Seven futuristic mercenaries are assembled to defend a helpless farm colony from an evil overlord. Roger Corman Presents! For more deep space: / cormansdrivein
I have a soft spot for this movie. I saw it on opening night and I didn't expect it to be anything close to Star Wars, and I wasn't disappointed. This movie will forever have a place in my heart, and because of the reptilian character, Cayman, I would occasionally run around yelling, "Lazuli!" as my battle cry!
About 30 years ago this was my favorite film, I had it on VHS and I watched it at least a dozen times. A couple of days ago I found it in Amazon Prime and had to watch it again, and oh god I still love it! It's a Star Wars clone to a certain extent, but much less serious, it has a quite intentional campy aspect to it which I really love.
@@RokkitGrrly Yes, your right, the Seven Samurai came first, then the Original Magnificent Seven, not the remake. Then Battle Beyond the Stars. I have all three. If you have not seen the original Magnificent Seven, give it a look.
@@longrider42 I have, it was my dad's favorite film. Watched it almost every weekend when I was a kid. I enjoyed that film, and also really enjoyed Battle Beyond the Stars. I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it on HBO when I was like seven or eight, but I absolutely loved it, especially Gelt's and Cowboy's introductions. And now Zack Snyder is doing an accidental remake of Battle Beyond the Stars with his new "Rebel Moon" film, but Variety says he credits it as Star Wars-inspired, which is hilarious, because it's not.
It was campy, is was cheesy, but it was also a very enjoyable movie. It was what it was: Star Wars meets the Magnificent Seven (it even had Robert Vaughn)!
James Cameron handled the production design and special effects for the film. His work in this film was lauded and it hugely helpled to propel his career ❤️.
Roger Corman's greatest legacy in film is training a bunch of directors on their first films. So many have said he taught them how to shoot efficiently, on time, come in under budget, etc. Coppola, Scorsese, Cameron, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, Bogdanovich. It was the promise of the "Roger Corman Film School" (as Cameron called it) - "If you do a good job on this film, you're never have to work for me again" (what he said to Ron Howard).
Stuck in Reno for a couple of weeks the summer of 1980, my brother and I decided to go and see a movie one night, and this was what we picked. Seeing The Empire Strikes Back a few weeks earlier had left us hungering for the third Star Wars film, which was very frustrating. I experienced no such frustration when this film ended.
Remake of the Seven Samurai only with space ships. Robert Vaughn plays the same character he did in the Magnificent Seven. I and my 5 year old son enjoyed watching it a long time ago.
...I don't publicly support any political parties or candidates, because to do so would be a breach of The Prime Directive; and as Highlander Jedi Ambassador, I am very cognizant of that - and I don't violate those rules of The United Federation of Planets.
I remember seeing this as on TV some time in the early 80s. It had a good cast, and reminded me of “The Magnificent Seven” meets “Buck Rogers”. Fun movie 🍿!
My Dad took me to see this in 1980.. Always had a soft spot for this movie.. Obviously it's Seven Samurai/Magnificent seven set in space but just quirky and probably one of my favourite intro themes ever.. LAZULIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blast Off On The Most Spectacular Space Action Adventure Ever, As Shad, And A Group Of Mercenaries, Take On Sador Of The Malmori To Save Shad's Home Planet Of Akir In A Battle Beyond The Stars!
The interiors of the downed starship also looks a lot like the colony from Aliens and you can see elements of the Sulaco interiors aboard The Quest too. Also, I don't know if he was repsonsible for this, but the lights mounted in the back-packs are pretty similar to the shoulder lamps the Marines have in ALiens too
@@soundbeans Thanks for that pointer. Interesting video. I'm a huge Aliens fan and remember BBTS fondly from my childhood. Great to watch that little bit of history and how that crappy rip-off inadvertently brought us Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator!
James cameron started with Corman. He did AMAZING production work before he became a director. Stuff that modern cgi cannot replicate. The 80s/90s was perfection of speacial effects and their death
It might look like a low budget, but it costs $2 million to produce this film. This was Roger Corman's most expensive production to make. Hardly counts as a B-Movie.
Ah, The Magnificent Seven, in space. Not even close to a Star Wars parody, if you don't believe me watch The Magnificent Seven first, then Battle Beyond the Stars, you will understand then. Stay safe every one.
