Moontrap - Good Bad Flicks

Good Bad Flicks checks out the 1989 sci-fi film Moontrap.
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[@blairbird8022]

6:45 Looks like he showed her Chekhov's gun.

[@gurupod]

Oh Jesus, lol! Great!

[@borderlineXI]

I love this movie to death. I’ve got my DVD signed by Walter.

[@wildblumenwiese]

"the scientists at nasa cut the corpse open to count the rings.." ;D

[@djmajiktuch82]

Typical Hollywood always messing things up. You're supposed to slice the right thigh just above the knee to expose the rings. Not the whole body.😁

[@simonhassnilsson7009]

@@djmajiktuch82 hey sometimes you just get carried away...

[@joshnaver3994]

That's Groots Relative in cryo-sleep

[@raym1477]

aka "Chekov goes to the Moon with Sam Axe and bangs Ziggy Stardust"

[@markm7929]

7:11 was genuinely terrifying yet hilarious. Guess only Bruce can pull that off.

[@rngouveia]

I think that Bruce is the inspiration for Nicholas Cage performances lol

[@simonhassnilsson7009]

i am not gonna lie i'd be terrified if Bruce looked at me with that expression even if he wasent attached to a killer alien robot

[@shainewhite2781]

9:26, speaking of Bruce Campbell, you should do a 25th anniversary edition of the sci-fi action adventure film CONGO, which next year is 25 years after the release of the film.

[@scottmantooth8785]

*knowing that fact makes me feel really old*

[@TheGhostofNicolasCage]

Robots using flesh, I'll just pretend Virus from 1999 is the sequel to this.

[@Deraeg13]

Literally came here to say this...

[@Scallycowell]

I mean, the the monster in Virus starts out as an alien signal, so yeah, plausible.

[@ajscrewu]

Could actually work

[@vtr0104]

Also, Necron Flayed Ones in 40k :|

[@SpaceGeek2161]

If anything, Virus would be a PREquel to this, since Virus takes place in the 20th century... but yeah, good head canon!

[@christraven]

11:44 The lady on the cover of 'Moontrap: Target Earth" is holding a repainted NERF gun. That doesn't bode well for the film's quality....or maybe it does.

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

I've seen it. It's crap.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@WhiteScarsEmo it also has nothing to do with this movie.

[@kabardino1337]

IDK, really.. A lot of people customize Nerfs and they look fantastic, straight out of sci-fi games and comics, but this i did not find very cool

[@ulyssescpt]

@@WhiteScarsEmo Moontrap 2 is INTERGALACTIC GARBAGE. An army of a million solders with diarrhea could not make enough excrement to describe the crap that is Moontrap 2. If it was really made by the same guys, this may be the first movie in history that ripoff the first movie, by the same guys who created it in the first place.

[@stevejordan7275]

Let's not be too quick to judge. Maybe she's a nerf-herder.

[@JVM485]

I found this movie a few years ago, in a box of laserdiscs I bought. Pretty neat film. It's cool to find another forgotten film that has Bruce Campbell!

[@GenMaster]

@John Doe 😁

[@iomnibus]

Moontrap just might be the best sci-fi film that stars a cast member from Burn Notice and/or Babylon 5.

[@MandleRoss]

8:14 The shuttle's name is "Space Shuttle Klatto Verata Nicto", but maybe he didn't say every single little tiny syllable.

[@scottmantooth8785]

*nice Easter egg nod to the day the earth stood still...or momentary paused for plot convenience*

[@Laceykat66]

2:15 - Meanwhile both Chekov & Jack Stiles lament that all they brought back was THIS and the Churchill got that hot space chick. No justice in space salvage.

[@13lueBomber]

#GoodBadFlicks Lmao, I’m so glad I found this channel. This is the kind of classic horror channel I’ve been lookin’ for. Awesome content man, I love it. Keep them comin’, brotha. Ah, silly death face... classic. If it wasn’t for this channel... I would have never knew any of these movies ever existed. I definitely appreciate all of the work you put into your content. That’s 1,000% how it SHOULD be done. For that, I thank you. 👌🏼🤙🏼

[@weruinmovies]

3:04 that's one thicc Bionicle. Child bearing hips fo' days.

[@jasoncallan]

I have a request. Could you do a video exploring Kentucky Fried Movie? That would be awesome & if you wanted to include Groove Tube, Tunnel Vision, & Prime Time as well in the video. That would be awesome. I don't know if you guys take requests but that would be great.

