Oblivion

Plot synopsis:
In 2077, sixty years after a war with extraterrestrials that devastated Earth in 2017, humanity has relocated to Saturn's moon Titan via a giant space station called the Tet. Gigantic offshore fusion energy generators drain Earth's oceans to power the colonies on Titan.
Led by mission controller Sally and guided by his housemate and communications partner Victoria "Vika" Olsen, "Tech-49" Jack Harper regularly leaves his tower post to repair downed combat drones that guard the regions and generators against the alien scavengers or "scavs." Although his memory has been wiped, he has had recurring dreams and visions of being on the observation deck of the Empire State Building with a dark-haired woman. He also collects the occasional artifact he finds from humanity's past. Vika is concerned about Jack's curiosity, questioning whether they are still “an effective team,” and encouraging him to do his job so they can join the others on Titan soon.
After scavs destroy a generator, Jack discovers the scavs have been using the Empire State Building's antenna to transmit coordinates to outer space. While taking a break at his secret lake house retreat, he watches a crash-landing module of a pre-war spacecraft called the Odyssey. Thinking the ship contains aliens, he investigates, only to find humans in stasis chambers. One of the humans is the woman from his dreams. Jack protects her chamber from a drone that destroys the others, and later revives the woman, Julia Rusakova, who makes Vika instinctively jealous. Jack and Julia return to recover her flight recorder but are captured by the scavs, who are revealed to be human survivors.
Their leader, Malcolm Beech, wants Jack to reprogram their captured drone to carry nuclear fuel cells to blow up the Tet; he has sensed Jack is different because the latter's hobby of collecting relics. Although Jack refuses, Beech releases them to seek the truth beyond the boundaries of the forbidden radiation zone. When they reach the Empire State Building, Julia reveals that she is his wife. Jack then remembers that he proposed to her there. Julia recalls she was on a mission to Titan when they were diverted to investigate an alien presence.
When the two return to Jack's tower, Vika refuses them entry and reports her findings to Sally, saying they are "no longer an effective team." Sally acknowledges this, but activates a drone that kills Vika before Julia shoots it down. Jack and Julia escape in his ship, but are shot down by other pursuing drones. The two eject into the radiation zone, which turns out to not be radioactive. Jack discovers another ship with a technician trying to fix a downed drone, and is shocked to see that the tech is a clone of himself who goes by "Tech-52". The clone also is shocked to see Julia. Jack fights and incapacitates his clone, but Julia is accidentally shot. After flying to Tech-52's tower, and discovering an inquisitive Vika clone, he returns to treat Julia at the lake house.
At the scav base, Beech reveals to Jack and Julia that the Tet was an alien artificial intelligence that destroyed the Moon, causing massive devastation to the planet, and invaded Earth with thousands of Jack clones and drones to wipe out the human race, extracting all of the planet's natural resources before moving on. As Jack repairs the captured drone, the base is attacked by other drones, gravely injuring Beech and ruining the captured drone except for its fuel cells. Jack agrees to deliver Julia to Sally through the stasis chamber. On the way to the Tet, Jack listens to the Odyssey's flight recorder, and learns that he was the mission commander, Vika was his co-pilot, and Sally was their mission controller from Earth. When the Tet started to draw in their ship, Jack jettisoned the pod of stasis chambers containing the crew members (including Julia) leaving himself and Vika to be captured.
Back in the present, Jack enters a large room full of capsules of Jack and Vika clones. He shows Tet the stasis chamber, but it carries Beech and the fuel cells, which they then detonate. On Earth, Julia awakens at the lake house. Three years later, she and her daughter meet the resistance members and "Tech-52" Jack, who has also recovered his memories.

Tags: cult

Review:
A Great Guilty Pleasure!.
Oblivion is a low-budget cheesy space-western with so many in-jokes and running gags and stereotypes that it has twice been the cornerstone of video parties at my place!The story is coherent-but-flimsy.
The real fun is in the bizarre special-effects, the character references, the costumes, etc.To enjoy this movie, make sure you know what the major players have done before.
Much like a Batman or Addam's Family movie (for several reasons, both), this movie is about look, feel, and fun.
Set in the year 3031 on a frontier planet light years away from Earth, a bizarre gang of desperadoes set on turning the tumbleweed town of Oblivion into their own private haven.Made nearly 20 years before the arguably pretentious Cowboys and Aliens, Oblivion is an obscure FullMoon nugget.
Although the costumes and sets appear cheap they're fitting enough in this outlandish western futuristic alien tale.
Despite the offbeat humour and pacing director Sam Irvin gives us forcefields, cyborgs, fistfights, spaceships, guns, gadgets and giant Harryhausen- like scorpions.
Oblivion is an 90s film with and 1980's b-feel and 70s stock soundtrack heart.
The 'Biff Tannen' villain Redeye played by Andrew Divoff makeup is effective.
