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From: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Brad Miller)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Another bad SF movie
Message-ID: <574@ccice2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 13:06:44 EST
Article-I.D.: ccice2.574
Posted: Mon Jan 28 13:06:44 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 11:39:23 EST
References: <297@topaz.ARPA> <1033@druri.UUCP> <385@utcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Bradford W. Miller)
Organization: CCI Central Engineering, Rochester, NY
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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?  And Alan Dean
>Foster's ... er, marvellous novelization which... er... captured the flavour
>of the movie exactly!

In case you didn't notice, "Dark Star" was a HACK. And a brilliant one at that.
I particularly liked the scene where the ship the 'dark star' hurtles away
from a planet they were bombing (basically because they had nothing better
to do) and stop instantaniously, ignoring inertia ("I never studied law -
B. Bunny).

This hilarious movie should not be missed if you've never seen it.

Brad Miller

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