My aunt worked in a cinema at this time and would let us watch tons of films for free including this one, Meteor, Orca The Killer Whale, Spacehunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Animal House, Superman, Blazing Saddles....
Those deceptive 80’s movie posters. I did not see the intergalactic CrossFit princess in the trailer. But George Preppard was accurate as a frumpy space cowboy…..phoning in his performance as usual.
My name is Jamie and I'm a huge "Star Trek" [all "Star Trek" TV shows except for that trash they called "Star Trek Discovery!"] "Doctor Who" [classic and modern], "Battlestar Galactica" [classic 1978 TV series only. The reimaged 2004 series sucked!], and also "Babylon 5" TV Series. I haven't even seen this movie but I have see the 1985 Sci-Fi film "The Last Starfighter!" Is this movie "Battle Beyond The Stars" a Good movie or a Bad movie?
Hello Jamie 😎 Battle Beyond the Stars was pretty good - kind of like The Seven Samurai or Magnificent Seven in Space. Basically, like Lucas/Star Wars, it was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's film and concepts. 👍 I too like the films and series you mentioned. But I'm afraid I'm not much of a fan of New Who (I'm Classic Whovian all the way😁), however I totally agree with you about Classic Galactica 😊😉 - GINO is NOT Galactica!👎 (And there's more fracking GINO to come!😖) So enjoy Battle Beyond the Stars. 😎😉👍 Regards, Alex 🙂
I enjoyed this film pretty well when I saw it originally, but it doesn't compare well with Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai," or "The Magnificent Seven." It seems to have that particular percentage of cheese film makers used (and some still do) to say out to the audience that they don't take the SF genre too seriously because Science Fiction is "for kids."
Watch this instead of Rebel Moon. The amount of talent behind the scenes is amazing: veteran animator Jimmy Murakami as director, John Sayles on script, James Cameron on sets, James Horner on music, and Gale Anne Hurd as production manager.
An epically horrible script despite being a launch point for the careers of James Cameron and James Horner. Material suitable as wall art for a nightclub back lounge.
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Had more heart than any recent Starwars offering from Disney
Without a doubt!!!
HEARD!
And Georgie boy's awful prequels...
Definitely❗️
And a great cast.
I have a soft spot for this movie. I saw it on opening night and I didn't expect it to be anything close to Star Wars, and I wasn't disappointed. This movie will forever have a place in my heart, and because of the reptilian character, Cayman, I would occasionally run around yelling, "Lazuli!" as my battle cry!
The poor man's Jack Nicholson. Terrible actor.
"I would occasionally run around yelling, "Lazuli!" as my battle cry!" Come on, who else has watched this film and done this? You know you have...
Did that mys3lf and got arrested but this film is a classic ❤
I also have a soft spot for this flick. I thought the movie was awful but Jenny Tannanger gave me an HJ in the parking lot. Her sister was so jealous!
Rebel Moon totally rips this movie off...
When you want Star Wars and mom says "we have Star Wars at home."
Hold my VHS.📼
Ouch, right in the Childhood.
"I'm not taking you to Star Wars. Who needs Star Wars? I can make you Star Wars at home."
🤣😂 YYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeesssss🤭
We must have had the same mom 😂
This brings the memories back, i saw this in the cinema back in the day. The magnificent seven in space
With one of the stars of The Magnificent Seven !
About 30 years ago this was my favorite film, I had it on VHS and I watched it at least a dozen times. A couple of days ago I found it in Amazon Prime and had to watch it again, and oh god I still love it! It's a Star Wars clone to a certain extent, but much less serious, it has a quite intentional campy aspect to it which I really love.
I love when a plan comes together
RIP John Saxon. I still remember this as my favourite film with him in it. Looking at his Wikipedia page however, he was in a huge number of things.
what not enter the dragon
@@davidgraham5242 Roper! "Wanna bet"?
A Nightmare on Elm Street as the town police Captain and Nancy's father.
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation was another one with James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, John Hillerman and others. ^ ^
A fantastic Star Wars knock off with a dynamic music composed by the late James Horner!
Try a knock of of The Magnificent Seven.
@@longrider42 Try a knock-off of the Seven Samurai.
