WATCHING THIS ON BLU-RAY.

LMAO...THIS IS A HOOT.

A CASTRATION CONVEYER BELT....GOOFY ROBOTS....SO MANY BIZARRE LITTLE TOUCHES.

I AM GOING TO GO OUT ON A LIMB AND SAY....I THINK JAMES GUNN WATCHED THIS AS A CHILD...THIS HAS A LOT IN COMMON WITH THE GOTG FRANCHISE.

SLOTH IS HAVNG A BLAST IN HIS ROLE...THERE ARE SPACE TEMPLARS...THE ROBOTS ARE WEIRD AS FUCK



AND NOW A SLIMY ALIEN CREATURE HATCHED FROM AN EGG....THIS MOVIE HAS EVERYTHING!



LMAO...SPACE HERPE?....LMAO....ROSCOE JUST GOT HERPES.🤣

The Ice Pirates is a 1984 American comic science fiction film directed by Stewart Raffill, who co-wrote the screenplay with Krull writer Stanford Sherman. The film stars Robert Urich, Mary Crosby and Michael D. Roberts; other notable featured actors are Anjelica Huston, Ron Perlman, Bruce Vilanch, John Carradine and former football player John Matuszak.

OH DAMN...SOME DUDE JUST SAID THE N WORD.


AND A TINY WOMAN!



KITCHEN SINK FILMMAKING....I LOVE IT...WELL...EXCEPT THE N WORD...THAT SEEMED OUT OF PLACE.

The film was made at MGM, then under David Begelman, with John Foreman as producer. It was originally called The Water Planet and had a $20 million budget, based on a script by Stanford Sherman, writer of Krull. However, as MGM was in financial difficulty, its bankers put a limit of $8 million on all films. Begelman and Foreman contacted Stewart Raffill, whose film High Risk (1981) had impressed them. Raffill said he would have to rewrite it and make it more comic, and they agreed. Rafill and Foreman said pirate movies like The Crimson Pirate were the main inspiration and they deliberately did not watch Star Wars.

MGM had a contract with Robert Urich to make a TV series and insisted on him being cast. John Foreman wanted Anjelica Huston, a personal friend, in the film. John Matuszak was cast because one of the financiers liked him. "It wasn’t my concept," Rafill added. "We just put everything we could in it to make a joke and funny and told the story." Filming started March 1983. "We got lots of high-tech parts from car engines and gearings and poured molds out of them," said Rafill. "We didn't want to be sleek and spaceship-like, but rather a kind of super-funky, steam engine high-tech, with pistons and gearing — a real hodgepodge. The idea was that these space pirates didn't have good equipment, and had to make do with whatever they could find."

Production was difficult due in part to MGM getting a new studio head, Frank Yablans. Raffill says the film "ended up being a fiasco... MGM went through a transition and they brought in a new guy, who was eventually found out to be stealing money from the company. He was a little problematic sort of a fellow. And he had a bad time with John Foreman so he tried to sabotage the film. Pulled the money out on them, but we did finish it." Raffill says "Turns out the producer was a close friend of Paul Newman's and the studio head had said something derogatory about Paul Newman's wife and so the producer had punched him!" "At the end of the film, they were meant to arrive at Earth and they fly over the beaches of Malibu with everyone swimming in the water and the studio head cut that out! He never told me and it was gone. I had to drink vodka to calm myself down."