Laserblast

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I just can't help it...........2007-07-13

...I like this movie! Yes, it's cheesy. The producers tried to jump on the Star Wars/sci-fi bandwagon of the late 70s, but this film is chock full of bad acting, it has a very weak story, the pacing is very slow, etc., but for some reason, it just draws me in. The only decent thing about the movie is the stop-motion animation of the aliens. It's also a great look at the 70s lifestyle (I was just a kid back then, but I still remember the way things were).

This movie is definitely a guilty pleasure for me, but probably something most people will strongly dislike.

The Aliens are cool.......2007-06-22

I won't say much here because it's all been said already. I will say that the Aliens look cool and I like the weapon that the kid finds.

If you are a person that enjoys smoking dope or getting drunk while watching a movie then you won't go wrong with this choice.

the good cheese ........2006-12-31

Two, E.T. on steroids looking aliens, chase down a humanoid alien -green skin ,no eyebrows- in the desert and vaporize him . leaving only his laser gun and pendant . Billy is a lonely kid in a small desert town .he gets bullied a lot. One day he finds the laser gun and pendant and starts, unconsciously, using them for revenge .the aliens are alerted and return to clean up the mess.

First saw it on tv when I was a teenager .yse it is cheesey. for low budget reasons.but it still respects its self .the way the film represents the stop motion aliens as galactic police or bounty hunters, instead of the usual human devouring monsters . and giving them dialogue scenes , with weird language , without a subtitle gave this film it's cult status . not forgetting kim milford ape like mayhem performance and the eerie sound effects .

The film surprisingly has some familiar faces. like roddy mcdowall - fright night- eddie deezen - midnight madness- and dennis burkley- the doors-

This is not a blockbuster, big budget sci-fi movie . this is a cheesey , so bad it's good movie . good for laughs on halloween .

Lame, Bad, Horrible... .......2006-07-07

I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid and came accross it on Amazon a couple weeks ago. I decided to buy it and rekindle some of the old movie experiences I had. First of all the quality transfer to DVD is BAD. Looks like someone was in the theater with a video camera ( can see the little blips on the upper right hand side to change the reel ). The story, acting and basically everthing else about this movie is bad. dont waste your time.....

Never Disappointing.......2006-04-03

Saw this originally on cable in the early HBO days, several times and it always stayed with me. The aliens with their little Nazi take-off saluting their leader, cute aliens, kind of endearing. You get the feeling they felt quite justified every time they shot down another earthling who happened upon their casually leftover armnaments without asking the question of whether they shared any culpability for leaving these things behind. Entrapment anyone?This movie is about people. it is slow and so are most of those who inhabit the film which makes this a great escape from the paranoid times we live in today. It is simple and it is real, the feelings, the music even, the 70's as the perfect backdrop for this. It creates a whole lot of nostalgia for many reasons just to watch the slow pacing and basic human elements and lack of discrimination and realize that it is not boring, that maybe we don't need a security guard around every corner or intermittent warnings about the color of security from Fox News.None of that exists here, just simple people doing simple things with some intervention from some cute aliens with nasty weaponry who play on the angst of one kid who falls for it but even then doesn't go on much of a spree until the end when we have absorbed the strangely compelling enactments of various forms of pathos enough to be ready to head to the obvious back set upon which the end occurs which somehow matches the action regardless.Why didn't Billy dissolve like the last guy? Well, it would have been kind of messy for his girlfriend to pour over him. Why did they leave the weapon behind? Maybe Billy just needed a way to measure his anger. However, it seemed like the device took over his mind as it did his physiology so was that even really him?Somehow there is something innocuous about this film and maybe a couple of nerdy antagonists in a 62 Buick convert and cops eating and smoking weed and other dubious plot elements just allow the story of angst in the desert in the 70's to play itself out. I could never tire of this strange little film.

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