I don't think we've ever had a night where a significant portion of each movie takes place in space. So here we are on our 430ish movie with our first extraterrestrial sci-fi night. That means we'll hear names like Xarbia, Xur and Xandoxan. Oh, X, you're so xenophabulous.
You know The Last Starfighter. It was on HBO right after The Boy Who Could Fly. Which are by the same director incidentally. His name is Nick Castle and he was Michael Myers for most of Halloween.
Scary. He also directed Major Payne.
Huh, interesting.
Catherine Mary Stewart from Night of the Comet and The Apple is in The Last Starfighter. Wil Wheaton was all but cut out of The Last Starfighter but here the two are interacting in a scene:
Because I don't understand depth perception. Poor, tiny Wil Wheaton.
Forbidden World is not Forbidden Planet with Leslie Nielsen.
It's not Fantastic Planet, that weird cartoon we watched.
And it's not Galaxy of Terror. I'm not the only one to confuse the two, Forbidden World is often mistaken as a sequel to Galaxy of Terror, maybe because they share some of the same James Cameron-built sets.
Here's what happened last week:
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