Seven futuristic mercenaries are assembled to defend a helpless farm colony from an evil overlord. Roger Corman Presents! For more deep space: / cormansdrivein
I have a soft spot for this movie. I saw it on opening night and I didn't expect it to be anything close to Star Wars, and I wasn't disappointed. This movie will forever have a place in my heart, and because of the reptilian character, Cayman, I would occasionally run around yelling, "Lazuli!" as my battle cry!
About 30 years ago this was my favorite film, I had it on VHS and I watched it at least a dozen times. A couple of days ago I found it in Amazon Prime and had to watch it again, and oh god I still love it! It's a Star Wars clone to a certain extent, but much less serious, it has a quite intentional campy aspect to it which I really love.
@@RokkitGrrly Yes, your right, the Seven Samurai came first, then the Original Magnificent Seven, not the remake. Then Battle Beyond the Stars. I have all three. If you have not seen the original Magnificent Seven, give it a look.
@@longrider42 I have, it was my dad's favorite film. Watched it almost every weekend when I was a kid. I enjoyed that film, and also really enjoyed Battle Beyond the Stars. I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it on HBO when I was like seven or eight, but I absolutely loved it, especially Gelt's and Cowboy's introductions. And now Zack Snyder is doing an accidental remake of Battle Beyond the Stars with his new "Rebel Moon" film, but Variety says he credits it as Star Wars-inspired, which is hilarious, because it's not.
James Cameron handled the production design and special effects for the film. His work in this film was lauded and it hugely helpled to propel his career ❤️.
Roger Corman's greatest legacy in film is training a bunch of directors on their first films. So many have said he taught them how to shoot efficiently, on time, come in under budget, etc. Coppola, Scorsese, Cameron, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, Bogdanovich. It was the promise of the "Roger Corman Film School" (as Cameron called it) - "If you do a good job on this film, you're never have to work for me again" (what he said to Ron Howard).
It was campy, is was cheesy, but it was also a very enjoyable movie. It was what it was: Star Wars meets the Magnificent Seven (it even had Robert Vaughn)!
Stuck in Reno for a couple of weeks the summer of 1980, my brother and I decided to go and see a movie one night, and this was what we picked. Seeing The Empire Strikes Back a few weeks earlier had left us hungering for the third Star Wars film, which was very frustrating. I experienced no such frustration when this film ended.
My Dad took me to see this in 1980.. Always had a soft spot for this movie.. Obviously it's Seven Samurai/Magnificent seven set in space but just quirky and probably one of my favourite intro themes ever.. LAZULIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remake of the Seven Samurai only with space ships. Robert Vaughn plays the same character he did in the Magnificent Seven. I and my 5 year old son enjoyed watching it a long time ago.
I remember seeing this as on TV some time in the early 80s. It had a good cast, and reminded me of “The Magnificent Seven” meets “Buck Rogers”. Fun movie 🍿!
It might look like a low budget, but it costs $2 million to produce this film. This was Roger Corman's most expensive production to make. Hardly counts as a B-Movie.
The interiors of the downed starship also looks a lot like the colony from Aliens and you can see elements of the Sulaco interiors aboard The Quest too. Also, I don't know if he was repsonsible for this, but the lights mounted in the back-packs are pretty similar to the shoulder lamps the Marines have in ALiens too
I don't know if you're still alive. But somebody just made a video about these similarities: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mjycmKCQdw8.html
@@soundbeans Thanks for that pointer. Interesting video. I'm a huge Aliens fan and remember BBTS fondly from my childhood. Great to watch that little bit of history and how that crappy rip-off inadvertently brought us Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator!
James cameron started with Corman. He did AMAZING production work before he became a director. Stuff that modern cgi cannot replicate. The 80s/90s was perfection of speacial effects and their death
My aunt worked in a cinema at this time and would let us watch tons of films for free including this one, Meteor, Orca The Killer Whale, Spacehunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Animal House, Superman, Blazing Saddles....
Blast Off On The Most Spectacular Space Action Adventure Ever, As Shad, And A Group Of Mercenaries, Take On Sador Of The Malmori To Save Shad's Home Planet Of Akir In A Battle Beyond The Stars!
Ah, The Magnificent Seven, in space. Not even close to a Star Wars parody, if you don't believe me watch The Magnificent Seven first, then Battle Beyond the Stars, you will understand then. Stay safe every one.
Watch this instead of Rebel Moon. The amount of talent behind the scenes is amazing: veteran animator Jimmy Murakami as director, John Sayles on script, James Cameron on sets, James Horner on music, and Gale Anne Hurd as production manager.
It's comical how many trolls in the comments are trying to claim this is a Star Wars rip off, despite entering development before Star wars came out and having a completely different plot xD literally the only link between them are they are that they are space films made in the 70s.
@@kaulzYup, it took so long because to save money so they could hire big Hollywood actors the small team built all the ships before filming commenced (as opposed to filming the acting/model scenes simultaneously as in most films) and the script was written before that), this caused an abnormally long multi-year development process. Even with the extended development time it would have been out in early '79 except studio execs demanded alterations that added many months onto the process. I.E refilming all of Robert Vaughn's scenes because they decided spending megabucks on a big name and sticking him in an alien costume was dumb, then they decided they wanted the big Malmori ship to become the hero ship so they had to refilm half the model scenes and create a new big bad spaceship model for the Malmori.
@@llynellyn dude, this started production after star wars to capitalize on space operas. Xenogenesis was made the year after star wars and its the short film that got the crew to approach James Cameron.
Per pew aliens pew pew space marines pew pew... aliens in a nutshell. I prefer the cosmic horror of Alien to the dumb space marine porn and Heinlein/starship troopers wannabee of Aliens
Seems I remember there was a female group of fighters called Valkyries and there was a line of dialog that said something to the effect of: You've never seen a Valkyrie go down. 🤣😂🤣
Those deceptive 80’s movie posters. I did not see the intergalactic CrossFit princess in the trailer. But George Preppard was accurate as a frumpy space cowboy…..phoning in his performance as usual.
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