Dark Star (1974)
The spaced out odyssey.
Director: John Carpenter · Writers: Dan O'Bannon, John Carpenter
A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
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Cast
Brian Narelle
Lt. Doolittle 
Cal Kuniholm
Boiler 
Dan O'Bannon
Sgt. Pinback alias Bill Fruge 
Dre Pahich
Talby
Adam Beckenbaugh
Bomb #20 (voice) 
Nick Castle
Alien
Joe Saunders
Commander Powell (voice)
Cookie Knapp
Muttercomputer (voice)
Alan Sheretz
Bomb #19 (voice) 
John Carpenter
Talby Voice 
Miles Watkins
Watkins - Mission Control User Reviews (2)
Hilarious, taking the mickey out of science fiction films but still honoring the genre. I love it
There was always a dearth of sci-fi movies on the television as I was growing up, and this one used to appear rather regularly - and rather disappointingly too. It's supposed to be funny, but somehow the humour is just too contrived to make for much to remember as a group of astronauts start their twenty-year mission into outer space tasked with destroying unstable planets. Over time, though, the crew start to question the morality of their quest and coupled with the antics of their pet (looks like a rubber space-hopper) they find themselves facing the ultimate, explosive, dilemma. In it's favour, it is quite short and it doesn't hang around, but the acting is all just bit bland and there's way, way, too much script with little else by way of action to pad out the thin story that aims for parody but falls well short. Maybe we'd all be this way after a couple of decades in deep space, but…
