Starring Richard Thomas as Wesley Crusher.
How can it be a true Roger Corman sci-fi with no worm sex?
I remember the day my dad took me to see this, claiming it was āthe new Star Wars movie!ā
It really, really wasnāt. I do recall it had something to do with glowing walnuts in space, however.
After looking it up on IMDBā¦ Sam Jaffe (The Asphalt Jungle, The Day the Earth Stood Still) was also in it! I really need to watch this again.
Iāve been promising myself that Iāll set up a mini-marithon of Seven Samurai, Magnificent Seven, and Seven Beyond the Stars. From the sublime to the sub-lemonā¦
Bah, looks like shmeg.
Now, The Last Starfighter ā THATās an 80s sci-fi movie for kids of all ages I can get down with!
Disneyās A Bugās Life also recycled that plot, although ending with that might ruin the kitsch.
Worth it for Robert Vaughan playing the same role he did in Magnificent 7. George Peppard is good value too.
I saw it in the theater because our paperās reviewer said it set out to be a great āBā movie and had a lot of fun getting there. The cast is amazing and the jokes are all the right kind of stupid.
Hey, it is possible to love both. But thank you for bringing up The Last Starfighter. As if the over-the-top silliness and hamfisted attempt to create a franchise (although Iām still hoping for the sequel) werenāt enough there wasā¦Robert Preston! Centauri lives!
Even though I prefer the older Roger Corman flicksāmy father once told me that for their first date he and my mother went to see a movie called Bucket of Blood, and asked if Iād seen it, to which I replied, āSeen it? Iāve got it on DVD!āāI loved Battle Beyond The Stars.
And itās like so many other Corman films I also enjoy in that thereās no explaining the appeal. Itās not like a Kubrick film where you can intellectualize it. Youāre either one of those people who straps yourself in and enjoys the ride or one who stands on the platform saying, āThereās no ride there.ā
Donāt forget to throw Pixarās āA Bugās Lifeā in there!
Yeah saw this at the Tanforan 4 (San Bruno )way back when. I was such a Star Wars junkie I would watch anything that resembled it. I liked the Hot Dog scene!
I think James Cameron made some of the spaceships and spfx let me checkā¦beep bop boopā¦
Yep !!
Whoa John Sayles wrote the story!!
Yeah, I saw this recently and wondered if Cameron was responsible for the shipās breasts or testicles, whatever you want to call them (breasticles?). He also worked on Cormanās Galaxy of Terror (which featured the infamous giant maggot rape scene, and yes, Iām not exaggerating that at all), an Alien ripoff, several years before he got to work on Aliens.
āA BATTLE BEYOND TIMEā¦BEYOND SPACE.ā
Terrible sci-fi movies from the 50s-80s or so really had a thing about being āBEYONDā stuff, didnāt they? Time, Space, Good, Evil, Your Wildest Dreams and/or Imaginationā¦ Granted, most of them limited it to the tagline, not the title.
That sounds like āMessage From Spaceā to me. a very Star Wars-y ripoff of a flick.
I always thought the scene where Shad finds Robert Vaughanās character in the burned out bar/arcade/thing was an influence for Tom Pettyās video for You Got Lucky. Of course, post apocalypse was all the rage by 1982, but when they enter the tent, it reminds me of the Robert Vaughn scene.
No dead hookers in the Tom Petty vid, tho.
Oh, and the female ship sounds a ton like Majel Barrett, despite not being her.
The ship looks like a Cronenburgian uterus.