@@RokkitGrrly Yes, your right, the Seven Samurai came first, then the Original Magnificent Seven, not the remake. Then Battle Beyond the Stars. I have all three. If you have not seen the original Magnificent Seven, give it a look.
@@longrider42 I have, it was my dad's favorite film. Watched it almost every weekend when I was a kid. I enjoyed that film, and also really enjoyed Battle Beyond the Stars. I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it on HBO when I was like seven or eight, but I absolutely loved it, especially Gelt's and Cowboy's introductions.
And now Zack Snyder is doing an accidental remake of Battle Beyond the Stars with his new "Rebel Moon" film, but Variety says he credits it as Star Wars-inspired, which is hilarious, because it's not.
It was campy, is was cheesy, but it was also a very enjoyable movie. It was what it was: Star Wars meets the Magnificent Seven (it even had Robert Vaughn)!
VALE ROGER CORMAN. Thank you for my childhood, my teens, and Beyond!!!!
You know a movie's good when the spaceships have boobs.
Thank you James Cameron
I always thought it looked like balls.
The ship in Spaceballs does too. So the math adds up.
Extremely well done - even on a budget. Great cast, outstanding acting. FUN❗️
📻🙂
One of the best renditions of 7 samurais and magnificent 7 bastards ever.
Rebel Moon totally rips this movie off...
James Cameron handled the production design and special effects for the film. His work in this film was lauded and it hugely helpled to propel his career ❤️.
The laser sounds were lifted from Battlesstar Galactica.
Wow, really? Good to know!
And John Sayles wrote the script
Roger Corman's greatest legacy in film is training a bunch of directors on their first films. So many have said he taught them how to shoot efficiently, on time, come in under budget, etc. Coppola, Scorsese, Cameron, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, Bogdanovich.
It was the promise of the "Roger Corman Film School" (as Cameron called it) - "If you do a good job on this film, you're never have to work for me again" (what he said to Ron Howard).
sure it did
The laser weapon sound effects sound exactly the same as in the original tv version of Battlestar Galactica.
That's because it is.
I freakin absolutely love this film one of Roger Corman’s master pieces.
This is so much better than Rebel Moon. Hollywood, please go back on strike.
I found this film more enjoyable than the 3 Star Wars prequels put together
Such an under rated classic
Zack Snyder must have just watched this...
I remember seeing this in the theater when I was a sophmore in high school
Here after watching Zack Snyder's "Rebel Moon".
Thought it felt familiar.
I saw this movie at the theater in 1980. Such a fun and campy movie.
Way better than the Star Wars prequels, sequels and Rebel Moon. A double feature with Spaceballs is a match made in heaven.
Rebel Moon totally rips this movie off...
I remember going cinema 3 times watching this it was awesome 😊
Hilarious. Plus, no other film features a boob ship.
I look forward to watch.
Stuck in Reno for a couple of weeks the summer of 1980, my brother and I decided to go and see a movie one night, and this was what we picked. Seeing The Empire Strikes Back a few weeks earlier had left us hungering for the third Star Wars film, which was very frustrating. I experienced no such frustration when this film ended.
in 1980, there would be no amount of hallucinogens that a person might take, that would serve to make this movie enjoyable
"Okay,. we've got to take the best parts from this movie and put them in a trailer to advertise it! So be sure to include the hot dog tasting scene!"
Remake of the Seven Samurai only with space ships. Robert Vaughn plays the same character he did in the Magnificent Seven. I and my 5 year old son enjoyed watching it a long time ago.
Robert Vaughn plays the same character he does in EVERYTHING he’s ever done! 😂🤣😂🤣
"The Magnificent Seven Inches"
More like The Magnificent Seven, in space.
Wow, hot dogs had a lot less ingredients back then
This movie along with Beastmaster was on HBO all the time in the early'80's.
Beastmaster was awesome the sequels however were not.
I remember watching both like 20 times during summer break.
Battle Beyond the Stars:a.k.a Seven Samurai - The Magnificent Seven...¡IN SPACE!.
Got it on One!
Like Star Wars has any kind of originality either...
I actually really love this movie.
One James Cameron's first works with The Master of the Masters. He learnies very well his lesson.
A voice-over beyond sense and comprehension
Same ships and space battle used in Space Raiders.
