Star Odyssey
The Cinema Snob tackles this low budget Italian Star Wars rip off, as Public Domain Month continues.
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Brad, where's your beard?
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I heard '80s Dan shaved it off.
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May I suggest Frankenstein 80 for next time? I am sure you could have a lotta fun with it: http://www.archive.org/details/MarioMancinisFrankenstein801972
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Hilarous Review Those Robots Where hard to Stand From the clips you showed i cant imagine what it was like watching a whole movie with those annoying tin cans
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So what happened with that crazy guy with eye patch who was shooting the machine gun? LOL
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In 6 months, that 1 eyed guy with the gun who was meant as a one off character will be getting his own show. I'm the first to support it to happen.
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Looks like some people haven't seen Hooker with a Heart of Gold. That guy in the backyard was Steele from the ending shootout.
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Good lord, a Heartbeeps reference that's amazing
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Of course Lucas made this in secret. Look at those prototype Howard the Duck robots.
Also, "He saw you because you were talking" made me laugh very much. That is appreciated. Single lines explaining dumb character actions are the best.
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I love this movie. Its so bad, and there's so much nonsensical garbage going on in it.
I nearly bust a guy when my brother pointed out the tin can fidgeting in the background while everyone else was talking.
Hollywood is the most ridiculous actor there except for the robot fighting guy; who seems to literally jump in and out of every single scene instead of exiting it normally as he did in the end of this video. (For real)
Brad mentioned how you weren't sure about the plot, which is funny because I wasn't sure whether we'd had different copies since the plot I saw wasn't the same as the one The Snob described.
With the exception of those awful, awful robots, this movie is really entertaining crap. I really liked the ending where (spoiler, I guess) the two antiheroes blackmailed Waffle face into selling Earth to his even less dangerous rival, (Vein face) so they could get a cut. It was funny.
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Yeah, Snob; I know...
http://thegreatwhitedope.blogspot.com/2010/07/star-odyssey-1979.html
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Snob without a beard looks so right
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oh so this movie was just like watching TNA impact huh, nothing too different for current era entertainment
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Is... is that guy boxing with a Cyberman at the 14 minute mark?
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I wonder if his last epiosde for Public Domain Month would be on the entire 1974 Street Fighter trilogy?
While I thought the first one was okay, the other two really stunk for me!
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wow, Snob, how did the Futurama reference get past you?
In the pilot, Bender the robot tries to kill himself in a "suicide booth". Although the Robocop 2 reference was good, especially since I just listened to that podcast of "Radiodrome" where you talked about the Robocop Franchise.
Still, this was one campy movie...
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I am no expert on Brad Jones but I think he is a man who genuinely loves the eighties. As such, if it comes down to a reference from a modern entertainment franchise and a reference from a franchise begun in the eighties, he is gonna go for the latter (whether to stay in character or because he really does love the eighties as much as his characters seem to in real life, I couldn't tell you for sure).
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Also, "Hollywood" resembles Zapp Branigan more than a little bit.
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Re: "How Rude."
I know that was a knock at Jar Jar. But C-3PO said it first in Empire Strikes Back. When the silver droid like himself on Cloud City says "E Chu ta."
Also, not sure why you're knocking Cameron for "Unobtanium", in regard to the material in this film. "Unobtanium" at least is a real term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
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I bet it's startling how much Brad cares about this comment.
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Didn't ask him to care. Just making a comment. How about focusing your limited attention span on Brad's reviews, rather than being so hostile to one of his fans. What's the matter, Mommy not hug you enough as a child? Sheesh.
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Racist, Suicidal Robo-duck is my new favorite movie character.
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That would make a nice band name.
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I love the part about the hooker with a heart of gold.
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Now with that out of the way...
Another great review Brad. Really enjoying Public Domain Month so far. Some really great entertainingly bad movies. You should do Public Domain stuff way more often. There's some great entertaining stuff in those piles of painful shoddy filmmaking.
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heh... turkish turkish star wars
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Fertilizer. BOOM!
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Of course those robots acted in self-guilt didn't anyone else notice the star of David on their antennas?
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The creators of those androids must be big fans of Goldust.
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Brilliant Snob, brilliant.
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i liked the chevy silverado ad. what a god awful movie it looks like. the robots make me want to start a suicide pact with the writers of the movie... ok not so much a suicide pact as i just want to torture and kill the people responsible for this piece of shit.
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Yay! Star Odyssey! I LOVE this movie. Films this transcendentally bad only come along once in a while. I knew this one was special when my friend and I were watching it and we got to the bit with the oil drum robot. We had to stop the film because we were both laughing so hard!
Part of me wonders if the plot was so confusing because the reels were assembled out of order for the DVD release. And somehow, you managed to leave out Goofy Acrobatics Guy and the fact that Malisa Longo of Elsa Fraulein SS was in this (you see her at the Earth auction at the end). The "androids" look like clones of Kathleen Turner's China Blue character from Crimes of Passion.
A dollar store gem. Really deserves a cult following FAR more than The Fucking Room.
