Dark Star

Unrated

3/30/19741h 23m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ Bombed Out in Space with a Spaced Out Bomb! ~

Overview:

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

Director:

John Carpenter

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$60,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

future
artificial intelligence (a.i.)
boredom
space travel
destruction of planet
anarchic comedy
metrocolor

Cast

Brian Narelle

~ as ~

Lt. Doolittle

Cal Kuniholm

~ as ~

Boiler

Dan O'Bannon

~ as ~

Sgt. Pinback alias Bill Fruge

Dre Pahich

~ as ~

Talby

Adam Beckenbaugh

~ as ~

Bomb #20 (voice)

Nick Castle

~ as ~

Alien

Joe Saunders

~ as ~

Commander Powell (voice)

Cookie Knapp

~ as ~

Muttercomputer (voice)

Alan Sheretz

~ as ~

Bomb #19 (voice)

John Carpenter

~ as ~

Talby Voice

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Reviews (2)

J
JJJ222cool
Written 2 year(s) ago
10
Hilarious, taking the mickey out of science fiction films but still honoring the genre. I love it
CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
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.