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Starcrash : 3 of 5
6.23.2007 2:59 PM \| Link	When I was a kid, I was crazy about all the cheap science fiction knock-off movies that were rushed to the theaters to ride the success of Star Wars. It didn't matter how bad they were, since I was excited by the special effects and thinking about model building and how cool everything looked. The "best of the worst" from my childhood was Starcrash, which I actually saw more than once in the theater (since it was a double-feature with something like Battle Beyond the Stars), and I remember studying old issues of Starlog and other movie magazines with photos of the crazy spaceships (including the enemy fortress, shaped like a giant hand whose fingers actually make a fist when it goes into battle!). Anyway, I was recently talking about childhood movies with my pal Ryan, and when I remembered Starcrash, I had to buy the DVD immediately. I truly felt 10 years old again when the movie started, and I absolutely loved the cheesy dialog (some of it stolen from Star Wars) and terrible acting by Marjoe Gortner (complete with crazy afro), Caroline Munro (proving a bikini makes a perfectly good space suit), and even David Hasslehoff, looking super young and goofy as ever. Starcrash has it all - big space battles (with really colorful lasers and star fields), stop-motion creatures, a rip-off light saber, and of course the incredible torpedoes that crash through the windows of the enemy ship, then pop open to reveal two soldiers inside! Of course I'm biased, but Starcrash will always be one of my favorite science fiction disasters, and I definitely recommend it if you need some adventure with lots of laughs on the side. Labels: dvds


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