The Films That Ripped Off Star Wars
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- May the 4th with you and this countdown of the films that ripped off, knocked off and rode on the coattails of Star Wars.
1. Moonraker USA- amzn.to/2paoYCl UK- amzn.to/2papU9P
2. Spacehunter USA- amzn.to/2pU912g UK- amzn.to/2pkmWLf
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3. Krull USA- amzn.to/2pQZ70X UK- amzn.to/2pkqX1S
4. Battle Beyond the Stars USA- amzn.to/2qeAHjf UK- amzn.to/2paqapl
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5. Turkish Star Wars
6. Hawk The Slayer USA- amzn.to/2pVr4mP UK- amzn.to/2qGKNtg
7. Starchaser USA- amzn.to/2pQNMhk UK- amzn.to/2qPIsJE
8. The Black Hole USA- amzn.to/2pagtr3 UK- amzn.to/2qGKGhd
9. Message From Space USA- amzn.to/2qQsQot UK- amzn.to/2qGoiEt
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10. Starcrash USA- amzn.to/2pamCmU UK- amzn.to/2qGGrlO
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Black Hole is freaking awesome. Maximillian still scares the shit out of me.
What I remember more of this period was the Warren Comic magazines ( CREEPY , EERIE and VAMPIRA ) dropped all their horror stories and did nothing , but science fiction stories , which caused their company's sales to drop. But Star Wars did help the struggling STARLOG. Until SW came out , they had nothing , but Star trek conventions to cover. But when SW came out Sci- Fi movies exploded on the scene and STARLOG sales shot through the roof. Star Wars affected more then just the movies , magazines and television ( most notably Battlestar Galatica ) had a flood of science fiction series and made for TV movies as well.
The first Starlog I ever bought was the one with The Star Wars Christmas Special on the cover.
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There was one story, from a magazine of horror, can't recall it's name - Fangoria or something like that, where you have a Minataur fighting a bad guy who eats bodies dressed up like suckling pigs and a finale where the hero, not the Minataur but someone who has a beautiful girlfriend who he saved, grows to the size of Galactus and crushes one of earth's 2 moons. At there end a prophecy is read saying he will come again to wipe out the evil. Miss magazines like that and comics too. Those of today don't care for.
So, just ANY movie other than frigging big-britched high and mighty Star Wars that happens to feature a robot or a laser or space craft or has anything to do with space must be an imitation or "rip off" of THAT movie? NO other flick is allowed to feature any of THOSE things without receiving THAT particular charge?
@@55QuirllFangoria was fantastic....I was addicted from #3 to the early 100's....I hear that is long gone.... 😭.... part of my youth
7:57 For Japan, that's different. Most of their spaceships, in particular the hero ships, usually look like the WWII battleship Yamamoto.... because... no "reason".
Wasn't the "Death Star" of Krull the same thing as the villain's travelling fortress?
Yes it was, and the heroes had to find it, reach it and infiltrate it to save the heroine
I love how Japan's message from space created a literal sea ship for space travel. That movie must have been what inspired Star Blazers, I series I grew up on as a kid. I loved that idea of turning a sea-bearing cruise ship into space travel worthy. That was great!
Star Blazers (aka Space Battleship Yamato) came out in 1974. Message from Space came out in 1978. So its probably the reverse.
Either way, little kid me loved them both.
And the director of Message from Space later directed the cult classic...Battle Royale...
Slight difference in those films.
Just wanted to point that out for those who did not know...I didn't know either...
I didn't know either. Who would have thought the comment section on a youtube video would be worth reading.
Happy to help man...I found out when I felt like examining Kinji Fukasaku's directed films and came across 'Message from Space', Like Sergio Leone's film 'A Fistful of Dollars' it was a ripoff or unofficial remake, in 'Message from Space' it's a ripoff, but in Leone's 'Fistful of Dollars' movie it's an unofficial remake according to him... In a way, everyone got away with it easily because it didn't make money or was too hot of a property to claim it was stolen...history is kind of funny and heartbreaking...sorry for the sudden burst of words...
