Dark Star. a spaceship manned by four jaded crew and their defunct wired-for-sound chief, has, for twenty years, fulfilled its mission to destroy unstable planets. The crew's... more
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Dark Star [1974]
The crew of the spaceship Dark Star are on a 20-year mission to destroy unstable planets
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and make way for future colonisation by using smart bombs which zoom off cheerfully to do their duty. But unlike the orderly inhabitants of Star Trek's Enterprise, the nerves of this crew are becoming frayed to the point of psychosis. Their captain has been killed by a radiation leak that also destroyed their toilet paper. "Don't give me any of that 'Intelligent Life' stuff", says Commander Doolittle when presented with the possibility of alien life, "Find me something I can blow up". When an asteroid storm causes a malfunction, Bomb Number 20 (the most cheerful character in the film) has to be repeatedly talked out of exploding prematurely, each time becoming more and more peevish, until they have to teach him phenomenology to make him doubt his existence. And the film's apocalyptic ending, lifted almost wholly from Ray Bradbury's short story "Kaleidoscope" has the remaining crew drifting away from each other in space, each to a suitably absurd end. Absurd, surreal and very funny. John Carpenter once described Dark Star as "Waiting for Godot in space". Made at a cost of practically nothing, the film's effects are nevertheless impressive and, along with the number of ideas crammed into its 83 minutes, ought to shame makers of science fiction films costing hundreds of times more. --Jim Gay
Dark Star - Lorna Moon
Sound tight ex-library copy in library binding (no spine titling) with clean tear free
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wrapper. Remains of pastedowns on front fly. Minor library signs of use but no wear. A re-issue of the 1929 original with a six-page introduction by David Toulmin, written on the first of May, 1980, which happened to be the 50th anniversary of the death of Lorna Moon.
Actor(s): Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Cal Kuniholm
Director(s): John Carpenter
Genre: Comedy
Classification: Parental Guidance
Production Year: 1974
Running Time: 1 hour 19 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: Dark Star. a spaceship manned by four jaded crew and their defunct wired-for-sound chief, has, for twenty years, fulfilled its mission to destroy unstable planets. The crew's morale slumps when the on-board computer backfires, and drops even lower when the toilet paper runs out.
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Dark Star. a spaceship manned by four jaded crew and their defunct wired-for-sound chief, has, for twenty years, fulfilled its mission to destroy unstable planets. The crew's morale slumps when the on-board computer backfires, and drops even lower when the toilet paper runs out.
...If you like mature science fiction, if you like film noir, if you like contemporary realism; if you like good music & special effects then Blade Runner would have to be in the top 3 "I want..." movies available today.
A film that is almost 20 years old, failed at the box office, had lots of strife between actors, producers & director off-screen; the original version having a tacky ending; and the film itself disappeared without trace for a number of years.
And yet......
Blade Runner remained in the shadows of the videoshelf unnoticed until 1992 when director Ridley Scott brought out the Director's Cut with tacky ending & monologue expunged. From that point on BR grew from simple cult status to perhaps one of the best Sci-Fi films of all time - on a par with 2001 and Star Wars!
But to begin.....
The story is set 20 years...
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Advantages: Visually impressive, thoughtful characterisation Disadvantages: Slow in bits, depressing at times
...slow in places, melancholy and it appears to be raining alot but the lighting and cinematography,music by Vangelis, special effects of the mega-cities and the contrast in the rich and poor sectors keeps your attention. As does the development of all the characters involved from Ford himself, almost as desperate as the androids he is chasing to Rutger Hauer's character who leaves the most intriguing dilemna as he slowly develops from cold blooded killer soldier to emotionally tortured 'human'.
There's a bit of a continuity glitch in that 5 replicants are mentioned at the start but only four entered the planet illegally and it is only four Ford is chasing down. Who is number 5??
This film is in two basic versions - the sanitised cinema one with the dodgy ending or the Director's Cut. If possible, watch the sanitised one first then the other...
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helpful 15.06.2001
Dark and dreary Review ofBlade Runner (Director's Cut) (Wide Screen)by
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Advantages: How many SF detective films are there? Disadvantages: Dark, nothing special
...Harrison Ford stars in this adaption of Philip K Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'. Rogue androids have escaped and are loose in a future Los Angeles, dark and dreary (probably they spent all the budget on special effects and so had to cut down on lighting). Ford is called in to find and destroy them.
I don't really know what more there is to write about this film. It's pretty dull except for a few moments of violence and some predictable soul-searching as Ford get's all emotional, but that's really it. A film to pass the time, but don't bother renting it!...
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not helpful 07.08.2000
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