Reb Brown was in two films with Christopher Lee, the made for TV "Captain America: Death Too Soon" and "Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf", both of which earned the accolade of a Dark Corners review!
Not only did MST3K cover this movie, but so did Rifftrax in a LIVE! presentation, which is even funnier. [Punch Rockgroin and Dr. Lady are still married, which is sweet.] Thank you for covering this. Your reviews always make Monday brighter.
It is my favorite piece of trivia about this movie - that the two of them were married already when they made this piece of glorious garbage and are still married to this day. Warms the cockles of my frozen heart. I love this movie.
@@limlaith Same. Reb Brown seems like a "Real one". Speaking of my binged Dark Corners review (and one of my favorite films) he's got a small part as one of Talon's Mercenaries in "Sword and the Sorcerer".
Any movie with Cameron Mitchell wearing a small sheep on his face, John Philip Law chewing the scenery hard enough to shock Michael Gough, and Reb Brown's package wrapped in tin foil is an instant classic.
What I love about this MST3K episode is that it's one of the only times that Mike *never* shuts down a running gag. Usually he does a "that's enough guys" after a couple rounds, but the Many Names Of Dave Ryder just doesn't get old.
Funniest. MST. Episode. Ever. But they never noted the steals from Battlestar Galactica.... One of your best, Robin. And have to say, long overdue. Everyone must put their faith in Blast Hardcheese!
I feel like they can't mention certain things on the show due to copyright reasons, even if the show they're riffing has lifted material. I seem to remember other movies like this one where they never pointed out the blatantly obvious. I could be wrong, though.
John Philip Law...~sigh~ Here in Canada, I never saw the washing machine commercial - Calgon was (and still is) know as a scented bubble bath. Their tagline was "Calgon! Take me away!" JPL can take me away anytime!
I was just thinking to myself " aren't we about to the scene where you can clearly see daylight coming in through the windows?" When Robin was nice enough to point it out. Also, I love the brick lined concrete floored utility areas of a "spaceship".
@@uranuslad9855 I know, I LOVED mine (most of the time). So of course, while the men are wearing full jumpsuits the women should all be in European-cut leotards. I mean it only makes sense, right? 😁😁
I saw this as a kid from MST3K, watched that episode again recently with my dad and we both laughed pretty hard (especially at the dead woman being alive again, dad nearly died laughing from that alone). I do like this film despite all its flaws, it's just fun to watch as total schlock.
John Phillip Law also starred in "Skidoo" and "The Love Machine", the former directed by Otto Preminger and featuring the first infant breast-feeding to be shown in full on screen. The latter was based on Jacqueline Susann's 2nd best-seller, with Mr. Law replacing Brian Kelly in the title role after Mr. Kelly had been in a motorcycle accident. I would reeeealllly love you more, Robin, if you would review one or both of those films, purty-please?
Holy... _thingy_ . I've known the brand Calgon since I was a child, but because my country's first language isn't English I never thought to pronounce it like that. And it just hit me why it's called Calgon. Anyway, let's keep watching Dark Corners Reviews take on Big McLarge Huge's magnificent adventure where he and his mom meet Santa. And Sting.
Fun fact: the "engine room" was shot inside a huge industrial building, complete with random pipes and some shoddily added tables and "computer consoles". The windows of the building let sunlight in and the windows (or the cameras) were fitted with filters to give it the illusion that it was being shot inside the ship's reactor, with the windows providing an eerie orange tinge from the reactor itself. In post, no one told the editors about this and they color corrected every single scene to remove the orange filter, returning everything to normal colors. My own personal opinion is that even if they left the color grading in, you probably still wouldn't have mistaken it for a reactor. Also, JJ Abrams would later do nearly the exact some kind of "film set" inside a brewery as the Enterprise's engine room. Complete with random water pipes that serve no purpose and computer consoles hastily tacked onto a bunch of stainless brewing tanks (and then later changing it to something more normal looking in 'Into Darkness'). Why must history repeat itself?
