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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-29 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:17:42 -0700
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On 3/30/2025 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
> 
> 
>>> Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (blu-ray) 1983 sci-fi movie.  I
>>> wasn't paying attention to the plot, I don't know, stuff happened I
>>> guess.  This is another 80s flick I watched all the time on TV in the
>>> 80s, and I could never tell the difference between this one and
>>> Spacehunter.  Now that I've watched them back to back, Spacehunter was
>>> by far the better of the two movies.  I watched Metalstorm a few years
>>> ago in 3D, and it was a horrible viewing experience.  This time I went
>>> for the 2D option and the picture quality was fine, but I had already
>>> made up my mind I wasn't going to pay attention to the movie.
>>
>> Wow, with a very young Kelly Preston, and Richard Moll!! I'm guessing I
>> saw Jeffrey Byron back in the day, but I don't remember him
>>
>> This sports a whoppin' 3.9/10 on IMDb. OTOH, "Spacehunter" is a decent
>> 5.5/10, so I would bet it is much more watchable!
>>
>>> The Ice Pirates (blu-ray) 1984 sci-fi comedy starring Robert Ulich as a
>>> space pirate who chases after a space princess while trying to avoid
>>> catching space herpes.
>>
>> Is this for real?!
> 
> Absolutely. I saw it in the theater. It’s on one of my streamers. I saw an
> ad for it yesterday.
> 
> 
> 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vocDsDfp1xM

I just assumed everyone on Earth has seen "The Ice Pirates" at least 8 
times and there would be no need to recap it.  It was on HBO like 
infinity times a week in the 80s.

"The Ice Pirates" is a very cheesy low budget sci-fi movie full of 80's 
"humor" that would definitely not fly today.  In the movie's universe 
water is the most rarest and valuable commodity.  Ulrich leads a band of 
pirates who  steal ice from the evil government.  During a raid he 
encounters a princess and it's lust at first sight.  As it turns out the 
princess wants to hire the pirates (after saving them from being 
castrated) to find her father.  Low budget 80s cheesy and culturally 
insensitive jokes ensue.  And yes, there are space herpes in the movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnJrenTkGGE