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Boy, this movie is like a circus: a variety of bizarre and colorful characters and events spiced up with fun & cheesy special effects. I think this movie might have created a total new subgenre on it's own by mixing sci-fi/western/comedy/horror/drama/revenge flicks all together. This movie spawned from production company Full Moon, which was at it's best - in my opinion - during the late eighties and the first half of the nineties. OBLIVION, though not their best movie, is a fine example of how crazy they can get.

We've got: Spaceships, a 19th century western town with money-machines, a green alien lizard-man with an eye-patch, a cyborg-deputy, a faggot-mariachi, giant stop-motion scorpions, an S&M/Gothic-babe with a whip (Musetta Vander can lick my neck anytime), an over-friendly grim-looking undertaker, an Indian with too much brown make-up and a bad long-hair wig, a drunk Japanese dude (George Takei giving us silly STAR TREK inside jokes), midgets in a barfight, a coffin-shaped coroner's house, pyramids (huh?), an empath protagonist, a poisonous Manh-Ding, Bingo on Thursdays, Indian magic, a grande finale in the Badlands,... ehr, I'm gonna stop now, 'cause the list's getting awful long here.

This movie also has a cameo by Isaac Hayes (the man can't act, but is funny as hell), a double roll by Andrew"Djinn"Divoff as the lizard-man Redeye and a dumb hustler Einstein (slightly hilarious) and a delicious performance by hot-babe-dressed-in-leather Musetta Vander as the whippin' Lash. (Musetta also stars in MANSQUITO, which is like a b-movie cross-over between THE FLY and MIMIC, so go see it, you pulpy movie-lovers!)

What about the story of OBLIVION? Hell, who needs a story if you got all the above-mentioned ingredients? But there is one, and it's full of stupid and funny dialogues and situations. I recommend this for 90 minutes of pure ridiculous nonsense. Now, somebody please give me the sequel, OBLIVION 2: BACKLASH. I have to see it!

What do you expect? After all, these are the people that brought you Jack Deth and the Trancers movies! It's an occasionally slow-paced sci-fi western parody. The acting is mostly dreadful, and the plot is telegraphed a mile away, but if you didn't expect that from the Full Moon folks, you deserve what you get. A movie best experienced with friends and vast quantities of intoxicants. Those of us who read comics in the 70s will get the "Man-Thing" reference, and it is a hoot to see George Takei telling a bottle of whiskey, "Jim Beam me up!" Meg Foster is totally wasted as a cyborg deputy, but she does what she can with a terrible role. I loved Musetta Vander as the S&M fantasy gal Lash. A good bad movie in spite of occasional slow bits and obvious plotting. MST3K material for sure.

Uncomfortable blend of sci-fi and western, never really pulls it together. Take away the stop action scorpions and you have a pretty dull western. Take away the western and you have an amateurish sci-fi. The characters are all cartoon like and some scenes are not only unnecessary, but go on far too long. Trashing the store for instance could have been left on the cutting room floor. I realize this is not "Casablanca", but "Oblivion" really doesn't know what it wants to be. Sci-fi fans are certain to be disappointed, and western fans will find the script boring. I wanted to find a gem here, but unfortunately did not. - MERK

Oblivion is a low-budget cheesy space-western with so many in-jokes and running gags and stereotypes that it has twice been the cornerstone of video parties at my place!

The story is coherent-but-flimsy. The real fun is in the bizarre special-effects, the character references, the costumes, etc.

To enjoy this movie, make sure you know what the major players have done before. Keep it in mind. Listen to every word. Have half-a-dozen other people there. With lots of snacks or beer.

Oh, and the plot? Who cares. Much like a Batman or Addam's Family movie (for several reasons, both), this movie is about look, feel, and fun. Plot is almost incidental.

In this Western/Sci-Fi/Comedy mash-up, a lizard-man named Redeye comes to Oblivion, ready to pick a fight with the local sheriff. After gunning him down in the street, Redeye and his cronies take over the town. The townspeople need a hero. In steps the sheriff's estranged, empathic son, Zack. Can he face his fears and defeat Redeye?

