I worked at Corman's New World pictures for a short while back in the 90s . I remember hearing a couple of people (I can't remember who they were - even if I ever knew) talking in the office one day about how they had been approached by a fan at a screening who had spotted they *hadn't* used any footage from Battle Beyond the Stars in their latest SF film - and was worried that they had somehow lost the rights.
Battle Beyond the Stars is one of the great bad movies of my youth. I'm happy that a small piece of it went on (and on and on) into the history of cinema.
I agree with your sentiment but I don't think it's a "great bad" movie. It's a rather good movie since it absolutely works and surpasses a lot of much more expensive Star Wars derivates.
Offhand, I'm thinking Tarzan's Desert Adventure, the adaptation of Off on a Comet (which might have had a different title) and an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
I'm absolutely amazed "Space Mutiny" wasn't one of the movies reusing that shot, but I guess they stuck to exclusively using old Battlestar Galactica footage.
I imagine there must be stock footage that's used more than this; the NASA footage of the ring thing coming off the bottom of a shuttle and that one nuclear test footage of the building being destroyed come to mind. but it's hard to imagine a film original shot being used more than this. The Battlestar Galactica miniatures maybe?
Stock footage of the moon landing played in context must have been featured in dozens to hundreds of movies but that's usually the character watching it in context not it trying to masquerade as new footage so it doesn't count
The ring is an interstage ring / separator from between the first and second stages of an apollo mission Saturn V rocket that pre-dated use of the shuttle :) There is similar video from several of the Apollo missions. But yes, it shows up all over the place.
@@HollywoodGothique According to Corman in the audio commentary, all of the Edgar Allan Poe pictures had the same budget for sets, but they put them in storage after each film so that each film looked more elaborate than the previous one.
Thanks for this amusing video. But the most often re-used shot could easily stem from Iron Eagle, which was the cinematic organ donor for quite a lot of jet action movies like Into The Sun, Black Thunder, Flight Of Fury, Warbus and many more. Check it out! ;)
If it was TV I guess the 80's Battlestar Galactica scenes would take the title. I think one of 3 Cylon ships making there way into battle was used at lest 3 times in each episode.
2:27 is a sound effect from original Battlestar Galactica. This is a sound when Viper is shooting. 2:42 is a line from Predator. The line is spoke by Sgt. 1st Class Blain Cooper (Jesse Ventura).
This, Krull and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan are the three movies that put James Horner on the map. His trademark use of fast arpeggios, bombastic brass themes and high string chords that characterised his early styles stood out among the other greats of the day such as Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams. Horner started moving away from his trademark early style with Willow, in which he started exploring more exotic instruments such as the shakuhachi, but for me his greatest and most inspiring pieces are the soundtracks he wrote for Bale Beyond the Stars, Krull and Star Trek II.
I remember being obsessed with BBTS , and then renting space raiders. The reused footage really diminished the emotional heft of space raiders.even at 10 years old I felt a bit robbed.😂
To this day I’m still not sure why Corman space movies I saw as a kid since they reuse so much it’s hard to tell them apart when blurred by 30 years of memories
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Reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica mini-series. We used to joke at how many times SFX shots were reused in it. Every time they got into a fight with the Cylons, it was just a mix of shots from the pilot, because they blew the SFX budget when they shot it. No more was budgeted for the mini-series.
So that was the name, I mentioned it. I was growing up and Dad would send us to bed when it came on. I got mad with his late night watching because with the volume all the way down I could never sleep due to the electric hum of the TV. Normal volume I could sleep through but turned down my ears picked up that buzz like a nat or fly in the ears.
It's not just the shot that was re-used from the film. Battle Beyond the Stars soundtrack has also appeared in other films too. One example being 'Wizards of Lost Kingdom'.
Battle Beyond the Stars, a light sci-fi take on the Magnificent Seven western (or the Seven Samurai, which was what both of these films were based on). It even had Robert Vaughn reprising his role from the Magnificent Seven, playing basically the same scenes but in space.
The Seven Samurai is probably the most remade movie in history. The latest one is Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. I haven't watched it but several reviewers called it "Seven Samurai in Space".
battle beyond the stars was my favourite film as a kid ,,i first saw it at the gaumont in doncaster and then i remember recording it on vhs from ITV, adbreaks included. the last time i counted, i had seen it 25 times.
Same, here, it was far better than had need to be for a Roger Corman film! Great cast, cool ships, a freaking James Horner soundtrack. My favourite Corman film after X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes. Edit: I grew up in Donny as well. They have the old Gaumont mural outside the Cast theatre now.
There should also be a database (though likely to be huge) of productions with the sound of the screaming guy called 'The Wilhelm scream'. It's been used in over 400 films but they should add TV programmes to the list and it originated in 1951 in the film Distant Drums.
There is one piece of footage from the 70's of a car going over a cliff and exploding halfway down. It has been used in dozens of movies and TV shows. The last movie I saw it turn up in was Black Dynamite.
Let's all pay our dues to Garth the Frog Fighter. May you fly across space, blasting your green laser blasts for ever more - or until you get blasted into smitheroonies by Richard Thomas or Robert Vaughn or George Peppard or Marc Singer... Now, how about that majestic theme music from James Horner? That's been heard on at least three different Corman films...
Phenomenally random and pointless. Might have been sort-of funny 30 years ago, but it's always kind of pathetic to hear somebody cite something hugely-popular and whine that 'nobody asked for this'.
Two thing to think about, there was stock footage from WWII used for decades in B Films. There was also test footage from the Nike missile test firing, that was also used in TV and films in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. So, was Garth Brooks the most used footage ever, maybe, but probably not.
I love this film, and showed it to my bad movie loving kids not that long ago. It's worth mentioning that its writer John Sayles, like many in the Corman stable, went on to become a critically acclaimed writer/director. Like Star Wars, BBTS is based upon an Akira Kurosawa film (in this case, The Seven Samurai).
I had no real idea what that shot was, nor am I familiar with any of the movies that feature it. But just from watching your other videos I knew it was going to be this shot.
I never saw Battle Beyond the Stars or any of the other movies that used the clip and after seeing the scenes from each of them here I consider that a blessing.
I've always had a soft spot for Battle beyond the stars. I probably watched it as much as Star wars as a kid. The main ship (the female torso one) was also reused quite a few times as well.
As a kid who watched (and LOVED by the way) 'Battle beyond the Stars' I DID notice the re-used shot of that fugly ship shooting its lasers in other films (I think it was 'Starquest' I noticed its first, er, 'Copy shot', so, thank you for giving us more details on this little gem! 👍 😎🇬🇧
The alligator/crocodile entering the water stock clips used in every black & white adventure film or show, tgen the brownish color version used from the 60's-80's. And the Tarzan swinging scenes. Or the liberary of roto-scoped animations reused for a bunch of animations.
I'm pretty sure they used that shot in Corman's "Android" as well ( one of his BEST productions, imo) Maybe not that exact shot, but I remember that they re-used footage from "Battle Beyond the Stars"
I was expecting it to be a shot of those weird sloped rocks in California (Vasquez Rocks) that get used as an alien planet, and also in about every western movie set in the southwest.
There was a similar shot in the original battlestar gallactica that was in literally every episode, where a bad guy was shot from behind while trying to fly up and to the left.
I absolutely adore BBTS. Easily in my top 3 fave movies of all time. And in a weird coincidence, one of my wife's all time faves is The Snowman, which has Jimmy Murakami as animation supervisor.
the only thing good about "battle beyond the stars" was Sybil danning and her costume. how often was that cleavage footage reused? never saw any of the other films mentioned. and i have a nice, little collection of low budget, independent and "so-bad-they're-good" films on dvd. anyone up for a marathon of the japanese classic superhero series "starman?"
There were numerous shots in the original Battlestar Galactica that were used repeatedly in the series. There was a movie called Space Mutiny that re-used the effects.
Will you can say the same about Star Trek. You can see the original pilot Enterprise thru out the show . Of coarse that all change when to digitally redid the effect shots years later.
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I've unfortunately watched the Droid Gunner (Cyberzone) from 1995. Came across as ultra-cheap and mainly lazy without any thought put into it. It wasn't a B-movie, but rather a "C-movie". I later felt a bit sorry for its lead actor Marc Singer; in the '80s he was on The Beastmaster, V, Dallas, or The Twilight Zone, among others. The "film" was a hotchpotch mixture of space-based far-future sci-fi, post-apocalyptic dystopian near-future sci-fi laced with a bit of cyberpunk, "classic" 1980s-esque actioner, chase flick, and a sleazy erotic softcore. From a certain point of view, it was actually quite fascinating (that it existed in the first place), but in a disturbing way. And no, the disaster was not one of those "so bad that it's good" fares. It was just "bad baaad"!
Battle Beyond the Stars is right up there with Dark Star for creative reuse of everyday items as props. The one that jumped out at me was the lime green passenger bucket seat from a 1969 Pontiac Firebird that was the command chair in George Peppard's spaceship but that was just one of many!
Applies more to television than cinema, but the most reused at least effects shot is: I call it the banking cylon. From pilot telefilm of 1970s Battlestar Galactica, by Apogee vfx. It's a 3 second shot of a space fighter banking to the right, some laser bolts track to it, and it disintegrates with a over cranked firework pyro insert. When the funds were running low before cancellation, must have used this half dozen times in an episode. Was reused specifically in space mutiny. And the explosions shot for the pilot, were reused in The Last Starfighter, and series Space:Above and Beyond.
loved BBTS as a kid. Taped it off the TV one summer, and watched it 53 times before I went back to school 6 weeks later. And absolutely knew 7 was the original shot. I think that's burned into my retinas by now!
It's the spfx equivalent of the Wilhelm Scream. This shot needs to be made available online for download so that budding moviemakers can insert it, as an homage, into their own home movie masterpieces.
I remember seeing shots from the 1978 Superman The Movie in an episode of Knight Rider. It was the miniature effects shots where Superman pushes rocks down a slope to create a dam, cutting away before Superman appeared. Universal Studios must have licensed the footage from Warner Bros.
I know the main villain ship was reused in the Sci-fi TV movie based on the Lifeboat with Michael Ironside in the lead roll. It was a can you solve the mystery at home special event/competition. Plus the explosion sound effect was reused in Battlestar, Buck Rogers 25th Century and Airplane when he throws the cigarette out the window. And Airplane 2.
@@DrWhom My name is based on the Phil Harris song, "The Mountaineer and the Jabberwock" which describes it as a bird for no apparent reason. Maybe just to have enough syllables to make the song lyrics work.
There is a shot of cars exploding in chain reaction in Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) that is re-used in every Toho special effects film made after it up through Godzilla 1985. Probably the rarest film that uses it is Deathquake.
War of the Worlds had a scene where a Martian war machine destroys the Los Angeles City Hall. The building destruction also appears in Earth vs the Flying Saucers and the V television series.
You have to watch so many bad movies in order to do these videos... it feels like you are that one soldier who jumps onto the grenade to save everyone else... Thank you, for your suffering...so we won't have to suffer.
I would bet that the most re-used shot is going to be either a library shot of a plane taking off, or an old western shot of a stagecoach or something.
I worked at Corman's New World pictures for a short while back in the 90s . I remember hearing a couple of people (I can't remember who they were - even if I ever knew) talking in the office one day about how they had been approached by a fan at a screening who had spotted they *hadn't* used any footage from Battle Beyond the Stars in their latest SF film - and was worried that they had somehow lost the rights.
lmao
and was ... _worried?_
Had me already sold new world by the mid 80s, and started New Concord /new horizons.
