Best "CHEAP" space movie
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^OH yes! Wing Commander was much more realistic in it's depiction of space. Like the scene where everyone on the main ship has to be quiet in order to avoid detection by the enemy (Jurgen Prochnow having flashbacks to Das Boot?), or the scene where the female pilot crash lands on the flight deck and the captain orders the fighter pushed out of the way and it promptly falls over the side. Never mind the fact that they never confirmed she was dead inside the ship. Yes, this movie was an instant classic.
I actually went to see this trash in the theater...I was so pissed! One of the worst movies I have ever paid to see!
I don't think that "impressive" is a term that has (or should) ever been associated with a film with Matthew Lillard and/or Freddie Prinze Jr. in it.
Please tell me you were one of the hundreds that saw this movie in the theater only for the attached Star Wars: The Phantom Menace trailer.
trevanian
Rear Admiral
I went to it in the theater because I was paid to go see it ... and even now, a decade later, my wife still bugs me about how painful the experience was (and about WILD WILD WEST and PHANTOM MENACE, which we also suffered through because they were job-related -- I was writing about them.)
When Prinze sez some bit like, 'what does it mean to be a pilgrim?' it is open your wrists time, like, 'why are there people in the world like Frank?' in BLUE VELVET, but without any of the Lynch-ishness that makes the latter work.
trevanian
Rear Admiral
One of the rare movies that is worse than its novelization. Not much space stuff in it, and they did spend some bucks on it.
Somebody mentioned ENEMY MINE up there ... cheap? It cost more than RETURN OF THE JEDI!! Almost as much as TMP.
I would happily give my life and eternal soul to block such a production from ever being undertaken, and/or erase the original from history.
I"d like that portion of my life back that I wasted watching it in the first place.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
Luckily I went to see that turd after leaving a stripper bar quite intoxicated...I remember because my friend was with me and its the only thing we's remembers....(Belch)... Years later the conversation will go like this..
"Dude, remember the night we saw Buckaroo?"
"Yeah...well...no. But yeah"
I guess it was one of those times where the destruction of a few million braincells was a GOOD thing...
Rob
RobertScorpio
Pariah
What about "Moontrap" with Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell?
Absolutely; have it on DVD. it was essentially a Twilight Zone episode on a larger scale; great effects by Derek Meddings. And, of course, we got to see a lot of the vehicles in Anderson's UFO, later.
I don't know that I would put Space Mutiny up as a great "cheap" movie - it was a train wreck! But it also was one of the most brilliant episodes of MST3K, as a result. Re-used FX from Battlestar Galactica, 'Captain America' playing Buff Hardcheese, 'Debbie Reynolds' doing a hula-tease and presenting like a mandrill in the Disco of the Future. And who can forget the many railing deaths? Still, it had an influence on future blockbusters - after using a brick warehouse as the 'basement' of Galactica, it was okay to use a brewery as Engineering in the new Trek film.
Have you signed Sherry's birthday card?
PS: Put me down as another Blue Blaze Irregular; Buckaroo Banzai was a great piece of camp. "What's that watermelon doing there?" (it's explained on the DVD!)
One of my favorite parts of Space Mutiny is the magically resurrecting dead girl!
As for Buckaroo Banzai, I think it's a decent idea but I just don't think Peter Weller can carry the movie the way he needs to. I think it would actually be a great movie if Buckaroo Banzai was played by Jeff Goldblum instead. (Thankfully, Peter Weller would redeem himself on the short-lived Showtime series Odyssey 5.)
As for Buckaroo Banzai, I think it's a decent idea but I just don't think Peter Weller can carry the movie the way he needs to. I think it would actually be a great movie if Buckaroo Banzai was played by Jeff Goldblum instead. (Thankfully, Peter Weller would redeem himself on the short-lived Showtime series Odyssey 5.)
RobertScorpio
Pariah
Wow..I just watched SATURN 3 a couple weeks past. And I didn't know it but Harvey Kietel's voice was dubbed the whole way through. I only found out about it after I saw the movie and went on line to see if i could find any background info on this turkey....
But I would still rank this dud above STAR TREK NEMESIS. I am starting a list of SCIFI movies that I prefer to Star Trek Nemesis. And as bas as Saturn 3 is? It ranks above NEMESIS...as does a new move on my "BETTER THAN NEMESIS" list; GODZILLA vs MEGALON..
Rob