Now this one I've definitely seen. I did find a video on you tube once - can't remember the channel or the exact title - about the making of this and it's an interesting story. The Galactica footage was unused VFX shots from that which they brought in bulk. When filming was about to commence, the director had a bereavement, so didn't actually do any of the shoot, someone else taking over. And then he fell very badly ill and it looked as if he wasn't going to pull through. But he ended up having to do the final edit anyway, while he was on death bed. Fortunately he got better. He said the window shots were supposed to be fixed in post and make them a different colour to be fumes from the engine. But it didn't get done. The dead crewwoman on the bridge came about because the shot he needed for that moment hadn't been done. And since the film was underring they shot all the stuff with the alien women and added it in to make the time up. Which is why they play no part in the plot. He did go on to direct again. Dancing movie 'Dancin'! it's on!' the rifftrax version of which you can find on amazon prime. If anyone uses microsoft teams, put Space Mutiny into the search box for GIFs, and you will find a few. Sci fi dancin and Angry! are awesome. Still waiting for a chance to use them though.
They always criticise the Empire in the Star Wars films for not installing railings, but this film clearly shows that would've been a waste of money more sensibly spent on other things.
I have to comment, I found this "classic" about 12 yrs during a bad movie night with my gaming group. After seeing many scathing reviews, you are the only one I recall to point out that awkward (totally sexual) way he pulled her into the frame on the video call. You literally caused me to do a full on spit take. Love the channel, keep up the amazing videos & perfect inflection.
Christopher Lee did not avoid typecasting, but he escaped it sufficiently to have a very, VERY diverse CV, even if most folks don't remember it. That's the danger when you're a good character actor; they'll remember the iconic roles, but might not recognize you in a long wig, facial hair and an eye patch.
Julian Glover. He played prominent roles in so many major movies, and yet I had no idea it was the same actor in all of them until I looked up his IMDB profile. Star Wars, James Bond, Indiana Jones, Game of Thrones, and of course Quatermass and the Pit.
Space Mutiny was later adapted in 2020 as an audio drama and an unofficial sequel to the original Battlestar Galactica with original actors reprising their roles from the tv show.
The only other movie I can think of that had Cameron Mitchell was "Supersonic Man" which was a Rifftrax feature. Speaking of which, "Space Mutiny" was eventually featured in one of their live shows.
Check out RedLetterMedia's ''Best of the Worst'' series, they always feature some B-movies with Cameron Mitchell in them. They even made the ''tums festival''-meme go viral.
That fall, at 7:49, where the stunt performer catches their thighs on the railing, and drops vertically, head first out of shot, looks like it would have a painful outcome. That was John Phillip Law?! I totally didn't recognize him. An actor with a varied resume? Why, Kirk Lazarus, of course.
I'm convinced that someone made this film just so people watching would say: "You know...That Battlestar Galactica show wasn't half bad." That is much easier to swallow than the fact that someone spent real time and effort to make this space turd.
2:40 Ah! So Calgon is taking them away! 3:22 in a few scenes earlier, the blonde guy was wearing the homoerotic sports gear from *Battlestar Galactica,* and this is the dance studio set from *Buck Rogers and the 23rd Century.* What would this movie do without Glen Larson?
Oh boy I recall one Saturday morning coming across this film on MST3K and wow I was just thinking am I actually seeing this!? Fun, funny stuff and those cart chases and yells so epic!!!
We are going to have an exciting car chase scene. On a space ship? We have golf carts with cardboard body. Oh Gawd. But the paint and stencils make them look menacing. We are leasing sections of a great looking industrial plant. Besides we have some good looking scantily clad charicters. Oh, that will work. I think we will get our investment out of this.
7.20 "I'm surrounded by incompetence!". They're pulling our leg - isn't this a quote from "The Great Dictator" ? Not but what I often use this handy phrase myself. 😉
Never serve on a spaceship where everybody has a huge 'SS' badge on their uniform. Nothing good will come from this. Also, those brick walls are a novel choice of spaceship design.
The Bellarians were added to increase the movie's run-time. And provide fanservice. John Philip Law knew what sort of movie he was in, and played his role appropriately.
i loved this silly but interesting movie. it is wacky and not lucid but even without the Mst3000 treatment it is pretty fun. reb brown married that blonde girl, Cisse Cameron, and they are still married.
