I actually had not seen it since the 1980 release and had forgotten what a. For the few years between 1977 and 1989 cinema was filled with clones of star wars. The highdef capabilities of the bluray format are given a good work out here as the video portion of battle beyond the stars sports excellent picture quality. Battle beyond the stars scifi adventure about seven space warriors who do battle to save a peaceful planet from a ruthless conqueror. Films like star crash cashed in on the star wars craze, even battlestar galactica which had ralph mcquarrie did come to work on that series, and the threeparter turned into a feature, and even the effects team behind it all for me the ultimate of these was roger cormans production of battle beyond the. Epic space saga in the vein of the seven samurai with a script by john sayles and special effects by. Battle of mydionia between the stars and the illyrians, battle of mydionie between the aetolians and the illyrians, pl. Battle beyond the stars was producer roger cormans cheapie answer to star wars. Battle beyond the stars 1980 was one of the many scifi shootemups to be released in the wake of george lucas star wars 1977. Produced and codirected uncredited by indie master roger corman, the film was an unapologetic knockoff of akira kurosawas 1954 action classic seven samurai and its 1960 american adaptation, the magnificent 7, all set in a farfuture outer space. However, while george lucass iconic classic was loosely inspired by akira kurosawas the hidden fortress, this one took its cue from another of his films, seven samurai, as well as the latters hollywood remake the magnificent seven. Dont get me wrong, battle beyond the stars or bbts, for brevity i know, i know, brevity should be a foreign concept to me is a fun little movie, and it allowed many fine actors to pay their rent that month.
Six sides of the worldnintendo switcheshop download. Gelt, a wealthy but experienced assassin looking for a place to hide. Intended as a magnificent seven in outer space, and based on the magnificent seven in which vaughn also appeared. The real stars of battle beyond the stars, though, are two young upstarts named james cameron and james horner, who both use every trick available to them to make this seem like a far grander and more expensive film than it really is cameron who was hired after impressing corman with his short film, xenogenesis does an incredible job with the limited resources available to him as the. Jun 02, 2010 if you like second rate star wars knockoffs more than star wars itself, battle beyond the stars is the film for you. Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up. The original sound design gets a big boost thanks to a new 5. For this 1980 space extravaganza roger corman followed george lucas lead. Sybil danning is an actress known for her horror and bmovie roles, in films like battle beyond the stars, hercules, amazon women on the moon, halloween 2007, and others. Battle beyond the stars is a 1980 american space opera film produced by roger corman sador of the malmori and his crew of mutants roam the galaxy in a huge spaceship armed with a stellar convertor, the most powerful weapon in the universe. Streaming full battle beyond the stars 1980 first, once you can rate this movie. But most interesting feature of this is that these star systems can be navigated linearly, following an. Sybil danning originally born as sybille johanna danninger was born on may 24th, 1952 in wels, austria.
Scripted by john sayles, battle beyond the stars rips off all sorts of nice genre items including a feistytalking computer and a russ meyerish valkyrie with. If you like second rate star wars knockoffs more than star wars itself, battle beyond the stars is the film for you. Jul 18, 2011 battle beyond the stars soundtrack from 1980, composed by james horner, alan howarth. Battle beyond the stars 1980 yify download movie torrent. Battle beyond the stars movie trivia the 80s movies rewind. F2h3 banshee of vf 141 over flight deck of uss randolph, cva15, 1954. Battle beyond the stars remastered soundtrack cd details and availability. Battle beyond the stars 2009 shad of akir richard thomas recruits a space cowboy george peppard and other warriors to defend his planet from a barbarians army. Battle beyond the stars english transcript readable. Battle beyond the stars behind the scenes, making the movie. Battle beyond the stars 1980 topics science fiction. Download battle beyond the stars 1980 1080p bluray 5. Roger corman takes on star wars in this immensely fun, laserhappy ripoff set in. Among the mercenaries are space cowboy, a spacegoing truck driver from earth.
