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gameraboy2 · 4 months

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Michael Ironside as Overdog in Spacehunter (1983)

#Michael Ironside #spacehunter #1983 #1980s #vintage #film #movie #overdog

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thefugitivesaint · 11 months

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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) A film that was almost instantly forgotten when it was released just days before ‘Return of the Jedi’ hit theaters. It was the one of the last movies to use 3D as a marketing gimmick to get audiences into seats. I was 9 years old when I saw it and I loved it. Adult me? *shrugs shoulders* It’s ok. The stills I took (from a digitized VHS copy) where meant to give you a flavor of what the movie is like. The plot is as bare bones at a plot can get and the world building is severely undercooked. It all goes something like this: a luxury space ship suffers from some catastrophic space event that forces passengers to abandon ship. Three of those passengers land on Terra XI, a planet that was devastated by some kind of virulent plague and has become a kind of post-apocalyptic hellscape. Bounty hunter/mercenary Wolff (Peter Strauss) receives a “broadcast” about the stranded passengers and sets out to retrieve them and collect the reward of “3,000 Mega Credits.” Soon after arriving on Terra XI, while trying to rescue the three passengers, they are abducted by agents working for the local tyrant Overdog (Michael Ironside). Wolff decides to head off to free the women from Overdog and, along the way, runs into Niki (Molly Ringwald) and Wolff’s former colleague Washington (Ernie Hudson). The story is a loose narrative of episodic action sequences involving strange creatures and weird people that are given almost no clarification as to who they are or why they do what they do. It is briefly mentioned that Overdog was once a scientist named McNabb who was sent to Terra XI to combat the plague (with two other scientists) but no explanation is given as to why they became tyrants or why they started experimenting on the Terra XI’s population. I guess that’s all the narrative the creators thought was necessary (this movie did come out in the wake of ‘Mad Max II: The Road Warrior’ and that movie is almost purely action with hardly a plot to drive it so..) This was Molly Ringwald’s second film and the score was composed by Elmer Bernstein (who also composed the music for ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘The Magnificent Seven’ to name two). The 3D-effects are as clunky as one might suspect. The overall effects (some of the miniature work is by legendary ‘Terminator’ animator Pete Kleinow) and production design (which is doing most of the heavy lifting here) are a mixed bag of competent execution and outright jankiness. Overall, it’s one of those modestly budgeted science fiction films from the 80s that didn’t hit it big, barely raked in a profit, and quickly faded into obscurity. It’s worth one watch if you’ve never seen it. And, should you have any desire to put this movie into your brain, you can do so here (this might be a better quality copy than my digital VHS transfer). Oh, what folk have gabbed about the movie over at letterboxd.

#spacehunter #science fiction films #b movies #3d films #80s movies #80s science fiction #molly ringwald #ernie hudson #michael ironside

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movieposters1 · 3 months

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throwbackmovie · 2 years

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Deborah Pratt as Meagan in SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE – 1983

#Deborah Pratt #Spacehunter #Adventures in the Forbidden Zone #Meagan #astronaut #scifi #classic #retrofuture

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grungeyhorrorandscifi · 2 years

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Molly Ringwald in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

#molly ringwald #spacehunter #80s #scifi #space

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lazyajju · 2 years

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.

Check out these amazing & jaw dropping latest image from space 😱😱😍👀

1 - Deep Field: SMACS 0723

NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet

Status: 1st Image Full Released 7/12/22 ~10:39am EDT

Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.

Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.

This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks.

The image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying much more distant galaxies behind it. Webb’s NIRCam has brought those distant galaxies into sharp focus – they have tiny, faint structures that have never been seen before, including star clusters and diffuse features. Researchers will soon begin to learn more about the galaxies’ masses, ages, histories, and compositions, as Webb seeks the earliest galaxies in the universe.

2 - Exoplanet: WASP-96 B

NASA's Webb Reveals Steamy Atmosphere of Distant Planet in Detail

Status: 1st Image Released 7/12/22 ~10:46am

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star.

The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb’s unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away.

While the Hubble Space Telescope has analyzed numerous exoplanet atmospheres over the past two decades, capturing the first clear detection of water in 2013, Webb’s immediate and more detailed observation marks a giant leap forward in the quest to characterize potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.