You're probably right - it was 30+ years ago.@@shanecochran2491
Battle Beyond the Stars is one of the great bad movies of my youth. I'm happy that a small piece of it went on (and on and on) into the history of cinema.
Yes I liked her too.
I think I was about 13 when I first watched it, I remember thinking this is terrible, I'd rather watch a episode of the Walton's.
Be sure to watch Space Raiders. Nearly all of the space effects were recycled from Battle Beyond the Stars.
Same here, it was the literal "we have Star Was at home".
I agree with your sentiment but I don't think it's a "great bad" movie. It's a rather good movie since it absolutely works and surpasses a lot of much more expensive Star Wars derivates.
We mustn't forget the "dinosaur fight" from the 1940s movie One Million BC. It showed up in many movies and tv shows.
Oh! Oh! I think I've seen it in The Wizard of Speed And Time!
Offhand, I'm thinking Tarzan's Desert Adventure, the adaptation of Off on a Comet (which might have had a different title) and an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Great call.
It's in Robot Monster. Twice.
I'm absolutely amazed "Space Mutiny" wasn't one of the movies reusing that shot, but I guess they stuck to exclusively using old Battlestar Galactica footage.
and I'm absolutely amazed "Galaxy Quest" wasn't one either - it would've been pretty appropriate and could've easily been snuck in somewhere too.
The car flip from Troma has to be it. Since they have been using it since, I am guessing the mid-80s.
I imagine there must be stock footage that's used more than this; the NASA footage of the ring thing coming off the bottom of a shuttle and that one nuclear test footage of the building being destroyed come to mind. but it's hard to imagine a film original shot being used more than this. The Battlestar Galactica miniatures maybe?
Stock footage of the moon landing played in context must have been featured in dozens to hundreds of movies but that's usually the character watching it in context not it trying to masquerade as new footage so it doesn't count
I know that I have seen the Apollo 11 liftoff used in different contexts.
The ring is an interstage ring / separator from between the first and second stages of an apollo mission Saturn V rocket that pre-dated use of the shuttle :) There is similar video from several of the Apollo missions.
But yes, it shows up all over the place.
The viper launch sequences seemed to take up 10 minutes of every episode...
Both sources of which are also science fiction.
Roger Corman's castle is used in dozens of films too from The Terror to a couple of the Deathstalker films.
Originally seen in THE RAVEN, I think - and as you say, in many films thereafter.
Also if there was a burning building, the footage from House of Usher was always reused.
@@HollywoodGothique According to Corman in the audio commentary, all of the Edgar Allan Poe pictures had the same budget for sets, but they put them in storage after each film so that each film looked more elaborate than the previous one.
Thanks for this amusing video. But the most often re-used shot could easily stem from Iron Eagle, which was the cinematic organ donor for quite a lot of jet action movies like Into The Sun, Black Thunder, Flight Of Fury, Warbus and many more. Check it out! ;)
I just want to highlight what a wonderful phrase "cinematic organ donor" is - bravo!
If it was TV I guess the 80's Battlestar Galactica scenes would take the title. I think one of 3 Cylon ships making there way into battle was used at lest 3 times in each episode.
I was thinking of BG: the amount of ship-based recycling was enormous
One day I'd like to see a database of all the movies and TV that overuse that Rusty Gate sound
I like it when it used on a gate that isn't rusty.
Or when it is used to depict a hatch or door being opened on a ship. Wooden doors included.
Lol right. This one always stands out to me.
@@killzoneisa omg it happens soooo often
... or the same wolf howl in horror films.
"Garth Brooks" is also just a very good name for a frog, and it is a shot of a frog fighter.
yes, it can say its own name
2:27 is a sound effect from original Battlestar Galactica. This is a sound when Viper is shooting.
2:42 is a line from Predator. The line is spoke by Sgt. 1st Class Blain Cooper (Jesse Ventura).
... so the 1980 movie used a line from a 1987 movie?
@@rossbrown6469 No. The cribbed line from Predator was re-used in "Droid Gunner" from 1995.
