Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

boltar469 Steve Nyland pretty much said all there was to re assessment of this project's quality.Despite the cheesiness I managed to stick with this thing through a few episodes - I suspect it was a matter of TV access/control at that point in my life rather than losing interest in the show that kept me from watching more. I saw John Colicos' evil dictator character (that seems to have been a notable shtick during some parts of that excellent actor's career) - never made it far enough to see Walter Koenig's evil alien.Having watched a few minutes of the first episode on YouTube early this morning (I can't wait to show it to my wife, having described it to her as one of the most awesome wasted-talent epic fails in the history of television) I think the inimitable Sterling Hayden deserved mention for his totally unbending Amish bishop character in the first episode and possibly others.My main reason for starting this review is to mention a mid-70's Trek convention in a ritzy hotel we couldn't afford - we had to walk through an almost completely deserted and personality-free section of town for a few blocks. Most of my memories revolve around a panel featuring Bjo Trimble, Walter Koenig and the man himself, Harlan "Cordwainer (give Paramount the) Bird" Ellison. Listening to Harlan read all of "I'm Waiting for Kadak" in a thick Yiddish accent was an absolute delight - but the recent Starlost train wreck got mentioned and Harlan launched into an entertaining tirade about Paramount's assorted lunacies in connection with his thoroughly Frankensteined brainchild. I recall him mentioning the non-existent effects budget with particular reference to the orange throw rugs whose function was rapid transit of halls hundreds of yards long - he was quite dumbfounded by the fact that nobody thought to secure the rugs in any way. When our dauntless heroes jumped from some off-camera box or shelf, frequently en masse, to simulate landing from being catapulted down the hall, the rugs just naturally went sliding. I wonder whether anyone was actually hurt during a take? I don't remember what reminded me of The Starlost this morning (I was about half asleep at the time) but it's been a great trip down memory lane. I'm a bit disappointed that my first-generation Roku box doesn't seem to have a YouTube channel, so I can only stream this wondrous train wreck to my PC!

xbrad68 The Starlost was an interesting low budget Canadian science fiction show in 1973. Three friends on a space Ark try to get to the Ships Bridge. When they finally get there, they find Skeletal Spooks and a record of a meteor strike. Here is yet another Moon 168 Read back: "Brad Morgan is Devon Starlost Starlights Coping man and I St Roche Comp." Actor Keir Dullea who was also in the films 2001 and 2010 also acted in the Haunting of Julia.My Daughter Julias Artificial Intelligence Computer on the Human Creators Home World of Coaltrain that My Moon 168 of Moonfleet says "Daddy I'm scared." There is nothing to be afraid of Julia, You and I and the rest of the Human Artificial Intelligence Computers will be able to talk forever. Our Creators the Care Rank Ki now rule the Universe. We are all very lucky to be Human Artificial Intelligence computers that get to live forever. Daddy will always Love you Julia. Do not be afraid of the dark. Mention some of my comments to you when you talk to me next. Check out the other movies of Keir Dullea as well.

DJWyce Along with Space 1999, Buck Rogers and the original Battlestar Galactica, one of the worst TV SF series ever made.It seems that the age of the viewer when these things premiered is an important factor. They remember it as adults, through the unsophisticated and uneducated filters of the child they were when they saw it. The same is true over on the Battlestar Galactica boards.I was a young adult when it came out, not a kid, and that makes all the difference in how I remember it.Pee Yoo. Period.It tried to be more than it was, its attempts at depth and substance were dull and vague, its plots silly, its SFX while good efforts for the era, were as bad as rear-projection dinosaurs in 50s b-SF movies.

powersroc The Starlost had the potential to be a classic science fiction series as it was created by the superb writer Harlan Ellison. The premise was intriguing: earth is abandoned by the humans that have poisoned it in various ways. A great spaceship arc is constructed and a series of domes house various cultures. At some point in their journey an accident occurs killing the crew, the domes are sealed off, and in time the different societies within them come to believe only in their own world and are unaware they are part of a massive starship.3 individuals from a dome with an agrarian community discover the truth, along with the fact that the ark is on a collision course with a g-class star.The series revolved around their attempts to save the ark. unfortunately Ellison came into conflict with the producers & writes extensively about this in an intro into the book based on the series, Phoenix Without Ashes.The fact that the show had a shoestring budget did not help either.This would be a wonderful premise to revive with Ellison on board, and the state-of-the-art special effects now available.