I'm really amazed to read all the extremely positive things about Oblivion across the internet. It seems to have quit a cult following. This is my second time viewing the film and, in all honesty, I don't get it. Sure, there are some quirky bits I liked and a couple of characters that work for me (Andrew Divoff as Redeye and Carel Struycken as Gaunt to be specific), but the overall film just falls flat. The plot is way too predictable. Is there anyone who couldn't see Zack's transformation to hero coming from a mile away? The acting doesn't help. Richard Joseph Paul, as Zack, made for a pretty weak hero. At no time did I get behind and root for his character. In fact, you could say pretty much the same thing about Zack's compatriots, Maddie and Buteo. They're too dull to care about. But Oblivion's greatest sin comes in the parts that were meant to be funny. Too often, the comedy left me groaning - not laughing. Listening to George Takei's seemingly endless Star Trek references (like the one in my title) is about as cringy as anything I've heard recently. But poor Julie Newmar's performance is even worse. The former Catwoman plays a madame named Miss Kitty (get it, Catwoman playing Miss Kitty - oh how hilarious), complete with purring and hissing. Instead of laughing (or even smiling), I was left shaking my head in disbelief. I felt sorry for her. What a poor excuse of a movie.

3/10

You get 5 writers together, have each write a different story with a different genre, and then you try to make one movie out of it. It's action, it's adventure, it's sci-fi, it's western, it's a mess. Sorry, but this movie absolutely stinks. 4.5 is giving it an awefully high rating. That said, it's movies like this that make me think I could write movies, and I can barely write.

Fun-tastic sf-western, full of gags, thanks to a sassy script from Peter David: the son of a great marshall of the law is forced against his will to take the star from the deceased father and fight against a bunch of criminals, lead by a lizardman call Red-Eye. I think this is the only movie where you may find a Wishmaster, a Catwoman, a Sulu, a Lurch...

Oblivion (1994) is a Full Moon feature I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a small western town on another planet filled with humans and aliens. The villain on the planet decides him and his gang are going to take over the town by killing the sheriff and laying down the law. The sheriff's son wants revenge for his father's death leading to a showdown with the alien villain.

This movie is directed by Sam Irvin (Guilty as Charged) and stars Richard Joseph Paul (Vampirella), Jackie Swanson (Leathal Weapon), Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster), Meg Foster (They Live), Isaac Hayes (Escape from New York), Carel Struycken (The Addams Family), George Takei (Star Trek) and Irwin Keyes (The Warriors).

The cast in this is absolutely amazing. As you watch the movie I kept finding myself saying, "No way, he/she are in this?" The settings, sets, soundtrack, makeup and masks in this are absolutely awesome in a cheesy but fun way. This does have a made for TV feel to it like a Xena from this era, but it is still entertaining, random and hilarious. There's some crazy sound effects in this that will crack you up and I was dying when the robot sounds like a vacuum cleaner. There's also some good kill scenes and gore.

Overall this is more entertaining than good but it's definitely worth a watch. I would score this a 5.5/10 and recommend seeing it once.

A B-movie hybrid of sci-fi and Western. It feels like the latest of all '80s movies, and it could have played nicely on USA Up All Night. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be one of the better movies to play on that program. It has a couple of things going for it, but mostly it's lame. It has no story and no energy, and after about a half an hour, it starts to feel interminable. The leads are mostly unknowns, and are fairly uninteresting. It has a few recognizable supporting actors, like George Takei, Julie Newmar and Isaac Hayes. Takei and Newmar are just there to deliver awful jokes in the form of Star Trek and Batman references. Thankfully, Hayes spares us from any Shaft references. The humor is generally awful. Whenever it tries to be funny, it flops to the ground. I did enjoy the costume and character design. The bad guy in particular looks great. Okay, very cheesy, but the film does know what it is. And I loved the undertaker, named Gaunt (Carel Struycken), who is basically a reference to The Seventh Seal. And, while not a good actress, Musetta Vander is gorgeous as the villain's henchwoman/girlfriend. They made a sequel to this film which is a bit higher rated on IMDb. I won't be seeking it out, though.

My passion for Western Movies lost out to Sci-Fi in the early 60s.

Well, if you want to wallow in the goofiness and clichés of both highly abused genres without a speck of the po-faced seriosity that ruined Outland or Cowboys and Aliens, then saddle up!

