Just watched it.

The plot, the acting, the effects, the pacing… none of them were anywhere near as bad as I was expecting. They were often downright good. Is this movie… kind of great???

Thanks so much for the recommendation!

Post body originally said “Saturday 18th August”, now corrected to Monday 18th August.

As @[email protected] said

• prepare to watch the movie itself whatever way you can/want (your own physical media, locally stored file, whichever streaming service offers it in your area)
• everyone starts the movie when the ‘host’ posts “press play now” on Mastodon
• participants proceed to post about it on Mastodon, including in their posts the hashtag #MondayActionMovie (and sometimes also a hashtag with the name of the movie)

For #MondayActionMovie, the rotating ‘host’ of the party (the person who chooses the movie) often includes a streaming link in their Mastodon announcement or in the event details in the watch party calendar (go down to the calendar, scroll calendar to the relevant date, then find and click on the event name; a popup will show more info on the event. E.g. a copy of the movie on YouTube https://youtu.be/xxeDmjgSS1I )

No worries!

BTW there will be a next time, as an August ‘season’ of BTiLC & other Kurt Russell movies are an annual event. (Tomorrow on #SundayFunnies will show Used Cars and for #MondayActionMovie it will be Escape From New York see https://piefed.social/post/1154200 for more info

Someone in the watch party said their local cinema in 1986 showed BTiLC and Highlander (also from 20th Century Fox) in a double bill all summer, didn’t say which came second.

No, not a B movie but I thought there might be fans here who’d like to join in.

The watch party is over now, but we all had a great time watching it.

Ghosts of Tsushima is from 2020, but Victor Wong (Egg Shen in BTiLC) died in 2001. But who knows with AI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Wong_(actor,_born_1927)

AAA all-time fave, hopefully appeals to folks here who’ll join in the watch party tomorrow

Watched and enjoyed this the other night. Too much fan service from Newmar & Takei, not enough Divoff and Vander (vamping and hamming to the moon and back), just the right amount of Shatner.

• Official Full Moon Trailer for Oblivion (1994)
• Full Movie: Tubi - William Shatner’s Halloween Full Moon Fright Night presentation of Oblivion (360p) *
• Full Movie: Tubi - Rifftrax version of Oblivion (360p) *
• NoBrainCellsLeft search for Oblivion
• JustWatch result for Oblivion
• Wikipedia
• IMDb

I also watched the Rifftrax version… chuckled maybe 3 times.

Screenshots

Captain Kirk does his cowboy-themed intro

Mr Homn makes his Western-themed entrance

Lieutenant Sulu does his Trek-themed self-abasing fan service

I’m not saying Musetta Vander’s costume reveal is the single greatest moment in cinematic history… but it’s damn close!

Night scorp! (during the daytime…)

Andrew Divoff played alien bad guy Red Eye but also cameoed as this crazy prospector I wish had got his own spinoff sitcom.

Thanks, fixed it by just doing sudo apt update and trying again.

That final fight with Ken Lo is simply astounding and why I just rewatched DM2. There’s a video breaking it down as the best fight scene of all time (it took four months to shoot).

So I watched the whole film again last night. An absolute delight.

In hindsight, that could look a bit like a corpse, so let me say that’s Jackie Chan in Drunken Master 2 (1994) and his character there is alive. Just passed out after a night of heavy drinking, after which the baddies humiliated him by leaving him like this.

Yeah, the Tubi replay going back that far is a bit frustrating, so I’ll try to remember the PiP way of watching. Thanks for the tip.

Re efficiency, I don’t think it’ll be a big issue for me. With a laugh-a-minute action fest like Laser Mission, I don’t mind interrupting viewing and doing a couple of steps to take a screenshot. And with something where I don’t want to interrupt the flow (like The Killing Jar), I either wait until the movie’s over to take screenshots or don’t take any at all. So not a big problem either way.

Glad you’re enjoying it :D

You’re welcome :)

Trying it now, just pausing while in PiP mode shows the PiP UI and it doesn’t go away.

However there is an arcane sequence that I stumbled upon by accident that can have it paused and without the UI.

PiP > pause > back to tab >PiP again.

Then the UI only pops up briefly while I mouse over. But that only works for that one time. I have to repeat the sequence for any subsequent pauses.

:) Glad you enjoyed it.

Yeah, I’ve never seen her in anything else and she doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia page. Although she has more credits than I expected on IMDb. (Of course, the top feature of that page is the trailer for Laser Mission. :D )

This came out the year after, I think.

There’s an alternate poster, but still focused on climbing (which is like 0.001% of the movie).

Enjoy!

(Although I may have oversold the repartee…)