The Ice Pirates (1984) - Because You Watched Starcrash

<p>“I hope no one minds, but I have no intention of facing this sober.”</p> <p>The Distinguished Professors engage in some Errol Flynn-style hijinks and privateering in search of the solidified state of water with the 1984 movie <em>The</em> <em>Ice Pirates</em>! Topics covered include a water as a post-apocalypse MacGuffin yet again, the star-studded cast, the questionable PG status of this movie, comparison with <em>Princess Bride</em> and a connection to <em>Jason and the Argonauts</em>, fairly broad comedy, MIT’s space piracy program, the slow start, the B-movie omnipresence of late-stage John Carradine, parallels with the overly busy plot of <em>Galaxina</em>, Earth as the end of the quest, the weakness of the Rock’ Em Sock’ Em-looking robots, an uncomfortable moment for pirate HR, a time-displaced Tesla bike, another sci-fi appearance of the vagina dentata, parallel with <em>Deathstalker 2</em>’s LOL-less humor, a jive-talking pimp robot, a fairly diverse 80s sci-fi cast, comparison with <em>Space Raiders</em>, the aptness of the swashbuckling soundtrack, the unsolved father-daughter subplot, the dumbness of the space herpes subplot, the inconsistency of the time warp (and a preview of our future time-travel season!), the pointless of the end fight and a comparison with the end of <em>Breaking Dawn Part 2, </em>and Robert Urich: Frog Gigolo.</p> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/because-you-watched/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/because-you-watched/support</a>