Nope, it is from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. BSG reused it if I remember correctly.
@@darahdoyle3176 Battlestar Galactica is from 1978 and Buck Rogers is from 1979.
@@darahdoyle3176 BSG was 1978, Buck Rogers was 1980
You have managed to engrain this shot into my brain. Every time I now watch a Corman movie, I’m gonna be expecting this, no matter the genre.
This, Krull and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan are the three movies that put James Horner on the map. His trademark use of fast arpeggios, bombastic brass themes and high string chords that characterised his early styles stood out among the other greats of the day such as Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams.
Horner started moving away from his trademark early style with Willow, in which he started exploring more exotic instruments such as the shakuhachi, but for me his greatest and most inspiring pieces are the soundtracks he wrote for Bale Beyond the Stars, Krull and Star Trek II.
directors arent the ones making musical cues or themes at all, thats not the directors job
I suppose that is why Mystikan wrote a comment about the composer and not the director.@@nomercyinc6783
Pino Donnagio was also great in this period, he did a lot of the De Palma movies like Body Double and Dressed to kill
I remember being obsessed with BBTS , and then renting space raiders. The reused footage really diminished the emotional heft of space raiders.even at 10 years old I felt a bit robbed.😂
Bc u were
To this day I’m still not sure why Corman space movies I saw as a kid since they reuse so much it’s hard to tell
them apart when blurred by 30 years of memories
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Man, I remember seeing Battle Beyond the Stars in the theater, and thinking "OMG! John Boy!" 🤣🤣
Reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica mini-series. We used to joke at how many times SFX shots were reused in it. Every time they got into a fight with the Cylons, it was just a mix of shots from the pilot, because they blew the SFX budget when they shot it. No more was budgeted for the mini-series.
Battlestar came to my mind as well. Lots and lots of reuse across the series.
The ship seen at 0:55 was also featured in 90s softcore sci fi Emmanuelle in Space. Apparently. My friend told me.
So that was the name, I mentioned it. I was growing up and Dad would send us to bed when it came on. I got mad with his late night watching because with the volume all the way down I could never sleep due to the electric hum of the TV. Normal volume I could sleep through but turned down my ears picked up that buzz like a nat or fly in the ears.
It's not just the shot that was re-used from the film. Battle Beyond the Stars soundtrack has also appeared in other films too. One example being 'Wizards of Lost Kingdom'.
It's an amazing James Horner score
@@Dask011It's Roger Corman, so he probably took whatever Horner knocked out as a first draft and went with it
And Space Raiders if memory serves.
The music is used in Star Trek III when the Bird of Prey is struck.
@@brunozeigerts6379 Definitely an evolution musically of the same idea, but not a reuse of the existing score or recording.
Battle Beyond the Stars, a light sci-fi take on the Magnificent Seven western (or the Seven Samurai, which was what both of these films were based on). It even had Robert Vaughn reprising his role from the Magnificent Seven, playing basically the same scenes but in space.
I have this, along with Seven Samurai, and Magnificent 7, one of my favorite triptychs.
The Seven Samurai is probably the most remade movie in history. The latest one is Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. I haven't watched it but several reviewers called it "Seven Samurai in Space".
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battle beyond the stars was my favourite film as a kid ,,i first saw it at the gaumont in doncaster and then i remember recording it on vhs from ITV, adbreaks included.
the last time i counted, i had seen it 25 times.
Same, here, it was far better than had need to be for a Roger Corman film! Great cast, cool ships, a freaking James Horner soundtrack. My favourite Corman film after X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes. Edit: I grew up in Donny as well. They have the old Gaumont mural outside the Cast theatre now.
There should also be a database (though likely to be huge) of productions with the sound of the screaming guy called 'The Wilhelm scream'. It's been used in over 400 films but they should add TV programmes to the list and it originated in 1951 in the film Distant Drums.
