DISQUS

papa · 1 year ago

I remember seeing this with you in the theater (as in we paid full fare for this dreck). Fortunately, the movie had a lot of laughs (despite not being billed as a comedy).

A few things I enjoyed:
* That ridiculous opening scene where Johnny is running from some Psychlo security detail. The slow motion chase and odd close ups of various body parts were bizarre.
* The Psychlo super technology: small, hidden cameras (to spy on the humans)
* The pathetic, Mystery Science Theater-worthy, matte painting of the Psychlo home planet. Every time I saw it, I laughed. So much for inspiring awe at the home of the universe's overlords.
* The fact that a 1000 year old Harrier jet still works, can be piloted by humans who have no business flying them and that simply hiding under a bridge (or was it a rock formation) was sufficient to outsmart their Psychlo counterparts. So much for Psychlo radar technology.

On the plus side, I recently watched Roland Emmerich's "10,000 BC". The word that kept running through my head as I watched it was "incompetent". It was as bad as Battlefield Earth minus the laughs...which sadly makes me appreciated Battlefield all the more :-P

webomatica · 1 year ago

Heh... yeah now that I think about it, was that theater as empty as you
remember? So many plot holes - of which you list several. I think Hubbard
wrote himself into a corner with the premise - the humans are enslaved by an
all powerful alien race, so how exactly do you get the humans to a level
where they can overthrow their masters? It seems half the solution was
making the Psychlos complete morons... anyhow, it's definitely good for
laughs.