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Okay, I've got one that no one has mentioned.
Space Truckers.
Without clicking the link, just imagine what it might be.
Got it pictured?
Yes. It is exactly what you imagined.
It's Star Wars and Space Balls splashed across Trucker stereotypes. It's affordably made, except when it's trying to be gross - when no expense is spared.
But somehow it's also... just all around...good? It's good. I can't explain it. But... it's just... a pretty good movie.
The characters are relatable. The acting is professional and effective. It's easy to root for the main cast, and against the badguys. All the story beats land where and how they should.
I want to see someone do one of those high minded film making analysis on "Space Truckers", because I suspect it is better on every level than it has any right to be.
Freaky! For the most part, name a movie, any movie, and I haven't seen it. But I'm one of the few people who saw Space Truckers in a theater. Stuart Gordon went to school here, so he had screening of the film at the student union, followed by a Q&A session, back in '96.
Yes, it was a hoot! Gordon was a founder of an experimental theater company here which has the improv mentality of treating goofy ideas seriously and just going with them. That sensibility shows through in the movie, for sure.
Wow! That's so cool.
Gordon's mastery of film absolutely shows through, in spite of the... Everything.
Watching Space Truckers was, for me, surreal like leaning over to look at a drawing on someone's refrigerator, only to gradually realize that it's a Picasso or a Rembrandt, just from their "crayon" phase.
Space Truckers still absolutely is what it says on the movie cover, just executed with a surprising mastery that even a casual movie fan like me couldn't miss.
Watching it the first time was such a delightful surprise.
Square hogs! Yeah, it's fair to say I loved this one from the start.
Square hogs! The square hogs are one of my all time favorite movie details. They're so goofy, but still enhance the world building.
I like me some square pigs.