NINJA/SNIPER PRODUCTIONS message from space is a cheesy film 🎞
When 'The Force Awakens' came out, plenty of TH-cam vids popped up showing off various Star Wars ripoffs. So, I thought it would be fun to really delve into these movies and see what I could find. Thus far, my list of movies include rip offs, parodies, homages, and whatever other description you can think of. My list has gone well over 40 movies so far and continues to grow every time I find a new movie (one as recent as 2018!). I even started listing them on IMDB for others to enjoy :D
To be fair, Japan actually had a Star Wars ripoff from each of its four major tokusatsu studios.
Toei - Message from Space (and it's TV spinoff)
Toho - War in Space (a loose sequel to Gorath)
Tsuburaya - Star Wolf (known in America as Fugitive Alien)
Daiei - Gamera: Super Monster (because the bad guys had a Star Destroyer)
Star Wolf was based (fairly faithfully) on a trilogy of novels by Edmnond Hamilton, all of which predate Star Wars by years. The movies and the earlier TV series were pretty popular in Japan, and while they might have been made due to the success of Star Wars making scifi less of a risky bet for producers, they were very much their own thing.
@@richmcgee434 So Star Wolf is kind of in the same category as Flash Gordon, then. Am I right?
@@philipmonihan8222 Closer to it than Star Wars, anyway. If anything, the first Star Wolf film is more faithful to the original source material than the (80s) Flash movie was. I'd read the books years before Star Wars came out and there's no real parallels between the two beyond both being scifi/space opera adventure stories. The films and TV show may very well have been, ah, financially enabled by Star Wars' success, but that doesn't really make them a ripoff. Lots of scifi films and shows rode that set of coattails.
@@richmcgee434 Yeah, I not a big fan of that Flash Gordon either. I like the old serials a lot more.
@@philipmonihan8222 I don't hate the film, but it's not as good an adaptation as the serials were - if only because the format of a serial feels more like reading a comic, strip by strip. The 1979 animated series wasn't a bad attempt at the IP either, probably as close to the originals as you hope for at that point.
Hard not to like that Queen theme song, though.
Battle Beyond the Stars, Moonraker and The Black Hole are the ones I watched the most in my teens - good practical FX, nifty production design, evocative music, and appealing star power in all three. Exactly what you need to make a Star Wars rip-off work!
I remember there being a film called The Shape of Things to Come, that looked like it was made to cash in on the Star Wars craze. I do remember that it starred Jack Palance.
gorgeous list! I just pulled out the old VHS of Message from Space..still holds up to my idea of what was an excellent, horrible film! best to ya!
NOTHING can possibly live up to frickin Star Wars!! Star Wars is simply SUPERIOR to everything else and any OTHER movie that happens to feature lasers, robots and spaceships is a "rip off" of it!
Viva!
The one with Caroline Munro in a sexy leather bikini cries out for a full review...
Smifff37 Starcrash 😊
It's also got Christopher Plummer in it. Just adding to the weirdness. At one point he shouts, "Halt the flow of time!"
Starcrash. I had a poster of Caroline Munro from that movie on my wall as a Teenager.
They may all be ripoffs, but they are superfun to watch and are still more creative then most films today
Calling a ripoff creative is quite the oximoron, din't you think?
Besides you're only calling them fun because you haven't seen them, once you do you'll be either bored out of your mind, or laugh at how bad it is, and let's not pretend that most movies didn't suck ass before, there are like a trillion garbage B monster movies from 50s to 70s.
Kyle Edgecomb agreed🙃
Have you watched any of these movies?
Forgot I made this comment. To answer the critical twats who replied, I have infact watched most of them except for Turkish Star Wars and Starchaser (this goes for the time I wrote this comment) and yes I found them fun to watch, I have a sweet spot for cheesy b-flicks. You must be very hard to satisfy to not find a little enjoyment in them. Also calling something a ripoff creative isn't entirely an oxymoron*, especially when effort is still put into these films with their limited budgets at the time they were made in.
Starchaser and Krull were awesome
Full episode of the one with Caroline Munro because Caroline Munro.
+Adrian Carey Good news! Our next review has Caroline Munro in it. Check it out on Tuesday.
+Dark Corners Reviews You would have a field day with Jaws the Revenge.
1 of the worst sequels and movies ever made.
Dark Corners Reviews Starcrash is a fun movie 🍿
@@DarkCornersReviews starcrash and battle beyond the stars are a lot of fun to watch 🥳
Lucas had mentioned before Star chaser came out that he wanted to show Vader origin with him falling in lava in Empire Strike Back. I assumed that the creators of Star Chasers , read that issue of Star Log Magazine and used the idea in their rip off.
