Welcome to episode 127. Today, we talk about Galaxy of Terror!
SciFi suspense thriller in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations.
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Second! Wait, what…..?
Another show about a film I haven’t seen BUT it is also another show about a film I have absolutely no interest in seeing after reading about it. I shall listen to this show and then I won’t have to watch it
Rented this one many years ago…. I only remember 2 things : the boobies and getting an angry phone call from the friend I passed it on to before returning it. Gonna have to watch again before listening tonight. Time to make the popcorn!
found out about this site from Twit show TNT, I am a big fan of sci-fi films and GoT is classic corman IMO. got it on blu-ray a year ago and it was on EPIX Tv last night. Love Ms Taff in this film she is the Hotty Space Slug(Worm) getting Jiggle with her was cool and weird at the same time.
Welcome! We watching this on Netflix. Can you tell me if the BluRay suffers from the same poor lighting? Trying to figure out if Netflix has a bad copy or if it was filmed that way intentionally.
Movie: (Depicts a pedophilic relationship for laughs.)
Filmsack: Gross. Wrong! Imagine if it were a dude!
Movie: (Depicts a woman enjoying getting raped. To death. By a monster.)
Filmsack: Huh….weird. And kinda hot.
Okay, first episode I’m not planning to listen to again….
sorry Gretchen. Stupid dudes and their double standards.
Double standards are fine if its apples and oranges.
Standard for comedy: Was it sucessful at being comedic?
Standard for horror: Was it sucessful at being horrific?
No worries…it was disturbing to watch, and I know it wasn’t fun to talk about. I still loves ya. That scene was an “Aw, man! Why’d you have to do that?!” for everybody.
So I take it you aren’t a Daniel Tosh fan.
Pretty sure nobody was advocating being raped to death by monsters. The scene in question WAS weird and illogical. It also featured female nudity and sounds implying pleasure, which many post-pubescent heterosexual males have an involuntary reaction too, even when in an otherwise distasteful context.
It may depend on what you’re seeing. If you’re seeing the most ridiculous thing ever, then it can be safely lumped in with Japanese tentacle rape porn. If you’re seeing that this is actually happening, or that it’s this woman’s greatest fear made manifest (!), then it’s just weird, gross, disturbing, and/or horrifying.
Well, yeah– you’d expect to see that kind of thing in hentai. This movie wasn’t hentai. I don’t even know if hentai existed when this movie was made.
And you know, a person’s fear made manifest generally isn’t enjoyable for them. That’s the problem– imagine if it was some dude being prison-raped by a giant worm monster, and him portrayed as getting off on it. Can you see that…in any movie?
I think we’re already over-analyzing this
Maybe her fear was that she would still enjoy being touched there, even while being violated. It then makes a little more sense if it’s a very hetero dude who is terrified that he might enjoy the sensations of sodomy.
I have no idea why either of these people would be afraid of giant, scientifically-impossible worms.
i’m pretty sure Randy came right out and said it was horribly offensive (paraphrase).
and, btw, I had never seen nor heard of this movie before and that scene caught the wife and I completely off guard. We were like, “Did that just happen?” Yes. Yes it did.
And was anyone else also caught a little off guard at the team leader vaporizing every victim he saw *before* checking vital signs?
I loved 1st officer McBurn. Was laughing every time he did it. “don’t get shot for pete’s sake. If you do McBurn will fry you before you hit the ground.” Also, the one time he comes up against and alien. He hesitates. Never burns the alien.
It’s the holodeck on soft X, whats the safty word?
The sean is still less offensive then what hapans in “Straw Dogs” “Creature” “A History of Violence.”
-the Abyss sucks, instead of liveing under human MAD were going to live under the hamer of aliens with godlike control over water?
-the Liquid Breathing is real but you are more likly to get pneumonia.
-did yiu see the alien anus, that one guy was staering at it?
-the noise is the Star Track raydar
-OMG Cameror lifted crap from this crap the motion senors, the ligths in the backpack.
-What did the women realy die of, maggots dont have junk!!! I would go so far to say congnital hart failure. So future astroants dont get medicail tests? I m realy stuck on this, none of her boyfrind never went down on her, none of her girlfrend never gave her a space vibrator? This is going to bug me for weeks.
if you guys have no qualms about watching semi-legitimately uploaded movies on youtube, i highly suggest the 1992 Rutger Hauer/Kim Cattrall “classic” Split Second: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKOSBTpSSrA
Scott would break his mouse clicking on the trope alert for sure. it’s basically if tango and cash took place in the world of blade runner, and they were hunting a monster that’s basically the love child of venom from spider man, alien, and predator. there’s a ton of british character actors (pete postlewaite, michael j. pollard), kim cattrall’s boobs, a bunch of gore, great one-liners from a trenchcoat-wearing, cigar-chomping rutger hauer, and the cops carry miniguns like jesse ventura in predator. sack this movie, already!
