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If you weren't alive in the 1970's...


LOW budget (check)
Mundane banality (check)
Anti-climactic (check)
Closet Homosexuality (check)
Drug-addled valium Barbie (check)
British style CAMP humor (check)
Childhood wonder (check)
Bizarre post-modern gadgets and gizmos (check)
Ordinary people in space (check)
Girlie-mag stash (check)
Cigarette smoking in space (check)
Pot plants in the biolab (check)
70's style sexual liberation (check)
Food prep ala Idiocracy (check)
Holodeck (check)
"Obi-Wan you are my only hope" hologram (check)
4:3 Ratio monitors (check)
Deep-Space cryo terrier (check)
Wide-Lapel swingers party (check)
Duck-hunt Asteroid game (check)
Passive aggressive moms & bosses (check)
Droid Freud (check)
70's roller-skate am/fm headphone radio (check)
Space 1999 shuttle (check)
Classic suicide attempts (check)
Broadcast grade VHS tapes (check)
Generic Military requisitioned robo-hand (check)


This is an anti-"space opera", a seemingly mindless and unaware camp/spoof. If you were born yesterday (after 1980) you will likely be bored OR enthralled with the kitschy throwback to a yesterday that never will be. It's not "funny" , has no "adventure", lacks any "drama", and dwells on it's own "irrelevance". Just like the 1970's. It's a metaphor for the spastic reaction to the horror of the post JFK, post Vietnam malaise of America. It was a very sad time.










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That was not a Space:199 shuttle...but the interior of the station had similarities to Moonbase Alpha.

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This is an anti-"space opera", a seemingly mindless and unaware camp/spoof. If you were born yesterday (after 1980) you will likely be bored OR enthralled with the kitschy throwback to a yesterday that never will be.

I'd add a few years after 1980, but yes it really helps to be familiar with the whole "me generation," psycho-babble, existentialist aspect of 1970's life in order to be able to understand it. Maybe it's just the fact that I was born in 1965, and despite never being around any greasers and beatniks, I was still familiar with their sub-cultures as a child (and "Happy Days" had nothing to do with it).


Personally, I think of this movie as less 2001 and Space 1999 and more Silent Running.



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Actually the video tapes were Umatic. Another good one was the use of Viewmaster reels for a fashion catalog.

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