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Product Description
In the mid twenty-first century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advances to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. DARK STAR is a futuristic scout ship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, it prowls the darkest reaches of space on a mission to seek out and destroy unstable planets ahead of the colonist. But there is one obstacle that its crew members did not count on -- one of the ship's thinking and talking bombs is lodged in the bay, threatening to destroy the entire ship and crew! DARK STAR was originally intended to be a 68 minute film. Jack Harris, the Hollywood producer, convinced the filmmakers to shoot 15 minutes of extra footage and he released the expanded version theatrically in 1975 through Bryanston Pictures.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Product Dimensions : 6.5 x 5.25 x 0.3 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : VCIV9010BR
- Director : John Carpenter, Assistant Director: J. Stein Kaplan
- Media Format : Blu-ray, NTSC, Widescreen, Dolby, Multiple Formats, Surround Sound
- Run time : 1 hour and 23 minutes
- Release date : November 6, 2012
- Actors : Various
- Studio : Vci Entertainment
- ASIN : B008SGMPVU
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #29,094 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #10,720 in Blu-ray
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The nominal main character, Sgt. Pinback (O'Bannon) isn't even who he's supposed to be; donning another man's uniform at the wrong moment was all it took to launch him into space, maybe forever. The ersatz Pinback laments his bad luck and the crew he's trapped with, also an alien life form that looks like either an underinflated beach ball or an overgrown pumpkin. He's responsible for feeding this mischievous mushy orb, and the chore is a real pain. Pinback particularly hates Lt. Doolittle, the new chief astronaut whose fondest wish is to surf a big wave.
Talby, a gentle but somewhat anti-social crew member, spends his days in an observation bubble, just hoping to catch a glimpse of a colorful meteor swarm that circles the universe once every trillion years or so.
When Talby stumbles into a laser beam, he causes a system malfunction that prevents a planet-busting bomb from launching. The talking nuke will detonate in just a few minutes. It can't be budged from beneath the ship and refuses to disarm and return to the cargo bay. What will the men of Dark Star do to avert destruction?
Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.
(6.6) Dark Star (1974) - Dan O'Bannon/Dre Pahich/Brian Narelle/Cal Kuniholm (uncredited: John Carpenter - voice)
I have to disagree about the "hippie" comments. I was on a submarine, and I think most other submariners would agree that these guys could have been on the boat. They act a lot like guys I knew after we were underwater for a few months. Lots of quirks and odd humor. It's almost like Carpenter did research on sub guys for his crew.
They have hippie-like qualities because they've just given up on shaving and hair cutting. After all, what's the point?
But in the sequences where they're doing their job, they act just like a sub crew going to battle stations. No nonsense, everything is like clockwork. The Job is first. I didn't really notice this until I got the DVD and watched it recently.
So see the flick with an open mind, and if you can overcome the silly effects in parts of the movie, you might get a few good laughs and think about the film the next day.
I'm delighted that I've had the opportunity to watch this absolute treasure of a movie.
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So, how much should a good Sci-Fi film cost? ‘Star Wars’(1977), cost $11 million; ’Aliens’(1986), $18.5 million; ‘Terminator 2’(1991), around $100 million; ‘Avatar’(2009), $237 million. Other early to mid ‘70s films in the genre, cost from around $5 to $19 million ~ ‘The Andromeda Strain’(1971); ‘Rollerball’(1975); ’Close Encounters...’ (1977), for example.
And then there is ‘Dark Star’, which was created as a project between 1970 and 1972, by Cinematic Arts students at the University of Southern California. Originally 45 minutes long, it was shot on 16mm film. It was then both expanded in length, with some new scenes added, and transferred to 35mm film for commercial release. It was directed by one of the screenwriters, John Carpenter, who also wrote the music, and voiced two characters. Dan O’Bannon, Carpenter’s co-writer, starred as one of the five human characters, Sergeant Pinback, and also voiced the two talking bombs. O’Bannon was also responsible for many of the special effects. This was, after all, made as a project, and whilst it was not quite ‘egg boxes, yoghurt pots and sticky-back plastic’, much of the visual effects was done on a shoe string. The overall total cost of bringing the film to the cinema? Around $60,000.
Carpenter is a hugely talented film maker. Although this was his first feature film, he had been making amateur films since he was a child. A film he had previously corroborated on quite extensively, whilst at USC, won an OSCAR for ‘Live Action Short Film’, in 1970. He went on of course, to become the doyen of independent, low-budget horror and Sci-fi movies. O’Bannon, meanwhile, went on to write the screenplay for ‘Alien’(1979), based on an original story he co-wrote, and also ‘Total Recall’(1990).
‘Dark Star’ went down well on first viewing at an LA Film Festival, but bizarrely, it was not especially popular, when released commercially. It seems that there were aspects of the humour which did not tickle audiences. It won early critical recognition however, and did a great deal better commercially on the small screen, with videos and then discs. Also, the retroactive stardust of ‘Alien’ and Carpenter’s iconic film ‘Halloween’(1978), used cannily in promotional hype by the distributor, helped boost its recognition.
The screenplay is a delicious mix of naive campus coffee bar jokes, visual gags, and some very dark and sophisticated satire. It does seem probable that straight-faced, unamused, cinema audiences, missed the clever nuances of Carpenter and O’Bannon’s humour. Tarantino rates ‘Dark Star’ a “masterpiece”, and we tend to agree. Raw and basic visually, albeit also very cleverly made, this eccentric little classic, packs a major payload of inspired entertainment, into its short length. A High-Five explosive Stars!
Anche se realizzato con un budget molto basso per il genere, a mio avviso è un film "vintage" che gli appassionati di fantascienza dovrebbero vedere.
La qualità del Blue Ray non è eccelsa.