SHITE SCI FI

[Matt]

'Starcrash'

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[Timothy225]

'Starcrash'

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It's got a ravishing Caroline Munro in her prime.



It's got the Hoff. MATT ARE WINNAR!!!!

[Matt]

Actually...

'Turkish Star Wars' is the worst. Look it up...I'm pretty sure that you can view it online. It's ALMOST so bad that it's entertaining...ALMOST.

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(apologies to Martin)

runners up:
'Night Fliers'
'Megaforce'

[Captain Russ]

Rutger Hauer's had some fantastic entries.

Beyond his classic work as Roy in Yew Brade Runnah, there were two that I watched whenever they were on.

And they were almost never on.

Crossworlds and Split Second.

Crossworlds was awesome, because dimension-jumping using a rain stick is the sort of novelty power everyone wished they had back in the 90s. And Rutger Hauer knew the fuck outta dimension-jumping with a rain stick. I wanted that rain stick.

Split Second is still kind of cool for a variety of reasons. The parts don't create a very impressive whole, but the atmosphere, the setting of a foggy Londontown going to shit as the sea levels rise, and stoic-as-fuck Rutger Hauer wearing Morpheus shades before The Brother and Transgender Wachowski deemed them cool for school whilst fighting an invisible organ-eating killer (which turns out to be a knock-off xenomorph)? Come on, that shit is awesome.

[Matt]

WE NEED MORE GUNS!!

Yeah, I have a soft spot for 'Split Second' as well.

Also:
'Message From Space'
'Battle Beyond the Stars'

[Captain Russ]

Toecutter isn't as bad when you listen to him with his actual voice/Australian accent. The dubbed voice for American audiences is way, way, WAAAAY over the top with a hamminess that simply isn't there originally. Same thing with Johnny, Goose, and Fifi (especially Fifi)...whoever directed the voice actors for the American dub should be shot.

That being said, I don't think it's a Shite film at all. It's a low-budget, valiant first effort, with a lot more technical skill behind the camera than a lot of higher-budget films.

The dubbed version stays.

Also, Shite Sci-fi encompasses varying degrees of shite. We've got your whole, your half & half, your one and two percenters, and skim shit levels. Max was at least a 2 percenter.

[Matt]

The dubbed version stays.

I'll buy that.

[Captain Russ]

Whilst my knowledge of the 90s and late 80s genre trappings is rather robust, does anyone know of a film where inanity was the name of the game, even though the production had an impressive budget?

Not a huge bomb or anything, but something that got a lot of backing but was ultimately a turd?

I know I am being incredibly vague, but I'm kind of in the mode to observe the elder statesmen of the genre at work.

[Matt]

'Zardoz', perhaps?

[Captain Russ]

Holy shit.

And that's on instant...

[Matt]

Be prepared, Russell...you're gonna see things in that film that you can't unsee...

Sean Connery in a diaper.

[Nathan]

Wow. Split Second. Haven't thought of that in ages. Speaking of Rutger, what about
'The Blood of Heroes?'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094764/

[Captain Russ]

I've seen the stills of such hirsute horror.

I expect I will contract Covenant-Face when I see the film.

[Captain Russ]

Wow. Split Second. Haven't thought of that in ages. Speaking of Rutger, what about
'The Blood of Heroes?'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094764/

That might just be great.

Even if it has boring-as-shit Josie from Twin Peaks.

[Matt]

I remember 'the Blood of Heroes'. It actually wasn't THAT bad, if I remember correctly. It's not great by any means but it's also not a complete embarrassment.