BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980) REACTION VIDEO! FIRST TIME WATCHING

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BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980) REACTION VIDEO! FIRST TIME WATCHING! Polls, early access and full reactions on Patreon / reelreviewswithjen Watch me watch this 1980 Roger Corman movie, Battle Beyond The Stars, in this first time watching reaction video! Battle Beyond The Stars tells the story of Shad and his home planet Akir, which are under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors.. He sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet.
The film was written by John Sayles and directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and Roger Corman. Battle Beyond The Stars stars Richard Thomas as Shad, Robert Vaughn as Gelt, John Saxon as Sador, George Peppard as Cowboy, Darlanne Fluegel as Nanelia, Sybil Danning as St. Exmin, Sam Jaffe as Dr. Hephaestus, Morgan Woodward as Cayman, Earl Boen as Nestor 1, John Gowans as Nestor 2 , Lara Cody as Kelvin, Lynn Carlin as Nell.
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@44excalibur 3 года назад

Fun Fact: James Cameron worked on Battle Beyond The Stars as a photographer, art director, and miniatures designer when he was working for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He would also do special effects work on Roger Corman's Galaxy of Terror and John Carpenter's Escape From New York.

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Fun Fact: The name of Shad's planet, ‘Akir,' is a reference to director Akira Kurosawa, who directed The Seven Samurai, which this and the Magnificent Seven were based on.

@ColeSlaw-rg1gd 7 месяцев назад

1:48 - It was pretty clear to me that he was giving them time to MAKE THEIR DECISION. And I believe the "sniper" thing was just to give them a little FORE SAMPLE. 3:04 - Uhhhhhhh your precious Star Wars featured SOUND EFFECTS IN SPACE also, so careful there. In fact, the ONLY movie that has featured SILENT space has been 2001 a Space Odyssey. Are you sure THAT 4:04 wasn't supposed to be a WELDING TOOL instead of a "laser gun"? I think that vehicle at 4:22 was supposed to be INTENDED FOR ROBOTS. Are you sure that isn't FORCE FIELD instead of "foreskin"? Roger Corman didn't "make" this flick. It was written by John Sayles and directed by a certain Jimmy Murakami. Movies that Corman DIRECTED are Little Shop of Horrors, The Pit and the Pendulum, Masque of the Red Death, It Conquered the World, The Raven, The Wild Angels, and The Trip.

@Dunlop-hg2ql 6 месяцев назад

"Duerrrrrrrrrrrrrr did anybody in this movie besides John Boy ever do anything else? I don't know who any of these other people are" George Preppard - The A Team, The Magnificent Seven, Breakfast at Tiffany's, How the West Was Won. Robert Vaughn - The Man From Uncle, Bullit, The Magnificent seven, The bridge at Remington. Sybil Danning - Chained Heat, The Howling Two, They're Playing With Fire, Herculese, Reform School Girls. Sam Jaffe - The Scarlet Emperess, Asphalt Jungle, Ben Hur, Lost Horizon, The Great bank Robbery, Born Free, The Accused,. Earl Boen - The Terminator, Terminator Two; Judgement Day, Marked for Death, The Naked gun, To Be or Not To be, The Dentist, Last of the Good Guys, The Companion. John Saxon - A Nightmare On Elm Street, Black Christmas, Enter the Dragon, Death of a Gunfighter, The Bold Ones. Marta Kristen - Lost In Space, Beach Blanket Bingo, The Gemini Affair, Terminal Island.

@patrickflanagan3762 3 года назад

"I also haven't seen ON THE WATERFRONT" Yes, I know, because "Stella!" is a line from A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. ;)

@lurkerrekrul 2 года назад

This movie is chock-full of genre actors. Space Cowboy is played by George Peppard, best known for playing Hannibal Smith on The A-Team. Gelt is Robert Vaughn who played spy Napolean Solo on the show The Man from U.N.C.L.E., St. Exmin is Sybil Danning, who has starred in many B-movies, the lead Nestor clone is Earl Boen, AKA Dr. Silberman from the Terminator movies, the scientist on the space station was Sam Jaffe who was in the sci-fi classic The Day Stood Still (1951) (which is a good movie), the blond who takes a liking to Space Cowboy is Marta Kristen who played Judy Robinson in the original Lost in Space TV show, and John Saxon (Sador) has been in quite a few B-movies, as well as playing Nancy's father in A Nightmare on Elm Street. The singing robot - I always got the impression that she was just using the audio capabilities of the robot to listen to music while she worked on it. When this movie came out, I read an article about it in Starlog magazine which said that the main structure for the space station was a revolving display stand, which they then decorated with other bits. I've always found this movie quite entertaining.