Yes, and also the stock "hawk screech" - from pretty much any time any bird of prey appears in any movie.
or the cat screech every time a cat passes through frame - they are actually really quiet when fleeing @@parisgreen4600
For the most reused sound effect it's probably the ricochet ping. That one goes back to the start of sound films.
I don't ever want to hear the Wilhelm Scream again. Ever. The joke stopped being funny about 15 years ago. Literally.
@@TheRegularjoe1365you're lame.
The reverse shot is used twice in Star Portal (1997) at 0:46 and 0:59
I think my film teacher was in Star Slammer, Rob Tinnel.
The guy in Star Slammer is wearing the armor from Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
It also briefly appears in Michael Jackson’s “Captain EO.”
There is one piece of footage from the 70's of a car going over a cliff and exploding halfway down. It has been used in dozens of movies and TV shows. The last movie I saw it turn up in was Black Dynamite.
If it's the shot I'm thinking of, it's from The Car, a 1977 horror/slasher film
The shot of a torpedo running after being launched . See it everywhere
Recently rewatched Battle here on UA-cam. Loved it as a kid, really wholesome and engaging nonsense, and for me, it stands the test of time.
This video was a tease. I need more TBMB content in my life! Can't wait for the next one.
Let's all pay our dues to Garth the Frog Fighter. May you fly across space, blasting your green laser blasts for ever more - or until you get blasted into smitheroonies by Richard Thomas or Robert Vaughn or George Peppard or Marc Singer...
Now, how about that majestic theme music from James Horner? That's been heard on at least three different Corman films...
Calling it Garth Brooks because it used to be everywhere despite no one asking for it.
Simply phenomenal.
Phenomenally random and pointless. Might have been sort-of funny 30 years ago, but it's always kind of pathetic to hear somebody cite something hugely-popular and whine that 'nobody asked for this'.
A more updated answer would be The Kardashians.
@@jamescarter3196 Chill out dude
Two thing to think about, there was stock footage from WWII used for decades in B Films. There was also test footage from the Nike missile test firing, that was also used in TV and films in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. So, was Garth Brooks the most used footage ever, maybe, but probably not.
@Carlton-B Lot of tv and b Movies did for decades.
I love this film, and showed it to my bad movie loving kids not that long ago. It's worth mentioning that its writer John Sayles, like many in the Corman stable, went on to become a critically acclaimed writer/director. Like Star Wars, BBTS is based upon an Akira Kurosawa film (in this case, The Seven Samurai).
Sayles is a respected screenwriter but a joke of a director.
Hm. I guess the original Battlestar Galactica doesn’t quite count, as it was the Television series that reused the movie shots.
I had no real idea what that shot was, nor am I familiar with any of the movies that feature it. But just from watching your other videos I knew it was going to be this shot.
What about that one of the two lizards fighting? It's in Robot Monster. Lost Continent. And I believe a few others.
My first though too. Originally shot for the original One Million Years BC (1940) starring Victor Mature
I’ve watched four of the nine - I’m embarrassed to admit.
I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't seen any
"Let's get outta here!" 😆😆
I never saw Battle Beyond the Stars or any of the other movies that used the clip and after seeing the scenes from each of them here I consider that a blessing.
They "almost" used this scene but used parts from the same space battle in Bachelor Party (1984).
I've always had a soft spot for Battle beyond the stars. I probably watched it as much as Star wars as a kid.
The main ship (the female torso one) was also reused quite a few times as well.
As a kid who watched (and LOVED by the way) 'Battle beyond the Stars' I DID notice the re-used shot of that fugly ship shooting its lasers in other films (I think it was 'Starquest' I noticed its first, er, 'Copy shot', so, thank you for giving us more details on this little gem! 👍
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The alligator/crocodile entering the water stock clips used in every black & white adventure film or show, tgen the brownish color version used from the 60's-80's.
And the Tarzan swinging scenes.
Or the liberary of roto-scoped animations reused for a bunch of animations.
Cool. I’m looking forward to that ninja video, Rob!
