Originally Posted by monet View Post
Originally Posted by monet View Post
Welp, since you brought Star Trek into the mix, we might as well feature this movie.
I haven't watched it yet, but it was supposed to be bigger than Star Wars.
Of course it wasn't.
Supposedly the studios took a million dollars out of the Star Wars Budget for this film
Damnation Alley (1977)
Alright, I got some bad information about this movie.
lol... I can't believe I watched the entire thing.
I have no idea why Peppard decided to do some sort of Southern Accent for this movie.
I have no clue how this movie got greenlit.
At least the actors got paid.
I do think the Book of Eli stole some ideas from Damnation Alley, lol.
Thanks for the reco Monet. I saw this movie a few years (maybe 7 or 8 years, but I don't remember for certain) after it came out. It gets shown every once in awhile on TV. I guess they figured that they could just coast on Jan-Michael Vincent's mega-star power of the time (The World's Greatest Athlete, The Mechanic, etc.). One of my favorite authors is Roger Zelazny (you may recall that he wrote the famous The Chronicles of Amber series). This movie was based on the book Damnation Alley as you may recall. The book wasn't one of Zelazny's best, but the movie doesn't even respect this mediocre effort (comparatively speaking) of Zelazny's.

A few words must be written here about Jan-Michael Vincent since his story has to be one of the biggest tragedies of all time in Hollywood. This dude was on top of the world in the mid-70's as you know. He had it totally made. He could have any woman he wanted for example at that time. But alcohol totally ruined him. I mean words can't even describe how badly this guy got wrecked. Some of his final straight to VHS movies make Damnation Alley look like The Godfather by comparison. When he died somewhere in the South a few years, back, it wasn't until a couple weeks later that people other than from that little town he lived knew about it. And this guy was a world-wide megastar as mentioned above. I mean, it would have been like if when Michael Jackson died, that the tabloids and MSM didn't know about the death until a couple weeks later.