3 - Stellar Death: Planetary Nebula NGC 3132

NASA's Webb Captures Dying Star’s Final ‘Performance’ in Fine Detail

Status: 1st Image Released 7/12/22 ~11:01am

Some stars save the best for last.

The dimmer star at the center of this scene has been sending out rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions, and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed for the first time that this star is cloaked in dust.

Two cameras aboard Webb captured the latest image of this planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 3132, and known informally as the Southern Ring Nebula. It is approximately 2,500 light-years away.

Webb will allow astronomers to dig into many more specifics about planetary nebulae like this one – clouds of gas and dust expelled by dying stars. Understanding which molecules are present, and where they lie throughout the shells of gas and dust will help researchers refine their knowledge of these objects.

4 - Interacting Galaxies: Stephan's Quintet

NASA's Webb Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution, Black Holes

Status: 1st Image Released 7/12/22 ~11:13am

Stephan's Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic film, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Today, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephan’s Quintet in a new light. This enormous mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The information from Webb provides new insights into how galactic interactions may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe.

With its powerful, infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen details in this galaxy group. Sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth grace the image. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster.

5 - Star Forming Region: NGC 3324 In Carina Nebula

NASA's Webb Reveals Cosmic Cliffs, Glittering Landscape of Star Birth

Status: 1st Image Released 7/12/22 ~11:22am

This landscape of 'mountains' and 'valleys' speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.

Called the Cosmic Cliffs, Webb's seemingly three-dimensional picture looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening. In reality, it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest 'peaks' in this image are about 7 light-years high. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image.

CREDITS: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

#JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #Space #Universe #AmazingSpace #Amazinguniverse #NeverSeenbefore #SpaceHunter #WOWImages #NASA #Lazyajju

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drsunshinesecondhandvanity · 2 days

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#gigan #godzilla #kaiju #daikaiju #space #space dinosaur #m spacehunter nebula #godzilla vs gigan

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darktripz · 5 months

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#Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone #post apocalyptic #scifi #1983 #michael ironside #molly ringwald #peter strauss

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metaphoricalcolours · 9 months

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molly ringwald films, the official cinema release poster vs the dvd release cover (part 1: 1982-1986)

#molly ringwald #tempest (1982)#spacehunter: adventures in the forbidden zone #sixteen candles #(which doesn’t deserve its several posters)#the breakfast club #pretty in pink #80s #brat pack

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somethingusefulfromflorida · 8 months

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I had a dream last night that I found a bargain bin DVD collection of a bunch of shitty 3D movies from the 80s and it came with two pairs of those red and cyan glasses, and I was so disappointed to wake up because I wanted to have a b-movie marathon...

#3d movies #3d glasses #jaws 3d #friday the 13th part 3 #comin at ya #amityville 3d #spacehunter: adventures in the forbidden zone #1980s #80s #3d #nostalgia #b movie #schlock

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ytptennis · 5 months

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wyll loadout of beauty & grace

#bg3 #ocean dyed elven armor + blood of lathander + sacred star + elemental cloak + i forgot what circlet that is #and also spacehunter(?) boots. the ones that give you dimension door #hes a vengeance paladin btw

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revvethasmythh · 6 months

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I've been dragging my feet in act 3 for so long 90% because I'm just very intimidated by the iron throne, but I think I've finally got a good game plan to tackle it and I am sending up a thank you prayer to tymora for giving past me the insight to make my core team stupid mobile to begin with

#me: spends far too long thinking about how to accomplish a quest I haven't even arrived at yet just because I want to do it right #also me: doesn't realize volo actually needs help during the one fight and accidentally gets him exploded because I'm stupid #it's fine! I went back and said him! and shockingly he actually gave me good advice a REAL history lesson and a helpful book #who would've thought? not me #also my plan involves copious freedom of movement spells potions of speed and that delightful pair of spacehunt boots #I'm manifesting this whole thing going well I'm manifesting hard. I want to save those stupid gondians #rosie plays video games poorly #squad without the s

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movieposters1 · 5 months

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