818 Devil Doll 819 Invasion Of The Neptune Men 820 Space Mutiny 821 Time Chasers 822 Overdrawn At The Memory Bank
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Agreed. So many things from the 70s & 80s filmed on video tape (especially BBC productions like Doctor Who) had this aesthetic that, while incredibly odd for the time, now feels almost nostalgic and most definitely unique.
This one is just great. Really. For a low-budget film inspired by Back to the Future, it honestly does it very well, and the more I watch it, the more the early 90s vibe really just pulls me in. And of course, it’s smack dab in the middle of the greatest 3-episode run there’s ever been. That said, the entire episode’s host segments are one of the all-time bests, from seeing Mike in the past working at the cheese factory (with Patrick Branseg as his “Dude” co-worker), to seeing the dark alternate future of his brother Eddie replacing him on the SOL (Michael J. Nelson is playing three different characters, two a variation on the same…THAT is acting, my friend), and even the wonderful touching moment of Mike and Pearl bonding in the Widowmaker…this is arguably the best of the Sci-Fi era and stands shoulder-to-shoulder with any era of episodes. We even got two Crows, giving us a bit of Murder with our Mystery Science Theater (and while Bill Corbett may have been a bit shakey at the beginning…who wouldn’t be when succeeding the all-time great Trace Beaulieu…he’s without a doubt made Crow all his own by now). A great episode alone or in the 3-episode run (and my OCD demands that I watch the last three together in order).
This one has become an absolute favorite. I used to watch the final three of season 8 back to back all the time thanks to sharing space on a tape, and even now I have to watch them in order every time. Despite the very low quality recording material and effects, Raul Julia’s unquestionable charm and talent shows through, and the story, while ridiculous, isn’t that hard to follow if you’re familair with The Matrix or Inception. Plus, there’s something to be said about a film partly produced by a public access station being watched by a show originating from a local tv station.
18:14 - kids ask “Who are you mister” - “Yeah what’s your name” and Crow answers a little after this image… “How about inefectual chicken headed bachelor?”
There’s something about Space Mutiny, and it’s more than just the endlessly quotable names for David Ryder or Reb Brown’s “enthusiastic” performance (I thank the Spoony Experiment for showcasing his other works of the 80s…many of which could be future episodes). Reb Brown has been in numerous “discount” knock-offs of popular movie trends of the 80s, but this one is something special considering it used actual footage from Battlestar Galactica for all space scenes (ironic given Lucas took the show to court), and this is just absolutely such a fun episode. I really can’t say anything more about it. If there’s anyone that doesn’t enjoy any part of this episode, I’ve yet to meet them.
The Money Shot (seriously, this should be the box cover for the Rhino VHS release)
This riff MAY be unintentionally ironic, as Reb Brown and Cissie Cameron have been married since 1979 and Reb agreed to do the film (which required traveling to South Africa) if his wife would play his love interest. Nepotism, perhaps (definitely not the only case of it in this film), but they actually do have really good chemistry together (look at some of the love interests in Brown’s other films around the time and they just don’t hold a candle).
1:19:35 - And I too grabbed the money shot, to see if I could get a little sharper definition (again, not meaning to step on any toes or be disrespectful of the effort put in capturing these things)
38:00 - around this time Crow quips (on the Peter Lorre imitator) … “What’s he trying to do, Jimmy Stewart, uh, James Cagney! No no no, wait, uh John Kenneth Galbraith, no no, Ram Dass, Terry Hulk Hogan maybe?”
