OFF: Dark Star

[The Automind]

>Date:         Sat, 14 Nov 1998 02:13:50 -0600
>Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>From: Laj Waldner <erebus7 at DLCWEST.COM>
>Subject:      Re: OFF: Dark Star
>To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>
>Goran Janicijevic wrote:
>
>> Laj Waldner wrote:
>>
>> LW>Ya know, I have never seen "Dark Star", I have never seen it at a
video
>> LW>store either, what's it about? being Carpenter it probably ROCKS!
Was it a
>> LW>release from a major film company?
>>
>> Can't remember what company released it, but I can approximately
>> remember what was going on in that movie:
>>
>> 4 astronauts, completely being screwed up of the long life in a
>> spaceship, have task to destroy unstable planets (whatever that
>> "unstable" means). They do that with intelligent bombs, that among
all
>> thigs, can talk and philosophise. ;-) They have also some
>> extraterrestrial pet resembling a beach ball with claws, which
>> mischievous behaviour one day causes the bomb cotrol units to blast.
>> Therefore the astronauts are left to mercy of the loose, smart-ass
>> talking bomb........
>>
>> Watch the movie! What I wrote now is not very accurate, since it was
a
>> long time ago, so I want again to find somewhere this movie. Anyway,
>> "Dark Star" could compete for the best debut movie made ever.
>>
>> Simplius
>> ---
>>  * OLXWin 1.00b * And all the Borg left was this copy of Windows.
>
>
>Well ya sold me, this movie sounds to hilarious to be missed!
>
>Laj.

Oh, definitely! It's alarmingly easy to find too- I got it at
Blockbuster for christ's sake! The above description is accurate too
(I've seen the movie three times so far in the last year). I'm sure
someone could find a reason to hate it, but it's been a hit with
everyone I've shown it too. The greatest thing about it is how it
manages to look so trippy on such a low budget, and it's got this real
smart-ass, campy sense of humor to it.
It's actually very well directed and seems to have made a big impression
on future space/SF movies. You can notice quite a few scenes that films
like Star Wars and Aliens did take-offs of (like the close-up shot of
the long spaceship going by, R2-D2's head coming out of the top, and
then the alien zipping through the corridors).

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