THRILL!...as a cast of recognizable faces chew up the scenery and their own careers with abandon!

GASP!...as giant claymation scorpions stalk our heroes!

LUST!...as a damn fine Bettie Page look-a-like cracks her whip!

If you are one of the increasingly hard to find Fantasy movie fans with the ability to relax your sphincter, then I heartily recommend this, and it's follow-up, Oblivian: Backlash.

If you are one of those sad little souls who think humor is just something used to spice up torture scenes, then watch this. It might do you some good.

But above all, if you ever spent an afternoon in front of a B+W TV watching bad Cowboy and Indian movies and rubber-suited monster flicks, this is for you!

Take a little trip to Oblivion...Where the YeeHaw! meets the CreeGah!

Oblivion is slow paced but that's OK at first when we are getting to know the characters and finding out about what's going on. It's not so good in the middle of the film when there isn't much happening. The pace eventually picks up, although the second half of the film is all very predictable. If you can put that aside there are a few good scenes and some of it is quite enjoyable.

Andrew Divoff and Musetta Vander are excellent as the bad guys and most of the supporting cast are good too. George Takei doesn't really have much to do though, and I felt that his character could have been better.

I stumbled upon a trailer for this movie by chance so I thought it would be worth a look. Unfortunately, the film is almost not watchable. The acting is desperate, which is very strange considering so many famous faces in their prime, the story itself is good (classic wild west story with admixtures of the scifi genre), the story is well rounded. Unfortunately the characters throughout the film are portrayed so stupidly uninteresting that the film is not completely watchabe. For the whole time of watching the movie you have the impression that they are trying something comical (with no any comic scene) but in fact some drama is being dragged along with very little action and adventure. Had it not been filmed in such a stupid way it would surely have been a great success.

Set in the year 3031 on a frontier planet light years away from Earth, a bizarre gang of desperadoes set on turning the tumbleweed town of Oblivion into their own private haven.

Made nearly 20 years before the arguably pretentious Cowboys and Aliens, Oblivion is an obscure FullMoon nugget. Although the costumes and sets appear cheap they're fitting enough in this outlandish western futuristic alien tale.  Despite the offbeat humour and pacing director Sam Irvin gives us forcefields, cyborgs, fistfights, spaceships, guns, gadgets and giant Harryhausen- like scorpions. Oblivion is an 90s film with and 1980's b-feel and 70s stock soundtrack heart. 

The 'Biff Tannen' villain Redeye played by Andrew Divoff makeup is effective. There's an odd mix pop-culture cast including Batman's Julie Newmar, Star Treks George Takei, singing legend Isaac Hayes, Master of the Universe and They Live's Meg Foster to name a few. There's also a leather-clad whip sporting  Musetta Vander who looks particularly fetching. 

If you like B-films and enjoy the unlikely list of genre crossovers Oblivion is the closest you'll get to a live action BraveStarr.

I only rented this movie because Peter David's name is attached to it. He wrote the screenplay, he's a good writer, the conclusion seemed obvious. Boy was I wrong. The story sucked, the dialogue was week, and the characters were pathetic. I did like the funeral scene where the BINGO game upstairs kept interrupting the speeches, otherwise crap, crap, crap, crap, and a good looking woman in a tight fitting dominatrix/western costume.

For lovers of Cheese,this movie will satisfy.......The writer,Peter David, is master of not taking things too seriously, and that makes Oblivion a great film. If you enjoy this try Trancers 4 and 5. It is in the same vein and is just very fun........

Somewhere light years from Earth is a planet with a town called Oblivion, which is populated with cowboys and aliens. Things are peaceful there until Redeye (Andrew Divoff) decides to take over.

The film is poorly written, poorly shot, just plain poor. The acting ranges from good to bad, and there are so many plot holes that do not make sense... maybe they get cleared up in the second film, but one suspects that is extremely unlikely.

The only reason to watch this film is for the cult cast: Isaac Hayes, Andrew Divoff, Julie Newmar and George Takei. And yes, there are jokes about "Star Trek" and Catwoman. Maybe other jokes I missed because I didn't get the references... and the guy who plays Lurch from the Addams Family movies.

Maybe rent this... maybe. Maybe Netflix. Don't buy it, please. The only special feature is a collection of classic Full Moon trailers you could probably see on YouTube for free.

