Galaxina (1980) and The Cold Equation (1996) - Because You Watched Starcrash

<p><strong>“We call it a fundamental design constraint.”</strong></p> <p>The distinguished professors discuss the Dorothy Stratton vehicle Galaxina and Sci Fi Channel airtime-filler The Cold Equations. Topics include the Star Wars title crawl done wrong, what makes parody fail, an attempt at explaining Galaxina’s overly complicated plot, why Galaxina is called Galaxina, the proper mood for bad movies, the hidden dumbness of the ethical conundrum at the core of The Cold Equations, the centrality of snow to Hallmark Channel movies, the damage caused by relying too much on dialogue to establish plot, the budget-friendliness of the bottle episode, The Cold Equations as a potential play, really bad nineties TV CGI, the addition of a corporate bad guy to The Cold Equations, the necessity of taking time to establish psychological tension between characters, violations of the 180-degree rule, the epithet “space honkey,” whether some of these movies would be better if they had been shot in the 1950s or 1960s, the Batmobile, and the smoldering competence of Dorothy Stratton.</p> <p>Things we mention:</p> <ul> <li>Star Wars</li> <li>Star Trek</li> <li>2001 Space Odyssey</li> <li>Aliens</li> <li>12 Angry Men</li> <li>Iron Man 2</li> <li>Thor 2</li> <li>The Original Batmobile</li> <li>Italian Spiderman</li> </ul> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/because-you-watched/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/because-you-watched/support</a>