Ah yes, probably the best episode of MST3K was the heckling of Space Mutiny. Glad to see I wasn't the only person to wonder what Leah was doing during Kalgan's hostage demand speech. Malcolm McDowell seems to have had a very diverse career as well. Starting out as villains like Alex (A Clockwork Orange) and Caligula, he seems to be playing more sympathetic and even heroic roles in recent years like H.G. Wells (Time After Time) and Dr. Loomis (Rob Zombie's Halloween).
@@tecumsehcristero The RLM crew like to think they came up with bad movie riffing on their own so they resent it whenever people mention how MST3k was invented years earlier in the state next to them. The oddest part is how they try to pretend the show doesn't exist, which gets hard when their BotW show features MST3k movies. Eventually they gave up but I don't think they ever looked up which movies the show covered, let alone watch some of it. Everyone has their blind spot, even MST3k crew have an unexpected hatred of Roger Corman.
@@tskmaster3837 I've only heard them say positive things about mst3k. They probably don't watch mst3k for the same reason Welcome to the basement doesn't watch/listen to rifftrax, because they might repeat what they said and it might handicap them in what they will say. Next time I see Stoklasa I'll ask him about feud he has with mst3k, it must be recent. But I haven't watched a lot of their stuff in the last 2 Or 3 years
some of the movies' directors do love the treatment MST3K gives to their movies. I think Reb Brown liked the treatment the MST3K staff members gave to his character, espically with those famous nicknames.
McDowall had a career stretching from childhood with a hell of a resume as a result. He managed to avoid being known for one specific type of character.
Not long after the MST3K episode of this aired, I actually found and rented the real movie on VHS. It was even worse and included a topless love scene that was cut out for the MST episode.
I have this longstanding suspicion that this movie actually started out as Galactica fanfic. Like someone cooked up a half-assed story about someone attempting to overthrow Adama, and they called up Universal and said, "Can we make a Galactica movie?" and Universal said, "Hell, no!" "Well, can we use some footage from Galactica?" "Oh, sure, that'd be fine. Did you want some Buck Rogers footage, too?" "Eww, gross." And with that in mind it *almost* makes sense. Almost. I mean, it's still garbage, but I think it was supposed to take place between the original Galactica and Galactica 1980. G-80 also being garbage....
@@bentilbury2002 Yeah, it was irredeemably bad. Though to be fair the network *wanted* it to fail, and changed the premise after the pilot episode. The original concept was eventually recycled into Quantum Leap.
I guess looks can be deceiving, because according to Wikipedia, the actress who plays the love interest of Rock Hardcheese, sorry I meant Reb Brown, is six years younger than him. Brown and Cisse Cameron were married in 1979, so were married when this film was made (and if Wikipedia is correct, are still married- good for them!)
ngl, i always thought the windows you pointed out were just light fixtures and yeah, the Belarians were added in later when they realized they didn't have enough footage to make it to feature length
When the two leaders were perusing paperwork, I pictured the actors discussing how horrendously bad the script was. "A golf cart chase???" "Well, I do get a hot girl to rub her hands on my chest. Beats nothing."
I like the fantasy angle approach. That ship is huge and would make a good dungeon for an old school D&D campaign. You know, if you remade a movie like this, it would be interesting if it turned out that the artificial intelligence of the ship actually runs everything and doesn't need humans. However, it keeps them around because it likes to mess with and manipulate them into convoluted and unnecessary dramatic conflicts for its own entertainment. Running a city sized ship is too boring without some distraction. Then at the end, when the two leads, despite their stupidity, uncover the truth, the Ship A.I. explains everything and then blows them out of an airlock since "they just aren't fun anymore." The next scene, we get carbon copies of the dopey leads running past in their own version of a sci-fi B-movie that they think is very important, but is really just another show for the computers to enjoy.
Big McLargeHuge!
Bone beefbroth
@@Demolitiondude Punch RockGroin!
@@antcow1239 thick Mcrunfast.
