Is this movie gradually getting more out of focus? #monsterdon
#starodysessy

We're starting off strong for a potential "humanity was the real monster" theme

but also with a dub and something that's been chopped up as much as this, who the hell even knows what the plot will turn out to be?

#Monsterdon

The bridge bunnies are known as Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, Karen, and Sue.

#monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

I loved the song Hyper Radar.

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Wide spread traces of pollution? Just like home. Ahhhh….

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#monsterdon HOLLYWOOOOOOOOOOD! He's so ghey! The moustache action game is on point. They even got the STTOS computer voice. Love it.

What you don’t understand is that rank is determined by mustaches #monsterdon

Good ‘stache dude

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

Oh it hurts, it hurts so badly.

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey

aw crap now I can't help but hear every line of dialogue as being part of a seedy porno

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

“Quiet, Hollywood!” #Monsterdon

Atomic Cannon Crossfire was my garage band name.

#Monsterdon

Sounds about right

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Sir! We have no budget for villain makeup.

What do you have?

We have this screen door and the sun.

Get to it then!

#Monsterdon

Back in my day kids didn't carry water bottles everywhere and we survived, but also we looked like this waffle-faced husk of a man.

#monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

Wait, aren't those the Moonbase Babes from Invasion: UFO?

#Monsterdon
#StarOdyssey1979

those miniatures aren't bad! they aren't *good*, but I've seen much worse, especially the quality of the animation

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I'm gonna go ahead and say the man with the disfigured face is not the protagonist.
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The opening credits theme went on to become "Demo #4" on Casio keyboards.

#monsterdon

The kids will say that this is so shitty it must be AI.

I can assure you, humans are more than capable of making something as ...ehem...amazing as #Starodyssey1979.

#monsterdon

Also, is this going to be XCOM-alike?

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

Fun watching other people look at a very blurry screen. #monsterdon

Good evening, y'all.

I'm ready to take notes so as to improve my acting skills.

#MOnsterdon #StarOdyssey 🌟🌟💫

How can their intentions be hostile with music like this?!

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Guy in the corner's playing pong

thought we wouldn't notice

#monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

Hmm. In alphabetical order. By the 3rd letter of the second name? #monsterdon

Don't explain anything at all movie, is this the Future? Is this Earth? Are these humans?

#Monsterdon

i can hear someone playing pong

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Penetration!

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#monsterdon casual swingers party on deck tonight

the music makes me feel like a puppet is about to teach us how to count to five

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Giani Giarko?
Is this going to feature a hallucinatory rabbit and a plane crash timeloop? But badly dubbed?

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey #StarOdyssey1979

Trailer time!
. . . wtf is this?
Omg is this an Italian knock off? We haven't had one of them in ages, have we?
#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey

Yanti! Gianni! SHaron! Chris!

let's-a go!

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5...4...3....2...1... GO!

Press PLAY

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If I had a bunch of 40k sized samurai figures, I would definitely have a Message from Space themed Imperial Guard Regiment
#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

Ishimori was the manga artist who created Masked Rider and Power Rangers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotaro_Ishinomori #Monsterdon

I think the glowing ice cubes might just be random and not actually magical.
#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace

They gathered a crew of theater kids

#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace

@diazona The middle of Message From Space is a bit saggy. Everyone's falling in and out of accepting the call of the glowing space walnuts takes way too long.
#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace

Hard cut to psychedelic Roombas. #Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

We have teleporters, but I have to use hand signals to activate them and signal the team above. #Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

Did a 40k inquisitional team just drop through the roof to purge the mutant?

#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

@PurpleJillybeans Yeah, fair... it's definitely worse in certain aspects. For me those aspects don't make it an outright worse movie than something like Star Odyssey or Turkish Star Wars - a halfway coherent plot counts for a lot in my book - but reasonable people will disagree.

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#StarOdyssey1979

I'm just gonna say it that hat and topcoat do not belong in this movie

#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

This is refreshingly efficient hero gathering

#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace

So bad a pilot he flew into the board side of a battle cruiser

#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

Why does NASA and all them spend so much on those ridiculously thick space suits? All you need is a light jacket and a loosely fitted half-face gas mask to survive in space. Because... ... uhm, hold on... I know this one...

#Monsterdon

The breast stroke in spaaaaaace!

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

Yes, let's all go swimming with the space fireflies.

#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

Japanese for "Ahoy" is "Yaho" :)

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

Space siren

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@paco Rocky Asteroid Oysters.
#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace

A polite #monsterdon suggestion:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113074/

These fucking walnuts are popping up like goddamn Willy Wonka tickets.

