The thing I remember about this movie (other than it sucking) is that they cut a guy in half and his insides were, like, cardboard or something. Freaked me out!

one of the greatest achievements of the spencer's gifts props department ever captured on film.

I will purge this planet of all life....

-Uh sir our lasers only kill one person at a time...

and how many people are there in that city?

-over 50 thousand..

*sigh* ok just kill like 100, I don't have all day..

Ahhhh yes. John Saxon is always the hallmark of quality!

@ArticleTitle: LOL

In the first video, right when the self destruct sequence is starting I can't believe the computer has to mention 9/11.

I loved the Stellar Converter. It was the shit in the PC game, Master of Orion aka MOO. Basically, the vwing vwing hurting Shadow laser.

The 2nd clip explains why the Chronicles of Riddick looked so familiar.

John Saxon... greatest villain in B movies!

As a kid, this actually moved me when I saw it. Nell was the kind of AI that a ship should have, it was Shad's (Richard Thomas> surrogate mother growing up. She became Alzheimer's like in the end, and still managed to save the day.

It bothered me that he had to "program her", as though she wouldn't had made the choice.

I can still here the theme music in my head.

i... am sador... of marklar... i put... the... pauses... in my own... script... and i'm... sticking... with them.

@shehanum: I'm ashamed to admit that I whenever I think of John Saxon (and it is oh so often) I think of his role in Mitchell. And yeah, he was a bad guy.

Ah, MST3K :)

@shehanum: With Michael Ironsides running a close second.

Why didn't you pick George Peppard's suicide? That one totally had shade of the A-Team.

@HJungle: McCloud!

A movie with both Saxon and Ironsides would be so full of win the universe couldn't handle it.

In BBTS defense - if I remember correctly, the computer for some reason had its processors fried prior to this scene.

As a kid I loved this movie. Who wouldn't want to fly a giant moose head through space! But then Space Raiders came out and confused the hell out of me.

You forgot the best part -- they had Robert Vaughn play the exact same role he had in The Magnificent Seven.

Peter Jackson controlling the snipers FTW!

I really miss James Horner's overwrought, excessive scores for low-budget Corman flicks and Star Trek movies. So much better than his overwrought, excessive scores for big-budget Cameron flicks.

i'm allergic to politics

So when they were shooting at those people, they were all named Will?

@V.I.N.CENT: Moose head? John-Boy's ship looks more like a uterus/tubes/ovaries.

Which goes with the mom computer idea in an icky and probably totally-intended way.

@lightninglouie:

Horner's scores are more about self borrowing and plagiarism these days!!!!

I like the make-up. The blue/white skin with the patch of flesh is pretty interesting.

@Gopherit: In the movie Peppard was a washed up drunk with the cowboy hat right?

John Saxxon, remember him in Enter the Dragon?

What I remember most about this film is "John-Boy's flying "Star-Scrotum" spaceship and that Robert Vaughn looked so "grim" all the time. James Horner's soundtrack for this film is like a first-cut for "STAR TREK II". The two scores so much alike, it's hard to tell them apart most of the time.

@tetracycloide: Brilliant reference. :)

You know, I must admit to having a bit of a fetish for a good sci-fi boob window. Mmm...

@V.I.N.CENT: It wasn't a moosehead. It was a naked headless woman...

My Favorite aliens were Nestor.

I'd forgotten this movie! I loved it as a kid. Peppard's death always got to me. It's cheap, cheesy and has John Saxon, but I'd love to watch it again. (Goes off to search Netflix.)

Don't forget the DVD has one *excellent* commentary track by Roger Corman and John Sayles. Gale Anne Hurd does another commentary track.

This is what Star Wars did to the sf movie genre - tons of horrifyingly cheap cash -n crap. Everyone hoped that Star Wars and Alien were the shape of great movies to come. What we got was this and Star Crash. [Now there's a movie!]

DVD has a great commentary by Roger Corman and John Sayles.

To a 10-year-old yet to see a Playboy or high school anatomy text book but surrounded by deer heads on the wall, that. Is. A. Moosehead! I can see the lasers were antlers. The "boobs" were the nose. And you can see some eyes.

Then again, I grew up thinking Voyagers! was the greatest show evah! ;)

@V.I.N.CENT: A Moosehead?....nah, that's just the rack.

*snort*

I just watched this movie the other day. I have it on DVD (a gift from my brother; we used to watch it a lot when we were kids.)

I'm sure Sybil Danning's "Saint Exmin" (the boob lady) brought many a young boy's budding sexuality front and center, so to speak.

Bonus points to V.I.N.CENT who correctly identified the later movie Space Raiders, which was so cheap and lazy it re-used spaceship footage from BBtS with a completely different (and far inferior) story.

What teenager wouldn't love to fly around in a girl, talking spaceship with big boobs? That luck John Boy.

This movie rocked in a saturday matinee, fun, way. And kudos to Roger Corman for having Robert Vaughn riff on his Magnificent Seven part.