Bob Johnson
@@mephosto Thick McRunFast
I must have watched about a hundred of these videos in the last few weeks. Seriously, one of the most bingeable channels there are.
Never laughed so hard watching
Reb Brown was in two films with Christopher Lee, the made for TV "Captain America: Death Too Soon" and "Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf", both of which earned the accolade of a Dark Corners review!
“You and your 80s you know the 70s would have continued if it weren’t for you!”-Tom Servo
Not only did MST3K cover this movie, but so did Rifftrax in a LIVE! presentation, which is even funnier. [Punch Rockgroin and Dr. Lady are still married, which is sweet.] Thank you for covering this. Your reviews always make Monday brighter.
i didnt know that, awesome
It is my favorite piece of trivia about this movie - that the two of them were married already when they made this piece of glorious garbage and are still married to this day. Warms the cockles of my frozen heart. I love this movie.
@@limlaith Same. Reb Brown seems like a "Real one". Speaking of my binged Dark Corners review (and one of my favorite films) he's got a small part as one of Talon's Mercenaries in "Sword and the Sorcerer".
Rifftrax friends subscription - pretty space good.
"Put your helmet on. We'll be reaching speeds of 3."
Any movie with Cameron Mitchell wearing a small sheep on his face, John Philip Law chewing the scenery hard enough to shock Michael Gough, and Reb Brown's package wrapped in tin foil is an instant classic.
the reb brown tiny cart roar is amazing.
Perfectly capped by the escape where he takes the two seconds to make sure he doesn't twist his ankle stepping out gently
The man sure earned his paycheck, even in his worst flicks he never phoned it in.
Reb Brown screaming IS cinema.
If ONLY someone, during the course of the movie, had said "Calgon, take me away!"
I figured someone would beat me to that joke. I planned to tie it to the "offer of a better future".
I think this every time I see a review of this movie. Or see this movie. I love it!
Nobody could Mwa-ha-ha like John Phillip Law.
7:05 “…but one _can_ delay it indefinitely and have a beer!” - Crow T. Robot
What I love about this MST3K episode is that it's one of the only times that Mike *never* shuts down a running gag. Usually he does a "that's enough guys" after a couple rounds, but the Many Names Of Dave Ryder just doesn't get old.
It's a bottomless well of comedy gold.
They had a whole new slab of names for the Rifftrax live version. Definitely worth watching that version as well.
Funniest. MST. Episode. Ever. But they never noted the steals from Battlestar Galactica....
One of your best, Robin. And have to say, long overdue. Everyone must put their faith in Blast Hardcheese!
I feel like they can't mention certain things on the show due to copyright reasons, even if the show they're riffing has lifted material. I seem to remember other movies like this one where they never pointed out the blatantly obvious. I could be wrong, though.
@@cujoedaman And Space Mutiny bought the footage to use in the movie, so they weren't stolen.
@@cujoedaman wrong ...after the mst3k version of "laser blast" they rattled off about 20 movies- just to let you know
@@cujoedaman they could have said: "Hey look! It's the Gattlestar Balactica! With Commander Adama and his son, Apollo Creed!"
"Your knowledge of ancient dentristy is pitiful!" Had me laughing so hard my cat started biting my feet!
Aww, you cut out the best part of him screaming on the golf cart. He lets out that yell, stops, goes stone faced, and jumps off.
Well now that I got that out of my system.
John Philip Law...~sigh~ Here in Canada, I never saw the washing machine commercial - Calgon was (and still is) know as a scented bubble bath. Their tagline was "Calgon! Take me away!" JPL can take me away anytime!
Those are NOT toilet-roll bazookas; they're holiday-wrapping-paper-tube bazookas.
It's the handheld ray guns that are toilet-rolls.
I was just thinking to myself " aren't we about to the scene where you can clearly see daylight coming in through the windows?" When Robin was nice enough to point it out. Also, I love the brick lined concrete floored utility areas of a "spaceship".
They're not bricks. It's advanced ceramic aerogel to cool the spaceship because the big ass rectangular windows let too much light in.
She has to show up for work even though she's dead? She must be an American rail worker!
