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70's space film with Jim Bob?

HonoredShadowHonoredShadow
edited February 2009 in Chit chat
Can anyone remember the name of the space film with Jim Bob from the Waltons? I think it might have been an early 80's space film with Hanibal from the A Team also starring.

Thanks.
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  • liamenikufesinliamenikufesin
    edited December 2008
    Battle Beyond The Stars
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080421/

    an awesomely bad movie, i love it :D

    edit: and it was John Boy, not Jim Bob ;)
  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited December 2008
    liamenikufesin wrote: »
    Battle Beyond The Stars
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080421/

    an awesomely bad movie, i love it :D

    edit: and it was John Boy, not Jim Bob ;)

    Quite a terribly entertaining film, but not a patch on Starcrash, possibly the best sci-fi film ever made :D

    http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2008
    The Starglider wrote: »
    Quite a terribly entertaining film, but not a patch on Starcrash, possibly the best sci-fi film ever made :D

    http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/

    I dunno Space Raiders gives Starcrash a run for it's money :p
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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited December 2008
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    I dunno Space Raiders gives Starcrash a run for it's money :p

    More so than Torpedoes filled with men smashing though the windows of a spacestation, with no repercussions of the vacuum of space?

    No classic lines like:

    "By sunrise tomorrow, the universe will be mine!" (while on a spacestation in the middle of nowhere)

    "HALT THE FLOW OF TIME!!!"

    And my all time favourite:

    "If I told you the future, you'd try to change it, and that's against the law, so I shall tell you nothing."

    Come on!!! Starcrash all the way! And don't forget, it has the Hoff in it too!
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited December 2008
    Is this the film with the (massively titted) Vakyrie (where's rubberkeys)?

    If so, I think it's the one where the microphone keeps on dipping in and out at the top of the scenes - especially where the aliens in that whited out room scene are.
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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited January 2009
    Vampyre wrote: »
    Is this the film with the (massively titted) Vakyrie (where's rubberkeys)?

    If so, I think it's the one where the microphone keeps on dipping in and out at the top of the scenes - especially where the aliens in that whited out room scene are.

    Yup, that's Battle Beyond The Stars.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited January 2009
    The Starglider wrote: »
    Yup, that's Battle Beyond The Stars.

    "Fire at Will!" :D

    I always wondered just what Will had done to deserve that :rolleyes:
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  • HonoredShadowHonoredShadow
    edited January 2009
    Thanks for that guys! Awesome film. Watching it right now.

    Maybe you can help me with another film that I remember. I remember giant domes on a space ship and it was meant to be like a bio ship with plants growing in the domes.

    There were robots cultivating and it ended up with just one guy in a funny coloured suit running around the ship.

    Can't remember any more than that. Same sort of era I think.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.


    Sy.
  • gasmangasman
    edited January 2009
    The Starglider wrote: »
    Come on!!! Starcrash all the way! And don't forget, it has the Hoff in it too!

    And a female lead who considers it perfectly normal to explore unknown alien planets wearing stillettos and a PVC bikini...

    I could have sworn I mentioned this before, but at last summer's Shucon demo party, we all spent most of the last day on an epic project to re-dub Starcrash into Czech. Unfortunately the only girl willing to take part had to leave half way through the day, so for the second half of the film Stella Star was voiced by a succession of guys speaking in falsetto. And yet it still felt entirely in keeping with the spirit of the original movie...
  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited January 2009
    HonoredShadow wrote: »
    Thanks for that guys! Awesome film. Watching it right now.

    Maybe you can help me with another film that I remember. I remember giant domes on a space ship and it was meant to be like a bio ship with plants growing in the domes.

    There were robots cultivating and it ended up with just one guy in a funny coloured suit running around the ship.

    Can't remember any more than that. Same sort of era I think.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.


    Sy.

    That would be Silent Running, starring Bruce Dern, directed by Douglas Trumbull.

    http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/
    gasman wrote: »
    And a female lead who considers it perfectly normal to explore unknown alien planets wearing stillettos and a PVC bikini...

    I could have sworn I mentioned this before, but at last summer's Shucon demo party, we all spent most of the last day on an epic project to re-dub Starcrash into Czech. Unfortunately the only girl willing to take part had to leave half way through the day, so for the second half of the film Stella Star was voiced by a succession of guys speaking in falsetto. And yet it still felt entirely in keeping with the spirit of the original movie...

    I know!

    The thing is, if you walk away from the film thinking that Davil Hasselhoff put in a good performance, you know the film has to be shit (but still utterly the best sci-fi film ever!).
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited January 2009
    HonoredShadow wrote: »
    Maybe you can help me with another film that I remember. I remember giant domes on a space ship and it was meant to be like a bio ship with plants growing in the domes.

    There were robots cultivating and it ended up with just one guy in a funny coloured suit running around the ship.

    Can't remember any more than that. Same sort of era I think.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.

    Sy.

    At a guess, Saturn 3? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079285)
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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited January 2009
    Vampyre wrote: »
    At a guess, Saturn 3? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079285)

    No, it was Silent Running, but Saturn 3 is another classic sci-fi film.
  • jenziejenzie
    edited January 2009
    HonoredShadow wrote: »
    Thanks for that guys! Awesome film. Watching it right now.

    Maybe you can help me with another film that I remember. I remember giant domes on a space ship and it was meant to be like a bio ship with plants growing in the domes.

    There were robots cultivating and it ended up with just one guy in a funny coloured suit running around the ship.

    Can't remember any more than that. Same sort of era I think.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.


    Sy.

