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

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:
 

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!

 Well, give us some clues

 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.
 The year would have been likely c.1983-1984.

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

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.

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.

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.
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.
But, whatever...

Actually, I can think of a few different low budget "USA Up All
Night" flicks I only ever saw once.  Another that springs to mind
was set in the future and had space ships.  I just remember a scene
at the end when the villain was flying his spaceship and realized
the universe was going to end or maybe the sun was going to go
nova.  Whatever it was, it was happening *everywhere* and I remember
the villain in a panic saying, where can I go and my father started
to laugh because literally the universe is ending, there is no where
you can go to get away.