@adambrown67 2 года назад

Another fun fact/james cameron connection- is the leader of the Nester is played by earl boen who is probably best known for playing psychologist Dr Silberman in the first three terminator films.

@KrystalloMantis 3 года назад

I come back from the liquor store and you upload this. Finally a RU-vidr who adheres to my schedule.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Haha! Perfect timing!

@dandanod 3 года назад

Great reaction video Jen, this one of my fav films growing up. Yup, taking inspiration from Star Wars but it mainly a space remake of The Magnificent Seven :) xxx

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Thank you so much! I'll add it to the list, I've heard it's a classic!

@goldenager59 2 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen Jen - when you've finished with The Magnificent Seven, don't neglect the original that inspired it and Battle Beyond the Stars, because Seven Samurai is by turns comical, poignant, thrilling and absolutely magisterial. Don't be daunted by the running time - you'll never notice it. (BTW, Battle was a favorite of my formative years too; my gratitude added to the above.) 😉

@viceversar-do1cn 7 месяцев назад

So, just ANY movie other than frigging big-britched high and mighty Star Wars that happens to feature a robot or a laser or space craft or has anything to do with space must be an imitation or "rip off" of THAT movie? NO other flick is allowed to feature any of THOSE things without getting THAT particular charge?

@pappajudas9267 3 года назад

John Saxon was the villain. He was the dad in Nightmare on Elm Street he was also in Enter the Dragon. Robert Vaughn was the mercenary that just wanted a good place to die. He was the rich industrialist and Superman III who hired Richard Pryor to build him a supercomputer. Space cowboy was Hannibal Carter from The A-Team. And a lot of the effects and a lot of Roger Corman movies we're done by none other than James Cameron.

@BigGator5 3 года назад

Love this underrated gem. Sure this movie can get a little bit campy, but it is imaginative and fun. Except... Trivia: Gelt is modeled closely after the character Lee from The Magnificent Seven (1960), on which this film was based (Robert Vaughn played both). Some of Gelt's dialogue is lifted almost verbatim from The Magnificent Seven.

@mikesilva3868 3 года назад

Agreed but I still love starcrash though 🤗

@BigGator5 3 года назад

Mike Silva ...You can still love Starcrash. More power to you!

@corvus1970 3 года назад

True, but this whole film is essentially "The Magnificent Seven" is space. And, of course, "The Magnificent Seven" is essentially Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" as an American western.

@BigGator5 3 года назад

corvus1970 ...That's not a bad thing, per say. People have been ripping off Shakespeare since his plays came out.

@Dunlop-hg2ql 6 месяцев назад

@white-dragon4424 2 года назад

You misheard. Nell said that the Jackers (i.e. pirates) were trying to break down Cowboy's forcefield (i.e. shields) so they could steal his load (i.e. cargo), due to Cowboy being a freighter pilot.

@DeltasArbiter 3 года назад

Roger Corman knew that the secret to making a cheap movie seem not quite so cheap was to have a really good music score, so he would cut a lot of corners but never skimp on the Music budget

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

"See ya, Space Cowboy..."

@dngillikin 3 года назад

"First name: Space. Last name: Cowboy." Some people call him Maurice.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Haha that’s exactly what I was thinking!

@shainewhite2781 3 года назад

The VFX were done by James Cameron, the man who Brought us The Terminator, ALIENS TERMINATOR 2, TRUE LIES, TITANIC, The Abyss and Avatar.

@mikesilva3868 3 года назад

Agreed he also directed the awful piranha 2 the spawning 🙃

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

WHAT!? That's awesome!

@andrewforbes1433 3 года назад

@@mikesilva3868 Well, he sort of directed it. He was shooting the movie while being bossed around by the producers, then fired after a couple of weeks. He doesn't consider it his movie.

@1nelsondj 3 года назад

John Saxon was in half the b-movies of the '70s including "Planet Earth" which was the 2nd pilot for Gene Roddenberry's franchise that was eventually made into the TV series "Andromeda" starring Kevin Sorbo. Also in this film was Marta Kristen, she was Judy Robinson in the original "Lost in Space" series. Julia Duffy was in it too, she's probably best known for the "Newhart" TV show, she was in 163 episodes.

