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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: re: Another bad SF movie (** small Dark Star spoiler **)
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 15:54:55 EST
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>From: jjchew@utcs.UUCP (John Chew)
>Subject: Another bad SF movie
>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.
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