[@chriscripplercruz1833]

I can't believe i didn't know about a movie that Bruce Campbell is in... All Hail the Chin baby!!!

[@StanAlter]

I saw the movie a long time ago when it came out on video. I only watched it cause Bruce Campbell was in it. Same with Crimewave. I thought the robots in the movie looked cool though.

[@rickc2102]

There's just a hint of the Maximillian robot (Disney's The Black Hole) about them.

[@PrinceGastronome]

YES! FINALLY! Now do Dark Side of the Moon!

[@Xenomrph]

I remember watching Moon Trap and Dark Side of the Moon back to back on cable one time as a kid.

[@PrinceGastronome]

Or maybe Saturn 3

[@PrinceGastronome]

@John Doe Oh yes!

[@sos_legio_primus9177]

Robert Dyke ( the Seriously Strange and Anatomy of Murder; guy) got screwed by that one. he had to change his channel name over it; to Robert Gavagan

[@MrTantrill]

Man. Bruce Campbell looks odd with no sideburns. Awesome movie though.

[@Maggerama]

They've killed off Bruce Campbell to have a sex scene with Walter Koenig right after. Really!?

[@daviddiaz529]

Finally caught up with all your videos. Your channel is like an EXTRA-EXTRA special feature for these films with interesting information, back stories, and trivia. You inject good humor and different points of view that make one wanna watch the films again with a different perspective. The two videos that stood out for humor were exposing Lindsay Lohan as The Hidden Parasite and that you own a Care Bear that is a Screamer. Good work.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Thanks so much! :)

[@bcdside]

Cecil, loved your work for years; keep it up! With the coming KZbinpocalypse on Dec. 10, do you have a channel on alternate platforms such as Dailymotion or Bitchute? Just lookin our for you, bud!

[@LeolaGlamour]

Both of those are shitty platforms. He has a pateron he will be fine.

[@erichr1539]

I agree about the miniatures. I love seeing older movies that are converted to blu ray and noticing the creative angles they took for some of the scenes. Great video. Thanks Cecil.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Thanks!

[@wstine79]

I think they parodied this in the opening scene to the "My Mame is Bruce" movie.

[@speabody]

Man do I have so many childhood memories of movies I’ve never seen from watching previews on the pay-per-view channel. (Never mind the Movie Time channel, with Richard Blade) The end of the preview is so vivid to me: Robot pincers and blade whirring at 7:50 “Star Trek’s Walter Koenig…” “That’s all we are to them: spare parts” “MOOOONtrap””

[@rogermorris9696]

Looks like the writers of the movie "Virus" saw this move and "borrowed" from it.

[@blackdragon6]

You mean the writers of the comic.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

Don’t forget HARDWARE

[@CybershamanX]

I remember there was a time in the 80s and maybe the early 90s when they did a lot of movies in Michigan. (I'm a long time resident.) The specific ones I remember shooting here were _The Carrier_ (they practically shut down downtown Manchester to shoot that movie) and I believe one of the Scream movies (I remember them shutting down a street in Ann Arbor to shoot some exterior scenes at a house and I guess they shot inside, as well). There's another movie I can't for the life of me remember what the title was (it very well _could_ have been one of the early Scream movies), but it had tons of shots with landmarks (like a water tower) that many locals would recognize. ANYWAY, I _think_ there was some deal with the state government that made it cost effective to shoot here. Just throwing that out for anyone who's interested. :)

[@Rafferty1968]

omg how young is Bruce?

[@rentosnyggt]

A sci--fy movie with both Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell, that I haven't allready seen? It must be made-up!!

[@buggydust]

i always look forward to your weekly videos! you cover such gems

[@iLikeMyOwnPosts]

Your intro is absolute money, don't ever change it!

[@GoodBadFlicks]

:)

[@honda2363]

"Space shuttle Endeavor" Another great reference. Lol

[@GoodBadFlicks]

:)

[@PoilishedMahogony]

That's a deep OandA pull right there

[@honda2363]

@@PoilishedMahogony "Linger longer"

[@ed_carnby3431]

Once he said "Their using us as Spare Parts" i just thought of a better bad movie VIRUS.

[@vladobuster3281]

Thank you ,thank you, thank you. Ive waited for this review from you for years. You made me very happy. Great review BTW.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Thanks!