...I don't publicly support any political parties or candidates, because to do so would be a breach of The Prime Directive; and as Highlander Jedi Ambassador, I am very cognizant of that - and I don't violate those rules of The United Federation of Planets.
I friggin love bo bo starwars! and nel!
John Boy in outer space playing Luke Skywalker'/!!!
Boa noite,John Boy!
I remember seeing this as on TV some time in the early 80s. It had a good cast, and reminded me of “The Magnificent Seven” meets “Buck Rogers”. Fun movie 🍿!
My Dad took me to see this in 1980.. Always had a soft spot for this movie.. Obviously it's Seven Samurai/Magnificent seven set in space but just quirky and probably one of my favourite intro themes ever..
LAZULIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Saxon did a good job but this movie could have used Jack Palances hilarious overacting.
Robert Vaughn's character, Gelt, was basically the sci-fi version of his character from The Magnificent Seven.
"Does your species have kissing?"
"We do ... and wait until you see what else we have!"
this and Space Raiders i lvoe them both childhood faves always and forever m8.
More soul and authenticity than anything Hollywood made since the last 10 years.
Wow, George Lucas wasnt kidding when he said the "Star Wars rip-offs were horrible."
This looks like a parody but I wasn't sure to laugh or cry
Blast Off On The Most Spectacular Space Action Adventure Ever, As Shad, And A Group Of Mercenaries, Take On Sador Of The Malmori To Save Shad's Home Planet Of Akir In A Battle Beyond The Stars!
Better than Zack Snyder's REBEL MOON.
I know I saw this, but forgot, is this so bad it's good?
Jim "Avatar" Cameron's debut into hollywood film directing people, don't shit on it until you read the credits..
The interiors of the downed starship also looks a lot like the colony from Aliens and you can see elements of the Sulaco interiors aboard The Quest too. Also, I don't know if he was repsonsible for this, but the lights mounted in the back-packs are pretty similar to the shoulder lamps the Marines have in ALiens too
I don't know if you're still alive. But somebody just made a video about these similarities: th-cam.com/video/mjycmKCQdw8/w-d-xo.html
@@soundbeans Thanks for that pointer. Interesting video. I'm a huge Aliens fan and remember BBTS fondly from my childhood. Great to watch that little bit of history and how that crappy rip-off inadvertently brought us Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator!
James Cameron worked on production design
James cameron started with Corman. He did AMAZING production work before he became a director. Stuff that modern cgi cannot replicate. The 80s/90s was perfection of speacial effects and their death
When you order Star wars from Jolly chic
When you rent the movie and don't realize it says Starr Warrs.
So epic. So low budget. I love it.
It might look like a low budget, but it costs $2 million to produce this film. This was Roger Corman's most expensive production to make. Hardly counts as a B-Movie.
B-movie ? Scratches head
Better than modern Disney offerings.....
Much better then the Acolyte!
great IMDB trivia for this movie
I love it when a plan comes together ;)
I Will Always Love You Lady Sybil Danning as Exmin,Queen of,The Valkyries
Dollar tree Star Wars
Double coupon star wars
Still better than anything disney has done
Or anything Lucas has done post 1989...
oh i can see space cowboys up there
Cool Kodak magical everyone thanks i forget the title of this John boy Walton space movie now i know its battle beyond the stars
The boy looks 40
The inspiration for Snyders Rebel Moon.
But it’s a ripoff after Star Wars
Ah, The Magnificent Seven, in space. Not even close to a Star Wars parody, if you don't believe me watch The Magnificent Seven first, then Battle Beyond the Stars, you will understand then. Stay safe every one.
Rebel Moon totally rips this movie off...
This movie totally rips off Star Wars
Kurosawa in SPACEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1:42 - Yes, it is a squid-shaped spaceship! Now I have seen it all!
And one with boobs.
My aunt worked in a cinema at this time and would let us watch tons of films for free including this one, Meteor, Orca The Killer Whale, Spacehunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Animal House, Superman, Blazing Saddles....
Never seen this movie. when this came out, I think I was only like 5 years old at the time. Hopefully they play it on television and I can watch it.
Those deceptive 80’s movie posters. I did not see the intergalactic CrossFit princess in the trailer. But George Preppard was accurate as a frumpy space cowboy…..phoning in his performance as usual.
