Starcrash
Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

Everyone take the slidey-pole exit to get off the catwalk!

Why are we all on a catwalk in the first place?

So we can take the slidey-pole!

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

The boy smuggler draws his light saber and beings a sword fight with the stop motion robots; unlike real lightsabers these are movie lightsabers and so cannot cut through steel swords.

One of the robots stabs the boy smuggler and so the prince must take up the light saber; they defeat the other stop motion robot by double-teaming it.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

But it was a trap and the evil count was only pretending that his shatner ray center was unguarded, and then the Emperor, his Golem robots and some goons appear to capture them. The Count monologues that the emperor will soon be dead and that Simon is the Emperor's son, which the smuggler boy also knows. Then the Emperor does soem evil laughs and asks the golems to kill the three of them... with swords. Then he leaves to not confirm that they are killed, because bond villain.

EricKHoward

All these power modules, what are they for? Also, magnets, how do they work?

ano yatsu
ano yatsu
yatsu@retro.pizza

beating up cavemen to some kind of knock off Planet of the Apes soundtrack, i feel like someone is trying to Say Something. #monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Rolling percentile dice to determine the next threat, robocop and the smuggler girl are ambushed by cavemen armed with bones. Despite being less cool and more poorly armed than the space amazons, they smash the robocop (RIP) and carry the smuggler girl off tied to a beam.

Later that evening, she is hanging from a tree and screaming "help" when she is rescued by a lizard guy who shoots the cavemen with laser eyes. He is quite genteel.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Is she wearing _bubble wrap_ now!?

You know what, I retract my objection, at least this thing has sleeves. And pant legs! That's character growth for you.

Terencio

If hillbilly robot doesn't say "what in tarnation" at least once, I'm gonna riot.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

In another zoom call, the evil count complains that the green cop guy isn't back yet, and he says that the space ship is broke, making the evil count mad because he has metrics dammit. Then the boy smuggler wakes up and a fight breaks out, and we learn that the spaceship can't take off without the boy smuggler and also the boy smuggler is immune to lasers for no reason, so he overpowers the green cop.

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

"Maybe I can save you, you lie down in the snow, face up…"

If I had a nickel for every time I tried that line on a girl at the ski lodge!

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Smuggler boy decides to talk to the ship's computer, then the green cop whacks him with a whacking instrument and we learn that he is a Double Agent, because ACAB. He reports to the evil count via Zoom call. He tries to have the spaceship take off, but the computer reports a malfunction so it doesn't work.

Adrew
Adrew
Ayyyydrew@gensokyo.social

dude wtf is the problem with the green guy. o wait wasn't he one of the fucking cops at the start? i have no idea what the hell is going on in this movie
#monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Their boobbot having been defeated in battle, the Space Amazons send their own space fighters to try to stop the main characters from escaping, and we get a space battle with lots of lasers but poor cinematography as the main character ship shoots them down.

Imagine the scene in Star Wars a New Hope, where the Millennium Falcon shoots down the TIE fighters that are chasing it, but not as good.

Sam Levine
Sam Levine
SRLevine@neuromatch.social

@Taweret Stars are rainbow colored! It's not obvious with Earth's atmospheric distortion and they aren't that large, but in space they are apparently quite visibly different colors, which means this is one aspect of the movie that's weirdly correct?

#Monsterdon

Terencio

@Taweret

Because some of them are moving away from you, and some are moving closer.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Then some space amazons on horseback ride up and capture them. Naturally they are all in (different) space bikinis. The head amazon decides to kill robocop with rayguns, because ACAB I guess, and capture the smuggler girl, because space BDSM I guess.

The evil amazon queen is about to put the smuggler girl into a "mind probe", which she doesn't want. But then we learn the robocop wasn't actually dead and he rescues them in a fight with vaporizer guns and they start escaping.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

While looking for survivors we get distracted looking for loot, finding a spear or fishing hook or something. Robcop and Smuggler Girl discus the sociological conditions here... they are in the domain of the evil Count and don't know anything about the civilization here.