This is something that has been bugging me since my early childhood. When I was a wee lad of maybe 5 or 6 years of age, I remember watching a Sci-Fi movie on TV, remembering some sketchy details about it, but not much else. Ever since then, once in a while, I try to search for this movie at IMDB.com or other science fiction movie websites, but I never seem to get anywhere because of the very scant details that I remember.
So, without further adieu, here are the details I remember about this mysterious movie. It was definitely set in the future because I remember an orbiting spaceship or space station at one point during the movie. The movie took place on a somewhat dusty and barren planet, and the two lead characters (that I can remember) was a white girl with short hair and a big, muscular black guy. At one point in the movie, these two characters found themselves in some sort of a huge gladiatorial arena and they had to evade this fearsome metallic death machine that had all sorts of large, rotating chopping blades on the front of it. All this while the crowd cheered wildly, of course.
Sorry, but that’s really all I remember. I’m guessing that the movie was probably made sometime in the last 1970’s or early 1980’s. I don’t know if that will be enough clues to be able to figure out what movie this is…
Movie identification threads usually do best in the Cafe Society forum, so I’ll send this thread over there. The denizens of that illustrious forum have identified movies and books with much less information to go on. They scare me sometimes.
Baldwin you beat me to it. That’s exactly the movie I thought of reading the OP.
I loved the ‘fearsome metallic death machine that had all sorts of large, rotating chopping blades’ and can still remember those parts of the movie. The rest of the flick was a blur of bad acting and cheesy script writing… which made it a hit in my book.
In case you didn’t read far enough down in the IMDB listing, Spacehunter was a 3-D movie, from the brief resurgence of 3D in the early 1980s. It was the first 3D flick I can recall that tried to do real glitzy special effects in 3D (Back in the 1950s, It Came From Outer Space did a spaceship crash in 3D, but that’s about as exotic as it got). I wasn’t very impressed. Later Metalstorm tried 3D FX.
The film featured Michael Ironside unrecognizable under tons of latex makeup and a thoroughly forgettable plot.
Here’s another review of Spacehunter, complete with pictures and clips, for the curious. I used to watch this all the time as a kid–I’d taped it off of the late movie. Terrible movie, but still oddly entertaining.
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Hey, thanks everyone! Now I will have to hunt down this movie on VHS or DVD and watch it to confirm that it’s absolutely 100% the movie that I so vaguely remember from my youth. I checked out the link that slortar provided and it definitely looks like that’s the movie. Man, you guys are great!
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