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Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Cal Kuniholme, Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich
Id: 9637700
Director John Carpenter cut his proverbial teeth on this 70's Space Odyssey spoof about a crew of hippies cruising deep space in search of 'unstable planets'. Held to the same standards as other sci-fi comedies (i.e. Sleeper, Spaceballs, etc..), Dark Star...( read more)
A cool, quirky, dark, intense, timely and well-set movie. It expands on the Space Odyssey atmosphere in a pre-Star-Wars world. It's not bad at all, but set within small confines, so not very expansive.
Cheap and rather slapdash debut by John Carpenter. It reeks of post modern humour in the vein of Douglas Adams, and there are some very funny moments, but it's also dull and amateurish for extended periods. Great ending though.
I love this film, it has a very natural humour to it and the cheap effects give it a unique style of its own, the phenomenology dialogue and resulting explosion sums it up
John Carpenter is a brilliant director of science fiction with the great movie ?they live?, but a few years before that there was dark star. I watched this movie recently and found the special effects to be woeful, but I can overlook that if the story and narrative arc is decent ...( read more)
I watched this as a kid. And if memory serves me right I liked it then. Good 80's classic.