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Steele Cameo!!!! Greatest and funniest episode ever. Makes me even forget the unspeakable 80s Dan show.
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excellent review loved the Hooker tie in
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This guy was wearing Spider-Man's black symboite costume years before he even had it! He must've been the original owner.
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HA!
*leaps out of frwme*
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Some friends and I watched and mocked "Star Odyssey" a few years ago. We had great fun with those androids, whom to called, "Hamlet Bots." Despite having seen it, I barely remembered anything besides those robots. I wonder if we might have seen a different cut or even a different film. There are several films that seem to use the same sets, props and costumes, including the Hamlet-Bot ones. The only one that I can remember off hands is "War of the Robots", which has a man in a loincloth.
Just what details I remember about certain things worries me.
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TURKISH Turkish Star Wars. That was epic.
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Oh fuck you Brad!! Dirk laramie is Gianni Garko, AKA Sartana! Now you've completely soiled my mental image of his pure unadulterated awesomeness by exposing me to this shit!
That's like if I exposed you to Pierre Kirby in Scary Movie 3, thanks a fucking lot!
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Why is it only Public Domain Month? It should be Public Domain Year, Public Domain CENTURY!
PUBLIC DOMAIN FOREVER! Great review Mr. Cinema Snob, looking forward to the next!
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What a coincidence; I just saw this one!
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haha, awesome review, man!
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actually...that was not indirium
it was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
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Brad's point was that the names are similar. Such as when he said the line "endearing the unobtainium, I mean obtaining the endearium."
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Wow, what an incoherent movie. Loved the reference to Hooker Part 5, I was wondering where the machine gun fire was going, oddly, I didn't see it coming.
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I love Yar's Revenge to this day!
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"millenium failcon" lol
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OMG! It's Snob Plisken! I thought he was dead and taller.
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Turkish, Turkish starwars! hahahahahahaha
WELL PLAYED!
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This looks like another in a series. There's a great one that is called "War Of The Robots" and it has the blond haired monkey robots too. There's also an Italian playing a Texan who has a blond fro and talks a little weird. How do you know he's from Texas? Cowboy boots! You should check it out. It was great for a laugh!
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Oh wow that was hilarious. I loved all the Unobtainium jokes. Also, yay Steel cameo!
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I love how the credits "In alphabetical order"... isn't.
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What a piece of crap! If I want a Star Wars ripoff, I'll stick with Starcrash, thank you very much.
Great review BTW.
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I like War of the Planets too. It has the best bizarre humans-are-too-lazy-for-sex sex ever.
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I suddenly crave Mountain Dew made with REAL sugar.
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Brad, something's wrong with this streaming vid.
It reaches a certain point, then stops downloading.
I noticed it the day before yesterday, thought could be some service issue.
Tried internet explorer just in case too, same shit.
Looking forward to this video or any hints.
Good luck, you are the best!
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Hey Brad, as for italian Star-Wars-like rip-offs like “Space Odyssey” (1979), I highly recommend you to see some other Alfonso Brescio`s (aka Al Bradley) movies, as he did A LOT of them:
=> “La guerra dei robot” aka “Reactor” aka “Robots” aka “Stratostars” aka “War of the robots” (1978): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077640/
=> “Anno zero – Guerra nello spazio” aka “Cosmo 2000 - L'invasione degli extro-corpi” aka “Cosmo 2000 - Planet Without a Name” aka “Cosmos: War of the Planets” aka “Cosmo 2000 - Battaglie negli spazi stellari” (1977): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149677/
=> “Battaglie negli spazi Stellari” (yes, it`s a different movie) aka “Battle of the Stars” aka “War in Space” (1977): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075881/
…and, of course, an unforgettable STARCRASH by Luigi Cozzi…!!!
=> „Starcrash” aka “Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione” aka „Female space invaders” aka “The Adventures of Stella Star” (Luigi Cozzi, 1978): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/
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The bald captain near the beginning who mentions Hollywood resembles the main villain from Sabata.
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This actually looks more enjoyable than War of The Robots which was made by the same production team. I only know this because they recycled the sets, space force uniforms and robots in blonde wigs.
War of The Robots is like Space Oddyssey, but somehow more tedious. War of The Robots could have used a pair of comic relief duckbots to liven things up. I blogged a decent sized review of it in the above link.
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What is it with Italian scifi films and the Lady Gaga androids?
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You made some clear points there. I looked on the internet for the topic and found most individuals will agree with your website.
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Wait, is that GIANNI GARKO?! :O
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Yes, that IS Gianni Garko, I looked it up. It broke my heart to see mighty SARTANA in this piece of shit flick
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Nice review on Star Odyssey Brad, but tell me more about the Barberella look a like I saw on the film.
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I hope they don't think my gritty remake of Star Odyssey where Hollywood is a woman was inspired by this video...
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Why the hell did they mention Adelaide?
Oh well its good to know my town is used for something
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Bill Hader at 1:45?
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Did they say the aliens went from London to Akron? Why?
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I am surprised no Marvin the Paranoid Robot from Hitchhiker's Guide
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