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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Another bad SF movie
Message-ID: <2288@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 21:58:17 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.2288
Posted: Sat Jan 26 21:58:17 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 02:16:44 EST
References: <297@topaz.ARPA> <1033@druri.UUCP> <385@utcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui)
Organization: The Warlocks Cave
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Summary: 

In article <385@utcs.UUCP> jjchew@utcs.UUCP (John Chew) writes:
>What?  A discussion on bad SF movies without one mention of John Carpenter's
>"Dark Star"?  An alien mascot made out of a spray-painted beach-ball?  Space
>effects where they don't bother trying to hide the wires?

EEEKKKK! Scoundrel! Cad! Dark Star is a marvelous piece of fluff. It was
really a senior (masters?) project that made it out into the 'real' world.
No budget to worry about, so everything was done with ingenuity (I LOVED
the spacesuits-- silver trashbags, duct tape (without hamsters), half the
kitchen, a few pieces of styrofoam and a popcorn popper. It's funny. It's
not bad, and it actually has a number of interesting social statements in
it (one of my favorite 'beat society in the head films', along with Dr.
Strangelove, Rollerball, and Boy and His Dog). What's even better is
watching Dark Star a few times, and then going to a theater and watching
the film they did WITH a budget-- I got more than a few funny looks for
guffawing through a screening of Alien, but the in-jokes they tossed in
pointing back at their 'cult' film to keep you going through most of the
movie....

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