(Badum-tish)
Until the folks in HR get the Death Certificate, everyone is required to show up.
I am for any sci-fi movie where the official uniform for women is Danceskins. I looked GREAT in those back in the day. 😁😁😘
I worked at several clubs where the women's basic uniform was a Dancskin! They were allegedly easy to work in and looked great.
@@uranuslad9855 I know, I LOVED mine (most of the time). So of course, while the men are wearing full jumpsuits the women should all be in European-cut leotards. I mean it only makes sense, right? 😁😁
I'm sure you still do.
Funniest MST3K episode ever!
Watching this movie is a mistake but an even bigger one would be to watch it while standing near a railing.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I just now realize that there exists a Choose Your Own Adventure book called Mutiny in Space.
I saw this as a kid from MST3K, watched that episode again recently with my dad and we both laughed pretty hard (especially at the dead woman being alive again, dad nearly died laughing from that alone). I do like this film despite all its flaws, it's just fun to watch as total schlock.
"She's presenting like a mandrill!"
To have lived in a world in which Space Mutiny exists is have lived in the best of all possible worlds.
John Phillip Law also starred in "Skidoo" and "The Love Machine", the former directed by Otto Preminger and featuring the first infant breast-feeding to be shown in full on screen. The latter was based on Jacqueline Susann's 2nd best-seller, with Mr. Law replacing Brian Kelly in the title role after Mr. Kelly had been in a motorcycle accident. I would reeeealllly love you more, Robin, if you would review one or both of those films, purty-please?
He was Sinbad in _The Golden Voyage of Sinbad._
He was Harry Holt in Tarzan the Ape Man ‘81.
This is one of my favorite MST3K movies. "We are reaching speeds of 3!"
Sooo, Commander Jansen's daughter has had a bad day ... and Kalgan takes her away? 😆
Holy... _thingy_ .
I've known the brand Calgon since I was a child, but because my country's first language isn't English I never thought to pronounce it like that. And it just hit me why it's called Calgon.
Anyway, let's keep watching Dark Corners Reviews take on Big McLarge Huge's magnificent adventure where he and his mom meet Santa. And Sting.
Fun fact: the "engine room" was shot inside a huge industrial building, complete with random pipes and some shoddily added tables and "computer consoles". The windows of the building let sunlight in and the windows (or the cameras) were fitted with filters to give it the illusion that it was being shot inside the ship's reactor, with the windows providing an eerie orange tinge from the reactor itself. In post, no one told the editors about this and they color corrected every single scene to remove the orange filter, returning everything to normal colors.
My own personal opinion is that even if they left the color grading in, you probably still wouldn't have mistaken it for a reactor.
Also, JJ Abrams would later do nearly the exact some kind of "film set" inside a brewery as the Enterprise's engine room. Complete with random water pipes that serve no purpose and computer consoles hastily tacked onto a bunch of stainless brewing tanks (and then later changing it to something more normal looking in 'Into Darkness').
Why must history repeat itself?
Because they didn't learn?
Usual reason.
@@johnrau2265 Touche'
It's not Monday without your bad movie reviews. ❤️
Now this one I've definitely seen. I did find a video on you tube once - can't remember the channel or the exact title - about the making of this and it's an interesting story. The Galactica footage was unused VFX shots from that which they brought in bulk. When filming was about to commence, the director had a bereavement, so didn't actually do any of the shoot, someone else taking over. And then he fell very badly ill and it looked as if he wasn't going to pull through. But he ended up having to do the final edit anyway, while he was on death bed. Fortunately he got better. He said the window shots were supposed to be fixed in post and make them a different colour to be fumes from the engine. But it didn't get done. The dead crewwoman on the bridge came about because the shot he needed for that moment hadn't been done. And since the film was underring they shot all the stuff with the alien women and added it in to make the time up. Which is why they play no part in the plot.
He did go on to direct again. Dancing movie 'Dancin'! it's on!' the rifftrax version of which you can find on amazon prime.
If anyone uses microsoft teams, put Space Mutiny into the search box for GIFs, and you will find a few. Sci fi dancin and Angry! are awesome. Still waiting for a chance to use them though.
