Pros: Sureal, unique, sometimes hilarious, often thoughtful, the only sci-fi film I_know_of with_a_giant_beechball alien Cons: Probably all of the above if you just don't get it...
Dark Star was originally a short film created by John Carpenter and Dan O’Brammpm while they were both studying film-making in southern Caliornia. They had no budget whatsoever, a mere four actors (including O’Bannon), ...
Pros: Some funny stuff, the twenty minutes right before the end are golden Cons: Aimless, some jokes fall flat, they had to add filler to make it feature length
Director John Carpenter, the guy behind such horror classics as Halloween and The Thing, began his career with a sci-fi movie, not a horror film. Dark Star is an interesting film, at least from a historical standpoint, in that it's...
Pros: Imaginative use of a tiny budget, canny performances, a clever script Cons: None, unless you take it seriously
These days, $60,000 will buy quite a nice home on the crashing market; in 1974, it was a sufficient amount for John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon to expand a USC student film into a fully-fledged B-movie. In the mid-21st century, the film's titular ...
Pros: Extremely campy cult film. Cons: The newer versions have useless added scenes.
John Carpenter’s Dark Star, or as I love to call it, Hippies in Space is what campy cult classic movies are all about. It was a darling of the cult movie crowd the long before John Carpenter became well known for his later movies. He...
Pros: Wistful, slow-paced, and very human sci-fi tale with subtle humor, good dialogue, and clear storytelling. Cons: One scene padded to add length bring to feature length
Let's make it clear: Dark Star is a slow, melancholy space drama peppered with dry humor, not a zany comic sidesplitter or campy cult farce as it is often described. The humor throughout it is sublime and will bring to mind Douglas Adam's ...
Pros: The crew teaches phenomenology to a talking bomb. Cons: The effects are really cheesy and the movie drags at points.
The movie's plot centers around a space ship that travels from system to system, seeking planets that are going to fall off their orbits and then destroying them before they can collide with another planet.
Pros: Funny, stupid, low-budget, John Carpenter Cons: looks sometimes very stupid
Dark Star (1974) is the first movie of John Carpenter. Very low-budget, however it doesn’t really looks that way. It is one of the funniest SF-movies that I have ever seen (and I don’t really like SF).
It’s about four astronauts who cruise through...
Where was it who did it? all these guys had beards so I didn't know who was who. There was a little tomato alien that was like the worst monstar for a movie. I think I might watch it again but for now I hold my place on this move. Its not for everyone,...
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