Episode 582: Morons from Outer Space (1985)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

We conclude Sci-Fi July with a look at Mike Hodges’s Morons from Outer Space. Written by Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, the film tells the tale of a quartet of less-than-bright intergalactic travelers who crash land on Earth. The film lampoons the idea that we of Earth may be visited by beings from outer space only to find that they’re not as enlightened as we’d fancy them to be.

Cecil Trachenburg and Jon Spira join Mike to laud the film while Griff Rhys Jones discusses how disappointing he found the experience.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Oh.
0:31.5	Andrew!
0:36.2	A lot. I got one.
0:40.3	I got a space ship to come to...
0:44.3	They're going to enter our atmosphere.
0:47.3	When them extraterritorial... what's its...
0:50.3	Extraterrestrial being.
0:52.3	Yeah, when they can, they'll probably come in secret, won't they?
0:56.0	Undoubtedly.
0:57.0	They'll land, right? And only a few of us will know all about it, I expect.
1:09.0	Oh yeah, well obviously. Well, see, they'll have a very advanced spacecraft.
1:16.6	Obviously, it'll have all the bits on it,
1:17.6	all the anti-gravitation or pull bits,
1:19.6	so it can come down very softly, you know, like sort of...
1:22.6	Poo-z...
1:23.6	...and all the door open I don't know.
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