[@herbertkeithmiller]

Is this a great movie no, is it a fun movie full of heart and soul Yes. It's cheap and the writing is not the best but this isn't some cheap knock-off or something that was thrown together in a hurry. They even did the one difficult thing and had no sounds in vacuum. I really enjoyed this for what it was.

[@KryptKicker5]

Anyone remember "The Dark Side of the Moon"? The movie not the Pink Floyd song. It's an Alien ripoff with proto-Event Horizon elements. I haven't seen it in years, but I remember it not being completely awful.

[@t.r2603]

Looking at the scenes from ground control and the cockpit i cant help but think of how expensive a set like that would be in todays film, while these guys were working with chump change compared to some of todays bugets.

[@zwordsman]

That's new. Did you know the Apoolo Space Program Encylopedia Britannica on your video?

[@nolanolivier6791]

All I needed to know is Bruce Campbell and Walter Koenig... And PLEASE tell me that the smooth jazz was the actual soundtrack to the sex scene.

[@agirlnamedbrett.]

dude Bruce Campbell i loves him

[@jessehamm3573]

In this history of space-faring science fiction flicks, Moontrap remains one of the few to adhere to the scientific accuracy of keeping the outer-space sequences silent, as sound doesn't travel in a vacuum. In many ways, this made the encounters with the robots on the moon, all the more scary.

[@ytndndrummer]

Just a century ago, we were battling polio and mumps. What kind of STDs can you get from a 12,000 year old woman?

[@zwordsman]

Bruce Campbell!? Chekov!? Gotta watch this. Gott a buy this also now i wanna watch screamers

[@HayaJi]

Love miniatures too. They have a charm of their own 😁👍🏻

[@ammosophobia]

Moontrap 2 is a movie that pulls down my pants and taunts me.

[@Jeffrey314159]

That sequel was weak-ass, and you didn't se that girl's ass, it was a body double

[@aamarkhan7448]

OMG it's Bruce Campbell and Chechkov

[@Akutabai5]

Miniatures are adorable, I hope they make a comeback

[@MrWorf35]

A very nice B-movie, with beautiful matte-paintings and a beautiful cast. But a question remains. Where are the nuclear wessels?

[@JohnnyBurnes]

Thank God KZbin put the Apollo missions Wikipedia page under the video. Otherwise, I'd have thought this was old news footage!

[@Ciborium]

Everyone knows the Apollo 11 moon landing was fake. They reused the sets to make this movie.

[@GérannGerberChannel]

Is there any way that you could make a video about the movie called 'Apollo 18'? I would love to see that!!

[@bukster1]

I'm with Bruce, Leigh Lombardi is hot!

[@krdragon6950]

I love those Opie and Anthony show references. “Space shuttle endeavor”

[@funnymom7]

Lol this movie has so many “wait, what??” moments, It’s going on my list and is worthy of going on RiffTrax list of coming attractions. Always enjoy your reviews & recommendations.

[@SewerTapes]

I caught this on TV as a small child. Having missed the beginning I had no idea what it was called, and wouldn't solve the mystery until I was about 23. Sure it's super cheesy, but I spent a third of my life looking for this movie, and absolutely love it.

[@MndScream]

Oh man... love this movie, love the quotes and now I love the GBF review! Keep up the great work, and remember, don't take no shit from a machine!

[@h3x3dit]

Bruce Campbell being 60 ans saying 'boobies' made my day.

[@brendan722002]

Anything with Bruce Campbell in it is worth watching.

[@lauraeskinsart]

I feel bad for Bruce Campbell’s sideburns.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

The miniature toys were so cool no matter what the detractors say

[@mrKWJones]

PLEASE do 'Something is out there' the 1988 miniseries! Its SO GOOD!!!

[@GoodBadFlicks]

If they ever release a decent copy of it. All I have is a VHS rip.

[@mrKWJones]

@@GoodBadFlicks UGH! They need to release a HD copy

[@lascheque]

I love Moontrap ever since I accidently came across it on TV in the early 90s. It was already on but I recorded it anyway. I think I never really knew what it was called, but then I stumbled across the VHS on a fleamarket years later. I was happy. I bought the Bluray as soon as it came out, but thankfully the german relaease does not have the silly new cover. I did not know that there is a sequel! Great video as always.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Thanks!

[@LB74]

Always remember the poster for this flick sported quite prominently at the local video stores for a couple of years. This seems like a review that was a long time coming. As usual good job.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Thanks!

[@wimvanderstraeten6521]

Glad to see you got around to doing this underrated movie. Runaway with Tom Selleck is another interesting movie for your channel.

