Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
No! I didn't. Probably because whatever happened no doubt happened while I Had No Power.
I wasn't in the office on Friday, when it happened, but I can see it from here. Between this and all the trees down in Stanley Park, I am quite ready for some calmer weather.
OK, in 80s kid-friendly movies trivia, what was that one where they have to build a spaceship? With a trashcan, or out of one? Or something? I think there's some goofy looking aliens involved, but I'm not sure.
You can see how good I am at describing movies...
I think you're confusing "The Last Starfighter" with "Battle of the Planets", which was both a "Seven Samurai" and "Star Wars" ripoff.
Are you confusing "Battle of the Planets" with "Battle Beyond the Stars"?
I just googled Seven Samurai scifi and found it....
Is The Howling the one where the wolves are against a development project of some sort? I remember a wolf standing on top of a table and looking very peeved.
Are you confusing "Battle of the Planets" with "Battle Beyond the Stars"?
Yep, I am.
If you IMDB BBtS, check out who the screenwriter is.
OK, in 80s kid-friendly movies trivia, what was that one where they have to build a spaceship? With a trashcan, or out of one? Or something? I think there's some goofy looking aliens involved, but I'm not sure.
Something like Explorers? I think it starred the young Ethan Hawke and the young River Phoenix.
more of a King Arthur/Sword in the Stone ripoff
Precisely! And it's a fun look at the first generation of film CGI, which looks more like Missile Command than anything else. My favorite character in that movie, even more than Robert Preston's fast-talking swindler/recruiter, is Grig, the "gung-ho iguana". The actor (Robert O'Herlihy--is that right? the same guy who was the CEO in Robocop) does a really good job of conveying expression through the rubber mask, and I love his wordless vocalizations in response to Lance Guest's outbursts.
Yes! That's probably it. Now 2% of my brain is free to try to recall something more useful.
Like how to change my password on the dev machine.
OK, another '80s B-Movie trivia question...
What was the movie where a bunch of humans from another planet go on a desperate search for water? They fight off some aliens along the way - at some point there's this weird time distortion thing, where things speed up and slow down... the hero and the girl have a baby during the climactic fight, and because of the time distortion the baby grows up into a man and joins in the fight.
Eventually they find water... on Earth!