I think it was "Bad Movie Bible" - I'd love to see them team up with Robin!
@@parisgreen4600 That's the one
In space, no one can hear you scream! Unfortunately we are not in space.
They always criticise the Empire in the Star Wars films for not installing railings, but this film clearly shows that would've been a waste of money more sensibly spent on other things.
I have to comment, I found this "classic" about 12 yrs during a bad movie night with my gaming group. After seeing many scathing reviews, you are the only one I recall to point out that awkward (totally sexual) way he pulled her into the frame on the video call. You literally caused me to do a full on spit take. Love the channel, keep up the amazing videos & perfect inflection.
Other than Godzilla and maybe Roger Corman the most influential name in b-movies is Mystery Science Theater.
Christopher Lee did not avoid typecasting, but he escaped it sufficiently to have a very, VERY diverse CV, even if most folks don't remember it. That's the danger when you're a good character actor; they'll remember the iconic roles, but might not recognize you in a long wig, facial hair and an eye patch.
Diverse and apparently some extreme s
Julian Glover. He played prominent roles in so many major movies, and yet I had no idea it was the same actor in all of them until I looked up his IMDB profile. Star Wars, James Bond, Indiana Jones, Game of Thrones, and of course Quatermass and the Pit.
The director of this, David Winters, also directed a more recent movie: Dancin’: It’s On. Now that’s a double feature for the ages!
You forgot to mention that in several scenes the spaceship has brick walls.
They didn’t even try to disguise the original Battlestar Galactica footage.
Brick Thrust-Chunk even called the ship he was flying a Viper.
@@skylx0812- So did the computer.
Space Mutiny was later adapted in 2020 as an audio drama and an unofficial sequel to the original Battlestar Galactica with original actors reprising their roles from the tv show.
_"Did you see my butt?"_
-Mike MST3K
He must have, Reb married her.
“Calgon take me away!!!”
The only other movie I can think of that had Cameron Mitchell was "Supersonic Man" which was a Rifftrax feature. Speaking of which, "Space Mutiny" was eventually featured in one of their live shows.
He was in 'Action USA', which this channel reviewed a while back. Alongside Ross Hagen, best known for Mst3k's The sidehackers and the hellcats
Check out RedLetterMedia's ''Best of the Worst'' series, they always feature some B-movies with Cameron Mitchell in them. They even made the ''tums festival''-meme go viral.
_Deadly Prey_
_Frankenstein Island_
Both skewered by RiffTrax.
LOW BLOW
NIGHTMARE IN WAX
NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR
and many, many more.
MANEATER OF HYDRA (at least that's its English title) is one of his most underrated ones.
Poor Cameron Mitchell, he must have needed the money.
That fall, at 7:49, where the stunt performer catches their thighs on the railing, and drops vertically, head first out of shot, looks like it would have a painful outcome.
That was John Phillip Law?! I totally didn't recognize him.
An actor with a varied resume? Why, Kirk Lazarus, of course.
Actually Cameron Mitchell look like Lorne Greene Adama with the beard on the short lived Battlestar Galatica 1980
You're terrific Dark Corners!
I'm convinced that someone made this film just so people watching would say: "You know...That Battlestar Galactica show wasn't half bad." That is much easier to swallow than the fact that someone spent real time and effort to make this space turd.
For me it's this episode and Mitchell!! Top shelf stuff. The boys are merciless in such a good way. Good clean fun for all.
2:52 What is the late, great Jeff Porcaro doing in this movie?
Calgon! We need more of you!
Floor polisher chase. I liked that.
When he said "ancient dental equipment" I thought he said "ancient devil equipment"! Needles to say your commentary helped explain it to me.😍
"I feel as though I've failed..." "And I would go with that feeling!" You kill me
2:40 Ah! So Calgon is taking them away!
3:22 in a few scenes earlier, the blonde guy was wearing the homoerotic sports gear from *Battlestar Galactica,* and this is the dance studio set from *Buck Rogers and the 23rd Century.* What would this movie do without Glen Larson?