You guys were asking for an app that tells you when something becomes available on streaming…. I think Fanhattan recently added that feature.
As far as last episode about the sticky smelly summer camp, people have seemingly over-reacted a tad. In my not so humble opinion (I am posting it here for all to see) you sacked that film the same as you have sacked the previous 126 and hopefully the next few thousand. I don’t agree with you guys a lot of the time, but that doesn’t mean you are wrong, or mistaken, it simply means we disagree. Keep on keeping on, and keep on entertaining the lazy lot that we are (we aren’t taking time out of our day to do this). Thanks guys.
Oh and this film was one of my favorite back in the day, but it always was, and always will be a horrible film.
Scott, I think it’s time for you to re-examine “The Terminator” as a film.
The sequel, while being an okay popcorn movie, isn’t even comparable in terms of quality to the original. Indeed, T2 has some of the most lackluster acting that I’ve ever seen. That, combined, with a relatively poor script and an over-focus on special effects made T2 into a disaster of a movie, in hindsight.
All that being said, I loved T2 when it came out. Then again, I was 11 at the time. Now that I’m older I see it for what it really is, and am able to better appreciate the original.
Get into a film mindset, as opposed to a popcorn movie mindset, and re-watch the original. Pump up you audio. You’ll enjoy it.
Amen!
I recently got this on DVD on Netflix and I will say that I do not remember it being that dark so I think it is Netflix streaming. I too have wondered why some movies have more trivia on IMbD than other movies and I think that it has to do with if a film comes out on video with commentaries and making of segments. People are just copying what they hear on commentaries.This film had a very detailed documentary about the making of. In fact it was longer than the movie itself.
gave it two stars. A bad movie but probably a decent effort.
One thing bothered me at the very beginning is that many of these people seem unqualified for the type of mission, but they were handpicked by the Master. And sure enough, once you get to the end and learn the Master’s reason for gathering these people….it seems he made poor choices!
Love the show – you guys are hysterical. Vin Diesel under-rated…your best joke yet!
If you want a really good Roger Corman movie, why don’t you guys watch the one he produced right before Galaxy of Terror, Battle Beyond the Stars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Beyond_the_Stars
It stars Richard Thomas and is based on Akira Kurosawa’s film Seven Samurai. It’s also James Cameron’s first movie. Galaxy of Terror uses a lot of the same visual and audio affects from Battle Beyond the Stars.
That was the movie I was trying to remember! Have got to watch that. again!
In re: shooting Expendables II in Bulgaria. My guess is that it is really cheap. If you remember Alien Apocalypse, Bruce Campbell filmed this in Bulgaria, along with the Man with the Screaming Brain.
There are also some nice old cities for doing historical or fantasy. But mainly, it is just cheap.
Also, I thought there was a ton of trivia for Wet Hot American Summer. How about the part that Hank Azaria had actually been the the actual camp that it was filmed at, aged 6-15. Garofalo discovered this by accident reading the wall plaques and she called his name out in the film as “Jessica Azaria”.
Good god. Just started watching Galaxy of Terror – will try to finish this one, but I can tell right away it’s going to be a challenge. My hats off to the Film Sack crew for getting through this one!
I can’t believe no one chirped up when Scott said the sentence “that bear was raised in beaver!”
Sorry to be that guy, but knowing who Roger Corman is is to understand that Galaxy of Terror *intends* to be a cash-in on Alien just as Piranha was a cash-in on Jaws. That’s the business model. Corman is famous for giving many talented directors their start, including Francis Ford Copolla, John Sayles, Joe Dante and yes, James Cameron. I love the show, but viewing movie history from the present to the past is the wrong direction and a frequent gaffe for y’all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman:
“Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926)[1] is an Academy Award winning American film producer, director and actor.[2] He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman’s work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe,[3] and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for his body of work. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 13, The Manchurian Candidate (2004) and Philadelphia. A documentary about Roger Corman’s life and career entitled Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel premiered at Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011, directed by Alex Stapleton. The film’s TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance.[4]
Corman has been a mentor to young film directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Curtis Hanson, John Sayles, and many others. He has also helped launch the careers of actors including Jack Nicholson, William Shatner, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro.”