles consist of high speed chases and an all out war. I don't think this anime would satisfy all action junkies. The level of gore is non existent and the blood is minor. So to all you out there expecting to see exploding heads and bullet breakdancin' bodies can forget it. Yet the battles still manage to be decent. A remastered version would've defintly helped the animation. I rarely touch the animation but this is one of the few times I felt it could have been cleaned up some. At some points it just seemed overly dark and outdated to me.

This is a pretty good buy for the cheap price. If you want something straightforward and easy to follow then this is your anime.

Cool Movie.......2007-05-31

I first watched this movie on T.V. and I was in love with it. I found it better then Robotech and the cat Voltron. It has a great storyline and the action parts are awesome. If you are looking for a good story and some good anime then this is it, There is also a manga for those people who love to read the graphic novels.

High-quality, serious story line, good visuals appeal.......2007-04-17

Let me keep this short and sweet. I really like the movie because of the well developed story and the overall feel. It easily ranks with classics like Bubble Gum Crisis, and live action films like Terminator. There is an 80s feel to it, but it is not cheesy in any way. A+

Not Robotech style action but entertaining........2006-07-29

Is a good anime because is HIGH BUGET ACTION-PACKED. But it wasn't cool as Robotech (Macross), the action scenes weren't THAT fast, the kid (main character) doesn't shoot to many bad guys with his "battle-motorcycle" and there wasn't to much battle war shooting like in Robotech.

The action is top notch because the motorcycle runnings were cool, and the action scenes are very reailistic with tons of shooting but not on the battle wars (only on the normal action scenes). And of course, the drama is great with an easy storyline to follow.

The dvd wasn't good because the anime wasn't remastered, so the colors can be dark and annoying sometimes.

Adios.

Actually it's 3.5 but I'd give it a four...........2005-12-26

I watched this on TV and I will give a review. I watched it because there wasn't anything better on. So it's about a hostile takeover in Venus and a group of ordinary people try to survive the war-torn planet. I liked this movie it gave a nice amount of action and it has this feel in a war movie where all you give a damn is will the characters make it or come back in a body bag. However, thrilling as the movie is I had a problem for liking the characters some of them are stupid and some I don't give a care. Like this one girl where she left the safety with the gun trying to kill the general I was laughing and crying at the same time. Not to mention the story I cared less of the nonsense dialogue. Drawbacks aside it's action-packed and it's a pretty cool movie.

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Low Budget is NOT at Fault...
I'll Take This "B" Movie Over A Coma Anyday
A Good Futuristic Film
THE METHANE MENACE
Sci-Fighters good vehicle for Drago

Sci-Fighters
Starring: Roddy Piper , Jayne Heitmeyer , Billy Drago , Tyrone Benskin , and Richard Raybourne
Director: Peter Svatek
Manufacturer: Vintage Home Ent.
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Release Date: 2004-01-06

Customer Reviews:

Low Budget is NOT at Fault..........2006-07-05

...this is simply a movie with an illogical premise, a poor story, some weak acting, and predictability at every turn. Yes, it's a low-budget flick that features actors who are not big names in Hollywood, but the problem is the writing (flunk!), the special effects (errrr...), and the lack of any characters to really care about. Oh, the lead actress is hot. Not hot enough that one would care if she lives or dies; looks alone do not make a good actress.

Had this big a big-budget picture, THEN it would have been a bad movie with well-known actors and cool special effects. That is, nothing could save this one from being lousy: they made the Titanic of all films, and down she went...

Use your money wisely: buy SOME OTHER low budget bad movie.

I'll Take This "B" Movie Over A Coma Anyday.......2005-09-19

I've seen hundreds of Sci Fi/Horror movies over the years. This is one of those you'll wonder whether you've watched it or not a few years down the road. You just can't remember.

All in all, I figure it's still better to watch a so-so Sci Fi/Horror movie than "Dances With Wolves" or "Evita". This movie will end up being non-memorable, but it's preferable to being in a coma.

A Good Futuristic Film.......2003-05-21

If anyone is swayed by the almost funny title of "Sci-Fighters," then they are wrong in not seeing this film. Former WCW World Heavyweight Champion "Rowdy" Roddy Piper plays a very good part in Cameron, a part not unlike his character in "They Live", another cult favorite of mine.

This film is for anyone who likes futuristic adventures like "Screamers", "Blade Runner," or "RoboCop". It has some of the best visual effects in a film with the backgrounds and the fight scenes. Although you can see where they dubbed some of the foul language in the establishing scenes, it is a good film for the cult film arcives.

THE METHANE MENACE.......2003-01-02

My friend and I like to browse the video rental stores for movies that we think would be excellent targets to poke fun at.

Sci Fighters.

What a stupid name for a movie! We just had to try this one out.