Starring Sting, Debbie Reynolds, and God.
Love the mst3k episode 💣
BOB JOHNSON
Oh wait...
Universal licenses the special effects shots from Battlestar Galactica and still does to this day. Look it up!
The ''washing machines live longer with Calgon"- joke made me spill out my coffee.🤣
Proud Kickstarter backer for the RiffTrax treatment of Space Mutiny!!! 😀😀😀
Oh boy I recall one Saturday morning coming across this film on MST3K and wow I was just thinking am I actually seeing this!? Fun, funny stuff and those cart chases and yells so epic!!!
We put our faith in Blast Hard cheese!
Someday it was going to happen. Someday Space Mutiny was going to be reviewed.
Don't you mean, "Sexy SPACE Dancing"?
Ah, good ol' Eat Punchbeef.
“Finish what you started” 😂
We are going to have an exciting car chase scene. On a space ship? We have golf carts with cardboard body. Oh Gawd. But the paint and stencils make them look menacing. We are leasing sections of a great looking industrial plant. Besides we have some good looking scantily clad charicters. Oh, that will work. I think we will get our investment out of this.
The movie that made me fall in love with MST3K, and subsequently Rifftrax. Butch Deadlift! Dirk Hardpec!
For me it was the Beatniks, Bride of the Monster, Racket Girls, and The Day the Earth Froze.
Cameron Mitchell as Santa Claus in space.
I love the spaceship. 40 feet of headroom and windows with sunlight everywhere. Also analog phones and CRT monitors.
And brick walls!
This gem is right up there with Plan 9 From Outer Space! 🥰
Kalgon's over-acted diabolical laugh had me in stitches. Forever did I use it since at parties and Bar Mitzvah's....
Kalgon. I think the actor had fun.
@@julietfischer5056 thanks... amended it. And yes I'm sure he did haha.
7.20 "I'm surrounded by incompetence!". They're pulling our leg - isn't this a quote from "The Great Dictator" ? Not but what I often use this handy phrase myself. 😉
Never serve on a spaceship where everybody has a huge 'SS' badge on their uniform. Nothing good will come from this. Also, those brick walls are a novel choice of spaceship design.
The Bellarians were added to increase the movie's run-time. And provide fanservice.
John Philip Law knew what sort of movie he was in, and played his role appropriately.
i loved this silly but interesting movie. it is wacky and not lucid but even without the Mst3000 treatment it is pretty fun. reb brown married that blonde girl, Cisse Cameron, and they are still married.
Ah yes, probably the best episode of MST3K was the heckling of Space Mutiny. Glad to see I wasn't the only person to wonder what Leah was doing during Kalgan's hostage demand speech.
Malcolm McDowell seems to have had a very diverse career as well. Starting out as villains like Alex (A Clockwork Orange) and Caligula, he seems to be playing more sympathetic and even heroic roles in recent years like H.G. Wells (Time After Time) and Dr. Loomis (Rob Zombie's Halloween).
I know it from RLM Best of the Worst.
Gotta love Cameron Mitchell and all the schlock movies he's in
RLM hates MST3k, probably because of their "look at this ZAAT movie we've discovered that only we know about" debacle.
@@tskmaster3837 really? RLM hates mst3k? Gimme the details. I've never heard that before. What all went down?
@@tecumsehcristero The RLM crew like to think they came up with bad movie riffing on their own so they resent it whenever people mention how MST3k was invented years earlier in the state next to them.
The oddest part is how they try to pretend the show doesn't exist, which gets hard when their BotW show features MST3k movies. Eventually they gave up but I don't think they ever looked up which movies the show covered, let alone watch some of it.
Everyone has their blind spot, even MST3k crew have an unexpected hatred of Roger Corman.
@@tskmaster3837 I've only heard them say positive things about mst3k.
They probably don't watch mst3k for the same reason Welcome to the basement doesn't watch/listen to rifftrax, because they might repeat what they said and it might handicap them in what they will say. Next time I see Stoklasa I'll ask him about feud he has with mst3k, it must be recent. But I haven't watched a lot of their stuff in the last 2 Or 3 years
some of the movies' directors do love the treatment MST3K gives to their movies. I think Reb Brown liked the treatment the MST3K staff members gave to his character, espically with those famous nicknames.