My name is Jamie and I'm a huge "Star Trek" [all "Star Trek" TV shows except for that trash they called "Star Trek Discovery!"] "Doctor Who" [classic and modern], "Battlestar Galactica" [classic 1978 TV series only. The reimaged 2004 series sucked!], and also "Babylon 5" TV Series. I haven't even seen this movie but I have see the 1985 Sci-Fi film "The Last Starfighter!" Is this movie "Battle Beyond The Stars" a Good movie or a Bad movie?
Hello Jamie 😎
Battle Beyond the Stars was pretty good - kind of like The Seven Samurai or Magnificent Seven in Space. Basically, like Lucas/Star Wars, it was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's film and concepts. 👍
I too like the films and series you mentioned. But I'm afraid I'm not much of a fan of New Who (I'm Classic Whovian all the way😁), however I totally agree with you about Classic Galactica 😊😉 - GINO is NOT Galactica!👎 (And there's more fracking GINO to come!😖)
So enjoy Battle Beyond the Stars. 😎😉👍 Regards, Alex 🙂
Hi Jamie, I 100% agree with everything you said. Also, Buck Rogers and Space 1999 were great shows as well.
@@kpowers Thank you.
@@alexhenderson1312 Thank you.
Watch Farscape!!!!! give it a try after few episodes you will want to watch it nonstop
A fun rip-off of Seven Samarai. The fact that the special effects look this good with zero budget was down to James Cameron .
Sadly disappointing that a movie was such a great cast can’t suck so bad.
Zack Snyder could never
Talk about spoilers - shows every good guy ship being destroyed!
40 years before Zack Snyder, someone already had the same idea of making an embarassing Star Wars movie,
This is where Zack Snyder stole his ideas for Rebel Moon
Battle Beyond the Budget Limitations!
Ah, Sybil Danning……. :-)
Completely barking mad, but somehow watchable with beer
I wrote a prequel comic book to this movie- Battle Amongst the Stars :)
I want to write a sequel to this. Who did you speak to in order to get that to happen? my email is djlush-at-rockwired dot com
@@Bysanthus but how would you even name it? What is there beyond beyond the stars?
@@Eikinkloster everything you can imagine.....
@@Eikinkloster your own Universe.. You are in Gods Universe at the moment.
Loki-LL...
This film stole from Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon
I loved 1980s movies, when even the space ships had big tits!
James Cameron: "What should the hero ship look like?"
Roger Corman: " I don't know, make it sexy...really sexy."
Cameron: "Got it! Sexy it is!"
Who else is here because of Rebel Moon ?
Corman's 9th symphony of bad movies.
Movie might have been crap but the music was epic, James Horner doing what he did.
It was great for its time
Maybe if it was released in the 1950’s but not the 1980’s
Depends how old u are if you are like me 7-8 years old at the time of release on the cusp of star wars it really bought out the sci fi nerd in me
@@guyver644 along with starcrash lol😅
@paul w I loved battlestar galactica too the original not the new version I dunno why they did away with the cylons
Three go on to play in the A-TEAM one as a villain
I do not recall this progrum.
A favorite of mine.. Rebel Moon is BBtS updated for the modern age but misses the heart and cheesy charm it has exchanged for its own vision.
I enjoyed this film pretty well when I saw it originally, but it doesn't compare well with Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai," or "The Magnificent Seven." It seems to have that particular percentage of cheese film makers used (and some still do) to say out to the audience that they don't take the SF genre too seriously because Science Fiction is "for kids."
Watch this instead of Rebel Moon. The amount of talent behind the scenes is amazing: veteran animator Jimmy Murakami as director, John Sayles on script, James Cameron on sets, James Horner on music, and Gale Anne Hurd as production manager.
This movie made me relapse.
RA brought me here 🪐
This is better than Starwars and Startrek combined. Hopefully this gets a good reboot. Should remake Jaws. 🎉🎉
An epically horrible script despite being a launch point for the careers of James Cameron and James Horner. Material suitable as wall art for a nightclub back lounge.
Let's see: they ripped off Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999....
Star Wars is Vodka
Star Trek is Beer
This is Ginger Ale
BBTS is a scotch, soda and ice from belt worn dispenser. 🥃