453: Turn Left at the Asteroid

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

It’s the Rocket Surgery Film Festival! In this episode, we’re watching something that proves that computer-game film adaptations were a bad idea from the very beginning! Based on a late 1970s Atari game, it’s the ill-fated “Star Raiders.” There’s a not-dashing star pilot, a sullen space princess, an annoying robot, and is that Sheriff Lobo in a tight-fitting jumpsuit? If you’re looking for a cross between “Star Wars” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, are you in for some disappointment. Once again, we watched the movie so you don’t have to. Correction: Due to a clerical error, none of these movies actually exist. This episode was entirely improvised.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is the last time I'm going to tell you about Incomparable memberships, because we're doing something special this week. Go to Theincompanmerable.com slash members and sign up. You can support the incomparable directly. Members get lots of extras, including bonus audio, a bootleg podcast where you can hear our episodes right after they're recorded, and a whole lot more.
0:25.3	And this weekend, we are doing the Rocket Surgery Film Festival.
0:30.7	We did two other rocket surgeries that are just for members, at least for now, and those movies are Last Dance of the Devils from 1989. Moises Chouyan hosted that one.
0:35.9	And I also hosted an episode about the howling horror
0:38.8	of Dracula from 1963. That and much, much more. Lots of other stuff. We did in Empire Strikes
0:44.2	Back commentary. We did a three-part star Trek role-playing game. There's a whole lot of good stuff.
0:49.7	Go to the incomparable.com slash members. And yes, two more rocket surgeries. But now on with the show.
0:55.2	It's not brain science. It's rocket surgery. This is Star Raiders.
1:00.0	Yay!
1:01.9	Please insert cartridge.
1:03.2	Blow on it first.
1:06.2	The incomparable, number 453, April 2019. Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable, number 453, April 2019.
1:12.9	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable's rocket surgery where we watch a really
1:16.7	lousy movie, and then we ask ourselves why, and the bitter recriminations begin, and
1:22.7	everybody accuses me because I chose the movie, and vows never to be back and yet somehow there are always
1:28.9	people willing somehow to watch another bad movie the next time. That is the circle of life
1:34.1	as describing rocket surgery. Anyway, I have five people that I suckered into watching a movie
1:43.1	based on an Atari game from the
1:46.2	exciting year of 1983 when the kids they love the video games and they love the Star Wars and
1:51.4	what if we made a movie that combined both and that brought us to Star Raiders an extremely
1:57.1	low budget Atari tie-in that, uh, yeah, didn't go anywhere and is, uh, a movie that
2:07.0	exists totally exists. Uh, I don't know why it does, but it totally does. Here to, uh,
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