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From: leei@princeton.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Bad films
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Date: Wed, 28-Sep-83 04:49:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 28 04:49:01 1983
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I said it about "Eraserhead" and I'll say it about "Dark Star".  This is NOT a
bad film.  In fact it is probably the only really funny science-fiction film
I've ever seen.  If my memory serves me right, this film was made by none other
than the team of John Carpenter and Ridley Scott (!).

As the person who brought this up said, this is a film about a bunch of misfits
on a space ship whose mission it is to wander throughout the galaxy destroying
"unstable" planets before they explode on their own.  After a few months of
this, life on the ship gets boring and the crew starts to really get on each
other's nerves.

When you add all this to a ship's computer called "Mother", bombs that talk and
experience existential despair, and an alien mascot that looks like a big
orange polka-dotted beach ball, you eventually get a very funny movie that you
might see at your local college campus, or on the late show some night.  And
the theme song just CAN-NOT be beat.  Country and western!

				Benson, Arizona, the place I want to be
				Lee Iverson
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