What's your favorite low-budget sci-fi movie?

[kentauros]

Dark Star :D

(Doolittle convinces the bomb not to explode)

Doolittle: Hello, Bomb? Are you with me?
Bomb #20: Of course.
Doolittle: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?
Bomb #20: I am always receptive to suggestions.
Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: Well, of course I exist.
Doolittle: But how do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: It is intuitively obvious.
Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
Bomb #20: Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am.
Doolittle: That's good. That's very good. But how do you know that anything else exists?
Bomb #20: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun.

Arguing philosophy with a sentient planet-killing bomb
:rofl:

[redqueen]

1. Hah... that's the first one I thought of when I saw the subject line.

:D

[Dr. Strange]

3. Me too.

Let there be light.

[kentauros]

22. "It is time for Sgt. Pinback to feed the alien."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESQK98HbKBY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YTXnnQjC4&feature=related


:D

[pokerfan]

2. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005)

The future looks bleak for Captain Pirk. Originally from the far future, he traveled back to save the world, but was shipwrecked on the 21st century. The world of the past is a dangerous place and he is finding it difficult to convince the ladies he is, in fact, an intergalactic space hero from the future. To make things right Pirk comes up with a questionable plan to save mankind's future...

Read the http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472566/">imdb entry and http://www.starwreck.com/download.php">download it legally (and for free) here.

Runtime: 103 min
Language: Finnish (English subtitles)
Budget: €15,000
Resolution: 640x272
Codec: XviD

A Finnish-language Star Trek spoof has been viewed on the Internet more than three million times in less than two months, making it Finland's most-viewed movie ever, according to Reuters. The movie, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, presented free on www.starwreck.com, was created by a group of students, who used home computers to create the special effects. English subtitles are provided. One blog, p2pnet, which champions the cause of peer-to-peer systems users against Hollywood studios, ran this comment on the film: "If you haven't seen this spoof, do. It is on par with anything Hollydud puts out. Better it is free. It shows that you don't have to have tons of bucks to throw at making a movie to get a movie."

[kentauros]

9. Downloading one of the avi files now

though I don't understand how the separate English subtitles file works.

It looks funny though :D
How many times have you watched it? ;)

[pokerfan]

11. Couple of times

The version I downloaded last summer (364 MB AVI) came with subtitles. No way to turn them off or on.

Very funny movie. Knowledge of Star Trek helps. Knowledge of Babylon 5 is a bonus.

[kentauros]

18. I have knowledge of both.

I was just watching a couple of eps of Crusade, in the "revised broadcast order" by JMS :)

[pokerfan]

21. Then you will love Pirkinning

Pirk = Kirk (obviously)
Info = Data
Fukov = Chekov
Maggot hole = worm hole
twinkler = phaser
twist = warp

and so on... :rofl:

I was unfamiliar with Finnish so this film was rather cool from that perspective. A rather pretty language.

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From wiki:

A lot of the word-level humour is based on humorous mistranslation. For most of the Star Trek and science fiction terminology there exists corresponding terminology in Finnish, due to the large amount of science fiction and Star Trek that has been translated to Finnish. Star Wreck takes these established translations and twists them: for example, a phaser is conventionally translated as vaiheinen ("that which has phases"), while the Wreck equivalent is tuikutin (literally, "a thing that can cause twinkling"). Similarly, warp is conventionally translated as poimu ("tuck", especially of a garment), while Wreck uses kieroutuminen (literally, "twisting" or "becoming perverse," depending on the intended meaning).

These mistranslation puns are impossible to translate to English effectively, though the English subtitles do try to create different puns (twinkler instead of phaser, twist for warp, etc). Likewise, "photon torpedoes" have become simply "light balls", and wormhole a "maggot hole". Emperor Pirk himself has apparently a bad understanding of various words, such as using "resorts" for "resources": the original Finnish wording uses "resorit", meaning "sleeve ends" instead of correct "resurssit".