Unfortunately for us this movie wasn't all that bad. The beginning was very weird, though. Prisoners are placed on the moon in a Lunar prison. The movie shows two prisoners standing at a table with power tools--apparently prisoners do labor of some sort--when suddenly they start attacking each other with saws. Prisoner A--Adriann Dunn (why does he have a girl's name?) kills prisoner B and then tries to make it look like an accident. Then, for some stupid, unknown reason he takes a screwdriver and stabs himself in the arm. But oh, apparently prisoner B isn't dead yet and some weird tentacle thing springs out and attacks Dunn's arm.

Watch out for this scene where the detective is asking this nurse where someone is. The nurse says "BEHIND you." But then the detective turns to his RIGHT, because that's where the guy is.

And I can't believe that it takes the good guys forever to realize that all it takes is a Bic lighter to destroy the methane-breathing menace. There are so many ways that they could have made this movie funnier.

"Mommy, that man has a potty mouth." or they could have tried to thwart the methane menace with air freshener. So many possibilities.

But like I say, the movie's not that bad. Worth a rental, no more.

Sci-Fighters good vehicle for Drago.......2001-05-27

Veteran character actor Billy Drago (Delta Force 2) gives one of his most frightening lead performances in "Sci-Fighters". He plays Adrian Dunn, a convict infected with an alien virus. His character has the usual psychotic behavior that Mr. Drago has perfected in past portrayals. But he also has a mutating virus that adds even more menace to his character. Roddy Piper (Jungleground) is good as the "regular guy" detective on Dunn's trail. Jane Heitmeyer (Face the Evil) plays the doctor trying to cure the virus and gets caught up in Dunn's sexual fantasies. The movie has a good storyline and acting, lots of action, special effects and wastes no time getting into the story. Though low-budget, it delivers more than most. This is a must have for Mr. Drago fans and those loving sci-fi.

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This war could have happened on Neptune or Earth
Cool Movie
High-quality, serious story line, good visuals appeal
Not Robotech style action but entertaining.
Actually it's 3.5 but I'd give it a four....

The Venus Wars
Starring: Gorô Naya , Anna Alba , Bob Sessions , Bradley Cole , and Denica Fairman
Director: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
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Customer Reviews:

This war could have happened on Neptune or Earth.......2007-06-18

Cool Movie.......2007-05-31

High-quality, serious story line, good visuals appeal.......2007-04-17

Not Robotech style action but entertaining........2006-07-29

Actually it's 3.5 but I'd give it a four...........2005-12-26

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Low Budget is NOT at Fault...
I'll Take This "B" Movie Over A Coma Anyday
A Good Futuristic Film
THE METHANE MENACE
Sci-Fighters good vehicle for Drago

Sci-Fighters
Starring: Roddy Piper , Jayne Heitmeyer , Billy Drago , Tyrone Benskin , and Richard Raybourne
Director: Peter Svatek
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An explosive sci-fi thriller in the tradition of "Predator," "Alien" and "Blade Runner." In the bleak, not-too-distant future, renegade Boston cop Cameron Grayson (Roddy Piper) must track down a brutal rapist who is infecting his victims with a lethal retrovirus. Grayson must overthrow his deadly nemesis in order to save the city--and perhaps the entire world. Jayne Heitmeyer, Tyrone Benskin, Richard Raybourne, Donna Sarrasin, Billy Drago, Roddy Piper.

Customer Reviews:

Low Budget is NOT at Fault..........2006-07-05

I'll Take This "B" Movie Over A Coma Anyday.......2005-09-19

A Good Futuristic Film.......2003-05-21

THE METHANE MENACE.......2003-01-02

My friend and I like to browse the video rental stores for movies that we think would be excellent targets to poke fun at.

Sci Fighters.

What a stupid name for a movie! We just had to try this one out.

Watch out for this scene where the detective is asking this nurse where someone is. The nurse says "BEHIND you." But then the detective turns to his RIGHT, because that's where the guy is.

"Mommy, that man has a potty mouth." or they could have tried to thwart the methane menace with air freshener. So many possibilities.

But like I say, the movie's not that bad. Worth a rental, no more.

Sci-Fighters good vehicle for Drago.......2001-05-27

A Secret UFO File: Apocolyptic Alien Love Triangle

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A Secret UFO File: Apocolyptic Alien Love Triangle
Starring: William L. McDonald, Linda Loftin Victor OConnell
Manufacturer: Customflix
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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(2007) A woman discovers that her children are Aliens. Banned in 23 countries, to controversial for the public, this terrifying feature film is based on dramatic revelations told by thousands of abducted women to an unbelieving public. An American housewife discovers that, by day, she is married to a human, but at night, she is abducted and spawns a race of cloned Alien/human hybrid children. She must choose whether to stay home or escape from her husband and Government agents to be the mother of her Alien family. Winner of the International UFO Congress Film Festival. A Secret UFO File compiled by famed LAPD Forensic Artist/Abduction Investigator William L. McDonald (Nightline, Sightings, Encounters) holds incredible testimonials about a cover up that spans decades. Perdicted by Ancient Incan Temple Carvings, Sumerian Hieroglyphics and The Mayan Calendar, a new race of man will rule over The Earth by the year 2012. From the producer of "The Boogeyman" and "The Boogeyman II", "A Secret UFO File: Apocolyptic Alien Love Triangle" is a horrifying, 35mm, sci-fi, thriller based on documented UFO abductee accounts of forbidden love described by over 10% of America's female population. Directed by Emmy Award winning effects director Michael O'Connell (ABC's Summer Olympics, Casper, The Beginning) this horrifying, fact based thriller reveals, for the first time, the Roswell, New Mexico Alien spacecraft design described by the sole survivor of the U.S. Government's coverup.