I'm pretty sure they used that shot in Corman's "Android" as well ( one of his BEST productions, imo) Maybe not that exact shot, but I remember that they re-used footage from "Battle Beyond the Stars"
Using that clip from Constantine whilst talking about Twitter was perfection.
I was expecting it to be a shot of those weird sloped rocks in California (Vasquez Rocks) that get used as an alien planet, and also in about every western movie set in the southwest.
There was a similar shot in the original battlestar gallactica that was in literally every episode, where a bad guy was shot from behind while trying to fly up and to the left.
"Hooray for our side!" 😂
I ain't got time to bleed ! Re-used line in Predator 😂
More of this please!
The White Sands test launch of a V2 rocket must have been in more movies!
Driod Gunner - "I aint got time to bleed'... sounds better in the Predator movie
The ITV Whodunnit 'Murder in Space' also used stock footage of Sador's mothership
And their escape shuttle was Saint-Exmin’s Valkyrie fighter.
That "flying toward the camera" shot from Superman IV has to be up there in uses too.
Wow! My head is buzzing from all bells ringing in my early childhood memories! “I don’t have time to bleed.”
Any risk of a video on Mad Max-alikes? Enquiring minds want to know...
I absolutely adore BBTS. Easily in my top 3 fave movies of all time. And in a weird coincidence, one of my wife's all time faves is The Snowman, which has Jimmy Murakami as animation supervisor.
I'm not sure about 'shots', but I bet the 'Wilhelm scream' is the most re-used cinematic audio 🙂 .
Thanks for this! This shot is more of an in-movie meme by now
Go, little Frog Fighter, go!
the only thing good about "battle beyond the stars" was Sybil danning and her costume. how often was that cleavage footage reused? never saw any of the other films mentioned. and i have a nice, little collection of low budget, independent and "so-bad-they're-good" films on dvd. anyone up for a marathon of the japanese classic superhero series "starman?"
There were numerous shots in the original Battlestar Galactica that were used repeatedly in the series. There was a movie called Space Mutiny that re-used the effects.
Will you can say the same about Star Trek. You can see the original pilot Enterprise thru out the show . Of coarse that all change when to digitally redid the effect shots years later.
@@majorneptunejr That's true. Of course, shots of the Enterprise moving through space tend to look the same.
I'm honestly shocked Star Crash didn't use this shot
This is the best, most critically important YT video of all time. I needed to know this for my own personal wellbeing trash movie collection. Thankyou BMB! *I am being serious too :)
Ive not heard of any of these movies. Hopefully thats a good thing
Forbidden world is great
I've unfortunately watched the Droid Gunner (Cyberzone) from 1995. Came across as ultra-cheap and mainly lazy without any thought put into it. It wasn't a B-movie, but rather a "C-movie". I later felt a bit sorry for its lead actor Marc Singer; in the '80s he was on The Beastmaster, V, Dallas, or The Twilight Zone, among others.
The "film" was a hotchpotch mixture of space-based far-future sci-fi, post-apocalyptic dystopian near-future sci-fi laced with a bit of cyberpunk, "classic" 1980s-esque actioner, chase flick, and a sleazy erotic softcore. From a certain point of view, it was actually quite fascinating (that it existed in the first place), but in a disturbing way. And no, the disaster was not one of those "so bad that it's good" fares. It was just "bad baaad"!
@subraxas like a typical Seagal movie, baaaaad
Battle Beyond the Stars is right up there with Dark Star for creative reuse of everyday items as props. The one that jumped out at me was the lime green passenger bucket seat from a 1969 Pontiac Firebird that was the command chair in George Peppard's spaceship but that was just one of many!
Corman uses every part of the buffelo
This stock footage turned up in my vacation home movies... how much of my childhood is make believe?!?😮
I thought the most reused shot was the "dinosaurs" fighting footage from One Million BC. [looks it up] 10 movies plus itself is 11.
that last scene is an inverse of Spock's famous line and it's glorious 🤣🤣
I love it when a plan comes together.
