Seen It, Loved It.In fact, I can't see "Johnboy" without thinking of that
movie.
At the time though, I thought it was a rip-off of Star Wars.
Nerd From Hell
Remember a movie called "Darkstar"? Directed by John Carpenter?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Sharkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 11:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Guilty Pleasures [off topic ;-)]
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> > That's just a few of them. Feel free to join in and post
> your own "SF
> movies that are so bad, they're good".
> >
>
> Here's a painful one for you: _Battle Beyond the Stars_.
>
> I shudder to admit that as a young, impressionable teenager I
> watched this
> bad yet strangely enjoyable movie on HBO more times than I've
> seen _The
> Godfather_.
>
> It's a Roger Corman SF movie that's essentially an
> interstellar ripoff of
> _The Seven Samurai_/_The Magnificent Seven_. It stars, wait
> for it, Richard
> Thomas of the Waltons, George Peppard of the A-Team, Robert
> Vaughn of _The
> Magnificent Seven_ and Man from UNCLE, John Saxon of more bad
> movies than
> one could easily count, and Sybil Danning, of *even MORE* bad
> movies than
> one could easily count.
>
> It was Corman, so you know it was bad, but at the same time,
> it was cool,
> with a talking spaceship, an evil, immortal tyrant and Thomas
> playing a
> young man from a peaceful planet who has to learn to fight
> for that peace.
>
> It's not as bad as some of Corman's other works that have
> been Mistied, but
> it's definitely a *guilty* pleasure.
>
> Jim
> "What can change the nature of a man?" - The Nameless One
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