The Man Who Saved the World

this is an incredibly funny film, I nearly broke my ribs laughing, I ve never seen anything more absurd and funny at the same time.A must see film in your lifetime. You get the point when you see the enemy ships following our hero's plane on the radar screen. God damn, what you see on the screen is just the pacman game itself. When our pilot (Cuneyt) goes diving with his plane, he just leans forward and down in his cockpit. I first thought if it was some kind of comedy film or not, but no it is a serious science fiction with limited financial resources and a rich imagination. It is very much funny not because it was intended to make you laugh, on the contrary they tried to make a science fiction, and tried hard. You just die laughing at this absurdness.

This is the best cult movie that I have ever seen.

If you watch a cult movie you don't need to think about the movie, you can just watch it.

First of all I saw two versions of this movie. First version is about 90 minutes and the other one is about 115 minutes. The story is simple but perfect for a cult movie: The earth divides in to meteors after a nuclear war. Now Cuneyt Arkin and his friend Aytekin Akkaya has to fight against unknown enemy (the man with wooden prickles on his head!!!) who is looking for human brains!!! He will use them to destroy the human kind.

With a small budget, director Cetin Inanc (Turkish cult movie director) tried to make a movie, which can race with American SF movies. He had no chance to win this race but he already knew that. He borrowed some pictures and soundtracks from famous American movies like Starwars etc.

When I had an interview with Cetin Inanc he told me that they did this movie for a prestige. They wanted to show everyone that they also can make a SF movie in Turkey. At the end of the interview he said to me: `If someone can make better one than this, he has to attempted for !'

I liked this movie. It is amazing and funny. You don't need to use your brains to watch this movie. You can just watch and enjoy it! I recommend it to every cult movie fan. The performance of Cuneyt Arkin (George Arkin) is wonderful. If you cannot find this movie just look it in Europe. It is available in Germany. For another questions about this movie you can send me a mail. I will try to answer your question.

If you like this Turkish cult movie try than also Turist Omer Uzay Yolunda ` Tourist Omer: Star Trek'.

Come on folks; this is George Chung meets Star Wars; somewhat tainted with nationalist and religious motifs... Otherwise, it is a helluva movie. For example, I love the scene where the pilots are bending their heads down (and bending over their knees?) to emulate the effect of diving with their tie-fighters. Or, vipers... That is one-of-a-king special fx. Love the helmets, by the way.

Aliens in the film can kill you out of laughter. Somewhere in the galaxy far, far away; these Turkish pilots riding on Imperial tie-fighters are using the karate-do to save the world. They ain't need phasers or other weapons. The power is strong in these two.

However, I seriously think the director did not mean to steal, er, lend, some of the Star Wars footage. At leastI suspect that was not his intention. Film's poster suggests otherwise, anyway. (see at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/tr/8/8b/Afisdunya.jpg for yourself) It clearly states Galactica on it. I guess Cetin Inanc did not know the difference. Still some villains looked suspiciously Cylon through (tin cookie boxes were provide for the shining armor), with other monsters bearing a stiking resemblance to Battlestar Galactica daggit of Boxey, Muffit II...When to come to think of it, they also resemble the Cookie Monster.

Music is also great throughout; particularly with the fights scenes on the planet surface, the aliens riding horses and just the right music at the background you expect Indiana Jones to jump in the fun at any moment. anyway... Or, as the score changes, maybe Han Solo will show up... Or, Indiana Jones...

But it is not the worst film of the world. There is worst. Trust me. Try "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women." This is actually a re-edited version of a film previously released in the US as "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" (1965), which itself was an edited and dubbed version of the Soviet film "Planeta Bur" (1962). Hence, the US rocket-ships journeying to Venus bear the red star of the USSR.

And the "prehistoric women" do not appear in the original Russian film from which this was made. They were later added on. So, in this third version, Mamie Van Doren and several other well-endowed beauties lay around on rocks by the ocean and make thoughtful faces while they have a telepathic debate concerning the "alien invaders" from Earth. The girls worship a dead pterodactyl until the end of the film, then they pull the wrecked robot from the ocean and start worshiping it instead (proof positive that a blond is a blond, regardless of what planet she's from).

The cosmonauts and the girls never come face to face -- which is no surprise, of course, since their scenes were filmed six years apart on two separate continents.

Another favorite of mine is "Assignment: Outer Space..." As Rich Meyer puts it "There's a scene where an astronaut tries to escape a crash by jumping down to one of Mars' moons... Suddenly, there's an explosion when his ship hits. Unfortunately, the person handling the mattes was apparently sleeping that day, because you see an explosion in front of a bunch of buildings and behind a Chevy. Here we are in deep space near the Red Planet and there's a Chevy on a street in Italy. One of the most jarringly funny scenes I ever saw in a grade z movie..." Both these and some other great 8 films come in a single box "Classics from Outer Space," published by St. Clair Vision (USA), the one-and-only collection of must-see-to-believe-it Sci Fi films.

I think if there is a man who can rescue the world he is Cuneyt Arkin and this film shows us how to rescue the world. If somebody is thinking that the world is not a good place and its being worth day by day and wants to rescue us than he must watch this film. And if there is somebody who says bad things about this film than i can say him go and watch MATRIX. than u will see that film is a copy of Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam. The character Noe is a simple version of Cuneyt Arkin. This film is better than MATRIX to me. and also this film tells us many things about life.

To say that "Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam" is the greatest movie of all time, is to imply that other movies can reach the sheer genius of this film. You probably understand all the surface quirks of the film. It is a Turkish film. (Being that I have never had the opportunity to enjoy Turkish cinema before, I can only conclude that Turkey is the uncrowned motion picture capital of the world.) It is a sci-fi movie that is filmed on a budget which is so low, that one may consider the term shoe-string budget an insult to the tangible value of shoe-strings. In order to duplicate the visual quality offered in American cinema, the director (Celtin Inanc) literally uses (read: steals) film footage from Star Wars and runs it during the film. Unfortunately, sometimes this effect is mildly confusing (the movie begins with the tie fighter sequence but you cannot really tell if the heroes are supposed to be piloting the X-wing fighters OR the tie fighters) to frighteningly moronic (during the final battle, the visuals of the tie fighter sequence flash, almost subliminally across the screen with no rational reason for its use) You should also keep an open ear of the great bootlegged music (only 17 years before the invention of the MP3) that makes up the films brilliant soundtrack. Music from Star Wars, Flash Gordon, and Indiana Jones are used in this film. The highlights of the movie include the final battle that looks like a "Power Rangers" outtakes reel and fantastic martial arts training sequences that make the lead actors look like a couple of out of shape, drunk children.

Ed Wood would be proud.