I think he was talking more about the protaganist holding on to the edge of a drop and then the baddie being cut in half and falling down the drop like in TPM
I saw The Black Hole on release. It's a strange movie; the heroes felt like they came from a 1960s movie, and it clearly wants to be dark and brooding, even a horror movie, but then had to have comedy cute robots in it. I'd love to see a remake with a more consistent tone.
John Barry's score is lovely though.
Moonraker is amazing, the best part is when they rape brazilian geography. I mean, James Bond dressed as a 'gaúcho' in Rio de Janeiro, navigating a amazon river that ends in the waterfalls of iguaçu to finally ending up in a mayan temple, wow. I am surprised they do not said that Brazil's capital is Buenos Aires.
"Message from Space" is why I named my Samurainyan in "Yo-Kai Watch" Hanzo.
Battle Beyond The Stars was great. Starcrash was not bad.
Daniel Williamson agreed 🤯
Starcrash is a good b movie 😎
Starcrash is utterly dire. I showed it to my 68 year-old dad recently and he pissed himself laughing, it was so bad. Daniel, I've got some shocking news for you: Starcrash is *very, very* bad.
@@malloid It's an okay movie. Not great.
"Nobody said Star Wars couldn't be improved."
Spacehunter is the one 3-D movie from the '80s version of that craze I remember seeing in a theater, and there are two lines I particularly remember liking: "I lied." and "I'll take that bet."
I see where you're going with Krull and it probably getting some kind of mid-production "Star Wars" uplift to ride the wave, but it was an awesome movie and one of my all-time favorites from the fantasy genre.
And you never mention that the only one of two that Lucas had the balls to sue was "Message From Space"......the one that was only guilty of directly ripping off "Seven Samurai" instead of mostly ripping it off like he did..... He won and "Message From Space" was taken off the market for decades.
The second one he tried to sue was Battlestar Galactica and Universal threatened to countersue over all of the serials and movies of their's that he ripped off to make SW and Indiana Jones.
3:08 Fuck me sideways, that's John Boy Walton!
I have every one of these movies and more. My current count stands at 28, spanning from '77 to today, all being ripoffs, inspirations and parodies of the entire Star Wars franchise. Some of the notable ones are Brazilian Star Wars, Space Balls, Masters of the Universe (the movie), Cell Wars, Hardware Wars, and the list goes on. This has been a fun adventure to find all these movies and I'm still looking for more!
So, just ANY movie other than frigging big-britched high and mighty Star Wars that happens to feature a robot or a laser or space craft or has anything to do with space must be an imitation or "rip off" of THAT movie? NO other flick is allowed to feature any of THOSE things without receiving THAT particular charge?
Oh yes, Turkish Star Wars that well known piece of 100% original cinema. don't cry about the title, the video is slight more subtle than that.
Thank for your inclusion of Hawk the Slayer, as you promised! Sure, I'd love to see your full take on the movie. Moonraker was my very first Bond film, I had no idea it had some inspiration from Star Wars. Message From Space looks like something worth seeing too!! Thank you for the vid!
+Elvys Pena You're welcome - all of these are pretty watchable... maybe not Turkish Star Wars as I can't find an English dub or even one with subtitles.
+Dark Corners Reviews Not sure Turkish Star Wars exists with "official" subs. I've seen it at least 2x without them and it never stops being funny! I am going to look up a couple of the movies on this list I haven't seen.
Battle Beyond the Stars was actually pretty good. Starcrash was Luigi Cozzi's attempt to do what his scumbag producers wanted, instead of what he wanted, just to keep the money he'd been promised ( and the effects were done by high school kids, which explains why they look like garage kits made by kids with poor eye-hand co-ordination and too many old model kits ). I'd have you do MESSAGE FROM SPACE, just because it doesn't get enough love, and because it's just so damned enthusiastic.
Don't forget TV series(no not Battlestar Galactica), The Powers of Mathew Starr.
Deathsport from 1978 was imitative of Star Wars, and not a sequel to Deathrace2000
How did u make the crawl
No easy way to explain it on here, basically a text layer tilted backwards and pulled away from. I'm sure there are some excellent how to videos on TH-cam.
