At 11:16 AM 11/3/00 -0800, Jim wrote:
> > 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.
That's because John Sayles wrote much of the story and the script for
Battle Beyond the Stars.
john