[@willg4802]

The director of this movie was the real life inspiration for "Napoleon Dynamite"

[@user-hv6dv6wh7v]

Waited forever for this to be released on DVD.

[@realedvardjr]

1:40 I think the verb you're looking for is "composited." He composited through space.

[@rickc2102]

😂🤣

[@shainewhite2781]

1:17, Ash Williams!! Too bad his show was cancelled last year due to low ratings.

[@dsandoval9396]

Really? I thought Bruce quit because he got mad so many people were torrenting the series as it came out. That's what I read in an article. He was mad that people were DL'ing it for free and in his eyes people didn't give a shit about the hard work people put into making it. But later other people mentioned that it's not that people didn't give a shit about the hard work of the production team, it was that the show came on a cable channel, Showtime I think, and so people who don't have cable, or don't have the Showtime channel available in their particular cable/satellite carrier, or even if they did have cable just weren't understandably going to order the one channel JUST for this one show... You know, your right, it was the ratings. I remember now. Everything I mentioned that was in the article was pointing out why the show was getting bad ratings even though it was incredibly popular. And Bruce Campbell did get mad. I think I read that he was completely walking away from the character because of everyone uploading the series for free on the internet. TBH this left a sour taste in my mouth in regards to Bruce C. I don't think the idea of freely uploading the series was as big as a "fuck your hard work" as BC thinks it was. Sure they might see it for free as it came out, but in the long run you have greater exposure this way. Not to mention that fans newly created this way and old fans alike would have eventually bought the series in a collectors pack. People who might have seen the series free would almost definitely continued to ingest future content wether it was the Evil Dead series or another project BC was working on. It the really liked Ash vs The Evil Dead then they would probably buy the series on Blu-ray to get the best picture, not the compressed crap you see online, they might get it for the extras that come on the Blu-ray such as director's or BC's commentary, there's some that would buy the entire series in a set specifically because they like having a physical copy in their possession. I mean I think we've almost all been in a situation where we were exposed to something for free in the internet but then liked it so much that later in life we ended up buying merchandise from that IP (games, models, cards, books, figurines, DVD's, etc.), and had we not been exposed to it for free we probably wouldn't have gotten to emotionally invested in the IP and as a result later we wouldn't have gotten financially invested in the IP. Plus not that I take it for face value as I haven't seen the actual research but, supposedly there was a study (by the Swedish I think, maybe French) that was done that resulted in that as a matter of fact, NO, pirated merchandise does NOT result in the millions of dollars once preached about. AND, as a matter of fact the study concluded that pirated merchandise actually ADDS profits to the IP holders/producers because of greater exposure. Anyways, too bad Bruce left pissed. The Ash vs Evil Dead series was phenomenal. But I don't know. If I worked hard on something only to have people take it for free would dishearten me pretty bad. But I also do see the logic of the study's supposed results of greater exposure, and people's need/want to have the best possible version including a real physical version of the thing in their possession at a fee would drive profits.

[@maxmoon4682]

CAN YOU DO DARKMAN NEXT,? PLEASE! 😁👍

[@francescagonzalezramos9442]

Apollo 11 is the best space movie since Apollo 13.

[@fearanarchy]

Space X has to do better on their Training Videos Also, now I gotta rewatch Evolver. I love that movie.

[@hunterkiller1984]

Uhh...it's Robert lesbian...bigot.

[@chiptankgirl]

Another favorite from my formative years. Keep up the great work!

[@trikkerman1]

Star Trek IV is the best one of them all IMO.

[@ericlochstampfor6545]

The "control room" looks like the nuclear reactor from Chernobyl.

[@Jeffrey314159]

That Soviet Era power plant is way more spartan

[@arthas640]

Alot of scifi movies took inspiration from nuclear powerplant control panels. I remember listening to some behind the scenes thing from a movie and they actually said they used a surplus panel from a nuclear powerplant (it had never been used)

[@epsilonalphaargo1948]

That's because the mission control scenes were filmed in a nuclear power station.

[@sweepingtime]

Wait, Chekhov and Ash in the same movie??

[@CybershamanX]

(4:41) LOL! "Screamers"! :P Hey! I remembered how in your review of Screamers (which those who haven't seen it should immediately go and watch after this video) you replaced the corny music they used when Peter Weller and the other guy started out on their long trek to the other base with music from, I _think_ it was the Fallout video game series. Wherever the music came from that you used, it _dramatically_ improved the feel and presentation of what was happening on the screen. :) Sometimes I wonder about the people who make these decisions. ;)

[@GoodBadFlicks]

I wonder if it was a music rights issue.

