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Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby strider3700 » Mon 11 May 2009, 01:40:18

For the past few years I've been hunting for a movie that I saw on superchannel sometime in the early to mid 80's. I would have been 5-10 years old and remember almost nothing about it except for two scenes kinda.

It's probably some crappy conan rip off since there was tons of them during that era but anyways here's all that I remember. There is a throne that has a snake in the top behind a little door. It comes shooting out and of course scared the crap out of me way back when. At the end of the movie I think the entire castle has sunk into a swamp and the throne bubbles back to the surface and the little door opens and the skeleton of the snake comes shooting out.

I've been killing brain cells watching tons of different crap movies from that era but haven't been able to find this yet. Does anyone remember this at all?
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Re: Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby TheDude » Mon 11 May 2009, 01:53:54

Was it one of those crappy Ator movies?

Try parsing through Badmovies .org. Pics on every page and maybe your hunk of junk is in there.
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Re: Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby strider3700 » Mon 11 May 2009, 02:02:42

my god, blade master was a sequel? Well now I have to get it just incase
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Re: Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby Plantagenet » Mon 11 May 2009, 12:17:19

The throne with the snake you describe sounds either like Skeletor's throne or like the outhouse at pstarr's doomstead.

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Re: Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby strider3700 » Mon 11 May 2009, 12:24:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 's')o does that mean this thread is over?



I don't know. It's not like any of the Ator movies are going to be easy to locate for me to actually watch and verify. For once bittorrent is letting me down and I can't find any of them at the moment. I'm almost certain I've seen blademaster at least once before. I recognize the box art at least.

Tonight I've got deathstalker and the sword and the sorceress to watch assuming they are both downloaded by then. It should be painful.
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Re: Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby TheDude » Mon 11 May 2009, 12:47:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 's')o does that mean this thread is over?

oh good :razz:

edit: Sorry for the snarky strider3700. I couldn't help it as I had just returned from a painful experience--the new Star Trek--and I was feeling anti-'bad' sci-fi.


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MST3K did both Deathstalker and one of the Ators, under the name Cave Dwellers. Don't recall your snake in either however. Hard to judge which was more stupid.

This is crucial work we're doing. :arrow:

Maybe PM Specop, he's a reformed D&Der among sundry other nerdy pastimes.
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Re: Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby TWilliam » Tue 12 May 2009, 20:20:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'M')aybe if I had donned my tinfoil 4-D glasses I would have enjoyed it more. (an extra visual dimension always adds an extra dimension to overworked franchises). :twisted:

Boy, nothin' like success to piss off the won't-bees... :P

Fortunately it appears you're among an exceedingly small minority in this case pstarr. I saw it Sunday, and as one born and raised on ST from the original series onward (I saw the original broadcasts as a child, and no, I don't consider myself a Trekkie/Trekker; I've never been to a convention, have never dressed as any character for Halloween or any other occasion and have never engaged in any ST related role play), I can say with some authority that J.J. Abrams, along with an excellent cast, has done a first rate job of re-inventing and re-invigorating what are likely the most iconic figures in all of fiction's history. Apparently the critics agree, as it's earned a 95% at Rotten Tomatoes, a fairly rare feat. Titanic only managed an 82. Wolverine got a 36... :lol:
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Re: Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby TWilliam » Tue 12 May 2009, 21:18:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'W')e were expecting big crowds at the 10:00 pm show. Practically no one showed but three Arcata stoners. They still managed to sit right directly behind me in an nearly empty theater, and emit low-pitched 'whoas' 'kewls' and giggles the entire time.
This surprises you in the Grow Capital of the country? Even phasers take awhile to penetrate that fog... :lol:

(Speaking of which, have you seen the film Humboldt County? It was better than I expected... )

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') loved the mean snow lizard but I couldn't help but ask myself 'what is a naked, scaly, obviously cold-blooded creature doing in the frozen north?'
So you're a xenobiologist now? :roll:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Or. 'if they can beam matter across the universe at faster than light speeds,' why do they need an space elevator to drill a hole in the planet's surface?'
Presumably because 'red matter' would interact negatively with a transporter beam. Additionally, I don't recall that transporter technology in general has the capability of transporting through large planetary bodies. I do seem to recall that even in the later canon it was still necessary to use planetside 'amplifiers' to be able to transport to or from anything beyond relatively minor surface depth.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'o')r a parachute to reach it?
Guess you missed the fact that the drill produced a communication and transporter disruption field...

Anyway, there's this little thing known as 'suspension of disbelief' which one is expected to employ when confronted by such minor details. For example we all know that sound does not transmit through the vacuum of space, yet it has been accepted artistic license for years to include the sounds of weapons fire, ship propulsion, planet explosions etc. in virtually all 'space opera', simply because it would be exceedingly dull to watch a film without them.
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Re: Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby strider3700 » Wed 13 May 2009, 13:58:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '
')Anyway, there's this little thing known as 'suspension of disbelief' which one is expected to employ when confronted by such minor details. For example we all know that sound does not transmit through the vacuum of space, yet it has been accepted artistic license for years to include the sounds of weapons fire, ship propulsion, planet explosions etc. in virtually all 'space opera', simply because it would be exceedingly dull to watch a film without them.


True but in the opening sequence as soon as you got outside the ship everything went silent. Same happened with the dive on to the platform. At first all you heard was their breathing then as they got into the atmosphere wind noise picked up.

Overall I have to say that movie was great. The story didn't suck, the action was entertaining and the effects although amazing didn't exist just for the sake of effects. I'm thinking of taking my wife who isn't a fan of sci-fi and I figure she'll enjoy it as well.

Back to my original topic, I've dragged through a couple more movies and still haven't found the correct movie. These things suck so bad It's almost better to not know the answer.
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Re: Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby Madpaddy » Wed 13 May 2009, 18:37:54

The new trek movie rocked. However as a Trekkie nerd I was incensed at the beaming onto a starship travelling at warp from a planet light years behind bit. To the best of my knowledge that was a feat beyond even Georgie La Forge in TNG series.

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Re: Can anyone name this movie?

Unread postby TWilliam » Thu 14 May 2009, 01:20:59

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', 'T')he new trek movie rocked. However as a Trekkie nerd I was incensed at the beaming onto a starship travelling at warp from a planet light years behind bit. To the best of my knowledge that was a feat beyond even Georgie La Forge in TNG series.

Yea I kinda wondered about that bit too. I can't honestly recall if trans-warp beaming was a capability by the time of the later series' or not. I seem to vaguely recall it being done in at least one Voyager episode, but I never saw much of that series so I'm not sure, nor did I catch much of DS9 beyond about the second season. TNG has been so long ago that I don't recall whether it was done in that series at all.

I just decided that either it was a capability Scotty did in fact develop (he'd be the most likely candidate to do so I should think) and I just don't remember, or this was an event similar to the time in The Voyage Home when Scotty helps the engineer at that manufacturing plant 'discover' transparent aluminum in order to make the whale holding tank.

[Update: Just for giggles I took a look at the Star Trek wiki Memory Alpha, and they have it as canon that Scott did in fact discover the formulas for trans-warp teleport 'sometime before 2387', following his rescue from the USS Jenolan's transport buffer by Picard and crew in 2369 as depicted in TNG episode 'Relics'... ]
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