April Fools’ month is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven’t seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.
This week friend of the podcast, Steven Prince (Monster Matador, Mercy in Prison), picks the 1980 Roger Corman Star Wars/Seven Samurai knockoff Battle Beyond the Stars! When a peaceful planet is invaded by a warmongering dictator a young farmer must go out into the galaxy to seek help to fight him. With talent behind the cameras like John Sayles and James Cameron and stars like Richard Thomas, George Peppard, Robert Vaughn, and Sybil Danning…what could go wrong? Well, apparently, a lot. Phil Mucci (Diabolik Double Feature), Jeremy Whitley (Navigating With You, The Dog Knight, The School for Extraterrestrial Girls), and PTF Regular Yvis Cannavale board the Part-Time Fanboy starship to chat with Kristian about Roger Corman’s attempt to cash in on the Star Wars craze that hit the movie industry back in the late nineteen seventies/early eighties.
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