Ice Pirates (1984)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps. You have to be there to see it.
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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085935/A seeker named Dogen rescues Dhyana after her father is murdered by the evil Jared-Syn. To avenge her father's death, Dogen must find Jared-Syn's hideout in the mysterious "Lost City", but the only person who knows where it is an aging, burned-out seeker named Rhodes. Along the way, they will need to do battle against the hunter Baal and his Cyclopean minions for engaging Jared-Syn in a final encounter. It's High Noon at the end of the Universe.
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Ahh the 80's so much fun, enough hair to provide for billions of cancer survivors. And of course, great movies such as these here.
Stephen