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Space Truckers
1996 · Film · 95 min
Directed by Stuart Gordon
Science FictionAdventureAction
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be a multitude of unstoppable killer robots.
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There's an actual Space Truckers movie! (Dennis Hopper, square pigs... it has it all)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Truckers
Also see, but not to be confused with, Space Truckers:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120199/
Square pigs. The movie Space Truckers was prophetic.
I'm taking a short break from grinding Factorio: Space Age, to mention that the timeless cult classic masterpiece Wagnerian Blade Runner of cargo hauling space operas "Space Truckers" (1996, Dennis Hopper), featured prescient square pigs, which packed tightly and efficiently into space trucks.
Space Truckers - Title Scene (Square Pigs):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJtHMe3MltU
"Square pig" prop from Space Truckers:
https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/-square-pig-prop-from-space-truckers/a/997059-1904.s
Square Hogs are pigs bred and farmed on Mars:
https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Square_Hog
>Square Hogs are merely pigs that have been genetically jacked up and overfed, confined in square cages making them extremely obese and fat.
>The Earth company Inter Pork ship these animals across human space.
I collect things related to Sega CD and one day I came across a set of press CDs from Rocket Science games along with some other Rocket Science swag. Several years later I was scanning the disc and covers and noticed that Ron had written “Heads Up! Ron Cobb” on the CD liner for an alpha build of Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine.
He had been one of the early employees of Rocket Science, whose goal was to being Hollywood quality movie experiences to console games. Several of his designs from Space Truckers were brought in for vehicle design and I believe he wrote the story.
It’s become one of my favorite bits in that collection.
Throughout my research I also came across Elon Musk being an early contractor there who wrote their video compression algorithm for the PC versions.
This one guy touched so many of the cult sf films of the 80s and 90s. Impressive to see his style woven throughout these movies.
Though, even with his design talent, Space Truckers was still a washout.
Thats possible, but I have watched a lot of scifi that occurred prior to firefly and after, and this was more or less the case. Of course thats anecdotal from my memory.
Now, I just saw, no idea how I missed it, Space Truckers from 1996, with Dennis Hopper! I never would have pegged him to do a movie like that. Its 1000% worth seeing for its sheer nuttery.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120199/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQOqLOErhZA
Its top of my list of most ridiculous movies.
> http://cinephilecrocodile.blogspot.com/2018/06/space-truckers-dir-stuart-gordon-1997-i.html
Both the film and that blog's stylesheet are the embodiment of 'so bad it has to be good'.
In Space Truckers, they hauled square pigs in space, because they could pack them more tightly into shipping containers.
Also like The Expanse: shadowy mega-corps, and space pirates!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Truckers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgdeaHr5LT0&ab_channel=MoviesBox
Square pigs:
http://cinephilecrocodile.blogspot.com/2018/06/space-truckers-dir-stuart-gordon-1997-i.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVH9o7OMAkU&ab_channel=TheMovieLeague
And here's the trailer for Space Truckers [1], truly looks like a B-movie that isn't willing to admit it.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IerJF2xKwuo
On the topic of the transforming and optimizing the future of trucking, just last night I watched a so-bad-it's-good movie called "Space Truckers", which was mentioned in the "Crapularity Hermeneutics" paper and that I had to see for myself:
"(This scenario has countless precursors in popular science fiction, including for example Stuart Gordon’s 1996 movie Space Truckers in which the protagonists transport square pigs that have been genetically modified to make more efficient use of limited spaceship cargo capacity.)"
http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/crapularity_hermeneutics/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Truckers