Dark Star (Blu-ray) G
What Do You Say To A Talking Bomb? All Systems Snafu!!!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 6, 2012
- 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:
Uneven but enjoyable.
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Film4
Rating: B --
An enjoyable lightweight outer-space hippie spoof.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
... a grungy, darkly humorous declaration that, in the end, boredom and human slovenliness trumps technology and high ideals.
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Parallax View
Rating: 5/5 --
Hats off nonetheless to young whippersnapper John Carpenter, whose studenty tale of space tedium, aliens and molasses-black humour remains approximately a thousand times better than the director's last 15 years.
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Empire Magazine
All good fun, without much substance or lasting power.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 5/10 --
It wouldn't be a cult classic if everybody liked it, now would it?
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Movie Metropolis
John Carpenter's guerilla undermining of the pomposity of space odysseys
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CinePassion
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: 10,082
- UPC: 089859901027
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