But i think battle beyond the stars is also guilty of stealing from other sources because some. Battle beyond the stars grows monotonous during its volatile conclusion. Heres horners wonderfully bouncy scifi adventure theme from the cult 1980 roger cormanproduced flick. Battle beyond the stars lands on bluray with a very nice if only slightly troubled avcencoded picture. Battle beyond the stars is a 1980 american space opera film produced by roger corman.
The seven samurai has been remade and recontextualized and homaged many, many times. Sador of the malmori and his crew of mutants roam the galaxy in a huge spaceship armed with a stellar convertor, the most powerful weapon in the universe. Battle beyond the stars s profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates. Now that is history, the sad thing about the bootleg is that is was a downloaded version of the internet and that there were 2 tracks not fully complete cowboy and the jackers and love theme. Released by bsx records in 2011 bsxcd8888 containing music from battle beyond the stars 1980. Battle beyond the sun, also produced by roger corman. I went into battle beyond the stars hoping to discover some unseen craptastic scifi epic in the vein of starcrash or the last starfighter the latter actually being a pretty wellmade film. And though empire remains the vastly superior product, battle beyond the stars has a charm that. Battle beyond the stars 30th anniversary special edition. Even though the film was thought of as a flop, this design of vessel. Intergalactic bully, sador, makes himself unpleasant to the inhabitants of the peaceful planet akir. A battle beyond time, beyond space a young farmer, assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
Its best known remake is of course the western the magnificent seven, but pretty much every go put together a group of mercenaries to save the hometown story is probably based on seven samurai. Murakami, and starring richard thomas, robert vaughn, george peppard, john saxon, sybil danning and darlanne fluegel. Battle beyond the stars listen and stream free music. Battle beyond the stars soundtrack from 1980, composed by james horner, alan howarth. Battle beyond the stars english transcript epic space saga in the vein of the seven samurai with script by john sayles and special effects by james cameron. When sador claims the peaceful farming planet of akir as a colony, young shad volunteers to take sapient ship nell and seek out mercenaries who are willing. Mar 27, 2012 after star wars hit it big in 1977, scifi was in again, and studios scrambled to get outer space adventure films into the pipeline.
It also generated spaceship footage that roger corman is still recycling and recutting. And though empire remains the vastly superior product, battle beyond the stars has a charm that belies. Battle beyond the stars is a highly ambitious bfeature that surprises by actually being somewhat engaging and funny. Battle beyond the stars is fueled on pure makeitwork imagination and this sorta stuff lights up everything in my brain that resembles joy. Murakami, and starring richard thomas, robert vaughn, george peppard, john saxon, sybil danning and darlanne fluegel intended as a magnificent seven in outer space, and based on the magnificent seven in which vaughn also appeared, the 1960 western remake of akira kurosawas. The spaceship fight scenes created for battle beyond the stars were used in more than a couple of other later films ive personally seen some of the spaceship fight scenes used in battle beyond the stars in the film prison ship star slammer.
A french cancan dancer would have blended well in that cast as the cowboy love interest. Battle beyond the stars 1980 battle beyond the stars. Jul 12, 2011 battle beyond the stars 30th anniversary special edition film scifi. Commissioned by known collector, and radio personality karl southcott, stephen did amazing work on this rare piece from james cameron and roger cormans battle beyond the stars. From producer roger corman and written by john sayles with art direction by james cameron, the movie sets the plot of akira kurosawas seven samurai, and later the magnificent seven, in a largescale battle in outer space. Download battle beyond the stars yts yify movies torrents download. As a new magnificent seven remake hits theatres, lets revisit one you really need to see roger cormans battle beyond the stars a blatant attempt by bmovie mastermind roger corman to cash in on the success of star wars, 1980s battle beyond the stars essentially takes akira kurosawas seven samurai which had, of course, already been remade for the west in the magnificent seven and. Battle beyond the stars is a 1980 american space opera film produced by roger corman, directed by jimmy t. It was horners first real score, and remains a favorite of mine. There was a time that i had the bootleg of horners much beloved battle beyond the stars in my possession. A young farmer sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant sador and his armada of aggressors. In 1980, as george lucas was sending his threeyearsinthemaking sciencefantasy masterpiece the empire strikes back around the earth, roger cormans knockofffactory new world pictures was rushing the threemonthsinthemaking battle beyond the stars into the regional drivein circuit. Shot in his new studio the paint was still wet, corman has joked, in just five weeks, on a budget that would have paid for one of george lucas effects, the end result is proof that with the right talent, anything is possible.
