My Alien Girlfriend is a 2019 SF movie directed by Sean King, he co-wrote the script with son Taylor King. Taylor has a part in the movie. A guy named Joe is getting married, his wife is off for her bachelorette party but he's supposed to stay home and out of trouble. Joe's a super nerd who does a podcast show about SF culture. His friends want to take him to a strip club but he decides to stay home. Good thing he did, an alien landed in his backyard and turned into a beautiful naked woman. The alien copied it's human disguise from a movie poster on Joe's wall and everyone who sees her thinks she's the actress. That creates more problems for Joe and during all the running. He also finds out some stuff about his girlfriend he didn't know. Joe spends a big part of the movie helping the alien with language and clothes, it really slowed the movie but the last half picks up a bit as more characters start to interact. It's got a fairly good idea but the execution is a bit weak. There are few special effects and most of them are in the first 10 minutes. The actors are amateurish, some are a bit better than others but they get the job done. I wish the jokes were punchier but I got to the end. I wouldn't need to see it again. It was on Amazon Prime as is this second film.
I hadn't seen Mutiny In Outer Space before, at least it's not on my watched movie list. It's getting to be harder to find an old SF film I haven't seen before. It came out in 1965 and it was directed by Hugo Grimaldi and an uncredited Arthur C Pierce, they co-wrote the movie with Bernard Woolner, David Woolner and Lawrence Woolner. Astronauts return to Space Station X-7 to have their cargo of rocks inspected before they head for Earth. One of the astronauts collapses and eventually dies from a fungus. It's possibly dangerous to everyone on Earth but the Captain goes a bit nuts and tries to cover up the situation. The fungus takes hold and the crew fights back as best they can. The Italian poster shows an alien, there are no aliens like that, just that fuzzy feather boa like fungus. The film is barely average, it's got a 5.0 on the IMDb with 300 votes but there are a good number of 10 votes. I'd give it a 5 for the story idea but 4 for the execution. I gave it a 5 anyway. It won't ever be a 60s favorite for me but it's watchable. I got to the end. I might even watch it again someday but I wouldn't need to buy the DVD, I downloaded a copy from YouTube. You an check it out there by using the link in the title above.
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