So with my prior post that I'm going to hang here after all, let's talk about that review!

First off, I'm going to agree with foxley who said "The movie is pretty terrible, but enjoyable in a schlocky kind of way", perfect summary. I hate to even comment on the "special effects" because there really were none (even by low budget TV movie standards) other than a brief blue "glow effect" on a meteorite that is shown supposedly heading through space towards Earth in the opening. There could not have been a cheesier "Earth globe" used, I mean not even an attempt to make it look like it had clouds.

So you know right from the start, it's one of those sit back and relax and just enjoy the cheesy ride. And in a weird way, it kind of delivers! The premise is a construction crew on a small uninhabited island, and the meteor lands there and ends up possessing their bulldozer, becoming the Killdozer that keeps killing off the crew members during the course of the film.

And...that's about it. I won't give away the ending, though I don't think a spoiler would remotely make a difference in terms of viewing experience. So why did it deliver for me? The cast just hit the right spot...Clint Walker played the foreman, but I actually got the most kick out of Neville Brand as one of the crew, he was just perfect for (I'll use the word again) cheesy delivery that makes this sort of thing have a charm in spite of itself. I never made this connection before, but while watching it made me think how similar Thomas Haden Church looks and sounds like him. Maybe he can be in the remake 

Oh, and a young Robert Urich is one of the crew as well! And the first to go down.

Recommended? Purely in the MST3000 sense I would say yes. This would have been a great movie for them actually!

Except that it's not.

Colditz was a POW camp reserved, like Stalag Luft III, for persistent escapers, but even so, over 30 prisoners made it out and were not recaptured.

The story of the two prisoners who were able to construct a glide that they were going to try to use to escape is here: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/glid_building.html

No Norwegian scientists, etcetera, but they still were able to build it and hide it and only the liberation of Colditz in, IIRC, April of 1945 kept them from giving it a shot.

I was punk-tangential in the 80s, and loathed disco, but living in a whitebread area ... not only did I not associate disco-hatred with racism and homophobia, but I associated disco itself with the Saturday Night Fever ... the whitest and straightest of whitness and straightness.  At the time, mind you, I was listening to George Clinton and the Sugarhill Gang, and if anything I thought of disco as being the opposite of them!

Hey, @jaska, I love that avatar! I have that comic! One of my most treasured possessions.

I know of the origin of the story; but, the tv movie went a bit goofy with it.  I always laugh at the scene of the German mess sergeant who is stunned by everyone suddenly getting bowls of porridge at breakfast, when they wouldn't touch it before (though given prisoner rations in that era, no one was turning down food, no matter how bad).  Adding to the ridiculousness is a blind commando, who was part of a team inserted to try to get the scientist out, but were compromised and ambushed, who helps confirm their identity and the importance of getting him out, over the other prisoners.  Also, McClure is a big old hambone, in anything (part of his charm, for me) and when you add The Rifleman and Jethro Bodine (not to mention Clayton Endicott), ridiculous is the only word that fits.

It's funny how many of those Movies of the Week I still recall, even when I only saw them once.  I had vivid memories of Earth 2 and I only saw the opening 15-20 minutes originally.  When I first encountered the Warner Archive and saw it and read the plot, I recognized it (I didn't recall the name) and immediately ordered it (and several others).  Bad Ronald I remember just the promos for it, as it creeped me out enough to deliberately not watch it.  There was Outrage, with Robert Culp, as a vet, whose family is being harassed by teenagers who are out of control and he finally snaps, after they kill his dog and injure his housekeeper and goes after the homes of each of them (based somewhat on a true story).  There was The Loneliest Runner, with Lance Kerwin, as a kid who has a stress incontinence problem and is humiliated by his mother, which leads to him running off and spending the night locked inside a department store.  It was produced by Michael Landon, based loosely on his personal experiences with the issue, due to his mother's suicidal depression.

There was Brian's Song, with James Caan as Brian Piccolo and Billy Dee Williams as Gayle Sayers.  Duel, with Dennis Weaver.  Sweet Hostage, with Martin Sheen and Linda Blair.  men of the Dragon, with Robert Ito and Jared Martin (and Joseph Wiseman as the villain).  Family Flight, with Rod Taylor, when a family has to make an emergency landing, in the Mexican desert, in their small private plane and then try to repair it and get out of there.  Getting Away From it All, with Larry hagman, about a group of city friends who move out to a small island community, in New England.  Trapped, where James Brolin is mugged and knocked unconscious, to awaken at night, locked inside a department store, patrolled by Dobermans.  babe, with Suzanne Clarke as Babe Diedrickson Zaharias and husband Alex Karras as George Zaharias, Babe's pro wrestler husband.  I Will Fight No More Forever, with Ned Romero as Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce.  The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, with John Travolta, as a young man with an immunal disorder (and Robert Reed, as his father).  Dawn, Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, with Eve Plumb.  21 Hours at Munich, about the Munich Massacre, with original ABC Sports footage, from the siege.  The two Entebbe movies, Victory At Entebbe (ABC, broadcast in video, but shot as video and film and released elsewhere on film) and Raid on Entebbe (NBC, shot on film) both with notable casts (Victory has Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Lancaster, Helen Hayes and Elizabeth Taylor and Raid has Charles Bronson, James Woods, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Finch, Martin Balsam, Robert Loggia, Eddie Constantine and Horst Bucholz) and relate the story, from the departure of the Air France plane from Athens, to their diversion to Uganda and subsequent period as hostages and the spectacular rescue by the Israeli military.  Victory has Dreyfuss as Yonathan Netanyahu (brother of the Israeli Prime Minister), the lone military casualty, while Raid has Stephan Merchant.

Then, there were the pilot movies, for various tv series and there were a bunch of those.