B Movie Bonanza @lemmy.world LaurenceWolse @feddit.nl 2 mo. ago

The Humanoid (1979)

LIGHT YEARS BEYOND TOMORROW...

In the distant future, the planet Metropolis is a peaceful utopia led by The Great Brother. His reign is threatened, however, by Graal. Graal enlists the help of a mad scientist named Dr. Kraspin, who has a plan to make unstoppable supersoldiers he calls "Humanoids." For this he requires Kapitron, a powerful element that is kept at the Grovan Institute on Metropolis.

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Probably the most Star Wars-like movie that isn't actually part of the Star Wars franchise.

Also.. "LIGHT YEARS BEYOND TOMORROW?" A light-year is a unit of length, numbnuts, not time.
- I kinda REALLY want to watch this 😂
  
  You can find it on YouTube. 😉
- The same way that a parsec is a unit of time, numbnuts!
- Thanks! This looks kinda hilarious and awesome. Was able to find it on archive.org and grabbed a copy for my plex server : https://archive.org/details/the-humanoid
- That "probably" in your first sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting :D
  
  I wonder why George Lucas never sued them. In some parts it's such an obvious clone, near to a remake.
  
  I mean, I doubt this movie made a lot of profit, so I don't think suing them would be very beneficial?
Trailer here:

https://youtu.be/OUOsqkn7IDI

Wow, I'm 97% certain I saw this Star Wars knock off on TV when I was a kid but could never remember what it was. Thank you for this!
- Don't mention it! :)

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