Fantastic!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

First off, there is no argument to be made that this was anything other than a bad movie. It's hard not to mention the use of common book lights as communication devices or the blatant use of miniatures for all exterior shots, as many before me already have. I was somewhat surprised that Godzilla (or Space Godzilla) did not come to finish the destruction of the moonbase after the meteor storm. The interiors were oddly typical for a sci-fi film, which was somewhat out of place.No one in this movie deserved to survive - Sorry Christian. These people made such textbook awful decisions throughout the movie that it was impossible to root for any of them. I would not trust a single one of them to feed my dog while I was on vacation, much less the lot of them to man a zillion-dollar moonbase. For a room that was allegedly on lockdown, the med bay was accessed repeatedly, and NO ONE WOULD CLOSE THE DOOR, or even MONITOR IT. Have none of these folks ever seen a sci-fi movie? Also - and I've not seen anyone address this yet - why did they think it would be a good idea to access Bruce's logs for ideas to defeat the creature? I mean, how successful was he? And did not the faux Bruce seem a little lucid and well-groomed to be legitimate? That said, I really enjoyed it. It was a perfect subject for my regular Bad Movie Night with Friends, and it did not disappoint.

Stranded is a low budget sci-fi which fails on most accounts, due to a lame script and quite bad instruction of an otherwise OK plot idea, which could be described as a mix between the great Alien, Moon and Splice and some gory splatter movie.The poor actors has here been in the moist hands of director Roger Christian (cathastophy when it comes to films, amongst them the infamous Battlefield Earth) and they didn't believe a thing what they were doing. It's so sad to see this, but not even the best of actors can survive a really bad script and an awful director. When you got both, as here, they are really in a clusterfuck. I feel sorry for them, and won't hold it against them.I becomes obvious that Roger Christian should be kept far away from the industry, as he is both writer and director of this mess. Well he could direct music videos at best. This film should have been killed before birth, just what should have happened to the alien.The plot holes are enormous, and most of the film doesn't make any sense. They all act as madmen, without any reasoning.When thus from me gets a 2, is based on the idea, which could have been working, and though this is made in a tiny budget, a great script would have saved it. The entertainment value is also there, if you enjoy a bad movie. This due to the film only taking itself too seriously, with not one single nod to humor. The score is OK. The alien is also quite well made, though Thea should have forgotten the lasting tube fingers.The dialog is the worst, which all actors of course are forced to eat and breathe. It's easy too see that the actors just wanted this travesty to be over. When the film ends, you are happy that it kept under 90 minutes. Watching only if you're a sucker for bad movies! Please keep Roger Cristian away from pens and cameras in the future. Or pay him to be sent out in space. Anyone who even thinks about giving him the money to make a film (yes I know he has a new one finishing now) should be tortured with watching this and Battlefield Earth in slow motion first, in a Clockwork Orange style. That should prevent us for further predicaments.

The Christian Slater sci-fi horror chiller "Stranded" amounts to an uninspired, low-budget, imitation of two classics: Ridley Scott's "Alien" and Howard Hawks' "The Thing from Another World." Despite better than average production values, a sturdy cast, and a twist ending, "Stranded" will leave you feeling stranded. "Battlefield Earth" director Roger Christian fails to generate a modicum of suspense or paranoia in this tedious tale of terror in space. Thrills and chills are conspicuous by their absence here and nothing leaps out at us. Good horror movies require at least five scary scenes as well as scenes where you think something hideous is going to happen. You have no reason to break a sweat or glance away when things become too intense. A freak meteor shower devastates a lunar mining base, and Colonel Gerard Brauchman (Christian Slater) and his crew of three, two guys and one gal, find themselves contending with a murderous alien life-form. No, this homicidal intruder isn't a monster with bug eyes and tentacles. The alien spore enters our heroine and she becomes pregnant in no time at all. Dr. Krauss has warned everybody that under the conditions they are having at the bio-dome, each of them could easily end up hallucinating or behaving in a bizarre manner. Our heroes venture outside and bring back samples of the meteor. They isolate the alien spore on the rock and things are never the same afterward. The resourceful alien replicates one of the crew after it leaves Ava's womb and does many dastardly deeds. Squeamish spectators who hate the sight of blood should prepare themselves for occasional displays of gore. Colin Hubick conjures up some effective visual effects when one of the crew undergoes a transformation into an alien. Christian and co-scenarist Christian Piers Betley dutifully maintain all the clichés, but "Stranded" suffers from an absence of atmosphere. Confined primarily to the command center, laboratories, and sleeping accommodations of the mining base, the setting never seems claustrophobic enough with humans trapped inside of it and battling for their survival. The meteor shower knocks out some functions at the Moon Base Bio-Dome so our heroes are isolated. While she is performing an analysis of a meteor fragment, Ava Cameron (Amy Matysio of "Just Friends") cuts her finger on a shattered test tube. Such is her fear that she has screwed up badly that Ava doesn't inform either Colonel Brauchman or the camp doctor, Dr. Lance Krauss (Brendan Fehr of "Final Destination"), about her injury. Eventually, Ava gets so sick and Dr. Krauss puts her in the medical bay while Brauchman urges him to slap her in quarantine. Brauchman, it turns out, is a stickler for following the rules. About an hour into this opus, Dr. Krauss presents the Colonel with a score card. They know they have an alien prowling their premises and one man is dead. Predictably, our heroes have a difficult time contacting Earth and sending out a distress signal. The miniature work is sub-standard, and "Stranded" doesn't move quickly in spite of its 88-minute running time. Nothing about the dialogue is quotable, and the characters are all one-dimensional. Believe me, you've seen "Stranded" before when it was a better movie such as "Alien" or "The Thing from Another World."

This story is about the dumbest spacefolk in the known universe. Who ever is in charge of hiring the personnel to man this moon base must have sent the company's most incompetent employees to try to get rid of them............. When one of the crew finds a meteorite with something attached to it they proceed to bring it inside for examination. After a while they decide to quarantine the sample as well as a crew member who appears to be infected. In spite of having quarantined one crew member in the sickbay the other crew members spend more time inside the quarantined area than outside of it, leaving the door open on the process... not that it matters by now..... and so on and so on....