They just don't make em like Oblivion anymore. This movie is so bad that it's good. It's like watching a movie that was supposed to be serious but halfway through they decided it should be a comedy. There are some really great lines in here that should not be missed. "Not man enough? or maybe you're too much man, too much... HU-man?" or the s**t a brick in your pants funny "associ-whats?" line. Or the bingo during the funeral "B9!" Oh man, I'm cracking up right now writing this. And of course the best part is that it ends with "to be continued" and a hilarious preview of the sequel. Anyways, if you want to see a really unintentionally funny movie with microphones and ads for other movies blatantly in several shots then see this now, i concur with the beer suggestion of these other guys too. Oblivion, really great movie, watch it.

Now, I actually watched the 1996 sequel "Oblivion 2: Backlash" before watching the 1994 movie "Oblivion". But I have to say that I did indeed thoroughly enjoy the sequel, and thus I tracked down the 1994 movie "Oblivion" from director Sam Irvin, as I had to watch it.

Writers Charles Band, John Rheaume, Greg Suddeth, Mark Goldstein and Peter David put together a fair enough script, but I have to admit that I enjoyed the sequel a bit more than I did this one. Not that "Oblivion" wasn't a good movie, but there was just more of a coherent red thread throughout the course of part two.

Something perplexed me about this movie, because there was similiarities in the storyline between "Oblivion" and "Oblivion 2: Backlash". Sure, they were shot back to back, but it still made little sense that so many things from the first movie reappeared in the sequel.

The cast ensemble was great in this 1994 movie, just as it was in the 1996 sequel. And with the likes of Andrew Divoff, Isaac Hayes Meg Foster, Julie Newmar, Jackie Swanson, Richard Joseph Paul, George Takei, Musetta Vander, Carel Struycken and Peter David on the cast list, then you're in for a good time. And just as in the sequel, the acting performances in the 1994 movie "Oblivion" was good.

Visually an okay movie. Sure, it is showing signs of aging, but the effects are still fair enough.

Watchable and enjoyable for what it was. My rating of director Sam Irvin's 1994 movie "Oblivion" lands on a five out of ten stars.

"It's high noon at the far end of the universe", the DVD poster of Oblivion states. Years before the underrated Cowboys & Aliens came out, Oblivion came along, and it's definitely gives the concept a better, and quirkier run for its money. Granted it's essentially a B movie, and it's meagre budget shows to the point where it looks like a grade school play. But therein lies it's charm. It's got a cast of supremely wacky old west stereotypes played by some surprising, familiar genre faces who you'd never thought to be seen rough housing together in the same flick. It also has some lovingly crafted, creaky stop motion animation that calls Harryhausen to mind and brings to life some super weird alien hybrid thingies that look almost Henson-esque as well. When a lone spaceship lands on the outskirts of an intergalactic desert town, it's occupant brings trouble along with him. He's a nasty, one eyed reptilian alien gunslinger named RedEye, played by the inimitable Andrew Divoff. He growling, bad tempered son of a bitch, and his first order of business is to ruthlessly slay the town's sheriff, and claim it for himself. What he doesn't count on is the Sheriff's son (Richard Joseph Paul), a prospector who soon returns to Oblivion looking for answers, along with his Native friend Buteo (the late great Jimmie F. Skaggs). All kinds of townsfolk end up in the crossfire, including drunken Doc Valentine (a priceless George Takei), slinky brothel owner Miss Kitty (Julie Newmar), a cyborg police deputy (Meg Foster), a pawnbroker (Isaac Hayes) and the town's elegant undertaker, played by Carol Struckyen who some may remember as the giant from Twin Peaks. RedEye has a smoking hot henchwoman and girlfriend named Lash, played by B movie scream queen Musetta Vander, who gets the vibe they're going for here and sinks her teeth into the material with admirable abandon. The film sticks to its guns despite being obviously silly and somewhat falling apart in a climax that oddly is too darkly shot to make out properly. What it lacks in resources it makes up for in imagination, which it has in spades. Alien scorpions, cyborg deputies, leather clad babes are but a few of the genre mashing treats to be found here. Great stuff. Oh and check out the sequel as well, called Oblivion 2: Backlash, it's a nice companion piece.