#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

Even the background stage dancers have a better choreography than anyone in the last movie at any point.

#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

That's no tequila worm. Do you think you got roofied? 🌰

#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

Is Kirk in this bar?
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#monsterdon I know it's not sci-fi or horror (in the strict sense) but it would be fun to watch Glen or Glenda!? with the gang. From the same dude (dudette!?) who brought us Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Leave the keys to the launch pad on your desk!
#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

Or maybe I'm just completely mixed up? I think actually I remember it was actually filmed in English and this Japanese version is actually the dub.

#Monsterdon

"Bad" is just a word.

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey

The movie ends with the robots getting genitalia? #Monsterdon #StarOdyssey

Oh! Look, they did the akira motorcycle power slide! #monsterdon

Say what you want, at least they had a special effects budget for this one.

#Monsterdon

It's only one cop so... split up #Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

Did this movie just end with 2 takes of the same scene?

Irene: "You survived."

"Yup."

Irene: "You're alive?"

"Yup."

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey

Space trains would have also been an acceptable answer. #monsterdon

Ok, this is interesting. I saw the English dub of this. I'm pretty sure they didn't dub the English actors in it. In the Japanese version the English actors are definitely (badly) dubbed over in Japanese it seems. I guess you get a dub no matter what. 😆

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Yeah there's absolutely some "we're stealing Star Wars music and adding some different fiddly bits so it's different" going on with the soundtrack. #Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

#monsterdon uchu senkan flying dutchman?

@brooke the movie itself said fuck you, movie and i can't imagine a better ending for this "film"

#monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

I bet that boxing match is still going on.

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The costumes and the models are in several classes above that last film we just watched.

#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

i couldn't hack it and closed the window with like 10 minutes of nonsense to go, but i understand it eventually did stop happening, so i guess that's something i can say for this movie.

#monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie So'm I!

#monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

Did they lift John Williams straight up from Star Wars for this? (Not quite)
#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

The problem with dubs is I can't keep up with the subtitle AND #Monsterdon...

#Monsterdon well i hope something wrapped up the plot cause i got distracted by a carbon monoxide detector that decided it was expired and was gonna let me know once every minute or so

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

Content Update

🎞️Later @paco will send out a word cloud and data analysis for tonight's watch party. Who got the most reactions?

😢 Missed it and want to watch later? Check in with your therapist first, and, if approved, @combatwombat will post a link for a replay at your leisure. We recommend watching it at work.

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

#monsterdon I like that the Toei double feature opens with the production company sitting the french horn player who did "Leia's Theme" just a year earlier out on a stage and saying " Well go on, you know why we hired you"

@moira

I’m serious.

#Monsterdon

At least that wasn't Birdemic.

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

@LingLass @Taweret @Cherizilla @JoeWynne that almost feels like an insult to cheese

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

This sounds very similar to the Capricorn one theme. But also Tron.

#monsterdon #MessageFromSpace

What the actual hell was that? This might really have been the worst movie I’ve ever seen! #Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

@davesdogmaggie that's a quality shirt idea :D

#monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

It's movies like that that remind me that half of the fun of #Monsterdon is watching other people's horrified reactions to what we're watching.

@paco He's the guy who made the sword clanging sound?

#Monsterdon
#StarOdyssey1979

An overly catchy Casio tune and some super embarrassing plot lines. A good night’s #Monsterdon viewing! Thanks @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne for this campily derivative cheese.

@pngwen @Taweret I’m uncertain about “nowhere to go from here but up,” it’s not really in the #Monsterdon wheelhouse 😂🤣

I like how the poster for Message From Space said "HELP ME"

it knows what's up

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

So is this going to be the story of the quest for the magic space chestnut?
#Monsterdon #MessageFromSpace1978

Lord Kess of Koba

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

#monsterdon so in the end, the auction that mentions slaves A LOT is still going on, and two of our team of heroes are going to buy their own planet, presumably full of creatures they themselves can enslave?

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Scheduling Note

🏃 You can head over now to https://miru.miyaku.media for part 2 of a double feature.

🗓️ Next week, follow #MonsterdonAlert to see a poll where we vote on the next film.

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So who's throwing up the "Was Star Odyssey the worst #Monsterdon movie" poll?

@Vanalope

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You’re alive!

Yup.

#Monsterdon #StarOdyssey1979

Even the movie ended w a "fuck this movie'

#Monsterdon