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A LONG time ago I remembered seeing this movie on the television. I've been searching for it for years and I couldn't remember the name of it. Thank goodness for eBay. I asked a movie Seller here about it and I was given a couple of names and one of them rang a bell, DARK STAR. This is a fantastic student project by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon. It's a predecessor to HALLOWEEN and ALIEN. The music composition is vaguely familiar, but the plot of the movie is very humorous and hilarious and a tad optomistic, but sad at the same time. There are quite a few scenes that mimick ALIEN as well. Low budget special effects include muffin tins, tiny brooms, beach ball aliens, lots and lots of knobs, buttons, lights going on and off, hoses, airduct suits, etc. It's a must have for any video library! I recommened the extended version of the film. It fills in a lot of the gaps. I'm so incredibly happy that I found this movie after all these years and it's as good as it was the very first time I saw it. I gave the film five stars out of five because it's SOOOO GOOD!!!!Read full review
Dark Star is basically a low budget student film but it's still excellent sci-fi on a shoestring budget. It's also funny as hell especially the suicidal AI smart bomb and the beach ball alien scenes.
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This is one cool flick, not gonna get acting awards, but you won't forget it. Early John Carpenter as Dir. Special effects are hard to describe, some innovative and some so simple that it'll make you cry. All of it is imaginative and fun and a little scary.
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John Carpenter's 1974 sci-fi comedy features a group of space explorers dealing with mishaps while on a mission to rid unstable planets. Carpenter's first film is good and this dvd has decent picture and sound plus 2 cuts of the film and the trailer. I recommend this.
The film is rather mediocre on the whole, but is quite humorous to the thinker. This film is a must for fans of John Carpenter pictures or Ridley Scott's ALIEN.
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