OFF: Dark Star

[Andy Gilham]

> When I was a lad it was one of the films that student
> acquaintances (they were students, I worked behind the bar)
> always dropped into conversations as one of their favourite
> films.  Having been fooled into believing that they knew
> what they were talking about (after all they were at University!),
> I succumbed.
> One Friday night I went off with them to the Classic (by day a porn
> cinema, but Friday/Saturday nights were given over to alt/music
> films).And...
> It was the single biggest pile of garbage I had ever seen in my life.

Like _Blade Runner_, you had to have seen it when it was new.  It was so
original amd influential it's unbelievable.  But now it's been
done 100 times, and 100 times better, it looks like crap.  And if someone
made an identical film now, it *would* be crap.

Is this *really* a film list now? :)

I saw a clip from Emmerich's _Godzilla_ yesterday.  Bunch of schoolkids in
the Natural History Museum, lecturer points to a T Rex skeleton and says,
"this is the biggest predator to ever walk the Earth."  Cue Godzilla'a foot.
Laugh, I nearly did.

- Andy

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