@dezzconnor8360 2 года назад

12:15, no, you really wouldn't see many Star Wars references. Despite what most of the people who watch this movie claim, this is not a Star Wars rip-off. Technically the commonalities are that it is set in space and has spaceships, alien beings, and brightly colored beam weapons that make "pew pew" noises. The wipes and other scene transitions were not original to Star Wars (although Lucas did make extensive use of them, perhaps because he so faithfully copied Akira Kurosawa's work, which also used the technique frequently.) Basically, though, it is standard for movie reviewers of the time to call any flashy space battle movie from 1978 onward a Star Wars ripoff, and the viewing public tends to follow suit.

@roddmatsui3554 3 года назад

heh heh ....... I saw this in the theatres! I know a few people who worked on it, and I have since worked on a couple of Corman films myself. It’s fun!

@mikesilva3868 3 года назад

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@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Nice that's awesome! Yeah I can imagine they would be fun movies to work on! Thanks for watching!

@uosdwiSrdewoH 3 года назад

"He's got something right here.". That was too funny.

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Yep, Sador was doing the group evil laughter long before Dr. Evil. lol 😂

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

I forget what other movie came out, using the same spaceship model, possibly the same footage. I didn't remember this film's name at the time, but I remembered John-boy, so I kept wondering when was Shad gonna show up... EDIT: LOL yeah, it's quite a recognizable ship profile.

@corvus1970 3 года назад

I believe the footage of the Corsair Star Cruiser (aka "Nell") that Richard Thomas flew was reused in "Space Raiders", but Corman reused a lot of "Battle Beyond The Stars" space-battle footage in most of the space-flicks he made after that, like "Forbidden World".

@darkdg4106 3 года назад

The best quote from this episode, "The battle of many pews"

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Haha! I can’t believe it wasn’t in our history books! Lol jk Thank for watching!

@44excalibur 3 года назад

The chick with the fancy headgear is Sybil Danning, who plays a space Valkyrie warrior. Danning is an Austrian actress who was a B-movie queen in the 1979s and 1980s.

@goldenager59 2 года назад

A striking actress of Amazonian proportions, Danning appeared in another movie based on - well, you can guess from its title: The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1984), starring actor/bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno - who had the previous year starred in the two Hercules movies directed by Luigi Cozzi (which I most heartily recommend), the first of which co-starred Danning as well! 😮 😁

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Space Cowboy was played by veteran Hollywood actor George Peppard, who appeared in such Hollywood classics as Breakfast At Tiffany's and How The West Was Won, and is probably most well known for having starred in the 1980s action television series, The A-Team.

@taoist32 3 года назад

He didn’t really care for the cast on A-Team. He felt he was a superior actor, which he was but he seemed ungrateful to be working with actors who did not have strong resumes.

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Fun Fact: The actor who looks familiar to you is Robert Vaughn, who plays Gelt, who also appeared in The Magnificent Seven, and his character here is essentially the same as his character, Lee, in the Magnificent Seven.

@rabbitandcrow 2 года назад

Roger Corman was the guy who gave EVERYONE their start - from Jack Nicholson to James Cameron to Martin Scorsese...to James Horner.

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

Alternate title-- "Pews & Bonks: The Final Conflict"

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Hahaha! Yes!

@002DrEvil 3 года назад

It's funny you mentioned space invaders. The game was produced only one year after Star Wars, and was probably inspired by that film.

@Tampahop 3 года назад

Oh boy... This movie has a lot of history. The movie had a budget of $2 million, but most of that paid for two name talents of the day, George Peppard (A-Team) and Robert Vaugh (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.). Without their salaries, the movie likely cost around $600 thousand. Nobody would do the special effects for the movie, Corman being a notorious cheapskate, so all of the effects were done in house. Many of the effects and even the music score were reused in later Corman films. This is where James Cameron (Terminator, Titanic) comes in. He started as basically a nobody, went to modelling (he designed the "ship with tits") and eventually became the art director for the film, after being fired and rehired twice during the filming. BTW, Bill Paxton (Twister) was part of his work crew. And yes, Sybil Danning's top kept coming off during filming, so they kept it on using Band-Aids.

@FeaturingRob 3 года назад

The familiar actor, Robert Vaughn, was the original Napoleon Solo from the 1960s spy series 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' which co-starred David McCallum as Russian agent Ilya Keriakin...but who is best known now as Dr. "Ducky" Mallard from 'NCIS'. Vaughn did all sorts of film and television...like doing this, which is a sci-fi version of his biggest film 'The Magnificent Seven' with Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner. Playing the same basic character to boot. My favorite movie he did...He played the villain multi-millionaire Ross Webster in 'Superman III' with Christopher Reeve and Richard Pryor.

