| There are many bad sci-fi movies, and for many | | | | movie) and mixed them with their own material (quite |
| years movie addicts even considered Ed Wood's | | | | randomly). |
| "Plan 9 From Outer Space" to be the worst movie of | | | | The soundtrack is entirely copied from US movies, |
| all times. But "Plan 9" is still a pretty good movie when | | | | primarily Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones), |
| compared to "Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam", a film | | | | Moonraker, Ben Hur, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica, |
| commonly known as "Turkish Star Wars". | | | | Planet of the Apes, Silent Running and The Black Hole. |
| The official film poster already indicates how awful this | | | | The story doesn't make much sense, the monsters |
| movie must be (it's probably also one of the worst | | | | look absolutely silly, the acting is horrible. Apparently |
| movie posters ever created), and when I first saw it I | | | | they also wanted it to be a martial arts movie, but the |
| though it should be a hoax or something alike, as such | | | | fighting scenes are hilarious. |
| a silly poster wouldn't likely exist. But this thing is real, | | | | The story was written by Cüneyt Arkin, a |
| and it's so bad that it got what it deserves: cult status! | | | | well-known Turkish actor who also played to main |
| So here are the facts: | | | | character in the movie. It's about the adventures of |
| Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam ("The Man Who Saves the | | | | two comrades, Murat and Ali, whose ships crash on a |
| World") was released in 1982, while Turkey was in the | | | | desert planet. They then have to fight tons of ridiculous |
| midst of massive political upheaval. US movies were | | | | monsters and zombies, as well as an evil wizard who |
| hard to acquire, and so the stories of popular US | | | | wants to defeat the Earth. Ali gets killed, and Murat |
| movies were more or less copied and remade with | | | | finds a magic sword he'll need to fight the villains. At a |
| turkish actors. As there was no money for expensive | | | | certain point Ali then gets "super-jumping boots" and he |
| settings or special effects they simply bootlegged | | | | starts jumpin'around all the time, which becomes quite |
| (copied) original scenes from popular US movies | | | | annoying after a few minutes... At the end of the |
| (notably many scenes from the original Star Wars | | | | movie Ali kills the evil wizard. |