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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: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:01:16 -0700
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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


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.

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.