@oxhine 3 года назад

As several posters have already stated, "Battle Beyond the Stars" is a rip-off of Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai". A must-see film if you've never seen it! It was remade twice as a Western called "The Magnificent Seven", once in the '60's with Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner and again, not long ago, with Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt. Robert Vaughn is in both the original Western and the Corman production. George Peppard, who plays the space cowboy, was Hannibal from the "A-Team"! John Saxon, who plays the villain, is the sheriff in "A Nightmare on Elm Street". As Corman productions go, this isn't half-bad and has a good pedigree.

@jimtatro6550 3 года назад

I love this movie so much, I was 12 years old when it came out and I didn’t realize it was a remake of The Magnificent Seven until years later. So much fun.😎

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I haven’t seen The Magnificent Seven but I’ll add it to the list!

@winslow-eh5kv 7 месяцев назад

I don't think this reviewer knew what The Magnificent Seven was. She didn't mention it at all.

@IggyStardust1967 3 года назад

I love this movie! You should also do The Black Hole, which was Disney's very 1st PG rated movie.

@simonoleary9264 3 года назад

If you want to hear Robert Vaughn at his chilling best, track down the SciFi Horror movie "Demon Seed". Space Cowboy was played by George Peppard, most famous for being Hannibal in the A-Team TV show. Another example of a SciFi western is "Outland", based on "High Noon".

@pathatfield2543 3 года назад

Pat says “check ‘em out!”

@goldenager59 2 года назад

Enthusiastic seconding for Demon Seed (though it may be a little too good for Jen's target cinematic quality). 🤨 🙂

@davidgarside2620 3 года назад

This was a sci fi version of The Magnificent Seven, which itself was a Western version of The Seven Samurai. This film was so much better than it deserved to be. A surprisingly good cast with Richard Thomas, George Peppard and Sybil Danning. You also get Robert Vaughan playing the exact same role that he played in the Mag. Seven. The special effects by James Cameron were re-used in several other low budget sci movies as was the wonderful music score by James Horner. Totally tongue in cheek I always enjoyed this slightly more than Star Wars.

@johnaddison2761 2 года назад

I was 10 years old when seen this and I am 51 now and still love it. You could say lots of films ripped off Star Wars but thats greatest form of nod's to Star Wars. Also lot of the budget went on two actors. Great shirt btw i have one just like it. Keep smiling hon.

@002DrEvil 3 года назад

Robert Vaughn also appeared in another Roger Corman film called Teenage Caveman. It's a pretty interesting film for its time.

@goldenager59 2 года назад

Actually, the film he made was filmed under the title "Prehistoric World" - but there was a spate of films at the time aimed specifically at teen audiences (many of which were monster based, like Michael Landon's I Was a Teen-age Werewolf), and Corman just naturally went with the flow, as per usual. 😏 😕

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Oh, believe me, Jen, Sybill Danning had quite a lot of wardrobe malfunctions during her B movie career. lol 😆 😜

@iansmith4023 3 года назад

It's Roger Corman. Roger Corman films are a genre all to their selves,and I love them for that. They also allowed young talent to flourish: Scorsese; Coppola; Cameron; Demme; Ron Howard; Sayles - they all began by working for him. Incidentally,Cameron absolutely intended Shad's spaceship to resemble a pair of breasts :) Btw,if you have a hankering to watch Corman's take on Jurassic Park,I would recommend Carnosaur (if you enjoy low-budget animatronics); or DinoCroc (if you enjoy low-budget CGI.)

@ericbryant4860 3 года назад

Its also a rpi off of an old western known as the "Magnificient Seven"

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I haven’t seen it 😬

@brucster99b2 3 года назад

The "A" Team In Outer Space! What a bonk-fest! How did they get John Saxon, (from the Black Christmas film), along with George Peppard (A-Team) and Robert Vaughan (Man From Uncle) involved in this gem? In the Speakeasy scene it said, "Dial A Drug". That explains a lot. They probably needed them to appear in the movie!

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

That was the craft-services table.

@kaleemdin7963 3 года назад

Hi. This is Kaleem. That actor's name is Robert Vaughn

@togroglog2457 3 года назад

Roger Corman recommendation, if you haven't yet: Attack of the Crab Monsters, 1957. it is EVEN CHEESIER than the title suggests.

