Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-29 (Saturday)

On 3/30/25 10:28 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 3/30/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

 I watched:
  Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (Tubi) 1983 sci-fi movie starring Peter Strauss as a bounty hunter who travels to a hostile planet run by Michael Ironside to save three women from Earth who crash landed there.  Strauss teams up with a young Molly Ringwald and Ernie Hudson so save the day.  I haven't watched this since the 80s.  I was shocked by how much of it came back to me as I watched, and how surprisingly watchable it turned out to be.  I watched "Cherry 2000" on Friday and the two movies have very similar plot lines of man being guided through wasteland by woman or in this case a teenage girl.

OK, I've never even heard of this movie, and knowing it's on Tubi may get me to watch it!
The other thing there was a lot of in the 1980s was low-budge[t] sword and sorcery flicks - there was one I saw on TV back in the early 80s while I was babysitting that I still have never tracked down!

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (blu-ray) 1983 sci-fi movie.  I wasn't paying attention to the plot, I don't know, stuff happened I guess.  This is another 80s flick I watched all the time on TV in the 80s, and I could never tell the difference between this one and Spacehunter.  Now that I've watched them back to back, Spacehunter was by far the better of the two movies.  I watched Metalstorm a few years ago in 3D, and it was a horrible viewing experience.  This time I went for the 2D option and the picture quality was fine, but I had already made up my mind I wasn't going to pay attention to the movie.

Wow, with a very young Kelly Preston, and Richard Moll!! I'm guessing I saw Jeffrey Byron back in the day, but I don't remember him
This sports a whoppin' 3.9/10 on IMDb. OTOH, "Spacehunter" is a decent 5.5/10, so I would bet it is much more watchable!

The Ice Pirates (blu-ray) 1984 sci-fi comedy starring Robert Ulich as a space pirate who chases after a space princess while trying to avoid catching space herpes.

Is this for real?!