You can generally arm yourself against bad movies
Most efficiently, of course, is not watching them at all, but it's much better to arm yourself by inviting a group of friends, providing big slices of pizza, copious amounts of beer and – if really necessary – some other kind of mind-broadening stuff. But even then, you can never fully prepare yourself for something like "Laserblast". Right from the opening sequences already, you'll have the impression of being drunk and/or stoned. There's a man, slightly looking like a zombie, in possession of a hi-tech laser gun being chased by two alien creatures that look like E.T.'s malignant cousins. Here we are in the year of Our Lord 1978, but the stop-motion effects of "King Kong" for example, which was release more than forty years earlier, are much more convincing. Anyway, the zombie dude is killed but the aliens leave the gun and the complementary amulet to make it function behind in the desert for Billy Duncan to find. Billy is a prototypic teenage loser whose mommy is always off to parties in Acapulco. He's the type of nerd that gets bullied by other nerds that look like even bigger nerds. But now that Billy has an intergalactic weapon of mass destruction.
Maybe I was a little overenthusiastic when I watched this, but I honestly think that deep down in the minds of the people who created "Laserblast" there were some truly great and innovative ideas present. It's mainly the elaboration of these ideas and the execution of the movie where it went wrong a little. It's the lack of budget and talent involved that makes "Laserblast" a completely failure and pathetic movie; not the plot. The overlong parts were nothing gets blown up or where those cute little clay aliens aren't on screen, which pretty much covers 90% of the entire movie, are incredibly boring. The characters are all insufferable people. Billy is a dork who never expresses any sort of emotion and the nerd character who mocks him is the single most irritating and overacting imbecile ever! Somehow, the director of this thing must have thought that his film was bigger than Star Wars. At some point in the film, Billy even blasts away a promotional billboard of Star Wars with his laser gun! I wonder if that was a symbolic act or statement saying something like: "Up yours, George Lucas!".
In conclusion, this is a fantastic movie to analyze afterwards! Preferably when you're still a bit tipsy! What was, in fact, the role of these aliens? Are they the good guys who come to save us, stupid and defenseless human beings, against maniacs that can't deal with hi-tech interstellar weaponry? Or are they sadists that strategically place this powerful weapon somewhere accessible for a moron to find it and gradually exterminate mankind? Cheesy food for thought
Maybe I was a little overenthusiastic when I watched this, but I honestly think that deep down in the minds of the people who created "Laserblast" there were some truly great and innovative ideas present. It's mainly the elaboration of these ideas and the execution of the movie where it went wrong a little. It's the lack of budget and talent involved that makes "Laserblast" a completely failure and pathetic movie; not the plot. The overlong parts were nothing gets blown up or where those cute little clay aliens aren't on screen, which pretty much covers 90% of the entire movie, are incredibly boring. The characters are all insufferable people. Billy is a dork who never expresses any sort of emotion and the nerd character who mocks him is the single most irritating and overacting imbecile ever! Somehow, the director of this thing must have thought that his film was bigger than Star Wars. At some point in the film, Billy even blasts away a promotional billboard of Star Wars with his laser gun! I wonder if that was a symbolic act or statement saying something like: "Up yours, George Lucas!".
In conclusion, this is a fantastic movie to analyze afterwards! Preferably when you're still a bit tipsy! What was, in fact, the role of these aliens? Are they the good guys who come to save us, stupid and defenseless human beings, against maniacs that can't deal with hi-tech interstellar weaponry? Or are they sadists that strategically place this powerful weapon somewhere accessible for a moron to find it and gradually exterminate mankind? Cheesy food for thought