@beannathrach2417 3 года назад

STARCRASH!! quote: Starcrash is a 1978 American space opera film directed and co-written by Italian filmmaker Luigi Cozzi, and starring ... It is widely regarded as a "cash-in" on the unprecedented success of Star Wars.

@themoviebrosreact 3 года назад

Great stuff Jen!! As always! 😊😊

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!

@danielwilliamson6180 2 года назад

Battle Beyond the Stars is a great movie.

@shainewhite2781 3 года назад

The music was composed by James Horner, whole would later compose Star Trek 2 and 3, ALIENS, An American Tail, An American Tail 2, The Land Before Time, Avatar, and Titanic. He would win the Oscar for Titanic.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

So interesting to see where these bigger names got their start, thanks for watching!

@mikesilva3868 3 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen watch flesh Gordon movie 🙃

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

@@mikesilva3868 It's on the list!

@mikesilva3868 3 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen 🤗cool

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

@@mikesilva3868 Flesh Gordon, or Flash Gordon? Important distinction...

@churchofthegoldenone4577 2 года назад

Space Cowboywas played by George Peppard from the A-Team. Also John Saxon is in this,.

@noisecrime 3 года назад

'I don't have much hope of them winning this war, with a motley crew that all have varying skill levels' - pretty much describes every team I've played with on a public server ;) I loved this film as a kid, even more as a teenager whenever it came on TV ;) Still enjoy it now, love the weirdness and creativity. For all the jokes about the boob ship, its certainly one of the more memorable sci-fi movie ships.

@goldenager59 2 года назад

You know, if you look at it a certain way, Shad's ship can also resemble the masculine generative organs... 🤪 😆

@Hogtownboy1 3 года назад

Just in case it was too subtle for the audience, Robert Vaughn is EVVVILLL so we name him yiddish for money

@reverance_pavane 3 года назад

Another interesting 1980's SF movie that you will probably enjoy is Galaxina. [Although it is intentionally funny rather than accidentally funny.]

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

It's on the list for sure! I'm going to try and watch it soon!

@44excalibur 3 года назад

“The battle of many ‘peuuws.'" Some of the sound effects and visual effects were recycled from the 1970s sci-fi television shows Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

@44excalibur 3 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen Awesome! lol Your reaction to those should be.... interesting. lol 😆

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Yes, THE James Horner. lol James Horner was just an unknown composer when he first got his start in Hollywood doing musical scores for low budget science fiction and horror movies like Wolfen and Battle Beyond The Stars. His big break was composing the music for 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which led to him composing the music for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and James Cameron's Aliens, which earned Horner an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score in 1986.

@DeanStrickson 3 года назад

To be fair, Wolfen wasn’t low budget schlock. It was put out by Warner Bros and starred Albert Finney. It was pretty big budget for the time.

@44excalibur 3 года назад

@@DeanStrickson Wolfen was trying to be respectable, but it greatly deviated from Whitely Streiber's novel.

@andrewforbes1433 3 года назад

And those scores for low-budget movies served him well when he mined them for cues throughout his career. #4notesofdoom

@timhutchinson3264 3 года назад

6:28 "Breaking down his foreskin? And steal his load?!" OMG, I'm dying here! 😂 This is why I love this channel.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Haha! It was an interesting movie that’s for sure lol Thanks for watching!

@markbeoluke6454 2 года назад

Those ships attacking Cowboy were called "Jackers!" Funny!

@LordVolkov 3 года назад

This is the 2nd Seven Samurai remake Robert Vaughn is in. 😅 Such a weird little movie, but that's what you get from Roger Corman. Check out Death Race 2000 (1975) for another weird one of his.

@1nelsondj 3 года назад

I second that recommendation, it's a classic starring David Carradine with Sylvester Stallone.

@goldenager59 2 года назад

And I third the motion (even though I've already recommended it to Jen myself, elsewhere)! 😎

@jamesstringer5170 3 года назад

The bad guy is John Saxon ... was in Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon."

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

Yep! Jen may recognize him as Nancy's sheriff father, from "A Nightmare On Elm Street."

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Ohh interesting! I haven’t seen that one 😬

@44excalibur 3 года назад

“I'm not seeing a ton of Star Wars references so far..." That's because Battle Beyond The Stars is actually referencing The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, Jen. It just happens to be set in outer space instead of the old west or feudal Japan.