There's an odd mix pop-culture cast including Batman's Julie Newmar, Star Treks George Takei, singing legend Isaac Hayes, Master of the Universe and They Live's Meg Foster to name a few.
There's also a leather-clad whip sporting  Musetta Vander who looks particularly fetching.
If you like B-films and enjoy the unlikely list of genre crossovers Oblivion is the closest you'll get to a live action BraveStarr..
Like the Discovery Channel recently, only funny..
My passion for Western Movies lost out to Sci-Fi in the early 60s.Well, if you want to wallow in the goofiness and clichés of both highly abused genres without a speck of the po-faced seriosity that ruined Outland or Cowboys and Aliens, then saddle up!
GASP!...as giant claymation scorpions stalk our heroes!LUST!...as a damn fine Bettie Page look-a-like cracks her whip!
If you are one of the increasingly hard to find Fantasy movie fans with the ability to relax your sphincter, then I heartily recommend this, and it's follow-up, Oblivian: Backlash.If you are one of those sad little souls who think humor is just something used to spice up torture scenes, then watch this.
It might do you some good.But above all, if you ever spent an afternoon in front of a B+W TV watching bad Cowboy and Indian movies and rubber-suited monster flicks, this is for you!
Take a little trip to Oblivion...Where the YeeHaw!
Fun-tastic sf-western, full of gags, thanks to a sassy script from Peter David: the son of a great marshall of the law is forced against his will to take the star from the deceased father and fight against a bunch of criminals, lead by a lizardman call Red-Eye. I think this is the only movie where you may find a Wishmaster, a Catwoman, a Sulu, a Lurch....
Sci-fi western filmed in cheese-o-vision.
Boy, this movie is like a circus: a variety of bizarre and colorful characters and events spiced up with fun & cheesy special effects.
I think this movie might have created a total new subgenre on it's own by mixing sci-fi/western/comedy/horror/drama/revenge flicks all together.
This movie spawned from production company Full Moon, which was at it's best - in my opinion - during the late eighties and the first half of the nineties.
OBLIVION, though not their best movie, is a fine example of how crazy they can get.We've got: Spaceships, a 19th century western town with money-machines, a green alien lizard-man with an eye-patch, a cyborg-deputy, a faggot-mariachi, giant stop-motion scorpions, an S&M/Gothic-babe with a whip (Musetta Vander can lick my neck anytime), an over-friendly grim-looking undertaker, an Indian with too much brown make-up and a bad long-hair wig, a drunk Japanese dude (George Takei giving us silly STAR TREK inside jokes), midgets in a barfight, a coffin-shaped coroner's house, pyramids (huh?), an empath protagonist, a poisonous Manh-Ding, Bingo on Thursdays, Indian magic, a grande finale in the Badlands,...
ehr, I'm gonna stop now, 'cause the list's getting awful long here.This movie also has a cameo by Isaac Hayes (the man can't act, but is funny as hell), a double roll by Andrew"Djinn"Divoff as the lizard-man Redeye and a dumb hustler Einstein (slightly hilarious) and a delicious performance by hot-babe-dressed-in-leather Musetta Vander as the whippin' Lash.
(Musetta also stars in MANSQUITO, which is like a b-movie cross-over between THE FLY and MIMIC, so go see it, you pulpy movie-lovers!)What about the story of OBLIVION?
Now, somebody please give me the sequel, OBLIVION 2: BACKLASH.
They just don't make em like Oblivion anymore.
This movie is so bad that it's good.
It's like watching a movie that was supposed to be serious but halfway through they decided it should be a comedy.
There are some really great lines in here that should not be missed.
or maybe you're too much man, too much...
HU-man?" or the s**t a brick in your pants funny "associ-whats?" line.
And of course the best part is that it ends with "to be continued" and a hilarious preview of the sequel.
Anyways, if you want to see a really unintentionally funny movie with microphones and ads for other movies blatantly in several shots then see this now, i concur with the beer suggestion of these other guys too.
Oblivion, really great movie, watch it..
A fun movie.
For lovers of Cheese,this movie will satisfy.......The writer,Peter David, is master of not taking things too seriously, and that makes Oblivion a great film.
Uncomfortable blend of sci-fi and western, never really pulls it together.
Take away the stop action scorpions and you have a pretty dull western.
Take away the western and you have an amateurish sci-fi.
The characters are all cartoon like and some scenes are not only unnecessary, but go on far too long.
I realize this is not "Casablanca", but "Oblivion" really doesn't know what it wants to be.
Sci-fi fans are certain to be disappointed, and western fans will find the script boring.
This film contains no exploding golfcarts, no people falling over railings (two at a time), no diabolical laughter, and no stock footage from BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA.