Warnings From Space - Zontar/Slipstream/Sci-Fighters

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Waenings from Space

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Zontar: The Thing from Venus - Keith Ritchie (Anthony Houston) helps an alien named Zontar travel from Venus to Earth in order to help solve the problems of our world. Unfortunately, Zontar has other ideas, using "injectopods" to take over the minds of locals. Keith's associate Dr. Curt Taylor (John Agar) is soon pitted against his misguided colleague, as well as former friends under Zontar's control. It seems that only Curt can put an end to Zontar's world domination!

Slipstream - Post-apocalyptic cop Will Tasker (Mark Hamill) and his partner Belitski (Kitty Aldridge) capture a wanted man named Byron (Bob Peck). Unfortunately he has a price on his head, and bounty hunter Matt Owens (Bill Paxton) is determined to be the one to collect. He tricks the cops and kidnaps the prisoner. In an attempt to escape he flies into the slipstream — a highly dangerous and unpredictable wind pattern. Determined to recapture Byron, Will and Belitski put themselves in danger and follow him in.

Sci-Fighters - Convict Adrian Dunn (Billy Drago) gets into an altercation with another prisoner. After he kills him, something bursts from the corpse's face, lands in a wound in Dunn's arm and apparently kills him as well. While en route for an autopsy Dunn revives, escapes and wanders the city raping women at random — infecting them with a virus that causes the them to breathe out methane. Black Shield cop Cameron Grayson (Roddy Piper) takes the case, eventually leading to the discovery that the virus was bio-engineered by aliens to terraform our world.

Customer Reviews:

Waenings from Space.......2005-10-17

The movies were entertaining but the video transfer to DVD was really bad.

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Confused mess.

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Confused mess........2004-11-05

This movie is an hour of the most poorly told story with some inept acting to help it along. From the obvious symbolism of the two smoke stacks towering over the two young men meeting to the grainy, pseudo-documentary footage, this movie is irritating from the get go. Don't let the cover fool you, as it did me. That image comes about three times in the movie and means almost nothing. Don't waste your time and money on this one. It's price is the only thing that is of high quality. It is not enlightening, uplifting or entertaining. Why bother?!

Negation - Volume 2 (CrossGen Digital Comic)

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Negation - Volume 2 (CrossGen Digital Comic)

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Release Date: 2004-04-19

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Termed a Digital Comic Book (DCB) this DVD product is a cross platform for comic books, videogame consoles, and DVD players. A DCB combines the visual art and storytelling ability of published comic books with professional voice-overs, original music, vivid stunning effects and high-end sound design to create a unique DVD product on par with a major motion picture release. Each DCB contains a four to eight issue comic story-arc and at half the cost of the printed version, the value speaks for itself. Plenty of extra material is packed in as well: trailers, character biographies, original sketches, a documentary about how comics are made, and bonus chapters (including classic first appearances of the main characters). This all adds up to over 100 minutes of viewable material per DCB. Viewable on DVD, Playstation2, Xbox, MacOS 9.2, and PC. Two of the best-known comic book publishers in the world, Marvel and CrossGen, have provided their most popular properties to these DCB. Character titles include: Hulk, Ultimate X-Men, Daredevil, Wolverine, The Ultimates, Negation, Sojourn, Scion, Meridian, and Way of the Rat. Digital Comic Books have received numerous accolades from the press and outstanding reviews praising this entertaining product.

Negation - Volume Two "Baptism of Fire"

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Two of the best-known comic book publishers in the world, Marvel and CrossGen, have provided their most popular properties to these DCB. Character titles include: Hulk, Ultimate X-Men, Daredevil, Wolverine, The Ultimates, Negation, Sojourn, Scion, Meridian, and Way of the Rat.

Digital Comic Books have received numerous accolades from the press and outstanding reviews praising this entertaining product.

Negation - Volume One

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A desperate housewife discovers she is the mother of an Alien/human hybrid species of mankind destined to survive the coming Apocolypse. According to ancient Incan beliefs we are the 5th race of man. The 6th race of man is due to emerge by the year 2012, when the ancient Incan calendar ends. Kendra Connelly, discovers that she is the middle of a bizarre love triangle. By day, she is the wife of a Nasa astronaut, designer of an interplanetary spacecraft. By night, she is abducted by Aliens. She must choose between staying with her husband or leaving him to join her Alien family. Directed by Emmy Award winning effects director Michael O'Connell (ABC's Summer Olympics, Casper, The Beginning) this film features the Roswell, New Mexico Alien spacecraft design revealed by the sole survivor of the U.S. Government's coverup.

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