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From: "Jim Sharkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Guilty Pleasures [off topic ;-)]
> > 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.
>
I watched that flick a hunnert times myself. I always figured it a s "Corman
cashing in" on Star Wars.
xponent
rob
