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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: re: Another bad SF movie (** small Dark Star spoiler **)
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 12:09:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 12:09:20 1985
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> >From: jjchew@utcs.UUCP (John Chew)
> >Message-ID: <385@utcs.UUCP>
> >
> >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!
> 
> I must protest.  This is  one  of  my  favorite  films.  The  effects  were
> obviously intentionally what they were and contributed greatly to the humor
> of the situation.  Note that most of the effects they  wanted  to  be  good
> were  ok  (the  laser  looked  real  enough).  The beach-ball alien and the
> styrofoam-and-muffin-tin space suits were obviously intended as gag  items.
> Ever wonder how they got that enormous elevator shaft into that small ship?
> 
> I didn't know the film had been novelized.  Doesn't strike me as a good, or
> even  feasible,  idea,  but  I  haven't read it yet so I can't comment with
> authority.
> -- 
> ==============================================================================
> The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)
> {vortex,philabs}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe

I second -- "Dark Star" was fabulous!  I was under the impression that 
Alan Dean Foster's novel came first, but given his penchant for novel-
ization, I could be wrong.  If it is a novelization, it's possibly his
best, though that is perhaps faint praise.


Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

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