Shad, a young farmer, assembles a band of diverse mercenaries in outer space to defend his peaceful planet from the evil tyrant sador and his. With george peppard, robert vaughn, richard thomas, john saxon. Battle beyond the stars widescreen on movies unlimited. A young man enlists the help of seven mercenaries and their deadly spaceships to defend his home planet.
There are only so many intense closeups of actor faking space flight one can take before it all starts to lose impact. Shad richard thomas of akir recruits space cowboy george peppard to save planet. Shad, a young farmer, assembles a band of diverse mercenaries in outer space to defend his peaceful planet from the evil tyrant sador and his armada of aggressors. I certainly enjoyed the campy outer space silliness of battle beyond the stars quite a bit and feel that this movie has a pretty decent replay value, so im giving it a modest but honest 3 stars the story. In the opening battle, despite skillfully destroying several of sadors ships, gelts ship is badly damaged by enemy fire. Feb 22, 2009 heres horners wonderfully bouncy scifi adventure theme from the cult 1980 roger cormanproduced flick. The screenplay for battle beyond the stars was written by writerdirector john sayles, whose credits include piranha, alligator, the howling, the brother from another planet, and lone star, among others.
Battle beyond the stars plot plot the farmers of the peaceful planet akir named in honor of director akira kurosawa are threatened by the space tyrant sador and his army of mutants, the malmori. Battle beyond the stars connected to niskerone jan 23, 20 at 12. The akirians decide to find themselves some mercenaries as defenders. Always remember dont trust the opinion of battle beyond the stars 1980 on the internet because the authors paid to write a comment.
Jan 05, 2016 battle beyond the stars currently holds a 5. Battle beyond the stars special edition 6th february 2001 dvd 1. There are a lot of bigname film critics out there who while completely destroying this film for its basic lack of quality simultaneously are willing to talk about how fun, and epicfeeling, and memorable it is. The picture limps to a finale, but its not a rough landing, sustaining a good vs.
Battle beyond the stars, dvd, widescreen, scificontemporary, 826663116601. Battle beyond the stars todays feature is the bmovie space epic, battle beyond the stars. After star wars hit it big in 1977, scifi was in again, and studios scrambled to get outer space adventure films into the pipeline. Part of 8 pages of info for the 1980 movie from the award winning 80s movies rewind. If youre after more trivia then get the dvd, it has not one but two commentary soundtracks to it, one with john sayles screenplay and story and roger corman co producer who instead of commenting on each scene, they talk more about the background of creating battle beyond the stars and other films back in the early 80s which is quite fascinating, and another soundtrack with gale anne. Battle beyond the stars nell sculpted by stephen kundrat of haunted pen studio september 9, 2011 posted in james cameron, karl southcott, miscellaneous selections, stephen kundrat i have the great pleasure of introducing another great talent to this gallery artist stephen kundrat of haunted pen studio. Battle beyond the stars, roger cormans take of the star wars saga, is a film justly recognized as a cult classic. There are a lot of bigname film critics out there who while completely destroying this film for its basic lack of quality simultaneously are willing to talk about how fun, and epicfeeling, and memorable it. Movie music by composer james horner, alan howarth. Onedimensional evil cosmic bad guy threatens a planet of peaceloving types. You can write, battle beyond the stars 1980 is a good movie, but it can be is a bad movie. James horner battle beyond the stars original motion. Battle beyond the stars was directed by jimmy murakami humanoids.
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