Unlike SPACE MUTINY, which was just plain annoying, OBLIVION was an entertaining piece of cinematic garbage with enough cheesy dialog and one liners that enable it to stand on its own, even without the help of Mike and his MST3K robot friends.
Also, unlike SPACE MUTINY, it's a lot more fun than shoveling raw sewage.Give this one a chance.Rating: *** out of *****.
The original Cowboys & Aliens, and far, far better.
"It's high noon at the far end of the universe", the DVD poster of Oblivion states.
Years before the underrated Cowboys & Aliens came out, Oblivion came along, and it's definitely gives the concept a better, and quirkier run for its money.
Granted it's essentially a B movie, and it's meagre budget shows to the point where it looks like a grade school play.
It's got a cast of supremely wacky old west stereotypes played by some surprising, familiar genre faces who you'd never thought to be seen rough housing together in the same flick.
It also has some lovingly crafted, creaky stop motion animation that calls Harryhausen to mind and brings to life some super weird alien hybrid thingies that look almost Henson-esque as well.
He's a nasty, one eyed reptilian alien gunslinger named RedEye, played by the inimitable Andrew Divoff.
He growling, bad tempered son of a bitch, and his first order of business is to ruthlessly slay the town's sheriff, and claim it for himself.
What he doesn't count on is the Sheriff's son (Richard Joseph Paul), a prospector who soon returns to Oblivion looking for answers, along with his Native friend Buteo (the late great Jimmie F.
All kinds of townsfolk end up in the crossfire, including drunken Doc Valentine (a priceless George Takei), slinky brothel owner Miss Kitty (Julie Newmar), a cyborg police deputy (Meg Foster), a pawnbroker (Isaac Hayes) and the town's elegant undertaker, played by Carol Struckyen who some may remember as the giant from Twin Peaks.
RedEye has a smoking hot henchwoman and girlfriend named Lash, played by B movie scream queen Musetta Vander, who gets the vibe they're going for here and sinks her teeth into the material with admirable abandon.
The film sticks to its guns despite being obviously silly and somewhat falling apart in a climax that oddly is too darkly shot to make out properly.
Alien scorpions, cyborg deputies, leather clad babes are but a few of the genre mashing treats to be found here.
Oh and check out the sequel as well, called Oblivion 2: Backlash, it's a nice companion piece..
Oblivion doesn't take itself seriously and you shouldn't take it seriously either.
While it makes a virtue out of cliche and easily achieves its aim of being "so bad that it's good" it has a wagon load of in jokes, half a dozen cult actors and one very sexy woman known as Lash.
Daft but fun, once it gets going.
Oblivion is slow paced but that's OK at first when we are getting to know the characters and finding out about what's going on.
It's not so good in the middle of the film when there isn't much happening.
The pace eventually picks up, although the second half of the film is all very predictable.
If you can put that aside there are a few good scenes and some of it is quite enjoyable.Andrew Divoff and Musetta Vander are excellent as the bad guys and most of the supporting cast are good too.
George Takei doesn't really have much to do though, and I felt that his character could have been better..
5 writers and at least 5 movies in 1.
You get 5 writers together, have each write a different story with a different genre, and then you try to make one movie out of it.
It's action, it's adventure, it's sci-fi, it's western, it's a mess.
Sorry, but this movie absolutely stinks.
That said, it's movies like this that make me think I could write movies, and I can barely write..
Typical Full Moon sci-fi western mishmash.
After all, these are the people that brought you Jack Deth and the Trancers movies!
It's an occasionally slow-paced sci-fi western parody.
The acting is mostly dreadful, and the plot is telegraphed a mile away, but if you didn't expect that from the Full Moon folks, you deserve what you get.
A movie best experienced with friends and vast quantities of intoxicants.
Those of us who read comics in the 70s will get the "Man-Thing" reference, and it is a hoot to see George Takei telling a bottle of whiskey, "Jim Beam me up!" Meg Foster is totally wasted as a cyborg deputy, but she does what she can with a terrible role.
I loved Musetta Vander as the S&M fantasy gal Lash.
A good bad movie in spite of occasional slow bits and obvious plotting.
Yes, long boring stretches and the typical Full Moon incompetence abound, but that does not diminish the delight of Carel Struycken as a psychic undertaker or George Takei saying things like "Jim Beam me up" and "Great Scotty!" Be warned though- Julie Newmar is unbelievably bad as "Miss Kitty" (har har) and Isaac Hayes tried to do something different with his performance....
Bad acting at its best.
Why did someone ever take the trouble to make this movie??
The only thing good to see in this movie is the foxy bad girl Lash.., other than that it has it all to make this movie suck: bad story, special effects that even for 94' qualify as worse than the worst, jokes that make one laugh out of misery and last but definately not least, some serious bad acting!!Some aspects that give a good idea about this movie: out side of town you may encounter enormous clay scorpions that kill upon sight, apparently one can read the future in a cup of coffee if you look in a special way, playing bingo during a funeral is considered normal, all street lights have fans connected to them (dont ask why, its the future ok?), there are frogs about a feet high that kill you when ur scared, when u chop off a cyborgs hand it turns into a flame thrower, ah well, need i say more??when should anyone see this movie??
either when you're with a lot of friends who are all drunk (including yourself), or when u feel the time has come to see a bad movie that just stays in your head because its SO BAD!!!.
This is a seriously cheesy movie.
But I feel this fits the "So-bad-it's-good" moniker.
There is nothing here that is actually "good" (except the ceiling fans on the street lights).
But Hey, if you're going to watch a Full-Moon Entertainment movie with the Tagline of "it's cowboys and Aliens" you can't be expecting much.
An analogy to describe my feelings towards this film is this: You would hear a song that is so bad but you can't get it out of your head.
The same thing goes for this poorly-made movie;  You just cannot forget how horrible it is!!!
4 years after seeing this film I can still remember the ill-conceived dialogue and the not-so-very special effects.
Save yourself while you can...do not watch this movie!!!!.
Cowboys and aliens?
This movie's plot line turns itself around in so many circles it ends up making no sense.
The writers of this film didn't even have a good idea..
I went in really hoping to like this B sci-fi, but it's just not very good.
A B-movie hybrid of sci-fi and Western.
It feels like the latest of all '80s movies, and it could have played nicely on USA Up All Night.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't be one of the better movies to play on that program.
It has no story and no energy, and after about a half an hour, it starts to feel interminable.
It has a few recognizable supporting actors, like George Takei, Julie Newmar and Isaac Hayes.
Takei and Newmar are just there to deliver awful jokes in the form of Star Trek and Batman references.
I did enjoy the costume and character design.
The bad guy in particular looks great.
Okay, very cheesy, but the film does know what it is.
And I loved the undertaker, named Gaunt (Carel Struycken), who is basically a reference to The Seventh Seal.
And, while not a good actress, Musetta Vander is gorgeous as the villain's henchwoman/girlfriend.
They made a sequel to this film which is a bit higher rated on IMDb. I won't be seeking it out, though..
Maybe Fun A Little.
Somewhere light years from Earth is a planet with a town called Oblivion, which is populated with cowboys and aliens.
Things are peaceful there until Redeye (Andrew Divoff) decides to take over.The film is poorly written, poorly shot, just plain poor.
The acting ranges from good to bad, and there are so many plot holes that do not make sense...
maybe they get cleared up in the second film, but one suspects that is extremely unlikely.The only reason to watch this film is for the cult cast: Isaac Hayes, Andrew Divoff, Julie Newmar and George Takei.
And yes, there are jokes about "Star Trek" and Catwoman.
Maybe other jokes I missed because I didn't get the references...
and the guy who plays Lurch from the Addams Family movies.Maybe rent this...
I have never laughed at a movie before.
This movie is so bad and the acting is beyond horrible that makes this film the best comedy of the decade.
A great movie, if you are having a really bad day.***.
I only rented this movie because Peter David's name is attached to it.
He wrote the screenplay, he's a good writer, the conclusion seemed obvious.
The story sucked, the dialogue was week, and the characters were pathetic.
I did like the funeral scene where the BINGO game upstairs kept interrupting the speeches, otherwise crap, crap, crap, crap, and a good looking woman in a tight fitting dominatrix/western costume..
The film takes place on another planet, but has a western theme.
There are bad guys who want to take over the town for a mineral while there are those that oppose them.
The film is very cheesy and campy and gets its humor from the era commercials and previous roles of the actors.
Julie Newmar who once played Catwoman was Miss Kitty.
George Takei has lines from STAR TREK such as "Great Scottie" and "Jim, Beam me up." Carel Struycken who played Lurch, plays an undertaker.
A couple of the actors were in the TV series SUPER FORCE where the main character was Zach Stone.
In this film the main character is Zack Stone.
It is a film you may need to watch twice to get all of the humor.Guide: No F-bombs, sex.
An orgy of bad special effects and terrible acting.
The special effects of this movie are, especially for its time, laughable and used in such an over-emphasized way that you can't deny their terrible existance.The acting redefines the term "terrible overacting" at the hands of Meg Foster and Richard Joseph Paul, where julie Newman and Andrew Divoff just redefine "bad".***spoilers***The charm in this movie can be found in two things: First is the excellent casting of Carel "Lurch" Struycken as the mysterious psychic Gaunt, who can sense where and when people will die and is always there.The second are original finds, the combination SF-Western is obviously original, if terrible, but other finds are more original, like the gunman Zack Stone being able to sense the pain of the people he shoots (though his acting falls short here).Overal...don't see this movie, except if you love that ol' hunk-o-brutal Carel Struycken, as any self-respecting Dutchman should.