Dark Star (Hyperdrive Edition) G
What Do You Say To A Talking Bomb? All Systems Snafu!!!
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DVD Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 26, 2010
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: VCI Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Brian Narelle & Dan O'Bannon | |
Featured: | Dre Pahich, Carl Kuniholm & Joe Sanders | |
Directed by | John Carpenter | |
Edited by | Dan O'Bannon | |
Written by | John Carpenter & Dan O'Bannon | |
Composition by | John Carpenter | |
Cinematography by | Douglas Knapp | |
Produced by | John Carpenter |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
A berserk combination of space opera, intelligent bombs, and beach balls from other worlds.
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Chicago Sun-Times
[A]n affectionate, anarchic sci-fi satire featuring hippie astronauts, talking bombs and cosmic surfing.
Sight and Sound
By introducing human eccentricities into the cold structure of SF, Carpenter creates a vision of the technological future that is both disillusioned and oddly affirmative in its insistence on the unscientific survival of emotional frailty.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/10 --
It wouldn't be a cult classic if everybody liked it, now would it?
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 2.5/5 --
There are some funny routines here, though Mr. Carpenter doesn't seem to have cared much about integrating or sustaining them.
New York Times
... a grungy, darkly humorous declaration that, in the end, boredom and human slovenliness trumps technology and high ideals.
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Parallax View
Sheer delight.
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Time Out
Product Description:
John Carpenter's low-budget debut feature is a hilarious romp set in the deepest reaches of outer space. The haggard crew of the dilapidated Dark Star spaceship--Doolittle (Brian Narelle), Boiler (Cal Kuniholm), Pinback (Dan O'Bannon), and Talby (Dre Pahich)--is on an extended mission to seek out and destroy unstable planets. But after 20 years of the same routine, each crewmember is reaching the end of his tether. The journey is fraught with mishaps, and danger seems to lurk around every corner. There are misbehaving pet aliens, suicidal bombs that dream of detonating, frozen crewmates dispensing advice from beyond the grave, and a surly, unhelpful main computer that holds the men it serves in total contempt. Despite all these problems, the crew is still bored to the brink of madness. Co-written by the multitasking O'Bannon, who is also credited as the film's production designer and editor, DARK STAR brims with giddy jabs at the science-fiction genre (including George Lucas's THX 1138), an approach that Mel Brooks would later take in his own sci-fi spoof, SPACEBALLS (1987). In addition to writing, directing, and acting, Carpenter also composed the film's atmospheric score.
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- Sales Rank: 4,056
- UPC: 089859855023
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