Just had to share this. This flick was even cheesier than Disney’s “the Black Hole” - but at least in this one, you got to see Farrah’s exposed nipples for all of .002 seconds! And you gotta dig her Barbarella outfit too.
But is this the most overwritten narration for a trailer ever or what?
I should note - the clip that I liked to is SFW, no nipples appear there.
Shadowlock!
I remember seeing that movie when I was a kid. Man, was it ever dull.
I do like the f/x shot of Saturn’s rings at the beginning of the trailer, though.
Wow. That looked like a bad episode of a cheap Saturday morning kids show, not a movie with all those names attached to it. The narration had to be overwritten. In three minutes nothing actually happens. Just robot bad, woman threatened, man glares. Why does Farrah Fawcett show up looking like a centerfold for a cross between Playboy and Popular Mechanics and then wear normal clothing afterward?
And they’re out of communication for 22 days because Jupiter occults the sun? A single satellite in a different orbit would solve that.
Wonderfully bad. Nothing happens and I can still find a dozen bits of stupidity in the trailer.
:smack: NOW you tell us! Where were you before the disco robot killed everybody?!?
“…a distant outpost, a technologically perfect world where mistakes are impossible, because the impossible is unthinkable.”
Um… what?
And moments later, we’re told “the unthinkable is about to happen…”
Somebody get them a copy editor!
Goofy movie but for Farrah fans you do get to see her prancing about in various stages of undress. Also starred Kirk Douglas and Harvey Keitel.
Actually, I think that should read:
“Also starred Kirk Douglas (!) and Harvey Keitel (!!!)”
Trivia tidbit: The director objected to Harvey Keitel’s thick Brooklyn accent and had his lines overdubbed with a voice actor with a vaguely british accent!
Honestly, I thought this thread was going to be about Fawcett’s death vs Michael Jackson’s, and Michael Jackson was the " insane, murderous, 7’ tall, headless disco robot!!"
And that’s about as long as you’d want to see 'em. Not to speak ill of the dead, or their nipples, but I saw her photo shoot in Playboy back in the day, and those nipples looked like nail-less pinky fingers.
She probably could have held pencils with those things, or dialed telephone numbers…
And it was directed by the same director as “Singing in the Rain.”
Bizarre.
And it was written by Martin Amis, possibly the most celebrated writer in modern British literature!
OK, a relatively young Martin Amis, before he got famous. But still.
Y’know, for what it’s worth, I always thought the 7’ tall headless disco robot worked pretty well for a villain, considering how well he fit into the Uncanny Valley.