Brian Narelle

Cal Kuniholm

Dan O'Bannon

Dre Pahich

Adam Beckenbaugh

Nick Castle

Joe Saunders

Cookie Knapp

Alan Sheretz

John Carpenter

Miles Watkins

Bob Greenberg

Ron Cobb

Bill Taylor

John C. Wash

Gregory Jein

Douglas Knapp

Harry Walton

Les Rumsey

Jack H. Harris

Craig Portman

John Brasher

Nina Kleinberg

Nick Spaulding

J. Stein Kaplan

Cliff Fenneman

Dale Beldin

Comedy

Science Fiction

Dark Star

Jack H. Harris Enterprises

University of Southern California

United States of America

English

future

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

boredom

space travel

destruction of planet

anarchic comedy

Hilarious, taking the mickey out of science fiction films but still honoring the genre. I love it

CinemaSerf

There was always a dearth of sci-fi movies on the television as I was growing up, and this one used to appear rather regularly - and rather disappointingly too. It's supposed to be funny, but somehow the humour is just too contrived to make for much to remember as a group of astronauts start their twenty-year mission into outer space tasked with destroying unstable planets. Over time, though, the crew start to question the morality of their quest and coupled with the antics of their pet (looks like a rubber space-hopper) they find themselves facing the ultimate, explosive, dilemma. In it's favour, it is quite short and it doesn't hang around, but the acting is all just bit bland and there's way, way, too much script with little else by way of action to pad out the thin story that aims for parody but falls well short. Maybe we'd all be this way after a couple of decades in deep space, but somehow I think I'd have reached for the airlock about ten years earlier. In many ways it reminded me of a sort of "Monty Python" does life amongst the stars only with some ropey, low-budget, visual effects and annoying characters about whom I really didn't care. It'd been a while since I'd seen it, and will probably be the same before I watch it again.

Dark Star( 1974)

Bombed Out in Space with a Spaced Out Bomb!

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A review by JJJ222cool

Written by JJJ222cool on Wed Jun 21 2023

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