Oh, oh, oh! Starcrash!

[video=youtube;pzfuNSpP0RA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzfuNSpP0RA[/youtube]

And the irony is that it's still better than the Star Wars prequels!

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;1001661Oh, oh, oh! Starcrash!

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And the irony is that it's still better than the Star Wars prequels!

That's a good movie, though. I thought this was for bad movies.

Lorca and the Outlaws... alias Starship when I saw it.
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Hawk the Slayer is perfect, and I've included things from that movie in my campaign for many years:

• Cultists who burn dwarves for their god.
• Slavers by the River Shale.
• A giant who isn't much taller than anyone else, but wields a mean hammer.
• Full-auto crossbows
• Silly String Of Death!
• A crazed, one-eyed villain leading a troupe of retarded brigands, who is prone to overacting that makes William Shatner look like Dirk Bogarde:

[video=youtube_share;f_qFGcC6XHc]https://youtu.be/f_qFGcC6XHc?t=4m9s[/youtube]

SEE HOW IT GLOOOOOOWWWWWS!

It's such a great part of my homemade setting that I can't imagine running my campaign without it.

Quote from: DavetheLost;1001629"Waterworld" could make a fun setting for a post apocalyptic game. Cobine it with "Planet of the Sharks" for extra bite.

DavetheLost, you might want to check out Blue Planet:  https://www.biohazardgamespublishing.com/blueplanet/

Allan.

So you want bad 80's movies? OK, no shortage of those...

Space hunter: adventures in the forbidden zone. What's forbidden in the forbidden zone? Good film making, apparently. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacehunter:_Adventures_in_the_Forbidden_Zone

Metalstorm: The destruction of Jared Synn. Who the fuck is Jared synn? I dunno but they made a ghawdawful movie about destroying him that had enough crap in it to fill out a cheap indie RPG. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalstorm:_The_Destruction_of_Jared-Syn

Battle beyond the stars. Great cheap star wars ripoff made by roger corman, sort of an honorary bad movie. Stars Cybil danning's giant tits and a starship with giant tits. Also has the man from UNCLE and john boy Walton. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Beyond_the_Stars

How does a starship have giant tits? Here!

Transformers, probably.

Push

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465580/

It's got stilted dialog, hackneyed plotting, and poor pacing, but it actually has a pretty promising, self-consistent, and intriguing setting that would work fine for a "psychic conspiracy" type of game.

Quote from: Caesar Slaad;1001693Push

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465580/

It's got stilted dialog, hackneyed plotting, and poor pacing, but it actually has a pretty promising, self-consistent, and intriguing setting that would work fine for a "psychic conspiracy" type of game.

Good one!

Quote from: Caesar Slaad;1001693Push

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465580/

It's got stilted dialog, hackneyed plotting, and poor pacing, but it actually has a pretty promising, self-consistent, and intriguing setting that would work fine for a "psychic conspiracy" type of game.

Oh, definitely. That a movie that is a poor meal made from good ingredients.

Speaking of which, Season of the Witch (2011) is a spiritual successor/remake of The Seventh Seal (1957). It takes the same ingredients of tSS (which is often considered one of the best films of the 20th century), and creates a violently mediocre film (any time Nicholas Cage is criticized for being simply dull and boring, you know there is a problem). Still, if you take a bit of the Seventh Seal back into the general universe of SotW, it could make a very interesting game setting.

Equinox [which had Fritz Leiber as Dr Waterman], Food of the Gods, Day of the Animals, Psychomania, there is a really long list.

Quote from: danskmacabre;1001626I don't care what a rating site says.  I've seen it recently  as well and it's god awful.
Perhaps what's propped up the rating is it's achieved a sort of cult status over the years.
Try actually watching the movie and tell me it's not a bad movie.  

I don't really understand why Krull should be regarded as worse than other fantasy movies aimed primarily at children. I guess it takes itself more seriously than most, except for the incompetent wizard. There's cheesiness and there's several very cool bits. Lysette Anthony does a notably good job as the captive princess standing up to the Beast. Lots of good British actors in early roles.

'She' by contrast I found unwatchably bad.

Quote from: S'mon;1001734I don't really understand why Krull should be regarded as worse than other fantasy movies aimed primarily at children. I guess it takes itself more seriously than most, except for the incompetent wizard. There's cheesiness and there's several very cool bits. Lysette Anthony does a notably good job as the captive princess standing up to the Beast. Lots of good British actors in early roles.

'She' by contrast I found unwatchably bad.

Like I said, it's a matter of opinion.   You don't think it's a bad movie?  That's great.  I DO think it's a bad movie.  I still had a laugh watching it it tho.
I thought the acting was awful, the plot full of holes, really cheesy in general and for those reasons it was a fun watch (well off and on if I'm doing something else too)... Seems I've hit a raw nerve with this movie..

Are there worse movies?  Sure there are..

Quote from: danskmacabre;1001749Like I said, it's a matter of opinion.   You don't think it's a bad movie?  That's great.  I DO think it's a bad movie.  I still had a laugh watching it it tho.
I thought the acting was awful, the plot full of holes, really cheesy in general and for those reasons it was a fun watch (well off and on if I'm doing something else too)... Seems I've hit a raw nerve with this movie..

Yeah, I agree it's a matter of taste. And it may be more popular in the UK; it's almost as British as Hawk the Slayer, although Hawk's tone is much lower-fantasy. I liked how Krull blended SF and medieval fantasy like Wilderlands and such. I did think the pacing felt off at times. There was lots of good acting IMO from eg the bandit gang, many of them future stars, and some wooden. The overall tone and message felt quite pre-Modern, with the Prince & Princess deriving power & righteousness from their inheritance & their vows. I like how the Beast seemed a fairly heavy handed representation of male sexuality threatening the pure, captive princess, a very fairytale Beauty & the Beast theme.

I guess when I think really-bad-movies that are fun, I think straight to video stuff like (two I have on DVD) 'She' and 'The Warrior & the Sorceress', also 'Barbarian Queen' etc. And 'Deathstalker' except I like it too much!

Quote from: S'mon;1001750Yeah, I agree it's a matter of taste. And it may be more popular in the UK;

I'm British actually and lived many years in the UK.  Although I live in Australia now.
It IS seen with a certain fondness in the UK and I've watched it with friends in the UK (my tabletop RPG friends in the UK mostly) on evenings of watching trashy movies and drinking beer etc.
 

Quote from: S'mon;1001750it's almost as British as Hawk the Slayer, although Hawk's tone is much lower-fantasy.

I actually PREFER Hawk the Slayer...  It's even more trashy and cheap, but it feels even more like DnD than Krull and has a certain gritty mood to it.
But again, the feeling I have and get from people I chat to about it in RL is that it's a trashy, but fun movie and certainly a movie of it's time.

Quote from: S'mon;1001750I guess when I think really-bad-movies that are fun, I think straight to video stuff like (two I have on DVD) 'She' and 'The Warrior & the Sorceress', also 'Barbarian Queen' etc. And 'Deathstalker' except I like it too much!

Well, the Conan movies were mentioned in this thread and were pretty big budget movies of their time (I.E. not straight to Video), especially the first Conan movie. I wouldn't even see the First Conan movie as "Really bad", Actually IMO it's a pretty darn good movie. Certainly better than the latest iteration of Conan.
Now of course that's MY opinion... Others may feel different and that's ok.

I suppose I don't really MIND getting into a debate about whether Krull was a bad movie or not, but it really wasn't the purpose of this thread.  One person's trash is another's treasure really.