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

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 3/31/2025 1:52 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 3/31/25 8:01 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 3/30/2025 8:38 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 3/30/25 1:17 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

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?

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I watched:
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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.

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OK, I've never even heard of this movie, and knowing it's on
Tubi may get me to watch it!
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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!

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Well, give us some clues

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I literally can't. I do not remember who was in it (it was likely
nobody well-known). It had really low budget EFX (things like
turning the screen green-tinted to show magic), and may have been
a TV movie. I think there might have been a magic bow involved?...
I literally have no other info, and what I just told you about the
magic bow may be wrong.
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The year would have been likely c.1983-1984.

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I've never see or heard of either of these two movies until now,
but apparently they exist:
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Conquest (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPcEnsSfltM
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The Archer: Fugitive From the Empire (1981) https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=XN6YP8LvTCc

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It was neither of these. I am quite sure it was an American (or possibly
Canadian) production, so it's not "Conquest". And nothing about the
second one looks familiar.
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There was a movie I saw, I'm guessing when I was about 5 or 6 years
old around 1983ish.  I remember there was a scientist from Earth who
entered a portal and was transported to a another world.  That's
about all I remember.  But I've never seen it again since.  It just
dropped off the face of the Earth, and I've watched a *lot* of low
budget sci-fi/fantasy types and that one just disappeared.

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I want to say I had a very similar case to this. In the one I saw, it
was a family that go through some kind of portal. I want to say a
pyramid was involved.
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Google says it was the TV series "Otherworld", but I don't think this is
right because, 1) I want to say I saw it much earlier than 1985 (maybe
late 70s or early 80s), and 2) I think it was movie, not a TV series.
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But, whatever...

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"Otherworld" would be my first guess.  I watched reruns of it on The
Sci-Fi Channel back when the channel debuted.  Hey, I haven't thought of
the sci-fi channel in a *long* time!  Is it airing any actual sci-fi
programs? Or just wrestling?
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My second guess would be "The Fantastic Journey." I don't think I've
ever watched it before, but for some random reason it popped up in my
social media feed the other day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqKEENAGSBo

 It doesn’t involve a family, but another possibility is The Stranger
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070742/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk