 Hello and welcome to today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten's Trash or Treasure I Am The Trash. I'm The Treasure and today we're going to be covering 1989's Moontrap. So the movie starts off in 1969 and we see the original moon landing. Neil Armstrong, that's one small step for man, you know, that crap. All that fake crap that Stanley Kubrick directed just as they're leaving in the module You see this robot come up out of the sand and start watching them leave. It fast-forwards to present day and we get introduced to Jason Grant and Ray Tanner who are a couple of astronauts hanging around up in spaces, chilling out, just circling the earth, I guess. Rays all sleeping and everything. A craft kind of floats on by the radio earth and they tell them to go investigate. So Jason Grant goes out to the ship and when he goes out there he finds this like egg thing. He also sees a mummified body of what looks to be like a human being. They take all this stuff back to earth, they start analyzing the the body and that egg sack thing and they find out that- The ball sack. They find out that there's moon dust on all this stuff and all this stuff carbon dates back to 14,000 years ago. While they're kind of arguing back and forth about what they should do, that egg sack opens up and all these wires and everything starts shooting out and the robot starts to put itself back together using like spare parts from the computers and body parts too from that body that's laying there. Goes on a bit of a killing spree inside the complex. Huge too, yeah. There's a bunch of guards in everything that got to shoot the thing down. Jason Grant goes crawling through all these darks, all these darks, kind of snipers down this robot and kills it. He's hanging out with the Sun all doing these push ups. Yeah everything's all old. Then he gets a call from Rays all drunk at the bar shooting his mouth off with all this top secret information. He goes down to the bar and Rays tells them, well, guess what, Green lit the mission to go back to the moon and find out what the hell all this is that we found on that ship They go back to the moon and they land on the moon with the landing module and they leave a third guy up in space Orbiting in the shuttle Jason and Ray hop on this rover and start driving around Yeah, come across this temple thing that's there or they never saw it before on our novel It's all huge So they walk into this giant temple is huge big halls It's like massive stumble upon this little area and they see this woman It's like in stasis press a couple of buttons and Chamber opens up and she comes out. Of course. She's all hot. Yeah. Yeah. She's got some mullet Alien mullet Hey, it's the 80s. Yeah, so they're trying to communicate to this woman to get ambushed by all these alien robots We're trying to fend them off and this big huge alien robot just picks up Ray Huxham. Yeah, and it's all kind of slow because it's the moon Jason runs over and like oh, you know, buddy, and they kind of have a little moment there and he can Die yeah arms Jason and this alien woman are kind of stuck on the moon The rovers run out of batteries. Yeah, they go back to where the landing module was and it's gone They're stuck on the moon with these alien robots after them So if you want to find out what happens at the end of moon trap, we'll keep watching So that brings us to the treasure of this movie, but before that what are we drinking? We're drinking Boyd's journey a Sierra Nevada clone. Hmm. What's the treasure of moon trap? One of the treasures is the plot of the movie the whole idea and concept of the movie, which is really cool and It's really neat how they managed to cram a lot of ideas Into this movie that either hadn't been really done before or explored before in other movies Or you see later in like even Prometheus human origin stories and stuff like that Yeah, it's really neat actually in a B movie like this another treasure about this movie is the actors Well, we have the B movie master himself Bruce Campbell is in this and he really kind of steals the show Yeah, he knocks it out of the park He's got a great death scene too. I like how he dies and I like how he comes back Yeah, that's that's really cool, too And we have Walter Koenig who famously played check off in the Star Trek series and of course all the original Star Trek movies That's right. Has anybody ever told you you scream a lot like check off? No, I don't yeah, you do like that time I beat you in Mario Kart That time we were drinking and we ran out of beer You know that was our last beer, right and that time when you hid my vcr remote They're young enter through the ear canal and wrap themselves round the cerebral cortex Rendering their victim highly susceptible to suggestion It's just a gummy worm Well, at least I don't dress like check off in search for spark And the characters too are quite good and especially the relationship between the characters I really like the relationship between Jason and Ray really good buddies feel their tightness Yeah, that's right. Oh, you really feel and believe that they're like best buddies It's been through a lot together believe their hierarchy in the movie too, right? Yes, Jason is the commanding officer Ray respects the fact that Jason out ranks a very Star Trek like Uh-huh. Hmm. The music for this movie is actually pretty decent. It's not Great, but it fits the movie pretty well very ominous and eerie tone to it Sort of just like the moon does help you feel like you're there And the pasting for this movie is really good too for like a 93 minute movie it crams a lot in those 93 minutes quite rapid fire Really, it's like bang bang bang bang bang bang and the effects for this movie are are actually pretty decent The robots are pretty cool. You know for what they are the stop motion parts We're like those tentacles are coming out of the pod looks really good. Yeah. Yeah, that's neat And the sets are really good like man the moon is looks like the fucking moon it looks real Yeah, looks awesome. It's a good moon set. Yeah, what if they bore that from Kubrick? Hmm. Yeah, probably not that we believe the moon landing was faked, but it's just funny to joke That leads us to the trash about moon trap and it's also on the flip side of the coin Some of the effects are kind of trash too, right these models They use these super blatant models like when they're on that rover. Yeah, you can tell it's just some toys Yeah, I'm down some sand or something in a fucking sandbox and the footage is all kind of Everything like it's all jittery when they're floating in space. It's just like some toy. They got it the fucking toys started they're kind of Floating through the space and it's funny cuz like a lot of those effects happen like right in the same chunk of the Movie, so it throws you off because in the beginning there's all these good effects. Yeah, the middle There's like all these shitty models and stuff and then the end it gets good again So it's like this little chunk in the movie where it's kind of tacky, right? Yeah, the dialogue for this movie is is pretty cheesy as well Cheesy to the point where it almost makes the movie into sort of a half comedy the dialogue between the characters for the most Part is good. Yeah one liners the cheesy one liners. It doesn't fit the tone the serious tone of the movie The final frontier We know you're from Star Trek. You don't need to put all that in there like yeah, I just rammed that home can't escape And there is a lot of silliness in this movie stuff Is this like okay like they're just hanging out in space before they find the ship hanging out Yeah, wasting taxpayers money just up there is like doing nothing You know the fact that they stumble upon this ship and like no radar or anything said like by the way guys There's a big fucking spaceship up there some enormous ship. It's kind of like oh, what's that gets with that? young chick to that Daily They set up that tent thing and the gutterlies the unrealistic space Live on the moon in this space It's like this big yeah, in case they press the button. Yeah some huge thing they can go in there and like live Yeah, there's no Anything like take off their helmets to get all naked you have these bro-bots that are trying to kill you Yeah, that should be the last thing on your fucking mind getting with some alien broad who knows like what kind of weird disease Yeah, whatever in this space tent thinking like okay got one of those just colonize the moon already Yeah, yeah Can I make a fucking town in there? Yeah another piece of trash for this is the pacing as well Which we mentioned for the treasure, but there's also problems with the pacing though to paste almost too quick To where it's glossed over a lot of things right explanation for things They don't fit in the fact that they're going to the moon back and forth so quick Makes it feel like it should take place in the future or something that you can go back and forth all like Oh, this is go to the moon. Mm-hmm, but I think they only did that to cut the runtime down Yeah, things that should be drawn out for probably run time make it seem Unrealistic and unexplained. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yes, so it does feel like there are Holes here and there. Yeah. Yeah, you'd have a movie with this kind of Concepts. Yeah, we'll have a lot of plot holes in this movie's full of Moontrap trash or treasure. It's treasure. It's treasure, too. It's a lot of fun That is even though it's silly and full of plot holes Come on. You got Walter Koenig in there. You got Bruce Campbell. What more do you need really alien robots on the moon? Yeah, yeah, not space babes see alien boobs. Yeah, I mean come on. It's a lot like a Roger Corman movie Yeah, maybe with a little better production value Yeah, but if you like those types of cheesy late 80s movies, this is right up your alley Exactly and until next time keep drinking