Dark Star Movie

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Uh, guys? You gotta read this review of the film from NY Times, in a timely 5 year late review that is its own disaster comedy.

Here's a snippet

'... Even in the glow of hindsight, "Dark Star" doesn't contain many indications that Mr. Carpenter is a director about to turn the world on its ear.There are some funny routines here, though Mr. Carpenter doesn't seem to have cared much about integrating or sustaining them... ' (By Janet Maslin
Feb. 3, 1979; New York Times)

Link to the free-to-read text version auto-transcribed from the newsprint original which is publicly available:

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/03/archives/dark-star-space-film-sendup.html

Dark Star - let there be light

Spoiler Alert!

Dark Star - let there be light The bomb has an epiphany.

Incoming Dispatch bounced to us via the boys over at Rio Rancho Station #5 thanks to intelligence-gathering of Heiko Tobis with a message: "The skipper always finds a way…"

DARK STAR "Alien Beachball" Clip (1974) John Carpenter

"Alright, soup's on...."

DARK STAR "Alien Beachball" Clip (1974) John Carpenter DARK STAR "Alien Beachball" Clip (1974) John CarpenterPLOT: In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beg...

Uncle Albert Admiral Halsey

An old edit of the movie I did a wile back. Enjoy!

(fun post from 2011)

Benson Arizona! Its evocative lyrics are by Bill Taylor and the music is by John Carpenter. It's sung by John Yeager. Novice lyricist and veteran special effects artist Bill Taylor--who's worked on loads of movies like Blade Runner, What Dreams May Come, Cape Fear, The Thing and The Blues Brothers--tells us what inspired him to write the opening song:

"I proposed to John (Carpenter) that it should be a country song... to match with the idea of truck drivers in space. And I went away and wrote the lyric. And he liked it. and I was amazed and delighted. It's called "Benson, Arizona" because, years earlier, about 1962, I had driven my little Morris Minor car for a long road trip from Los Angeles to Los Cruses, New Mexico, where my girlfriend lived, for the Christmas holiday. And my Morris Minor broke down in Benson, Arizona on Christmas Day...A gas station attendant identified the problem and he said "You know, there's a guy here in Benson who reconditions electrical parts for cars and he might be able to handle this generator. So he called this guy up on Christmas day and he sent me over there, and this guy, God bless him, had a Lucas generator. And he couldn't install it himself because he said he was all swelled up like a toad from eating too much Christmas dinner. But he gave me tools, and gave me good instructions, so I put in a new generator and I was on my way, thanks to two total strangers willing to help out a traveler on Christmas day. And I'm still very moved by that all these years later. So when it came time to write the lyric, I was thinking about "Where is the most unlikely place in the world that these guys could be longing for? A place so obscure that it would be funny..." So Benson, Arizona automatically came to mind. I wrote three verses--the third verse wasn't necessary--and it all timed out perfectly for the titles. The other nice side effect was that the lady I went to visit on that Christmas ultimately wound up as my wife. "