Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: worst SF movie ever Message-ID: <231@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 14:35:50 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.231 Posted: Mon Feb 11 14:35:50 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Feb-85 05:47:05 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 33 >Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers >Subject: worst SF movie ever >Message-ID: <576@topaz.ARPA> >From: Doug Bryan > >My room-mate nominates "Battle Beyond the Stars". I have not seen this movie >but he said that its only redeeming factor is a female character who has >quite large breasts. Once again I must protest. Though not one of the greats, I've always liked this film in the "mindless entertainment" category. It's actually a science fiction remake of Akiro Kurosawa's _Seven Samurai_. (I suspect it's really a remake of _The Magnificent Seven_ which was a western remake of _Seven Samurai_.) Kurosawa's original is so good and durable that it seems impossible for anyone to do a truly awful rehash of it. In this case, the effects are reasonably well done, the plot is Kurosawa's (of course), and there's enough humor -- intentional and not -- to keep you from getting bored. Liking it is probably a matter for individual taste, but it's certainly not in the all time bad category. [***SPOILER*** BTW: The female character with the large "breasts" is actually a spaceship -- "the last of the fighting Corsairs". She steals a lot of the show, too. ***ENDSPOILER***] -- ============================================================================== The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI If thy CRT offend thee, pluck 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. it out and cast it from thee. Santa Monica, California 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {vortex,philabs}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe