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[phosfate]

Drag out your old Starlogs:
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2002/05/21/spaghetti/index.html

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks goodbye:
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2002/05/21/hardware_wars/index.html

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[brouhaha.livejournal.com]

Hardware Wars!

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

"I can't understand what you're saying! I'm sorry but I can't understand what you're saying!!"

Too bad the other other Salon article didn't go into the other Star Wars ripoffs contemporaries like Roger Corman's Battle of the Planets (I think that's what it's called). I mean Richard Thomas, George Peppard and Robert Vaughn all in one place with a bizarre homage to The Seven Samaurai. It just doesn't get any better than that!

[moonwalker.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! "Starcrash, the Adventures of Stella Star!" What a hoot! I saw it as a teen, with my cousin, when it first came out.

We both loved Star Wars so much, we giggled through the whole thing. The kicker was near the end, when the Christopher Plummer character says something like, we have last hope (to save ourselves from the bad guys): "Bring out the Floating City!"

And this floating city comes out from somewhere in outer space and crashes into the bad guys. We hooted so loudly they came and told us to be quiet.

I also loved the one with John Boy Walton in it, "Battle for the Planets" or something like that. There was a "space cowboy" in it, and a couple of little "light beings" that emitted heat. In one scene, someone was holding up a hot dog on a stick over their heads, roasting it! John Boy also drove around space in a spaceship with a female voice and breasts. I kid you not. It was hilarious.

Heh heh, Starlog, I had a subscription as a teen. :-)

Mary MMM

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Battle Beyond the Stars. ::hides::