Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Another bad SF movie Message-ID: <2160@usceast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 00:41:19 EST Article-I.D.: usceast.2160 Posted: Sat Jan 26 00:41:19 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 06:34:45 EST References: <297@topaz.ARPA> <1033@druri.UUCP> <385@utcs.UUCP> Reply-To: ted@usceast.UUCP (System Programmer) Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 29 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! >-- >university of toronto computing services: john j. chew, iii >{decvax,ihnp4,utcsrgv,allegra!utzoo,linus!utzoo}!utcs!jjchew Not quite fair, _Dark Star_ was, I believe, a student production and quite good , that considered. My favorite moment was when the audience realized that the back packs on the space suits are muffin tins, but given the budget that implies they did very well. BTW, did anyone notice that part of the ending is stolen directly from a Ray Bradbury story? Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted (UUCP) 6536 Brookside Circle ...akgua!usceast!ted Columbia, SC 29206 allegra!akgua!usceast!ted@UCB-VAX.ARPA (ARPA, maybe) ("Deep space is my dwelling place, the stars my destination") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------