Sci-Fi Malady

Symptom 173: Turkish Superman - They Tried


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Thankfully our month long exploration of Turkish knockoff films ends this week, with Turkish Superman, or Supermen. The knockoff follows Tayfun AKA Superman and his adventures saving, Alev, aka Lois Lane, from criminals who want to steal her professor fathers secrets of the Kyrpton stone, which can turn any object into gold, or any living being, including an unfortunate cat, into ashes.

Its a bad knockoff, with terrible acting and music and fight scenes, but it is better than anything we watched this month.

Next month we ratchet up the action, with Dune December.

Did I say action, I meant long political discussions about booking kickbacks are revenue and writing it off from taxes as a cost of doing business, and discussions on selective breeding programs and backroom political subterfuge. A month of deep meanings coming up!

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