Because You Watched Starcrash

Welcome to Season 2 of Because You Watched (woooosh!) Starcrash ! This is the Superhero Season, where the Intrepid Explorers Mike Vanderpool, Allen Berres,  and Michael “Clinker” Clink watch some classic and not-so-classic superhero movies. In this episode, they cover Zorro: The Gay Blade, and discuss if wearing a gold, shiny outfit and having a name like Bunny Wigglesworth are qualifications...

"Dinosaurs died out because they forgot how to love each other." Welcome back to another episode of Because You Watched (woooosh!) Starcrash ! This episode focuses on the movie Pumaman, and really shows us the value of a good soundtrack. There were no “WTF” moments in this episode, but never fear, for the Intrepid Explorers Mike Vanderpool, Michael “Clinker” Clink and Allen Berres lead us to the e...

Welcome to Because You Watched Starcrash! In today’s episode, the intrepid explorers Mike Vanderpool, Allen Berres and Michael “Clinker” Clink reflect on their experience watching the 1980’s movie Flash Gordon. They summarize the movie, recall their trademark “WTF” moments, favorite quotes, and all the other weirdness. Mentioned in this episode: Community Pulp Fiction Jennifer Connelly  Veloc...

"Your suffering will be short. Mine? Forever." Welcome to Season 2 of Because You Watched (woooosh!) Starcrash ! This is the Superhero Season, where the Intrepid Explorers Mike Vanderpool, Allen Berres,  and Michael “Clinker” Clink watch some classic and not-so-classic superhero movies. In this season we see the return of some of our favorite segments including their trademark “WTF Moments,”...

Show Notes

“Before you pay for your sins, you’ll watch this!” There’s no escape from Starcrash as the distinguished professors go back for one more helping of sci-fi insanity, subjecting themselves to Starcrash 2 , the completely unauthorized Italian knock-off sequel that, appropriate to type, has absolutely nothing to do with Starcrash except for ripping off some of its space footage in true Battle Beyond t...

“The village idiot and the two runners-up?” Your favorite village idiot and the two runners-up decide to cover the entire Deathstalker franchise in one sitting, and not even the return of Jim Wynorski’s work can save them. Topics include our new big boy recording setup, a recap of the season so far, Conan rip-offs, that guy being dragged behind the horse and the scrawny gladiator who keep appearin...

“I’ll see you at the other side of this thing, space brother.” The distinguished Space Brothers face off against their greatest challenge – the pile of galactic excrement called Galaxy Lords . Topics include yet another gratuitous reference to Back to the Future , trying to figure out exactly what GL is paying homage to, Goethe’s rules of criticism, repeated violations of the conventions of filmma...

“We never do laundry.” The distinguished professors discuss Space Raiders , another Roger Corman production that rips off space footage (and theme music) from the apparently immortal Battle Beyond the Stars. Topics include the failure of the space sex worker sight gag, the space western as a genre, viewer identification with the kid and this movie’s intended audience, comparisons to Cloak and Dagg...

“We must have sinned something terrible.” Well, we lost the recording of our episode where we talked about The New Barbarians/ Warriors of the Wasteland, and we didn’t like it enough to re-record it, so now the distinguished professors move on to discuss British stage play-to-film adaption Devil Girl from Mars! Topics include the problems of converting a play to a movie, Dr. Berres’s pledge to pla...

“That’s about the stupidest idea I’ve heard all day.” The distinguished professors discuss the Roger Corman-produced Alien-knockoff The Dingwhopper – oops, it’s actually called Forbidden World. Topics include the magic of Jim Wynorski, the dingwhopper’s unfortunate resemblance to Audrey II, competent set design and lighting, the ubiquity of footage from Battle Beyond the Stars, the patience of Ali...

“We call it a fundamental design constraint.” The distinguished professors discuss the Dorothy Stratton vehicle Galaxina and Sci Fi Channel airtime-filler The Cold Equations. Topics include the Star Wars title crawl done wrong, what makes parody fail, an attempt at explaining Galaxina’s overly complicated plot, why Galaxina is called Galaxina, the proper mood for bad movies, the hidden dumbness of...

“Imperial battleship, HALT THE FLOW OF TIME!” The distinguished professors discuss the origins and scope of season 1 of the podcast. We start with our beloved Star Wars-derivative Starcrash and discuss where we think the filmmakers decided to steal their ideas, their intended level of seriousness, multicolored stars in comic books, the problems posed by time stopping and time reversal, Stella Star...