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9 February 1979 (West Germany)
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What would you be like after 20 years aboard DARK STAR the spaced-out spaceship. The ultimate cosmic comedy! more
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Low-budget story of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets in star systems which are to be colonised...
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A silly little film
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Brian Narelle | ... | Lt. Doolittle |
| Cal Kuniholm | ... | Boiler |
| Dre Pahich | ... | Talby |
| Dan O'Bannon | ... | Sgt. Pinback |
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John Carpenter's Dark Star (Australia)
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83 min
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The Playboy posters are blurred in the bedroom scene, although the bedroom scene is not in all versions of the movie.
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Continuity: When Boiler and Pinback are fighting in the corridor, the gun that Boiler dropped at the beginning of the fight is on the deck not far in front of them, but when they stop fighting and climb the ladder back to the control room, the gun is not there.
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Spoofs Silent Running (1972)
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Benson Arizona
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John Carpenter's first film. Must be horror you say, but you'd be wrong in that account. Dark Star is a parodied view of future, in where a group of astronauts travel in space, destroying unstable planets in danger of hitting in to the sun, thus making them in to novas.
One would think there's lots of special effects in a movie like this, and one would be right. Those special effects just aren't extremely good in any standard, but they do have lots of charm. And I actually do believe, that if this movie would have any better specials it wouldn't be as funny as it's now.
I won't spoil the movie for you, but if you like sci-fi this just might suit for you then. It gave me couple of laughs.