Starcrash
Sordid Amok!
Sordid Amok!
SordidAmok

We have officially excavated the bottom of the barrel. All future movies will be quality entertainment. Never again will we have to endure.... that.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

I give Starcrash 3 out of 5 pew pew lasers. On the plus side, it was fun to watch. On the minus side it made almost no sense. I liked the sets and costumes. I both fear and respect this movie's willingness to add new plot elements without warning.

The best character was the hammy Evil Count and the equally hammy space amazons and the almost as hammy space cavemen. The worst character was the mary sue smuggler boy who had magic powers for no reason.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Supervillain Pro-Tip: Always have your robots fight the heroes with swords, inside the control center of your superweapon, because that is a Sound Plan that Cannot end in failure.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Having cleared the Beach level we are going to the Ice level, sending the girl smuggler and the robocop again. We find another crashed launch and the crew are both cold and smashed. The coldness and death makes them cranky, so they walk back.

Back at the main character's spaceship, which I will call the GenX Kestral because I don't know the real name we get character development as the boy smuggler is having a good time juggling a glowing loop, proving that he has fun.

Patioboater
Patioboater
patioboater

Starting late tonight, so I’m out of sync with the feed. But by checking IMDB I’ve discovered a major plot problem in the 2nd half of this movie:

“Caroline Munro was originally going to wear a skimpy leather bikini outfit through the entire film, but American studio executives insisted that writer/director Luigi Cozzi have Munro wear less provocative clothing in the second half because they thought the film would have problems being broadcast on network television.”

jonny (good kind)
jonny (good kind)
jonny@neuromatch.social

for combat scenes you need to have lots of setup shots to tell me who people are and what they are shooting at, it doesn't really work when all your setup shots are completely unrelated to the blowing shit up shots #monsterdon

Terencio

@SordidAmok Devil Girl woulda reformatted their robot, critiqued their outfits til they wept, then driven off in their Space City.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Saddened by news that a doom weapon will blow up his planet, the Emperor comes up with a desperate plan... they will use the movie title and I think crash a floating city into the Doom Machine to stop it and save the universe.

Huh, okay.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Why are all of these launching attack ships different? Has nobody heard of fleet consistency in this universe?! Maintenance would be a _nightmare_, not to mention keeping track of all the adapter dongles! For shame.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

A very got-his-ticket-to-Rome-out-of-this Christopher Plummer: "Imperial battleship: HALT. THE FLOW OF TIME."

Uh you know what, suddenly the earlier transgressions against the Celsius temperature scale seem slightly less egregious

jonny (good kind)
jonny (good kind)
jonny@neuromatch.social

this universe must have just not faced war or even had the need for policing in generations or something. nobody knows what "being dead" is, nobody knows that when you take someone prisoner you have to "take away their weapons and confine their movement," and yet they are surrounded with extremely powerful weapons all the time. it's like the NRA universe where everyone has been a good guy with a gun for so long they forgot about bad guys with guns #monsterdon

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

*Acton, Stella, and David Hans le Fluff wander through a cave for some reason*

Remember, : they're called stalactites because they stick tight to the ceiling, and stalagmites because you might try to impale yourself on one to avoid having to watch the last half hour of this movie OH GOD WE ARE ONLY 2/3 DONE *throws self frantically at a stalagmite*

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

As I have no idea why the smuggler boy has magical powers, I'm gonna assume that he's from the future and knows stuff.

After rescuing them, he tries to explain the plot of the movie but does so so that it makes even less sense. Our mission now is to explode the planet that they are on, because it is the evil planet and has a superweapon. Naturally it is guarded by cavemen and a shatner beam.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Anyway, after defeating the green cop, the robocop is carrying the girl smuggler back to the GenX Kestral; she is frozen but the boy smuggler uses his rainbow magic to defrost her to flowery orchestral music.

Sordid Amok!
Sordid Amok!
SordidAmok

I'm guessing about the quality of acid in the 70s, based on what I heard. I didn't start taking acid until 1988.

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

Hey - I've seen this before. I remembered that line for decades.

"When the sun sets the temperature drops thousands of degrees."

The ultimate in misunderstanding thermodynamics and being unaware of absolute zero!

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Okay, so I think the character dynamic here is that the boy smuggler is more logical and analytical, while the girl smuggler is more compassionate and impulsive. The bald cop is green and is there to be green. The robot cop is there to provide commentary that is almost snarky.

forestine
forestine
forestine@sunny.garden

my conclusion about this movie is there is only one woman in the entirety of space which is why she keeps being grabbed (unless there were other women while i was making dinner and not looking at the screen) #Monsterdon
(edit: i did forget about the amazons)