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« on: December 30, 2006, 03:22:02 PM »
I saw this on Cinemax many years ago when I was a kid. I bought the VHS copy from Ebay for Xmas. The movie is cheesey, right down to the flying motorcycles. Not a terrible movie, per se, but bad enough it is good.
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« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2006, 03:23:28 PM »
Too bad this gem isn't on DVD in all its widescreen glory...
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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2006, 03:26:10 PM »
I watched this film for one and only one reason: Persis Khambatta.

On the other hand: it did give us "...the good guys always win.  Even in the '80s."
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« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2006, 07:49:24 PM »
Have this one on VHS and it is worth a viewing once in a while.  With Barry Bostwick as the hero and the aforementioned flying motorcycles, how can you go wrong?
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« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2006, 07:52:07 PM »
Quote from: ulthar on December 30, 2006, 07:49:24 PM
Have this one on VHS and it is worth a viewing once in a while.  With Barry Bostwick as the hero and the aforementioned flying motorcycles, how can you go wrong?


By putting everybody in light blue bodysuits and headbands?

This one so needs a special edition DVD release.  How can you not like a movie with dirt bikes defeating main battle tanks?  Okay, granted, with sufficiently advanced technology, this is not impossible.  In this movie, it is plain old silly.


The review:
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/megaforce/

EDIT: adding the picture of Barry Bostwick, to give the full effect.
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« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2006, 09:02:03 PM »
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out. I actually liked it. But then again I was about 8 at the time.
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« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2006, 11:21:42 PM »
This movie is a whole lotta fun to watch. Just check out the horrible blue screen work on the flying motorcycle scene.
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« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2006, 10:45:28 AM »
It was 1982, though.  Horrible bluescreen work was a given.
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« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2007, 11:21:46 PM »
I subjected my girlfriend to this cinematic wonder about a year ago finally (got a bootleg DVD copy off of Ebay though it's still full frame)  and sometimes when I leave to go to work and she's at home, I do the whole kiss the thumb thing to her right before I leave.  She always dies laughing. 

Even stranger is that I actually saw this in theaters back in 1982 when it originally came out during the summer. This was one of Tohoe's big releases for that summer and was one of their attempts to break into more international markets.   

I was 7 BTW when I saw it in a local theater. Damn, that makes me feel a bit old now.   Twirling

I think that they might have even had a toy line for it as well.
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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2007, 11:58:42 AM »
I always wonder if anyone was injured by an errant rocket from one of the motorcycles.  From what I can tell, they are just model rockets, using model rocket engines.  You can see that some of them go wildly out of control after leaving the launchers, describing corkscrews and circles through the air.  Can you imagine trying to ride your dirtbike across uneven desert, then taking a model rocket in the chest or groin?  At least their faces were protected by the helmets.
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« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2007, 01:23:07 PM »
I remember the Megaforce theme song was a minor hit on the radio back in the day.  My favorite scene has got to be when they bring the bigwigs to the Megaforce base, and they're in a limo or something and these dudes start riding dirt bikes around, doing stunts, jumping over the limo probably.  Then they sit back on their bikes with these smug grins like "are we cool, or what?"  I can just imagine what the guy was thinking.  "My country is in desperate need of help, and they bring me to the local motocross club?" 
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« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2007, 11:41:38 AM »
Ya know...
Kevin Murphy and Mike Nelson said, that some of the best MST3Ks were movires that inspired great riffing, to deal with great pain.
This, might have lead the pain parade for the boys.
Man...that headband...to bad it wasen't wet leather...
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« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2007, 07:03:03 PM »
This movie was so cool to my 8 year old eyes when it was in regular rotation on HBO.
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« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2007, 08:42:21 PM »
It always seemed like to me that Persis Khambatta was really trying her hardest not to crack up acting opposite Barry Bostwick during a lot of their scenes together.
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« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2007, 09:00:30 PM »
Never seen it, always wanted to, caught part of it once on TBS or TNT late at night, figured they'd show it more but didn't. I think I was the only boy in my class when it came out who didn't go see it. We did't go to the movies as much as some of the others, money being an issue. When it was a pay cable, we didn't have it, Not sure i ever saw a copy in a viedo store for rent. Strange.
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