The Black Hole was Walt Disney's first movie rated PG and it was the first time Walt Disney showed someone being killed on screen.
Don’t forget that Krull was supposed to be a D&D movie. Like, literally the writer’s home game.
Six years ago. You need to revamp this to include everything by Dismay.
The 'Hawk the Slayer' and 'Krull' bit from SPACED is even funnier to me now.
I recently saw "Hawk The Slayer" and although I did enjoy it's B-movie charm, I think it would still to fun to see you guys make a full review of it. Jack Palance is always a good villain, even when he hams it up.
'-EVEN when he hams it up'?
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Saw Logan's run the movie in 1998 when I was 14 they aired it on scifi channel at the time 😊
The Force is with Starcrash and Starchaser, in particular, for me. The former, because it just has so much ENERGY in it. (Well, that, and Caroline Munro...) I just love Marjoe Gortner's lightsaber antics and space Karate! The latter, because while it has less shame about ripping-off "Star Wars", some of the character designs and ideas give me more of a "Heavy Metal" vibe to them. (Especially Dag's reprogrammed "secretary-bot".) Plus, it was the movie that introduced me to my best friend, and best man. Seriously, we talked this movie UP AND DOWN in First Grade! (We LOVED the Swamp Cyborgs!)
I must admit that from the onset of this video I assumed all the films mentioned would be those coming shortly after Star Wars in 1977 and ripped off the first Star Wars film. But I see that several of them are from well into the 1980's and rips of elements not seen before The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. I do wonder about some elements like in Hawk the Slayer we have the disfigured face revealed by removing the helmet and the emperor/wizard. These elements were in The Empire strikes back but not fully fleshed out before Return of the Jedi. But Hawk the Slayer was released in 1980, thus making it unsure if this was filmed for Hawk before or after the scenes for Empire strikes back was filmed. As we know, George Lucas wanted Darth Vader's costume to be inspired by samurai armor, especially his helmet. Then it is surprising that when the japanese made their rip off with "Message from Space" their villain was a clear imitation of Vader, but looking significantly less like samurai armor. And as Robin say "No body said Star Wars couldn't be improved." George Lucas picked up on that by the looks of it, since we got Leia in the gold bikini fighting Jabba and his thugs in Return of the Jedi. I guess Lucas watched both Starchasers and Starcrash and got ideas.
When I was a kid I watched the Space Hunter PREMIERE on the cable movie channel we had circa 1985
Here's a movie you forgot to mention: Spaceballs
Spaceballs is a parody of Star Wars. It isn't a direct "rip off", but merely a funny parody of the Star Wars original trilogy.
It is a pretty good movie, you should watch it. :)
It’s a parody of many sci fi franchises
There was a extremely bad Italian Sci Fi movie called "War Of The Robots" from 1978.
Not only did they rip off "Star Wars",but also American Sci Fi shows like Star Trek,
Battlestar Galactica,and Space 1999.
favorite part of starcrash: Emperor Christopher Plummer's throne that looks like a a subaru logo.
Favorite Part of Starcrash: Emperor Christopher Plummer shouting, "Halt the flow of time!"
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wow no ice pirates
I must confess, I have never heard of this film until now. But now I have, I think we will have to review it.
I remember that one from when I was a kid!
As far as Star Wars knockoffs are concerned ice Pirates is way funnier than Mel Brooks's Spaceballs
THAT is a COMEDY you tool.
I have always said the one thing Star Wars was missing was The Hoff.
Starcrash understood that.
I loved starchaser as a kid
yeah me to, they have some quirks that actually work
Starcrash is a good movie 😎
Have you done a special on the Mad Max/Road Warrior knockoffs? I just discovered "Warlords of the 21st Century," aka "Battletruck." And I've seen "Warriors of the Wasteland." I'll bet there are a few more post apocalyptic gladiator type movies with wild armored vehicles & SMB costumed maniacs. As bad as they tend to be, they sometimes have some underdog charm that appeals in limited doses, just like some of these "Star Wars" ripoffs.