[@CybershamanX]

@@GoodBadFlicks For the movie makers? I don't know. I know you did your change because you thought it would have made a much better scene and you were right! ;)

[@vannk73]

"The 238,858 mile high club".. OMG this is priceless!

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Thanks!

[@anamorphicmind]

Its "Virus" before "Virus". Lol

[@The-Artless-Gallery]

Love this movie!!! My favorite actors.

[@jazpertube]

1989 Academy Award for the Cleanest Explosion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moontrap

[@melvinshine9841]

Wait, how did they get back to Earth? I'll assume the shuttle picked them up?

[@GoodBadFlicks]

The shuttle picked them up.

[@chickenlil180]

0:19 He changed his name to Robert Gavagan Cecil. Now that is joke not everyone will get but some of you got it and laughed.

[@MrRenegadeshinobi]

I got it. I love his channel

[@chickenlil180]

@@MrRenegadeshinobi Rob has always been a favorite of mine. I even liked his comedy stuff.

[@Tonalberry]

Making an Evolver reference? Oh he better review that movie sometime in the near future.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Eventually, yes :)

[@mouseeatscat667]

Moontap 2 target Earth...its not so good

[@SmashTom]

I could be wrong but I think he said 'space shuttle Endeavor' Great review and great movie :) You don't have a lot of horror movies that take place in outer space close to Earth. Most are on far distant planets and galaxies.

[@marccote2957]

Could you possibly do The haunting of seacliff inn sometime?

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Never seen, I'll see if I can find it.

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

I just bought MoonTrap on BluRay yesterday from Amazon.com and really loved it I also bought MindWarp on GooglePlay which is another movie starring Bruce Campbell MindWarp is like an early 80's-90's Matrix combined with MadMax

[@NerfZombieHunter]

The sequel is God awful!!!!!

[@Malrottian]

Is it bad that I know/like Koenig more for Bester from Babylon 5?

[@JnEricsonx]

Not really, he was excellent in that show as well.

[@jasonhunter2819]

I was pretty sure that you were an old O&A fan from previous videos, and now I know for certain. Spayshuttle Endeavurrr

[@suspicioustumbleweed4760]

Im not loiiiiiiyoing

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Yep, long time fan. (love you, love the show womp womp) I sneak in a reference ever so often. :)

[@nigellemaitre8363]

4:28 'having fun with zero gravity', on the moon??!!

[@KarlBunker]

Yeah; Srsly??

[@fredxjazz3696]

Bruce Campbell ,very professional as always :)

[@JnEricsonx]

Ah, the movie that as a kid confused me because, "I thought the guy who was Chekov on Star Trek really was Russian!"

[@DrQuagmire1]

@GoodBadFlicks..... FUN FACT: This movie got a semi-remake back in 1999 in the form of the movie "Virus", starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland. and that movie shows how an electrical alien lifeforce from outer space that somehow invades a Russian research vessel on the ocean, that later begins building murderous robots using spare parts from human bodies.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Virus was based on the comic of the same name. It was originally written as a script before Moontrap so really, its just a coincidence.

[@DrQuagmire1]

@@GoodBadFlicks the comic part I didn't know about, same for the script being written before "Moontrap" got released.

[@Greenhead24]

Can you do a video about 2001 space odyssey’s and 2010 first contact together in one video ?i don’t have motivation to watch both movies but I would like to watch you explain it

[@bleach8888]

4:00 - *mom walks into the house and hears them both grunting. (Doesn't see them doing push ups, and afraid to walk around the corner.) Dad: Come on son keep pushing, harder. Son: I can't dad, it hurts. I don't think I can do it with you anymore. Mom: *Faints* [Scene] Now that would be a better movie!

[@michaellangwaller]

I have always loved this movie. I remember seeing this on VHS only a few weeks after it came out. Please do the sequel. It is odd, terrible effects, and has nothing to do with the original movie. The "sequel" looks more like a reboot.

[@heidifedor]

At least his name wasn’t Richard.

[@AubreyTheKing]

Moontrap is fun! Though it's been awhile since I've seen it! I had no idea it was on Blu-ray! AWESOME! Thanks for reviewing this one, GBF! :)

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Thanks for watching!