@youellswinney1964 3 года назад

Goodnight, John Boy.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Such a classic tv episode ending, thanks for watching!

@ElliotNesterman 3 года назад

Dr. Hephaestus was played by the great Sam Jaffe. A highly accomplished actor of the 30s-50s he had a career renaissance on TV in the early 60s playing Dr. Zorba, the chief of neurosurgery, on the medical drama "Ben Casey." You may remember him from "The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which he played Professor Jacob Barnhardt, Also, it occurs to me that you may never have watched the 1968 sci-fi fantasy, "Barbarella." Starring Jane Fonda and directed by Roger Vadim (her then husband) it was adapted from a best-selling novel by Jean-Claude Forest. It was controversial at the time as it treated sexual themes in a very matter-of-fact manner. Coming at the beginning of the sexual revolution it is definitely a film of its time, but is worth watching if only for its place in the history of science fiction film.

@goldenager59 2 года назад

Barbarella came out in the same year as 2001: A Space Odyssey. The latter film was billed as "The Ultimate Trip" (a double-barrelled term in the late 1960's) - but I say the label could equally apply to the former film as well, and more justly. 🙄 😁

@leosarmiento4823 2 года назад

Great choice. Loved the film from when I first saw it in the theater as a child. As for what it rips off, it's not so much Star Wars, but more so Seven Samurai (Japanese original) and The Magnificent Seven (American revision). As another person mentioned, the name of the planet is taken from the legendary director of Seven Samurai...a homage to the director of the cinematic classic.

@michaelbuhl4250 3 года назад

If you haven't done *Dark Star* yet, it's John Carpenter's first movie. It's actually alright. If you want a straight-up bad sci-fi, *Laserblast* fits the bill.

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

Pinback cracked me up.

@VintageVideoPod 3 года назад

"And the Oscar goes to..." lol

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Haha! He gets my vote lol thanks for watching!

@deltabravo2678 2 года назад

Seven Samauri. Magnificent Seven (with Robert Vaugan)

@MrLorenzovanmatterho 3 года назад

Yes, that James Horner, everyone starts somewhere. Stand by to watch the spaceship footage in every b movie you'll ever see.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Haha okay good to know! At least the soundtrack was decent! Thanks for watching!

@daveautzen9089 Год назад

LOL…I refer to this film as “John Boy Walton saves the universe.” I so adore this one, even tho it is flawed. But it is such fun in my opinion.

@TheLecherling-hu1vu 7 месяцев назад

Is there such a thing as any movie that isn't flawed? Name one.

@44excalibur 3 года назад

You might recognize the actor who plays Sador, Jen. It's John Saxon, who played Nancy's father in A Nightmare on Elm Street. He was also in Black Christmas.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Ah! Okay I missed that but that's awesome!

@palmshoot 6 месяцев назад

IMDB has it that Kathy Griffin is one of the alien extras.

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Battle Beyond The Stars is actually a rip off of not only Star Wars, Jen, but also The Magnificent Seven, which was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai.

@44excalibur 3 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen Cool!

@jeffwerth2707 3 года назад

Richard Thomas (as you pointed out - Waltons) but also Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) - John Saxon (www.imdb.com/name/nm0768334/?ref_=tt_cl_t3) - George Peppard (The A-Team) - also getting "Magnificent Seven" vibes. Vaughn was also in that

@MoreMovies4u 3 года назад

Great video. Have you seen The Last Starfighter yet? It's in the same vain but better... much better. 😎👍🎬

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I have not! I’ll add it to the watchlist, thanks for the suggestion!

@MoreMovies4u 3 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen Enjoyed watching you watch this one. Keep up the great work. 👍🎬

@Hogtownboy1 3 года назад

Darlanne Fluegel who played Nanella died of early onset Alzheimer's in 2017 at only 64 but had to stop teaching acting in 2007

@goldenager59 2 года назад

I was not so aware. May she rest ever well. 😔😞😢

@pheerstringer 3 года назад

B movie black belt!

@garrywalker435 3 года назад

Another fun reaction Jen!. Although I'm not a fan of this one it's worth a look every now and again just for the appearance of one of my favourite actors John Saxon who appeared in many great Italian horror, action and exploitation films during the 80s. Such a loss when he passed away last year.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Thank you so much! Yeah I liked Starcrash more than this one. That’s too bad :( thanks for watching!

@bluebird3281 3 года назад

John Saxon is great

@adamstewart9383 3 года назад

Is it me or at the time did this film have bigger actor's than Star Wars?