I saw all these: around half at the time they came out, the others by the early 1990s. 'Spacehunter' and 'Message from Space' were both pretty good compared to the rest. 'Spacehunter' had great actors/actresses, interesting sets and locations, passable f/x, and a story that had a LOT less in common with Star Wars than Star Wars did with any of the old serials it copied (sometimes shot by shot). That scene with the slimy white mutants sliding out of tubes haunted my nightmares for months. 😄
'Message from Space' had visually rich and interesting sets, passable to pretty-good fx (including good miniatures and fiery explosions), and several beautiful musical themes. It always felt like the poor man's Star Wars that an indie filmmaker could realistically dream about making on their own, without access to computers and a $10 million budget.
To this day I love both films. They were certainly a LOT more imaginative, a LOT more inventive and original, and a LOT more entertaining than any of the crap in Disney's new trilogy - and neither had even 0.1% of Disney's budget...🤮
You know what I want....A Star Wars clone set in Lovectafts Cuthulhu Myrhos.... Imagine. Jedi against Deep Spawnor Suggoth... could be fun
And yet, I still prefer these to the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
The only thing that the 1979 ''Moonraker'' film has in common with Ian Fleming's 1954 ''Bond novel''. Was the name of the main villain. And if I didn't know any better? I would think that the movie ''Starcrash'' 1978. May have been more inspired by the French science fantasy comics series ''Valérian and Laureline''. Which predates (Star Wars by 10 years). I could definitely see ''David Hasselhoff'' and ''Caroline Munro'' playing the lead roles in a late 1970s film adaptation of that.
"Films that ripped off Star Wars" and then I saw the last entry... Got a laugh and a like from me.
Mac and me the movie is beyond awful recommend watching the mst3k version 😎
I vote for a full Dark Corners treatment of Starcrash!
And I don't know if you can go so far as to say it is a Star Wars rip-off but I'm still waiting on a review of Corman's Galaxy of Terror.
Krull is an awesome space fantasy film.
No,not really, not at all. It was a fun fantasy film though.
I remember feeling a little annoyed that every few minutes, Freddie Jones seemed to be pulling out some new legend or creature he'd heard of. I saw it and The Star Chamber on the same day.
@@Jeffrey314159 Krull honestly feels a bit dull. Too many thinly-written characters and the villain is defeated too easily.
@@connorbrennan4233 Yeah what was it trying to be: a sci-fi flick or a sword & sorcery flick?
@@Jeffrey314159 It was trying to be both, I think. And it could have been fun, but the script fails to take the concept into any interesting places.
Fun and entertaining video... that last part earned you a subscriber. Good times!
oh i totally forgot you where going to do this! this video was wonderful.
+Rinoa Super-Genius We almost forgot too. I wrote this back in December and we were going to release it around the same time as the Force Awakens, but things got too hectic so we sat on it till May 4th.
@@DarkCornersReviews 🥳do killer klowns from outer space next
DUDE WAS KICKING THE THE COMPUTER SETUP INSIDE A MINI MODEL OF THE CENTER DOME IN THE BLACK FORTRESS. WHICH BY THE WAY BELONGS TO THE BEAST FROM KRULL. YEAH, I NOTICED.
Don't forget Roger Corman's "War Of The Satellites" (1958) that ripped-off George Lucas' "Star Wars" !
Oh man! I really, really want a big poster that says STAR MOVIE in the famous font.
hey ! what's Turkish Star wars movie title ?
Most commonly known as Turkish Star Wars, the actual title is Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam or The Man Who Saved the World.
The Black Hole doesn't really deserve to be on this list. First of all, development started way before Star Wars. The success of Star Wars certainly helped it finally reaching the screen and the robots took some inspiration from R2-D2, but the film clearly has different aspirations than the swashbuckling space adventure of Star Wars.
How about being fair about this matter and calling big britched high and mighty SW out on some of the shit that IT had did it's OWN pinching from? .. . like Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Dark Fortress, and the comics of Vaughn Bode?
We already did th-cam.com/users/edit?o=U&video_id=W27mXXU9VZM
I've enjoyed mockbusters,rip offs and the like for years.In fact,every time a new mainstream hit comes out,I await the other movies on dvd...
DeathSport from 1978, a pseudosequel to Deathrace 2000 - - Range Guides = Jedi Knights, Ankarr Moore = Darth Vader
Wot? No Brazilian Star Wars (Os Trapalhões na Guerra dos Planetas) to go with the Turkish one. 😂😂
And I have watched almost every one of them at the theater, A few of them were okay, but others were OMG!! it's bad. I think you could do a good job with Starcrash.