@ 0:30 Not from behind, no! (giggity)
Droid Gunner uses same line from sci-fi movie Predator "Oh my god you're bleeding", "I ain't got time to bleed"
It’s probably the one with a person in the frame. That’s in basically EVERY movie EVER.
That "i dont have time to bleed" line was also used by jesse venturas character in predator
It’s in Ultra Warrior near the start when they’re talking about the Martian terrorists
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Applies more to television than cinema, but the most reused at least effects shot is:
I call it the banking cylon. From pilot telefilm of 1970s Battlestar Galactica, by Apogee vfx.
It's a 3 second shot of a space fighter banking to the right, some laser bolts track to it, and it disintegrates with a over cranked firework pyro insert.
When the funds were running low before cancellation, must have used this half dozen times in an episode. Was reused specifically in space mutiny.
And the explosions shot for the pilot, were reused in The Last Starfighter, and series Space:Above and Beyond.
I have never seen any of these movies. I feel that’s a good thing
loved BBTS as a kid. Taped it off the TV one summer, and watched it 53 times before I went back to school 6 weeks later. And absolutely knew 7 was the original shot. I think that's burned into my retinas by now!
The most re-used sound effect has got to be The Wilhelm Scream.
May the Outer Gods bless you for putting the phrase 'exploitaneers' into my lexicon. I will be using it very, very often. Thank you.
It's the spfx equivalent of the Wilhelm Scream. This shot needs to be made available online for download so that budding moviemakers can insert it, as an homage, into their own home movie masterpieces.
Mark Singer deserved to be in better movies after the 80s.
Zach Snyder is practically remaking this with Rebel Moon. All that is missing is a hero ship with a big rack.
That's what I thought after the first ten minutes, and Rebel Moon wasn't nearly as fun!
Thanks for the Garth Brooks reference. . . I now have milky coffee sprayed all over my laptop from laughing at it!😂
What the hell?
How did I grow up in this era, watching sci-fi movies, but yet I've NEVER heard of any of these?!
I remember seeing shots from the 1978 Superman The Movie in an episode of Knight Rider. It was the miniature effects shots where Superman pushes rocks down a slope to create a dam, cutting away before Superman appeared. Universal Studios must have licensed the footage from Warner Bros.
I know the main villain ship was reused in the Sci-fi TV movie based on the Lifeboat with Michael Ironside in the lead roll. It was a can you solve the mystery at home special event/competition. Plus the explosion sound effect was reused in Battlestar, Buck Rogers 25th Century and Airplane when he throws the cigarette out the window. And Airplane 2.
Write clearly, live old timey, and have a cheery Christmas ending. Oh wait, this isn't the Walton's Homecoming.
the bird in Jabberwocky is a jub jub
@@DrWhom My name is based on the Phil Harris song, "The Mountaineer and the Jabberwock" which describes it as a bird for no apparent reason. Maybe just to have enough syllables to make the song lyrics work.
Lol, leave it to Fred Olen Ray to swipe a line from the Predator. "I don't have time to bleed."
There is a shot of cars exploding in chain reaction in Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) that is re-used in every Toho special effects film made after it up through Godzilla 1985. Probably the rarest film that uses it is Deathquake.
War of the Worlds had a scene where a Martian war machine destroys the Los Angeles City Hall. The building destruction also appears in Earth vs the Flying Saucers and the V television series.
I remember seeing Battle Beyond the Stars and Cyberzone as part of the same double feature and the reuse of so many shots.
Steve The Bear checking in: “That-that’s terrible I’m sorry.” 😂
You have to watch so many bad movies in order to do these videos... it feels like you are that one soldier who jumps onto the grenade to save everyone else...
Thank you, for your suffering...so we won't have to suffer.
I would bet that the most re-used shot is going to be either a library shot of a plane taking off, or an old western shot of a stagecoach or something.
Bill and Ted's excellent adventure reused footage from "Waterloo" for the Napoleon battlefield sequence