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Starship

  • 1984
  • PG
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
3.3/10
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Starship (1984)
Sci-Fi

Things are not going well on the mining planet Ordessa: the conditions are awful, the workers are disgruntled and the management is cracking down by using killer security robots. Only the un... Read allThings are not going well on the mining planet Ordessa: the conditions are awful, the workers are disgruntled and the management is cracking down by using killer security robots. Only the underground resistance movement, led by Lorca, has a chance of turning around the brutal reg... Read allThings are not going well on the mining planet Ordessa: the conditions are awful, the workers are disgruntled and the management is cracking down by using killer security robots. Only the underground resistance movement, led by Lorca, has a chance of turning around the brutal regime, but the management has hired Danny the bounty hunter to track down him and his follow... Read all

  • Director
    • Roger Christian
  • Writers
    • Roger Christian
    • Matthew Jacobs
  • Stars
    • John Tarrant
    • Donogh Rees
    • Deep Roy
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    3.3/10
    401
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Roger Christian
    • Writers
      • Roger Christian
      • Matthew Jacobs
    • Stars
      • John Tarrant
      • Donogh Rees
      • Deep Roy
    • 15User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    John Tarrant
    • Lorca
    Donogh Rees
    Donogh Rees
    • Abbie
    Deep Roy
    Deep Roy
    • Grid
    Ralph Cotterill
    Ralph Cotterill
    • Jowitt
    Hugh Keays-Byrne
    Hugh Keays-Byrne
    • Danny
    Cassandra Webb
    • Suzi
    Tyler Coppin
    Tyler Coppin
    • Detective Droid
    James Steele
    • M.P. Droid
    Joy Smithers
    Joy Smithers
    • Lena
    Arky Michael
    Arky Michael
    • Dylan
    John Rees
    • Priest
    Peter Morris
    • Soufie
    Arthur Sherman
    • Controller
    Rod Zuanic
    Rod Zuanic
    • Lorca's Friend
    Rebekah Elmaloglou
    Rebekah Elmaloglou
    • Little Girl
    Ben Philips
    • School Child
    Holly Robinson
    • School Child
    Adam Cockburn
    • School Child
    • Director
      • Roger Christian
    • Writers
      • Roger Christian
      • Matthew Jacobs
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    GURNEYRAMPART

    interesting visuals don't help a problem plagued movie

    STARSHIP is touted in the tagline as a "warp speed adventure". Instead of being anything like an adventure this film throws great visuals at the audience and absolutely no story. STARSHIP is weird and disappointing, and not worth viewing or effort it takes to thrust it in a VHS deck.
    3silentcheesedude

    Starcrap

    Yow, I remember this movie when it came out in the 80's. There I was, with a bunch of friends, I was about 15, popcorn in hand, expecting to see a great sci-fi movie at the theater.

    We were all disappointed. The plot was totally unoriginal, the b-grade acting & the special effects were a let down. The masks they used for the bots were ugly, and the ship designs were bad. 18 years later, they stick in my head like a bad, umm, movie.

    The whole underground resistance idea could have worked if they put more idea and thought into the story line and had somewhat of an interesting dialogue, but there is none worth remembering. To be fair, the movie is probably better then some of the garbage that we see today that passes as sci-fi, but that's not saying much.

    3 out of 10
    1duaneshouseofpizza

    Ummm....what? Come again?

    This movie is pointless...some of my friends and I had a Crappy sci-fi movie party and this was by far the worst. I looked amazing on the package. But it is possibly the most boring thing I have ever witnessed in my entire life...

    It made me Physically Ill having to sit though this after ten hours of other horrid Sci-Fi trash such as Abraxas and Star Crash.

    There was huge mining trucks...and weird robots wearing football helmets wielding M-16s that I called OJ Simpson robots. But this was just the most lifeless and horrid drivel in the world.

    This is actually, the worst movie I have ever seen...no exageration...by far the worst.
    1aaronmocksing1987

    Let's make sure we don't have this future.

    This is the third movie I have rented tonight with the word 'Star' in it. However, it isn't 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek', 'The Last STARfighter', or even 'Star Kid.' This movie was made 'down under' and we can expect no less from foreign movies. Like 'Star Crash' before it and 'Star Knight', we have a movie that wants to be so many things we Americans made but simply could not do. And, like everything else, it comes out so dirty it should be condemned in the laundry pile to be burned completely. I'm sorry, folks, this sucked hard.

    The back of the box mentioned and stole a few words from the Star Wars common terminology and compared itself to the likes of Blade Runner, which wouldn't make a whole lot of sense. The 'droids' here are simply people with jumpsuits, aluminum guns and creepy Chinese/Buddhist masks - and more often than not, these are midgets. With someone whose name is 'Deep Roy', which is really downright hilarious (especially the name typo - Kid? Grid? Fail.), this is pretty bad. The 'storm troopers' are all poorly designs animatronics which look like something a child did for a science project out of whatever was in a junkyard.

    The music goes on to copy, blatantly, the same motifs as Last Starfighter - and blatantly rips most of Luke's battles in Tattooine from the first movie. The villain even looks like Darth Vader! Gah, originality must be pretty hard to find, is it? Jesus Christ on a stick.

    None of the movies I have seen so far are recommended. It's a proved fact you'll ignore most of them for private time on the computer or with a loved one rather than pay attention.
    3phionexkb

    World could be interesting, story is boring.

    Very boring star wars clone, but there is something to be said about a universe where FTL travel is a thing, but we use boring 20th century stuff on the colonies. That and the fact the robots have people faces definitely says something interesting about their world. The movie ain't gonna say it though.

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    • Trivia
      This film makes an appearance on Red Letter media Best of the Worst: Blindfold Picks.
    • Goofs
      At the end of the movie Lorca escapes with Grid and his female companion to Earth, they receive a radio message from the workers resistance, that they won, and they need a "transport out of here" but they simply seem to ignore it. leaving their comrades behind.
    • Crazy credits
      Deep Roy's character is called "Kid" in the end credits, even though he is clearly called "Grid" in the dialogue.
    • Alternate versions
      The American release of the film is substantially different to the international version - over 10 minutes of footage have been removed, with sequences re-scored, and Grid's voice is dubbed from a heavy Japanese accent to a British one.
    • Connections
      Featured in Best of the Worst: Blindfold Picks! (2022)
    • Soundtracks
      The Lion Of Symmetry
      Written by Toyah Willcox and Tony Banks

      Performed by Toyah Willcox

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    • Release date
      • December 14, 1984 (Australia)
    • Countries of origin
      • Australia
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Lorca and the Outlaws
    • Filming locations
      • New South Wales, Australia
    • Production companies
      • VTC
      • Associated-Rediffusion Television
      • Lorca Film Production
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 24m(84 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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