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The official STARKILLER Thread

posted 19 years ago by sorrento-siren
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Well let's discuss this movie.

Special effects : lasers out of nowhere shoot all over the place, ships turning upside down when hit, the main dock of what we think is the mothership shaking while attacked, and finally who can forget when the father of the hot girl alien chick dies ? Rates a no-brainer 10/10 !

Sound effects : Somehow I thought I was playing space invaders or zaxxon. Wait those had better sounds ! Rates an unanimos 10/10 !

Plot : Some intersteller war between the forces of who knows what galaxy vs STARKILLER the man himself, accompained by his female and hot co-pilot and her father. STARKILLER even with the loss of his father-in-law overcomes adversity and manages to win the battle and keep the girl. An outburst 10/10 !

Acting : It doesn't get any better than "He was like a father to me" ... "Star, he WAS my father!". Shocking 10/10 !

Overall this should have been a great movie, I laughed my behind all over the floor the first time I saw it in Explorers. LAUGHS !!!

[–] stevieg696969 19 years ago

Yeah, it left an impression with me, too. I liked how the dialogue was out of sync.

[–] paradoxincognito 18 years ago

lmao, best star-killer review ever!!

[–] HyperPup 13 years ago

If I didn't know better I would say that it was a subtle jab at the horrible Z-Grade scifi flick "Starcrash". Watch it and see if you can find any similarities.

Thousands die every day for no reason at all, where's your bleeding heart for them?

[–] LJ27 12 years ago

I really liked STARKILLER. Would like to have seen a whole film of it. Read that originally Joe Dante wanted to use clips from the Japanese movie BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE, but Toho asked for more money to use a few clips than they probably spent making the whole movie so they decided it was cheaper to hire L.A. Effects Group to shoot the sequence from scratch. Supposedly the design of the main ship is based on the VistaVision cameras ILM used to shoot the effects shots. Looks like a cross between that and a 65mm Mitchell, which is what Boss Film Corp used for their effects scenes. It's a fun sequence.

[–] hollyhawk82 12 years ago

Can we all just appreciate the fact that ROBERT PICARDO from Star Trek is Starkiller! :D

Was just watching this movie on Netflix today, this is still a favorite from my childhood. When it got to the Starkiller part I recognized him and went "Holy crap! It's the EMH doctor!"

[–] dan-willi84 12 years ago

I just had a thought about Starkiller. Starkiller could be made into a online game.

[–] dan-willi84 12 years ago

That would be cool.

"May the power be with us!"

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[–] Data-1001 12 years ago

I'm very confused about the scene where the Thunder Road crashes through the snack shack at the drive-in. It looked to me like the actors from Starkiller were there inside the building at the drive-in, reacting to it being torn apart by Thunder Road -- while performing the same scene that was just shown on the movie screen. Or did I get that completely wrong? And if not, WTH is up with that?

[–] stuartcork7 11 years ago

It is all a part of the in-joke about how poorly made Starkiller was. Joe set out to make it look like all of the daftest elements of 1950's B-Movies.
If you pay particular attention to it I think that Robert Picardo even ad-libbed the script for it.
I don't remember the exact wording but after the Thunder Road moves off and you can still hear the movie in the background Starkiller and Darla(?) are talking about being 'taken from behind', something that would not have got past the censors if they had been paying attention to the backtrack.

I don't remember Robert Picardo talking about Explorers in any interviews I have heard but he presumably had a lot of fun playing three 'wacky' characters in it.

One question from me- was the woman who played Darla in the Starkiller sequence the same who played Neek?

"I'm not really me. Thats me there- that pile of albino mouse droppings!"