Starcrash (Roger Corman Cult Classics) Reviews

This movie was odd but I bought it because I love Roger Corman's products and this 2010 reissue is great. If I was a 10 year old boy I would have loved this movie a ton but now it's just one of those it's so bad it's good type films for me. I can get past the low budget effects, which are good at times, and the fact that it's a poor mans Star Wars, but what makes this movie bomb for me is the acting and overall pace. No one in the movie can act, and what's odd is some of the people in this movie can act in the other ones I've seen so why not this one? A perfect example is Joe Spinell. He was brilliant in Maniac but he sucks big time in this movie. The dialogue might be to blame and it is shitty overall... here was my favorite line:

"When the sun sets I will rule the Universe!"
Count Zarth Arn says that while he is in a Space Station in the middle of no where. What sun set!? LOL
Also, another stupid thing is how little the writers know about astronomy. Space ships apparently float in space instead of fly and I don't think I saw an engine blaze with fire during this whole movie. A Planet covered in ice drops "thousands of degrees once the sun sets." too. Thousands??? WTF? Arg, I could rip this movie apart for every frame but I still love it for some reason and I know that if I had a crappy budget to work with I couldn't make anything as half as good as this! Oh, and I should add that the soundtrack is actually good and I'd get it the first change I saw it!