Space Mutiny

[bob]

We did watch the mst3k version, me and my older two kids.

For those who haven't watched this film, it is putatively about a colony ship, and the fight for their ultimate mission. Needless to say, absolutely no one in this film can act. It is shot in some kind of factory that is brightly lit, and the filtering of the light is all messed up, the original Director had a tragedy in his life and so the second Director had to take over. No one was happy with the result, and at the end, everyone was trying to get their name off of being the Director of this.

Really stand out bad parts are:

-  Extremely bad acting all around, especially the main bad guy who looks like he's trying to explode himself with enthusiasm and "evil."  Main good guy is this huge beefcake who flexes, tumbles and fires his blaster as though he is throwing punches with it.

-  Endless railing deaths. Endless. So much of the movie consists of people running around on catwalks and up and down little railing stairs. And getting shot and falling off of them.

-  in the mid part of the film, there is a chase sequence that is done with floor waxers that have been repainted. They appear to travel about 2 mph. At one point, the heroine overtakes them wearing high heels.  They slammed them into each other like little bumper cars as though they're doing battle on the Fury Road.  What utterly destroyed us, though, was when they brought the little bumper cars *back* for the grand finale battle. We were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe.

-  Also, there are segments of space battle that are simply footage taken from the older Battlestar Galactica series. External footage of the colony ship is footage of the Galactica run backwards. Vipers and cylon raiders do battle with stock footage. At one point there is a battle with "space pirates" which are cylon base stars.  How the hell did they get permission to do that?  Oh, right, they didn't bother.

-  I'm missing a lot of other badness. But, I am shuddering to think that many other "worse" films were made than this around that time.

I think I need to see this now       

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

MST3K was my first exposure to the film. Easily one of my favorite episodes.

[Dr. Whom]

Come on, it is not that bad. For one thing, the money they saved by reusing Battlestar Galactica footage was clearly spent on pyrotechnics. Also, look at it from the bright side: there is no inane subplot, no comic relief (intentional, that is) no insufferable cute kids or animals.

Besides, there is stuff happening. Sure, it is all very inept and little of it makes sense, but at least it is there. People are running through corridors, shooting lasers with explosions all around. A lot better than long scenes marking time interspersed with some bad special effects or an animal in a miniature set.

And you have the evil laugh of John Philip Law.

[Trevor]

And you have the evil laugh of John Philip Law.

😂😂😉

And Trevor's mentor in charge of cinematography 😉😉

[chainsaw midget]

And you have the evil laugh of John Philip Law.

😂😂😉

And Trevor's mentor in charge of cinematography 😉😉

I knew somehow this was all your fault.   

[Trevor]

And you have the evil laugh of John Philip Law.

😂😂😉

And Trevor's mentor in charge of cinematography 😉😉

I knew somehow this was all your fault.   

😂😂😂😂😅🐢

My mentor Vincent Cox ASC also photographed another terrible movie made here called THE DEMON 😳