Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

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🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Live fast, fight well and have a beautiful ending. On this week's episode, we are journeying to a minor planet in a third rate galaxy for Battle Beyond the Stars, a Roger Corman production that is arguably one of the better Star Wars knockoffs from the early 80s. The movie is also a loose remake of The Magnificent Seven / Seven Samurai with a character named Space Cowboy... I think you get the idea. Is the story behind the making of the movie more interesting than the movie itself? Did James Cameron's VFX work and James Horner's score do most of the heavy lifting? Why does Shad's ship have breasts? Should we be surprised that they still eat hot dogs in the future? Stimulate your solenoid and tingle dingle dangle prangle your transistors with the latest Film Junk Podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to film junk.
0:10.5	My name is Sean.
0:11.7	My name is Jay.
0:13.1	And my name is Frank.
0:14.5	And on this week's episode, we are concluding, well, not totally.
0:19.1	We have one more movie to get to, but the last of our
0:22.3	throwback Star Wars related films, and this is one of the many Star Wars knockoffs
0:29.3	from the late 70s and early 80s, Battle Beyond the Stars, released in 1980, produced by
0:37.0	Roger Corman, and directed by jimmy t murakami i'll give you a
0:43.6	plot synopsis a farm boy recruits a band of outlaws to save the planet akir from dark forces
0:49.5	that threatened to wipe them out from the face of the universe.
0:55.5	Face of the universe.
0:59.1	The wording of that is a little weird.
1:03.7	Jay, this was kind of your choice, and I know you are a fan of this movie.
1:07.0	Why don't you set it up?
1:11.8	Did you see this before Star Wars as Frank did with Space Balls?
1:24.0	I did not. I saw this in my adult years. I would, I don't, I use, how did you, you said,
1:28.3	I'm a fan of the movie? That's, I believe that's the wording I chose, yes.
1:29.2	Fan.
1:30.1	Is that incorrect?
1:33.0	No, I like, I think it's a fun movie.
1:37.2	I wouldn't say I'm like, you know, I, let's be real here.
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