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Megaforce

This is my absolute favourite movie to watch to make fun of with friends. Have you ever seen an MST3K film? This movie would make great fodder. The stunts are cheesy, including possibly the worst blue screen ever, the acting is bad, the plot is laughable ... everything is so bad that it flips into being awesome. I highly recommend this movie if you are in the mood to laugh AT a movie, not WITH it. Watching it by yourself is not really recommended. I had to rate it highly, even though it's not actually a "good" movie because I do think people will enjoy watching it.

Was the movie cheesy? Yes, Did I absolutely enjoy it? Yes.. remember this is with minimal special effects... And filmed in the 81-82... The films were made like this, "EVEN IN THE 80'S!" The night jump was classic, the instrumental even more classic. The end was even better. 3x times during the movie you can really need to watch... Early in the beginning, where we meet Hunter/the Night Jump and the end.... yes I did, rate it an 8 out of 10....

They need to make a full blown, live action GI Joe movie, complete with the COBRA enemy... I am serious as a heart attack. This movie came out in '82 or '83 when I was in the 4th or 5th grade and of course, every kid on the block wanted to see it. They also wanted the latest GI Joe, a transformer doll, or that giant doll from Japan that broke up into 7 different lion shaped vehicles. But even a 4th grader can tell when a movie is pretty bad. This movie was pretty bad, but in the right hands, it could be a gem because if anything is screaming out for satire, it would be that whole GI Joe toy era of the early 80's. Between this and THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, Barry Bostwick really makes one wonder.

Directed by Hal (Smokey and the Bandit) Needham, and set in the far-flung future of the 1980's, Barry Bostwick, dressed in jumpsuits so nauseatingly tight you can see what side he dresses on, leads a top-secret mercenary force against an oppressive dictator who rules over a country that looks an awful lot like a vacant dirt lot behind a shopping mall in New Mexico. While it's common knowledge that bad movies can often be enjoyable in a fun way, this obscenely bad production is so lame, no amount of audience wisecracks can make it watchable. Needham shows a complete lack of directing ability with battle scenes so disjointed, they seem more like endless stretches of dune-buggies overturning. If, by chance, you do end up viewing this, try to make it to the very end to see one of the most inexcusable uses of blue-screen technology ever committed to film. Man, am I glad the 80's are over.

I remember this film, because its the first film I ever walked out of. And for this-then action film-obsessed 14-year old, for a film to be so utterly bad that he felt his lack of intelligence being insulted, well that was like a 2 year old telling his mother that the Teletubbies were stupid. I remember when I was first getting into movies, and I would keep a log of what films I saw, when I saw em, and what I rated em (I think I used a scale of 1-to-10), I recall this one getting my first ZERO. More recently I am pleased to find that when I ask others about the film that most people have never heard of it. A few months ago I saw it late night on cable and finally saw the film's ending, and I must say that is as that two year old would say, "stupid". Utterly, embarrassingly, mind-boggingly stupid.

As noted, this movie isn't even really good for watching for the unintentional humor. Barry Bostwick is the least believable action hero of all time, and somewhere, someone seems to have thought Persis Khambatta was an interesting, attractive, exotic beauty with screen presence: Megaforce proves this theory, however unlikely, dead wrong. Basically an ego-vehicle for Hal Needham, who tries to cash in on the success the Smokey and the Bandit movies attached (undeservingly) to his name. Definite proof he should have stuck to stunt work.

This movie was definitely a big, fat, fun time...If you're on a low protein diet, watch out, 'cause this movie is chock full o' cheese, cheese, cheese. I really enjoyed watching this movie. The special effects are ok, especially given that the movie was made in 1982. But the gadgets are way,way cool(I want them all!), and the people who made this movie never take themselves or the movie too seriously. If you can imagine Barry Bostwick w/blond hair, then this is the movie for you! As previously stated, the cheese factor is high, but that's the best part of this movie. If you're looking for ground-breaking cinema, don't look here. But, if you want a good laugh & a good time, this film provides you with both.