This only makes me think of Spoony! Was the dentistry line a reference to the one in his review perhaps? 🤔
Space Mutiny is a hilarious film on its own and all MST3k did was add a laugh track to it.
The crew of the Southern Sun proudly wear the “SS” insignia. No one thought that was a bad idea. 🤣
"I think it's very nice of you to give that dead woman another chance."
A most appropriate vehicle for Reb Brown.
As far as cult actors avoiding typecasting, the late Roddy McDowall comes to mind.
McDowall had a career stretching from childhood with a hell of a resume as a result. He managed to avoid being known for one specific type of character.
Not long after the MST3K episode of this aired, I actually found and rented the real movie on VHS. It was even worse and included a topless love scene that was cut out for the MST episode.
Well, they had to. Not everyone can tolerate Reb Brown shirtless. 😏
@@johnrau2265 Cisse Cameron can. Ba-boom-tis!
I have this longstanding suspicion that this movie actually started out as Galactica fanfic. Like someone cooked up a half-assed story about someone attempting to overthrow Adama, and they called up Universal and said, "Can we make a Galactica movie?" and Universal said, "Hell, no!"
"Well, can we use some footage from Galactica?"
"Oh, sure, that'd be fine. Did you want some Buck Rogers footage, too?"
"Eww, gross."
And with that in mind it *almost* makes sense. Almost. I mean, it's still garbage, but I think it was supposed to take place between the original Galactica and Galactica 1980. G-80 also being garbage....
Oh gods, Galactica 1980. What a load of cheesy dreck! With those stupid flying "space bikes"... 🤣
@@bentilbury2002 Yeah, it was irredeemably bad. Though to be fair the network *wanted* it to fail, and changed the premise after the pilot episode. The original concept was eventually recycled into Quantum Leap.
I always thought that it was hilarious that the love interest looks the same age, or older than, her father.
I guess looks can be deceiving, because according to Wikipedia, the actress who plays the love interest of Rock Hardcheese, sorry I meant Reb Brown, is six years younger than him. Brown and Cisse Cameron were married in 1979, so were married when this film was made (and if Wikipedia is correct, are still married- good for them!)
"Meet my grandma daughter"
@@loumencken9644 I really shows how much good hair and makeup is under valued in filmmaking.
ngl, i always thought the windows you pointed out were just light fixtures
and yeah, the Belarians were added in later when they realized they didn't have enough footage to make it to feature length
Wow. Laughing throughout. Those slow enforcer golf karts, just too much
Just had to leave a space comment, about how awesome the space fashion was in the space 80's... :)
No one ever seems to remember that Calgon is Diabolik and Reb Brown is Captain America, This masterpiece is almost a shared cinematic universe!
When the two leaders were perusing paperwork, I pictured the actors discussing how horrendously bad the script was.
"A golf cart chase???"
"Well, I do get a hot girl to rub her hands on my chest. Beats nothing."
Calgon sounds like Ren Hoek.
Those Enforcers look kinda like the Cleaners in that Doctor Who episode, Paradise Towers.
Intrigued that the monitors in the control room are showing scenes from the movie they’re currently in…
I like the fantasy angle approach. That ship is huge and would make a good dungeon for an old school D&D campaign.
You know, if you remade a movie like this, it would be interesting if it turned out that the artificial intelligence of the ship actually runs everything and doesn't need humans. However, it keeps them around because it likes to mess with and manipulate them into convoluted and unnecessary dramatic conflicts for its own entertainment. Running a city sized ship is too boring without some distraction.
Then at the end, when the two leads, despite their stupidity, uncover the truth, the Ship A.I. explains everything and then blows them out of an airlock since "they just aren't fun anymore."
The next scene, we get carbon copies of the dopey leads running past in their own version of a sci-fi B-movie that they think is very important, but is really just another show for the computers to enjoy.
From an Historic standpoint... This was South Africa's 1st attempt at a Sci/Fi Film!