Hardware Wars

Hardware Wars is a 1978 short film parody of a teaser trailer for the science fiction film Star Wars. The thirteenminute film, which was released shortly after Star Wars, consisted of little more than inside jokes and visual puns that heavily depended upon audience familiarity with the original.editorializing The theme song is Richard Wagners famous Ride of the Valkyries. The tagline was Youll laugh, youll cry, youll kiss three bucks goodbye.

After a lightspeed chase, Fluke, Ham, Augie, and the rest are sucked into the enemy base a waffle iron by a tractor beam. While the rest of the crew attempt to rescue the Princess from the base, Augie tries to shut off the tractor beam, which requires going to an exposed pylon and lowering a switch next to an animated picture of a farm tractor. After they rescue the Princess, Augie Ben Doggie chooses to stay behind to battle Darph Nader, and the rest of the group label him a martyr. Their spaceship is assaulted by bits of tinfoil trash, which makes Chewchilla jittery until he spies Princess AnneDroids hair whorls, which are cinnamon rolls worn on the sides of her head. He eats one as the Princess looks on in disgust.Fluke joins a squad of spaceships bottle openers. He is told to trust your feelings by the ghostly voice of Augie. The climactic destruction of the enemy base is not shown. The film ends with the voice over, May the Farce be with you. The very end of the credits state that the production was filmed on location in space, followed by the statement no animals were killed in the making of this film, reflecting the legal statement that was beginning to appear in film credits at that time. ........

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