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The Most Incompetent Self-Destruct Sequence In Galactic History

rasprenkle — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:39:22 PST

lol. I Wanna Live FOREVER!!!,,,,,,,,

rasprenkle

The Most Incompetent Self-Destruct Sequence In Galactic History

victheremin — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:04:47 PST

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

victheremin

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reddingofish — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:28:37 PST

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

reddingofish

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Paul D — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:16:18 PST

*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.

Paul D

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Gopherit — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:14:10 PST

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

Gopherit

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V.I.N.CENT — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:02:36 PST

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

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ccb — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:26:58 PST

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

ccb

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tezby — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:46:51 PST

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!]

tezby

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ccb — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:16:43 PST

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

ccb

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Gomi — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:27:40 PST

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.)

Gomi

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MercuryPDX — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:57:51 PST

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

My Favorite aliens were Nestor.

MercuryPDX

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Sharpless — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:58:59 PST

@tetracycloide: Brilliant reference. :)

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

Sharpless

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Zantor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:37:36 PST

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.

Zantor

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CmdrHunt — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:56:53 PST

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

John Saxxon, remember him in Enter the Dragon?

CmdrHunt

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Ghede — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:17:29 PST

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

Ghede

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AlfaCharger — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:04:02 PST

@lightninglouie:

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

AlfaCharger

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Evil Tortie's Mom — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:46:30 PST

@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.

Evil Tortie's Mom

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bitgod — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:26:29 PST

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

bitgod

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BlacklistedJoe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:14:00 PST

i'm allergic to politics

BlacklistedJoe

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lightninglouie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:04:30 PST

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.

lightninglouie

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Annalee Newitz — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:04:09 PST

Peter Jackson controlling the snipers FTW!

Annalee Newitz

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SeanOHara — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:53:09 PST

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

SeanOHara

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V.I.N.CENT — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:43:23 PST

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.

V.I.N.CENT

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Plague — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:37:20 PST

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

Plague

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IHateWhatYouHaveOn — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:30:07 PST

@HJungle: McCloud!

IHateWhatYouHaveOn

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Gopherit — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:18:38 PST

@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.

Gopherit

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HJungle — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:15:41 PST

@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 :)

HJungle

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tetracycloide — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:01:48 PST

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

tetracycloide

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DeadWriter — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:59:29 PST

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.

DeadWriter

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shehanum — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:53:42 PST

John Saxon... greatest villain in B movies!

shehanum

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ManchuCandidate — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:53:36 PST

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.

ManchuCandidate

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se7a7n7 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:45:43 PST

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

se7a7n7

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BlacklistedJoe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:44:24 PST

@ArticleTitle: LOL

BlacklistedJoe

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DanofromRaleigh — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:43:37 PST

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

DanofromRaleigh

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DocGratis — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:37:05 PST

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..

DocGratis

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tetracycloide — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:32:50 PST

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

tetracycloide

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SeeingI — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:32:29 PST

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!

SeeingI