@thatscrewedprude8717 2 года назад

I was hoping they were gonna say lips&aholes when they tried that dog 🐕

@EasyZee69 3 года назад

My wife and I watched this movie last weekend. We tried to find reviews/reactions to it on youtube, but none of them were quite what we were looking for... until I saw your reaction. Loved your reaction, and subscribed right away. George Peppard (Cowboy) is most famous for his portrayal of Hannibal on the 80's show, The A-Team. And the Sexy Valkyrie is played by Sybil Danning, popular in the 80's among teenage boys. And the bad guy is played by John Saxon who is often confused for Michael Ironside. Anyway, absolutely loved this review, gonna check out your other reviews now, if you haven't already, please review The Ice Pirates (1984). It's another Star Wars inspired space romp.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Wow thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video! Ive heard of The A-Team but I haven’t watched it. I’ll add The Ice Pirates to the watchlist!

@privateer9181 3 года назад

John boy…it took a long time for him to get over that role…..anyone who sees him will allways say thats john boy

@goldenager59 2 года назад

He shall always be Shad of the Akira for me. 😉

@1flinns 2 месяца назад

My 1st 3D movie

@benjauron5873 Год назад

I'm damned sick and tired of people saying "Battle Beyond the Stars" is a ripoff of "Star Wars." "Battle Beyond the Stars" is NOT a ripoff of "Star Wars!" "Battle Beyond the Stars" is a ripoff of "The Magnificent Seven." Robert Vaughn even plays the exact same character in both movies for Christ's sakes!

@tomyoung9049 3 года назад

remember even thinking it was pretty corny but kind of fun, when I first saw it when younger. Many of the space scenes were reused from other lower budget movies as well.

@chadkertis8714 Год назад

Apparently you didn't realize it's the magnificent seven.

@ReelReviewsWithJen Год назад

I’ve never seen The Magnificent seven so nope lol

@pathatfield2543 3 года назад

Looking at the comment that talked about the movies that used recycled footage from this movie reminded me of another Roger Corman space movie,Space Raiders,so there’s another movie you might like to try out.

@matthewdunham1689 3 года назад

"The Magnificent Seven" in space. If you've never seen it you should do it as a reaction because it's one of the best movies ever made.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I haven’t seen it but I’ve heard of it, I’ll add it to the watch list!

@vdantev 3 года назад

A guilty pleasure of mine. I loved the lizardman whaler who rescues the girl from the "zyme" (basically a huge space amoeba.)He's so sarcastic. The ship combat footage from this movie has been recycled by Corman in a LOT of sci-fi action movies he's made since then.

@goldenager59 2 года назад

Interestingly enough, Cayman was originally conceived by screenwriter John Sayles as a "huge black man with a Yakuza-type tattoo on his back", but somehow morphed into "a guy in a lizard suit doing his impression of Cyril Richard's Captain Hook" (as Sayles explained in an article titled "Notes From a Tacky Galaxy" in the book, Omni [magazine]'s Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies [Doubleday/Dolphin, 1984]). 😁

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

All right! This one's nearly as good as Star Wars! ...well, maybe nearly as good as Buck Rogers...

@themoviebrosreact 3 года назад

Lol! That’s a great way to say it! 😊

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I have Buck Rogers on the list!

@GregInHouston2 3 года назад

It's better with popcorn.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I need to master the art of snacking and reacting lol thanks for watching!

@44excalibur 3 года назад

Thanks for another awesome reaction video, Jen! If you want another Roger Corman movie that falls under the category of horror, science fiction, and a horrible movie, try Galaxy of Terror, with more special effects work by James Cameron. 😁

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Thank you so much! It’s on the watchlist for sure!

@simonhassnilsson7009 2 года назад

@@ReelReviewsWithJen in case you're curious this movie got a prequel comic called Battle among the stars

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

Hey, if you ever want to see an excellent film with Richard Thomas, look at "All Quiet On The Western Front."

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Oh I remember reading the book in high school but I never saw the movie.

@montserratmoviecorner4234 3 года назад

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@montserratmoviecorner4234 3 года назад

Next time yes

@mikesilva3868 3 года назад

🤗confused

@lawrencewestby9229 3 года назад

I have a terrific idea for a TV show. Jen will be trapped on a space station and forced to watch bad sci-fi movies, maybe along with a couple of sarcastic robots. We could call it "Magnificently Silly Theatrics 3000". 😎

@goldenager59 2 года назад

I am adding this entry due to the fact that I cannot press the "Like" icon one hundred times. 😊

@TheNollaigo 3 года назад

i'm sure i watched in the cinema

@AutoPilate 3 года назад

Liked immediately because you reminded me that I used to have this movie on Betamax. Have you watched 1983’s Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone? It’s… not great.