The case of Mikhail Garybrandy is a prime example of an untranslatable spoof. The Finnish name of the character is Mihail Karigrandi, which is a reference to a fictional character Kari Grandi (played by Eeki Mantere), whose adventures for the good of thirsty people (bringing them the Grandi-brand juice to drink) were depicted in a long-running Finnish TV commercial series. The tagline of the commercials, "Kari Grandi, kaikkien janoisten sankari, aikamme legenda" ("Kari Grandi, the hero of all who are thirsty, a legend in our time") was paraphrased by Garybrandy in his line "Olenhan kaikkien janoisten sankari... aikamme legenda" (roughly, "After all, I am the hero of all who are thirsty... a legend in our time") spoken near the end of the movie. This is funny also because Garibaldi was an alcoholic and Garybrandy takes to drink again in the movie, and drinking is often glorified in the Finnish (male) culture. The words "hero" and "legend" are very often used in relation to drinking alcohol; "hero" is used sarcastically to mean a bungler or anti-hero (often used in a friendly male bonding fashion) and "legend" refers to all kinds of (spectacularly) goofy things people do when under the influence, or the said people.

[kentauros]

24. lol! I may be watching this tonight!

:rofl:

Okay, now we have to find a way of getting "kieroutuminen" into all the pev-threads :P

[tigereye]

4. Plan 9 from Outer Space, then The Blob and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

[kentauros]

26. Which version of The Blob...?

Did you know Burt Bacharach wrote the lyrics to the opening music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCtcgI4BcIQ

Plan 9 - MST3K :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIRPV8jqoNo

[tigereye]

30. the older one of course....

remakes of these types of things are usually horrible...

[sarcasmo]

5. Flash Gordon.

[kentauros]

6. Great Soundtrack!

And it stars Timothy Dalton, John Rhys Davies, and Max von Sydow :D

[sarcasmo]

7. Excellent soundtrack from Queen, actually saw it in the theater, LOL.

[pokerfan]

13. Fun movie

but is $35M in 1980 considered low budget? :shrug:

[kentauros]

19. No, but it's so campy

it's like an homage to low-budget, especially the original Flash Gordon serials.

[lutefisk]

8. Liquid Sky

Here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9-n9gpFVpk&feature=related

[redqueen]

12. Wow.

I don't run into many other people who've seen that one. I hope that's the clip where she says 'be nice'. :)

[kentauros]

16. I saw it in the theater when it came out.

At the time, I hated it.
Maybe I'll give it another chance ;)

[lutefisk]

23. I haven't seen it since the 80s (VHS tape), but maybe I'll watch again, too

I took a look at the reviews on Amazon and other sites and now people really like this movie - apparently it's become a "cult classic". I wonder what the writer/actress Anne Carlisle is doing now?

[CatholicEdHead]

10. SciFi Channel's miniseries of Dune

[pokerfan]

14. Primer (2004)

Budget: $7,000

Won two awards at Sundance.

[redqueen]

15. Love that one.

I think I've finally got it now, after seeing it three times. :P

[no name no slogan]

17. "The Final Sacrifice"

(as viewed by Mystery Science Theater 3000, in Ep# 910).

That movie brought us Zap Rowsdower, Canada's answer to Chuck Norris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4L2lwQiAkA

[Fenris]

20. And the kid whose dad looked like Larry Csonka!

:D

[no name no slogan]

28. Yes! You know that one!

"If you see anything in there with Larry Czonka on it, get it, I'll PAY for it!"

[csziggy]

25. Either "Zone Troopers" or "When Time Expires"

Both are low budget, with good plots and decent acting. Neither are the standard scifi crap but have some neat twists and humor.

[kentauros]

35. There are some clips of "When Time Expires" on youtube

and it did look pretty good. Good acting and script, and seemed like a good time-travel plot. It's nice to see Mark Hamill in a live-action role, though he is a wonderful voice-actor, too :)

[ThoughtCriminal]

27. All of them

OK, not really, but almost everything that was ever on MST3K amuses me.

For serious ultra-low budget sci-fi films ($7000), I found "Primer" (2004) to be interesting, but I can't claim that I was able to follow all of the paradoxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

[Kali]

29. You picked it.

20 years with no toilet paper:rofl:

[kentauros]

34. lol!

I forgot about that part :rofl:

Ever seen Dark Star in the theater?
Oh, and O'Bannon wrote the first "Alien" movie, too ;)

[Kali]

38. and the song - Benson, Arizona?

that is where I do most of my business, and my kids all went to school.

[rcrush]

31. Titanic

[libodem]

32. Amazon Women on the Moon

[ghostsofgiants]

33. The American Astronaut.

Brilliant space western musical comedy.

[Stevenmarc]

36. Queen of Outer Space

Any sci-fi with Zsa Zsa Gabor has to be in the top 10

[martymar64]

37. Aftershocks, but only because I was in it

I had two roles as an extra.