![]() ![]() Combat Tentacles: A BMW robot that gets stuck to a door by Cindy proceeds to attack her by opening its belly and releasing a multitude of metallic tendrils that constrict her.Classically-Trained Extra: Charles Dance sacrificed his dignity to play a Cold Ham cyborg space pirate with a chainsaw-like motorized penis (complete with rip cord).Cigar Chomper: Nabel, both before and after his cybernetic transformation, where he becomes a pirate captain named after a cigar brand, Macanudo.This turns out to be his downfall when one of the truckers, refusing to accept what he realizes is very dirty money, throws the briefcase out the window onto the roof of the Big Bad's limousine, causing him to blow himself up by accident. Unbeknownst to the truckers, however, he's hidden a bomb in the briefcase that he plans to detonate from his car to get rid of potentially incriminating witnesses. When this plot is thwarted by the very crew that signed up for the job, he offers them hush money inside a briefcase and a brand new rig to keep them quiet, as he has just become President of Earth and doesn't want a scandal in his first days in office. ![]() He then immediately turns this creation on the scientist who created them, and plots to have them shipped to Earth in order to cause a crisis. Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The Big Bad funds a top secret military project involving an army of cyborgs that brutally massacres hundreds of soldiers during a test.However, unlike 2001, the section where freighters dock is stationary, meaning that matching the angular velocity for docking is not required. Centrifugal Gravity: The Inter Pork station has a spinning section that houses a diner that uses this system to provide gravity a la 2001: A Space Odyssey, complete with curved floors.Catch and Return: One of the Killer Robots catches a grenade thrown at it, then starts spinning wildly and tosses the grenade right back.Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Subverted, the cyborg who confronts the heroes in the cockpit wants to kill them but can't use it's primary insta-kill weapon because they're standing in front of the controls it needs to get the ship to Earth, forcing it to rely on less practical close combat.Astronomic Zoom: The movie opens in Neptune's orbit and then zooms towards Triton, goes through its atmosphere, passes a frozen canyon in its barren icy wasteland before finally arriving at a military outpost where the Villain Opening Scene plays out.Asteroid Thicket: The Pachyderm narrowly avoids going through a cluster of "black rocks", hard-to-see asteroids.Asshole Victim: Keller gets the most memorably weird Thrown Out the Airlock death of the film, but given that he's a Fat Bastard Bad Boss, no one will feel too sorry about it.Artistic License – Space: Unless the cabin pressure of the diner is unreasonably high, the pressure differential shouldn't have been enough for Keller to be violently squeezed through a plate-sized hole.However, when John Canyon hits the brakes, that bottle of mustard keeps hanging in the air in the same place it doesn't preserve its momentum and slam into the front of the cabin. Artistic License – Physics: The Pachyderm has no artificial gravity, meaning the bottle of mustard seen near the beginning is weightless while the ship isn't accelerating, decelerating, or turning.It's never explained in-universe why this happens, but it's implied the raygun used by the BMW cyborg transforms biological residue as a side-effect of it's destructive power. Alien Blood: There are a number of violent deaths throughout the movie (including but not limited to disintegrations, bisections, limbs coming off, and decapitations) but, likely in order to retain a PG-13 rating, everyone bleeds purple and yellow goop.It is also a sci-fi comedy involving Square Pigs, Truckers IN SPACE!, Killer Robot Cyborgs, Space Pirates and a Corrupt Corporate Executive upgrading to President Evil. Here's a look at all eight 51-man rosters, which have plenty of familiar faces that were on NFL rosters at one point (you can check out all our XFL coverage here, including the full schedule, our 2023 season primer and players to know).Space Truckers is a 1996 film by Stuart Gordon starring Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar and Charles Dance. ![]()
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