@goldenager59 2 года назад

Not great? Perhaps (though it's still a better movie than I could make). But it is certainly entertaining. Like 1981's Outland, it has the flavor of a Western cloaked in a sci-fi ambience. (Elmer Bernstein's score helps a lot with that - he also wrote the iconic theme music for The Magnificent Seven!) 😄 😎

@AutoPilate 2 года назад

@@goldenager59 definitely entertaining. And high-five for the Outland reference, I LOVE that movie too.

@goldenager59 2 года назад

@@AutoPilate As do I, even in spite of the fact that Harlan Ellison systematically demolished the film in a commentary entitled "Outland: Out of Its Mind But, Sadly, Not Out of Sight" published in Omni (Magazine)'s Screen Flights Screen Fantasies (Doubleday/Dolphin, 1984). If you can locate a copy, purchase it - for although nearly 40 years old, it has many fascinating pictures as well as articles contributed by sci-fi authors and filmmakers, and interviews with some of the more prominent directors. (Ellison also drafted the book's lengthy introduction, and if his witty acerbidity is a little hard to take at first, he only employs it in the hope of convincing fools that there are higher things to be found in science fiction than monsters and flashy scientific illiteracies.) 🤓 😎

@marlinbially9628 3 года назад

If you like terrible movies you should check out The Big Bus.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I’ll add it to the list! Thanks for the suggestion!

@somthingbrutal 3 года назад

you should check out Ice pirates

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

It’s on the list and I’ll be watching it soon!

@rayharley597 3 года назад

I actually really like this movie; actually it feels like a budget TV movie to me - or a straight to video release, but I do like it a lot. kerk

@goldenager59 2 года назад

I first encountered it when it was broadcast on NBC during the last week of December 1982. I couldn't imagine who had made it, having not yet heard of Mr. Corman (or even much independent filmmaking) and supposed it was a made-for-TV feature. Wonder of wonders... 🤭

@ptupper72 3 года назад

The space ship footage was recycled in several other cheap SF movies.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

I feel like that’s something Roger Corman did for several of his movies. Thanks for watching!

@supersonicdrivematthewcoop9557 3 года назад

Do Fritz the cat breaks the cat is a 1972 animated movie that stars fritz The cat and that’s all I got to give you

@garycoates4987 3 года назад

you should watch the original TV version of "IT" also starring "JOHN BOY" Richard Thomas with Tim Curry as Pennywise

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

It’s on the list for sure! I’m terrified of clowns though 😬

@FelisDestructicus 3 года назад

You choose the coolest stuff to watch. Hate to try to drag you back to the horror pool but please check out Dead Alive, aka Brain Dead in Australia. It's one of Peter Jackson's finest films.

@ReelReviewsWithJen 3 года назад

Thank you so much! It’s on the watchlist for sure! Thanks for watching!

@josephroberts8493 3 года назад

I have this on dvd really hard to find in the UK and i have the soundtrack, if you liked this movie you might wanna check out Space Raiders another star wars ripoff by Roger Corman, so glad you reacted to this movie, im loving the channel

@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад

SPACE RAIDERS! That's the one I was thinking of, in my other comment: Used the same ship model.

@josephroberts8493 3 года назад

@@jean-paulaudette9246 Great movie at the time for me as a kid, i think space raiders is a tiny bit better than Battle beyond the stars

@goldenager59 2 года назад

Jen, before you view Space Raiders (and it's definitely up your street), you should also see three other films made under Corman's aegis - Humanoids From the Deep (1980), Galaxy of Terror (1981), and Android (1982). Space Raiders has recycled elements of all these films as well as Battle Beyond the Stars (a genuine cinematic Frankenstein monster)! 😄 😎

@josephroberts8493 2 года назад

@@goldenager59 I think ive seen Humanoids, is that the one with the Mer Men start to terrorise a town by the beach, if it is thats a good movie

@goldenager59 2 года назад

@@josephroberts8493 That description could fit a number of features, but this particular one came out in 1980 and starred Doug McClure and Vic Morrow. Sound familiar? 😐 🙂