Message-ID: <576@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 17:53:35 EST
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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.

Any comments??

        Doug Bryan
        bryan@su-sierra

        facts are temporary...
        long live fantasy!
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Message-ID: <942@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 11:17:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 11:17:47 1985
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Summary: 

In article <576@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:BRYAN@SU-SIERRA.ARPA writes:
>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.
>
>Any comments??
>
>        Doug Bryan
>        bryan@su-sierra
>
>        facts are temporary...
>        long live fantasy!
>-------

i have watched this one several times.  the people i remember being in the
show are Richard Thomas and Robert Vaughn.  the heavy is someone i recognise
who normally plays such roles, but his name escapes me.  i was always under
the impression that the movie was made a another spoof, albeit a rather
high budget spoof.  the special effects are very good (i've seen better, but
only a few times).  the plot is straight out of the space westerns or
starwars.  for that matter, it has similarities to `the last starfighter'.
some of the things that stand out are the four white communal mind aliens,
the two `heat-emitting' aliens that glowed in the dark, and the computer
that ran Richard Thomas' ship.

Herb Chong...

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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 12:08:46 EST
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Summary: Battle Beyond the Stars

In article <576@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:BRYAN@SU-SIERRA.ARPA writes:
>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.
>
>Any comments??
>

There are two things I remember about this masterpiece.  One, Richard
Thomas was in it (what a superb follow-up to "The Waltons"!); and
two, Erin Moran dissolved into foam.  The latter was the best part
for me since Ms. Moran has always struck me as one who should be
dissolved.  (Remember her as 'Joanie' in "Happy Days" and that
ever-popular spin-off "Joanie Loves Chachi"?)

Enough of this sanity; on with the idiocy . . .

Ken Olsen
{ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!ptsfa!kmo

Message-ID: <335@zinfandel.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 14:40:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 12 14:40:27 1985
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Summary: 

In article <576@topaz.ARPA>  @RUTGERS.ARPA:BRYAN@SU-SIERRA.ARPA writes:
>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.
>
>Any comments??

"Battle Beyond the Stars" was a remake of "The Magnificent Seven", which was
a remake of Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" (which, incidentally, I nominate for
a permanent position in the 5 best films ever made).  ("Seven Samurai", for
pete's sake, not any of the others!)

The best part for me was Robert Vaughn playing the same role as he had in
TM7, even down to the black leather gloves.  \\I// though it was
very funny, though the director may not have intended it thus...



-- 
La musique est une science 
qui veut qu`on rit et chante et dance.
	-- Guillaume de Machaut

Berry Kercheval		Zehntel Inc.	(ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)
(415)932-6900				(kerch@lll-tis.ARPA)

Message-ID: <231@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 14:35:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 14:35:50 1985
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>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***]

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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 08:26:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 08:26:16 1985
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Summary: 

In article <942@watdcsu.UUCP> herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) writes:
>
>i have watched this one several times.  the people i remember being in the
>show are Richard Thomas and Robert Vaughn.  the heavy is someone i recognise
>who normally plays such roles, but his name escapes me.

The heavy is John Saxon. He plays a lot of bad guys and even the
occasional good guy. He has been in a lot of SF (good and bad). The first
ones that come to mind are _Planet Earth_, _Genesis II_ and a third one
that I can't remember the name of. They all deal with a post-holocaust (sp?)
world where the only technical and peaceful group left is called Pax. Not
bad movies on the whole. A little standard on the plots but worth
a couple hours on saturday afternoon.

					Random
					Research Triangle Institute
					...!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb

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Nf-From: uokvax!emjej    Feb 15 21:00:00 1985


/***** uokvax:net.sf-lovers / topaz!BRYAN /  5:53 pm  Feb 10, 1985 */

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.

Any comments??
/* ---------- */

Yes...

1. Down here in darkest Oklahoma, we call it "John-Boy Saves the Universe,"
   by virtue of its starring Richard Thomas.

2. When I saw it on NBC, they had the ill grace to black out certain portions
   of some scenes, so I can't vouch for the redeeming factor. (Darn it!)

			"Live fast, fight hard, and have a beautiful death..."
			James Jones

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Nf-From: ctvax!rob    Feb 20 11:09:00 1985


Another redeeming factor of 'Battle Beyond the Stars', aka
'The Seven Aliens' and 'The Magnificent Seven Aliens' is the
fact that Robert Vaughn played the same character he played 
in the 'The Magnificent Seven'.

Viewed as a parody, on the retelling of the 'Seven' story,
I found it amusing, but it was a long time ago that I saw it.

"I'll have what you're having. I want to get loaded too."

Rob Spray
...convex!ctvax!rob