In the year 2312, a group of aliens auction off insignificant planets and the winner of the auction for Sol 3 (Earth) is the evil despot Kress. He soon flies to "Sol 3" in what is the first contact with beings from another planet for those living there...
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Star Odyssey is one of five low-budget Italian space opera films produced by director Alfonso Brescia (under the pseudonym Al Bradley) in the wake of the success of Star Wars. It is the fourth installment in the cycle, following Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977), Battle of the Stars (1978), and War of the Robots (1978).
The production heavily re-used miniature effects, models, and costumes from Brescia's previous feature, War of the Robots. To save costs, the film utilized low-budget props; a review in Popular Mechanics noted that the "light-sabers" featured in the film were merely cardboard swords coated with fluorescent paint. ...
The film received highly negative reviews for its technical quality. Bill Gordon of Worst Movies Ever Made found the special effects poor and characterized the narrative structure as confusing. Similarly, Popular Mechanics dismissed the film as a "dreadful trashpile", while TechRadar described it as alternating between "insufferable or hilariously bad" depending on the viewer's mindset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Odyssey
Attenzione! Star Odyssey (1979) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Aug 16 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
- tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/565402/star-odyssey
- fawesome: https://fawesome.tv/movies/10649777/star-odyssey
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCowIGE8JmM
- archive: https://archive.org/details/StarOdyssey1979
- it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/star-odyssey
- doesthedogdie does not have any info on trigger warnings for this film but here's the link for it anyway: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/198751
Is there a list of all the entertainingly terrible Star Wars knockoffs? I know of the Roger Corman one, the Turkish one and now this one.
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