Oblivion

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Oblivion

What do you expect? After all, these are the people that brought you Jack Deth and the Trancers movies! It's an occasionally slow-paced sci-fi western parody. The acting is mostly dreadful, and the plot is telegraphed a mile away, but if you didn't expect that from the Full Moon folks, you deserve what you get. A movie best experienced with friends and vast quantities of intoxicants. Those of us who read comics in the 70s will get the "Man-Thing" reference, and it is a hoot to see George Takei telling a bottle of whiskey, "Jim Beam me up!" Meg Foster is totally wasted as a cyborg deputy, but she does what she can with a terrible role. I loved Musetta Vander as the S&M fantasy gal Lash. A good bad movie in spite of occasional slow bits and obvious plotting. MST3K material for sure.

Full Moon, you so crazy. You filmed this Peter David written story and somehow put aliens in space and got Andrew Divorff to play the villainous Red Eye in a movie that feels a lot like an adult version of BraveStarr. They also grabbed Meg Foster, Isaac Hayes, George Takei, Julie Newmar and Carel Struycken, the giant from Twin Peaks to help tell the story of how the outer space west was won. If a Western can contain empaths, aliens that can foresee death and cyborgs, then let this be that Western. They filmed Backlash: Oblivion 2 at the same time, so if you liked this, good news. There's more waiting for you. Written by Charles Band, this was directed by Sam Irvin, who also made Elvira's Haunted Hills.

They just don't make em like Oblivion anymore. This movie is so bad that it's good. It's like watching a movie that was supposed to be serious but halfway through they decided it should be a comedy. There are some really great lines in here that should not be missed. "Not man enough? or maybe you're too much man, too much... HU-man?" or the s**t a brick in your pants funny "associ-whats?" line. Or the bingo during the funeral "B9!" Oh man, I'm cracking up right now writing this. And of course the best part is that it ends with "to be continued" and a hilarious preview of the sequel. Anyways, if you want to see a really unintentionally funny movie with microphones and ads for other movies blatantly in several shots then see this now, i concur with the beer suggestion of these other guys too. Oblivion, really great movie, watch it.

This film contains no exploding golfcarts, no people falling over railings (two at a time), no diabolical laughter, and no stock footage from BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA. Unlike SPACE MUTINY, which was just plain annoying, OBLIVION was an entertaining piece of cinematic garbage with enough cheesy dialog and one liners that enable it to stand on its own, even without the help of Mike and his MST3K robot friends. Also, unlike SPACE MUTINY, it's a lot more fun than shoveling raw sewage. Give this one a chance. Rating: *** out of *****

I stumbled upon a trailer for this movie by chance so I thought it would be worth a look. Unfortunately, the film is almost not watchable. The acting is desperate, which is very strange considering so many famous faces in their prime, the story itself is good (classic wild west story with admixtures of the scifi genre), the story is well rounded. Unfortunately the characters throughout the film are portrayed so stupidly uninteresting that the film is not completely watchabe. For the whole time of watching the movie you have the impression that they are trying something comical (with no any comic scene) but in fact some drama is being dragged along with very little action and adventure. Had it not been filmed in such a stupid way it would surely have been a great success.

Uncomfortable blend of sci-fi and western, never really pulls it together. Take away the stop action scorpions and you have a pretty dull western. Take away the western and you have an amateurish sci-fi. The characters are all cartoon like and some scenes are not only unnecessary, but go on far too long. Trashing the store for instance could have been left on the cutting room floor. I realize this is not "Casablanca", but "Oblivion" really doesn't know what it wants to be. Sci-fi fans are certain to be disappointed, and western fans will find the script boring. I wanted to find a gem here, but unfortunately did not. - MERK

For lovers of Cheese,this movie will satisfy.......The writer,Peter David, is master of not taking things too seriously, and that makes Oblivion a great film. If you enjoy this try Trancers 4 and 5. It is in the same vein and is just very fun........