Dr. Syn Alias The Scarecrow

As I've been watching Danger Man (Secret Agent Man) on DVD lately, and I did a little research on Patrick McGoohan (of whom I am a big fan) I discovered that he had made a movie, well a made for TV movie, called Dr. Syn Alias The Scarecrow. This was made for the 1963 Television program Disney's Wonderful World of Color. As with many of the programs I had seen made for that program, when I first started to watch it, it put me to sleep. It seems like those programs weren't really made with kids in mind, as it appeared it would be a bit boring for kids and perhaps a bit scary and hard to follow at times. But once I got into the story, it turned out to be a well done, both story wise and atmosphere.

Moontrap

I was working my way through the Star Trek TOS Remastered DVD's and got to the end where the special features were and watched a segment featuring Walter Koenig. He mentioned that he made a movie with Bruce Campbell, so of course I had to watch that film, which is titled Moontrap.

Somehow the film didn't turn out all that spectacular, but it did have some redeeming points. The concept was decent, but the plot never fully engaged the viewer. The 'alien' race was fairly well portrayed, as much in the same was that Leeloo of the Fifth Element, wasn't immediately able to speak English, the alien in this film also cannot communicate fluently upon the first interaction with Earthlings and need to progressively learn the language.