...while it's still up.

Um, what exactly? :unsure:

Click on "it's."... The songs aren't a bad way to waste an hour. My favorites are Woodcarver Steiner, Turkish Star Wars, The Yeti and Speed. The last two of those being among the most ridiculous songs I have ever heard.

Thanks a million, Lance! I've wanted that MEGAFORCE theme forever!

MEGAFORCE has one of the worst film scores I've ever heard. But wouldn't I like to have it on CD?

For that matter, when Fox putting this movie out on DVD? Maybe as part of a Hal Needham Director's Collection? With commentary by Needham and Barry Bostwick. I think Fox would need 2 discs to do MEGAFORCE justice.

Well, I saw the film when it played in theaters. And that soundtrack in a giant theater is...well...golden. :) That's along with Steel Dawn, Yor, and every other crazy cult film you can think of. My dad had radar for films that would only be in our local theater for three days. He's the greatest!

I can just imagine how crazy I could drive the neighbours should this soundtrack see the light of day! :D I always thought this film was 2:35:1, but the Japanese dvd is around the 1:77:1/1:85:1 ratio. I'd appreciate it if Linn could verify if this was how it was presented in theaters?

Linn, I am envious! I do remember seeing the TV spots for this as a kid.
I was lucky enough to see Yor on a huge drive-in screen as a double feature with THE TOY.

BTW, Linn, sorry for spelling your name wrong over at the Shaw thread, I have a friend that uses that spelling, and it just went out without a thought.... :rolleyes:

I'm partial to (20. Mistress of the Apes - Ape Lady) & (21. Mistress of the Apes - Ape Mama)... now THERE's a movie I gotta see.

APE MAMA sounds like a track that was cut from TOMMY!

(Possible spoilers)

MEGAFORCE...is that the movie that ends with the hero (I presume Barry Bostwick) narrowly escaping the bad guys on a flying motorcycle? If so I recall watching the last few minutes of this in the mid-eighties when I was a kid and thinking it looked brilliant! (I also remember my father laughing out loud at the unintentional hilarity on display). Along with BATTLETRUCK which I also caught the final minutes of, MEGAFORCE is one of those films from my childhood that I wanted to see in full for many years but somehow I doubt either film would have the same effect on me these days.

I've been waiting more than 20 years to see BATTLETRUCK. I read a big article in STARLOG on it when it was titled WARLORDS OF THE 21ST CENTURY. It certainly did not play here in Champaign-Urbana. Did it ever even play on home video? I've never seen it in a video store either.

MEGAFORCE IS brilliant, Chris. I swear it! :rolleyes:
Even the <cough> <cough>soundtrack is brilliant.

Wow. WARLORDS OF THE 21ST CENTURY also stars Micheal Beck, I used to rent this quite abit up here in Canada, when I was a wee lad, I think the video label was Embassy Home Video. I would assume it was also available in the US.

Pretty decent film, from what I can remember. Micheal has a little shack out in the forest, and keeps chickens for their poop to provide him with fuel for his bike....
really. Much less flashy than MEGAFORCE, as their are no big special effects set pieces to speak of. The vhs cover made it look more futuristic than the actual movie was.

To complete the nostalgia experience, you should grab a copy of an Atari emulator and hunt down the ROM for the old MEGAFORCE Atari 2600 game :)

I recall it being better than the awful, awful ET Atari videogame. If my fading memory serves, the RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK game wasn't too bad. There was a KRULL game, but I can't remember if it was any good.

Of course, for ultimate 80s cheese, nothing tops the JOURNEY (the band) video game :ph43r:

I saw Warriors of the 21st Century in the theater back in the day. I remember enjoying it quite a bit, although my tastes may have sophisticated in the years since... And, yes, I've regressed a bit in recent years, to my great delight, but probably not to the point of enjoying everything I thought was cool when I was 11.

Here you go, Marty.

Speaking of Hal Needham, did anybody see the recent episode of MY NAME WAS EARL in which Randy wants to get to the county fair to see the car from SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT but never makes it... so Earl rents out the car for the day and lets him be the Bandit? The episode ended with outtakes, in true Needham fashion.

I saw BATTLETRUCK several times back in the day; sad waste of Bruno Lawrence.

Heck, yeah. I'm still jealous.

Jason Lee is a big Burt Reynolds fan, so a SMOKEY reference was inevitable.

Thanks again for the link, Bill. I have now accomplished that dream of more than two decades and finally viewed WARLORDS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY aka BATTLETRUCK. And...eh, it's not that great, is it? It's basically the exact same movie as THE ROAD WARRIOR, but with less money, less action, and a lame star. Actually, Harley Cokliss' action scenes are pretty good (Buddy Joe Hooker was the 2nd unit director), but in no way match George Miller's. The "battletruck" is cool, but Michael Beck, who sank in MEGAFORCE, XANADU and this, is a void.

Lee Tamahori was the boom operator.