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Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

John Boy from the Waltons goes out and recruits mercenaries to help fight off an evil space warlord. Among those he gets to help are the A-Team’s Hannibal, the bad guy from Superman III, and Stirba the werewolf bitch. It’s a fun cast. Roger Corman’s sci-fi remake of Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven is also the best Star Wars knockoff of the many that came out in the late ’70s and early ’80s. While many have called this movie cheap-looking, it’s actually fairly impressive for a Corman production. He would reuse these sets and some footage for future crappier low-budgeters. This is a fun sci-fi adventure movie that should entertain you if you don’t take it all so seriously.