    SILENT RUNNING

    bruce greenwood steals a biopod, as those naugthty earth people want to BLOW IT UP (the maniaaaaaaacs!!!), and bums around with three robots called HUEY, LEWIE and DEWIE

    and BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS is one of my guilty pleasures ..... as is wanting to be SYBIL DANNING's seat :)
  • HonoredShadowHonoredShadow
    edited January 2009
    Does anyone remember a film with a few young lads that make a ship and blast off into space and meet aliens? The ship was made of bits and pieces and looked like it was made in a junk yard.

    Also if anyone has got any suggestions for sci-fi films to get hold of. I just got The Black Hole, Krull and Critters.

    Thanks!
  • DarenDaren
    edited January 2009
    The Silent Running robots look a bit like Alien 8 to me:

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  • Dave_CDave_C
    edited January 2009
    Daren wrote: »
    The Silent Running robots look a bit like Alien 8 to me:

    Alien8? Take a look at Pssst! ;-)

    Pssst.gif
  • DarenDaren
    edited January 2009
    Indeed! Pssst is more like it.
  • urbanupstarturbanupstart
    edited January 2009
    HonoredShadow wrote: »
    Does anyone remember a film with a few young lads that make a ship and blast off into space and meet aliens? The ship was made of bits and pieces and looked like it was made in a junk yard.

    Thanks!

    That would be Explorers It has a young river Phoenix and Ethan Hawke in it
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited January 2009
    HonoredShadow wrote: »
    Also if anyone has got any suggestions for sci-fi films to get hold of. I just got The Black Hole, Krull and Critters.

    Thanks!

    The made-for-TV movie Timestalkers ... I love to hate this movie ... ( it's actually not all that bad, really).
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited January 2009
    HonoredShadow wrote: »
    Also if anyone has got any suggestions for sci-fi films to get hold of. I just got The Black Hole, Krull and Critters.

    Thanks!

    Enemy Mine.
    The Last Starfighter.
    2019: After the Fall of New york.
    Zone Troopers.
    Android (quality Blade runner rip-off).
    Starship Troopers.
    Space Raiders.
    Invaders from Mars (the 80's remake, it's terrible, but in an amusing way).
    The Abyss.
    Inseminoid (really, really bad movie).
    Eliminators.
    Robot Jox (it's shite but in a funny way).
    Arena (same as Robot Jox).

    Er.....that should satisfy your sci-fi and cheese requirements :D

    If I think of any more.....
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  • jdanddietjdanddiet
    edited January 2009
    Battle Beyond the Stars.

    Am I too late? :wink:

    BTW

    First film I went to the cinema to see!
  • Dave_CDave_C
    edited January 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Robot Jox (it's shite but in a funny way).

    "CRASH AND BURN!"

    LOL, that was one BAAAAAAAAD film... :wink:
  • milemile
    edited January 2009
    'star wars' that was pants. something about the force and a big guy that looked like a big foot, i think they did a few sequels to it too.
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited January 2009
    mile wrote: »
    'star wars' that was pants. something about the force and a big guy that looked like a big foot, i think they did a few sequels to it too.

    I've also heard it's pants ... they go beaming from one place to another ... apparently "to beam" someone means that they get a protocol droid "forced" (that "force" mile mentioned) up their exhaust port, whatever that means, or something. Then there is this old guy who dies and comes back and then another old guy dies from being green and he doesn't come back until sometime later when they had figured out how to use computers and 3D programs those slackers. Buyer Beware!
  • HonoredShadowHonoredShadow
    edited February 2009
    Ok. I have another film for people. See if they can remember this one.

    I remember a black woman as the star role in the film. Everyone was on a massive ship in space rather like the QE2. Everyone was on holiday when suddenly they got attacked or something went wrong. Anyways every one got into escape pods and jettisoned out.

    Now the film centres on just the few characters in one pod (with the black woman). She is in charge and an engineer who is a dwarf, tries to take care of the pod.

    Thats about all I can remember.

    Anyone know what this film is called?

    Thanks all!
  • jdanddietjdanddiet
    edited February 2009
    Sounds like this remake of the Hitchcock original.


    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107415/
  • DustiDusti
    edited February 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Enemy Mine.
    The Last Starfighter.
    2019: After the Fall of New york.
    Zone Troopers.
    Android (quality Blade runner rip-off).
    Starship Troopers.
    Space Raiders.
    Invaders from Mars (the 80's remake, it's terrible, but in an amusing way).
    The Abyss.
    Inseminoid (really, really bad movie).
    Eliminators.
    Robot Jox (it's shite but in a funny way).
    Arena (same as Robot Jox).

    Er.....that should satisfy your sci-fi and cheese requirements :D

    If I think of any more.....

    Arena!!!

    I have that on DivX....

    Awesome film! :D:D
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited February 2009
    Hehe....Battle Beyond The Stars...All I could remember about that was the Valkyrie and Robert Vaughn...and some bit where they're all flying through a rocky canyon or something...quality!

    Another film to watch is John Capenter's Dark Star....I watched it for the first time not that long ago and found it....odd....

    Especially that precursor-to-the-Killer-Tomatoes of an alien....
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  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited February 2009
    To add to the list:

    - Plan 9 From Outer Space - possibly the worst film ever made, but entertaining all the same for all the wrong reasons

    - Tron

    - Quatermass and the Pit (1967 film version)

    - Lifeforce - naked zombie vampires from outer space destroy London. What more could you want?
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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited February 2009
    jdanddiet wrote: »
    Sounds like this remake of the Hitchcock original.


    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107415/

    Yup, that's the one. Quite a good little made-for-TV film.
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