6. Day-for-night shots are possible in SPACE

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nice kitbashing there

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Opening with a giant starship. Now where have I seen that before?

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Windows screensaver go!

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I'm getting Space Balls vibes from this spaceship intro crawl

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Classic threatening baddie ship opener, reminds me of Spaceballs...

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Oh, I get it, now. We're not going *to* the stars. We're going *beyond* them.

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Whoa music by James Horner? I am impressed, this may have some semblance of quality after all

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Oops sorry I'm over here now.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaVcpfncOWs

More like John SayLess #monsterdon

#monsterdon what is this ship

Star Maid?

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Upskirt shots of spaceships! It's always upskirt shots of spaceships! #Monsterdon

The B Movie with the all star cast!

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Corman manage to snag James Horner. #monsterdon

is joel on this ship? wow. #monsterdon

<watches opening credits, and a huge amount of BLUE SKIFFY FONT>

LOL, 1980 movie, you say? :D

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Phew, I've lost track of the meaning of time in Covid isolation, almost missed it #monsterdon

5. People were involved in the making of this movie. Several of them, in fact

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Wow this really is almost like Star Wars!

Thanks, Roger Coreman, You're the best!

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even the starfield in that opening shot is scared of this movie!!

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#monsterdon Welp that intro music rhymed with like star wars, star trek the motion picture and like half a dozen films of the time. Nice.

Horner loved him some brass, even this early. #Monsterdon

i love when you watch a movie and its clear every note anyone made on it was "make it more like star wars, that made tons of money." #monsterdon

Horners gona horn #monsterdon

Ed Carlin, and his seven things you can't produce on TV #Monsterdon

@georgieboy tempest? #monsterdon

"get Darlane Fluegel on the horn!" --the casting director #monsterdon

So far I am getting more Trekky vibes than Wars-y vibes, of the Star variety

I'm sure that will resolve itself any moment

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…okay the child got one in with “warp speed is slower than I thought!” #monsterdon

::has snacks in the airfryer:

::presses play::

::feels hair whiten::

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Hello #monsterdon It's been a while...

George Peppard! My #monsterdon runneth over

Oh sure, we can't get the cowboy character in any Dracula adaptation, but now…

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It's John Boy! #monsterdon

I'm gonna say this a lot tonight, y'all.

So let me get this out of the way now.

Eh-hem.

GODDAMMIT JAMES HORNER STOP PLAGIARIZING YOURSELF!!
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Thank you.

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Root post for #monsterdon - I am running a few min late

as "cowboy??"

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#monsterdon did the Star Trek movies crib their openings from Beyond the Stars?

Roger "I'm Really Trying This Time" Corman

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Of course there's a cowboy in this film

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#Monsterdon wife is sitting here laughing at the cast :D

oh wow. stacked cast #monsterdon

SPACE (space .. space .. space …)
FONT (font .. font .. font …)

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Where are the stars? Oh we are beyond all that now.

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This movie so, so wants to be Star Wars.

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But wouldn't the stars appear red if you were travelling at near-liminal speeds? Not blue? Or am I getting my directions wrong?

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What was that video game where you spun in circles around the outer edge? The first title screen reminds me of that.
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Darlanne Fleugel! And her horn. #Monsterdon

And here he go!

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They got Saxon but no Angles. Not sure how it's going to work out for merry old wales

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Wait, wait. This is written by the Same John Sayles who made Matewan and Lone Star and The Secret of Roan Inish?!? How can that be????

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Excellent 1980s scifi font!

Yep. Great hyperspace effects already #Monsterdon

Here we go, beyond the stars!!!
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#monsterdon Yay! Big music! And the look you see when you drive into a blizzard!

WE GET SPIRAL #monsterdon

DOOT DOOT #monsterdon

Yep, there we are, we're beyond the stars now. The battle can start. #Monsterdon

This feels like Transformers: The Move so far.

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WARP SPEEEEED

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is this a movie or a music visualizer? #monsterdon

Oh, Roger Corman, nice.
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HI JAMES

(horner)

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@socketwench it's always high stakes when it's one you already like.

i was biting my nails when we watched Horror Express #Monsterdon

New World Pictures invites you to worship His Divine Shadow.

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Movie's chuckin' circles at us! Get down! #Monsterdon

Is everyone else seeing circles? Is this the movie? #Monsterdon #BattleBeyondTheStars

Getting ready to watch “Battle Beyond the Stars”, which I know mostly as “the movie with the boobs spaceship”, because i was not an adult the one time I saw it.

Feel free to mute me or the #monsterdon hashtag for the next couple hours if you’re uninterested.

Well, this all does feel... familiar so far?

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okay, i have assembled my newly fixed keyboard, my blackberry dr pepper (soooo sweet, but not technically bad tasting) and my comfiest hoodie. i am ready for StarWars but poor. #monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

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GO GO GO!!!

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#Monsterdon here we go! 🚀

WE GOT LINEAR ACCELERATOR SIIIIIIIIIGN

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I think the slightly-overpriced collectables shop near me might have this one VHS so we'll see if I have to make a run over there next weekend after this.

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#monsterdon this week is Battle Beyond the Stars, let's goo

🌠 TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHT-SPEED DRIVES 🌠

(where applicable)

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Go! Go! Go! Time for John-Boy in space! It's Roger Corman doing The Magnificent Seven / The Seven Samurai as only he can!

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#Monsterdon se commence...

It's #Monsterdon time!

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