The Eighties Sci-Fi Thread.

[vincenzo]

My favourite Bond too.

Flesh Gordon is good fun too but for entirely the wrong reasons.

[pedromonkey]

i enjoyed Flesh Gordon, very campy, hated the the second film, amaturish at best. Apparently Rick baker the FX guy was a model maker on the first one.

i liked it because it had a wierd sort of Harryhausen feel to the stop motion.

[vincenzo]

Originally Posted by pedromonkey

i liked it because it had a wierd sort of Harryhausen feel to the stop motion.

Excellent effects really for what was originally a hardcore sex spoof. Craig T. Nelson (Poltergeist father) was the voice of the rock monster ("That was my ASS!!").

[pedromonkey]

has it ever been released completely uncut, because the dvd i have, there are some accidental hardcore scenes in the thrown room?

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by vincenzo

My favourite Bond too.

Mine too.Pity he didn't do more.After seeing him in Doctor who the other week,I say get him back for Bond.20years since Licence To Kill and he's hardly changed at all.

[vincenzo]

Originally Posted by pedromonkey

has it ever been released completely uncut, because the dvd i have, there are some accidental hardcore scenes in the thrown room?

The story behind this one is incredibly long-winded. It was originally shot with graphic hardcore scenes (think Caligula, only stronger) and then cut down by the distributors for a US 'X' rating, removing all the explicit material during the sex scenes in the throne room (fellatio closeups), the forest (the lesbian orgy), and the spaceship (Flesh & Princess Amoura). It was then decided to cut it further for an R-rating for a wider audience (mainly swearing and sexual dialogue).

The footage cut for the 'X' rating no longer exists but the widescreen edits weren't made very well. Hence the hardcore snippets during the throne room orgy scenes. The DVD features the X-rated print.

The BBFC cut the film extremely heavily for cinema and then much more leniently for the badly cropped video. The UK widescreen DVD restores the video cuts and is the same as the US release (I have both), though curiously it doesn't seem to have been submitted to the BBFC.

"My god. It's some kind of penisaurus".

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by reaper72

I've a soft spot for Trancers.

i've always love Trancers.Tim Thomerson is one of my favourite actors who brings just the right amount of humour to the part of Jack Deth.I've even got a soft spot for all the Trancers movies....well,all apart fom that diabolical Trancers 6 Thomerson even reprised his role as JD in the movie Evil Bong in 2006.It's about time that a special edition of Trancers was considered.I believe MGM officially owns the rights and this year is the films 25th anniversary

[vincenzo]

Originally Posted by stevoj

Mine too.Pity he didn't do more.After seeing him in Doctor who the other week,I say get him back for Bond.20years since Licence To Kill and he's hardly changed at all.

Fully agree. Hard to believe he's 66 this year. OHMSS is my favourite Bond film but Licence To Kill is a very close second. Such a shame he never did more.

[pedromonkey]

no way is he nearly 66. he doesn't look any older than 50. I was glad to see him in Hot Fuzz too. Licence to kill is my fave bond film, followed by The living daylights.

[vincenzo]

I remember first noticing him in Centennial as the ill-fated English cattle rancher who marries Lynn Redgrave. He was the best Heathcliff I've ever seen in Wuthering Heights.

Check out The Rocketeer if you get chance. Dalton's performance is brilliant.