It's fine to hate Spaceship aka Naked Space. It's equally fine to love it and most folks who do saw it at a young age on USA cable. What's not fine is to not understand what you are watching, so let me help you. The soundtrack to this film came out a couple of years ago, and in the liner notes the writer/director goes into detail about what happened.
The simple version is that Bruce Kimmel wrote and directed a movie called The Creature Wasn't Nice. At some point, it was taken away from him and completely re-cut in an attempt to make it like Airplane, a series of gags (even though Airplane is not just a series of gags, which is why it works), with plot thrown out the window. What the original version was was a linear film, a literal spoof of Alien and 50s sci-fi monster on board the spaceship films. With a few musical numbers. In the re-cut, scenes were put in completely random order so that when the film isn't funny it isn't anything. Yes, there are funny bits still in the movie and even the one-star reviews here acknowledge that.
But I just read that we will finally get to see the original cut of the film and I'm hoping that it gives this film some vindication.
So, to put a period to this: This is not the film the writer/director actually made - in the original version there are no Japanese monster movie clips, there is no stupid rock music, no hip disc jockey voice for the computer, and on and on.
The simple version is that Bruce Kimmel wrote and directed a movie called The Creature Wasn't Nice. At some point, it was taken away from him and completely re-cut in an attempt to make it like Airplane, a series of gags (even though Airplane is not just a series of gags, which is why it works), with plot thrown out the window. What the original version was was a linear film, a literal spoof of Alien and 50s sci-fi monster on board the spaceship films. With a few musical numbers. In the re-cut, scenes were put in completely random order so that when the film isn't funny it isn't anything. Yes, there are funny bits still in the movie and even the one-star reviews here acknowledge that.
But I just read that we will finally get to see the original cut of the film and I'm hoping that it gives this film some vindication.
So, to put a period to this: This is not the film the writer/director actually made - in the original version there are no Japanese monster movie clips, there is no stupid rock music, no hip disc jockey voice for the computer, and on and on.