Message from space would be #2.
Starcrash battle beyond the stars message from space are fun movies 😎
No sci-fi movie has captured the magic of the original SW trilogy, not even newer ones. The galaxy of star wars feels real and lived in, which is an immense achievement as most old sci-fi movies looked like they were shot amongst carboard props. Original SW movies still look like they happen a real, lived in galaxy with a long history. It's a shame Disney pretty much destroyed the Star Wars franchise...
Turkish Star Wars looks amazing!
The best part of Starcrash ripping off Star Wars is Star Wars later ripping off the theme from Starcrash in Rogue One.
Saw both Hawk The Slayer and Krull at a film festival at the weekend. Hawk is a poor film but I love it. Krull isn't that great. But loved seeing them both on a cinema screen.
And Hawk The Slayer has an awesome soundtrack.
Am I wrong here or does Juan Solo of the animated movie Star Chasers look a hell of a lot like Morton Downey Jr. With the cigarette and all!?
You have to include "Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody". Trust me, you will never look at Chewbacca in the same way again!
what about spaceballs and star odyessy?
Poetic justice in that Lucas borrowed from the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato.
I always categorized Disney's Black Hole as the last movie of the 1950's. Watch it in black & white and you'll see what I mean.
OMG the turkish one is the best shit I´ve seen in years! XD
I agree with the last one on the list, the force awakens was the worst of the Star Wars ripoff movies. Almost the exact same plot, even got some of the same actors today come back. But it's a garbage ripoff derivative movie.
7:40 I just LMAO for that part.
Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam, translates to The Man Who Saves The World, is a disgrace to both Turkish cinema and the legendary actor (On Turkish cinema that is) Cuneyt Arkin. Though they made a sequel to it more than 30 or 40 years after the first one, and it was pretty much fucking hilarious xD. The name's The Son Of The Man Who Saved The World. Pretty straight forward.
Seen them all when new except the Japanese one and you would have to be insane to want to see the Turkish one!
Theres no denying it: Star Wars changed cinema as we know it. Most of the ripoffs might have been crap, but they r definitely entertaining! Been wanting to see Message from Space and Battle Beyond the Stars for years, I own a DVD of the first but its buried in storage and the second I can never seem to catch when it's on tv! Sighhh.
Before i watched this vid, i thought "'Star Crash' and 'Battle Beyond the Stars' have to be in there". i have rewarded myself with the first of the drinks that i will need to watch 'Turkish Star Wars'. How have i gone through life unaware of that film?
It in falls into the catagory of so bad its bad. we saved you time by showing you the best bits. Also I could not find a subtitled version. So I have no idea what is being said.
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It's kinda scary how Star Chaser had a human-robot sex relationship decades before Solo a Star Wars Story actually did it.
I feel that the Black Hole, though an enjoyable movie, is Old Hollywood attempting to do New Hollywood and totally missing the point.
So many movies, so little time. I am most fortunate to work a12 hour overnite shift with free wifi.
Black Hole, Starhunter, and Krull I enjoy watching. Buck Rogers and 70s Batttelstar Galactica while not ripping off star wars were trying to jump on the band wagon
8:56 was NOT ready to have my eyes blessed
Let's not forget how Mad Max Fury Road ripped off Spacehunter
Krull that movie. I watched the vhs cover so many times as kid. It was so horrifying. 30 years later i watch the movie. What a piece of crap it was
To be fair, The Spy Who Loved Me had next to nothing to do with its source novel as well.
I have a soft spot for Spacehunter-remember that rubbish 3d effect with the rifle?
Hawk the Slayer was not a Star Wars ripoff. It was based on dnd which was based on The Hobbit. The poster is the closest he can come to ripping it off. Even that is not much.
Some of the other movies mentioned are not Star Wars ripoffs either.
Surprised you did mention Star Trek the Motion Picture. That was only greenlit because of Star Wars. It was going to be a tv show before that
Yor hunter from the future.Buck Buck Rogers came out in 1978?
Don't forget Star Odyssey!
+Chris M. Good call!
Lots of Bond fans love Moonraker and I’m no exception.
If only we had the US Space Force then. On the plus side, Krull was a pretty good Atari game.
At least they were somewhat original with the last film and Starkiller Base by trying to raise the stakes and upping it up to a planet.