MOVIE REVIEW: Dark Star (first 25 minutes)

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AArdvark wrote:Hey Jones! Are you ever gonna post a review to 'Dark Star'?
Yes.

"Utter, incomprehensible, nonsense."

There ya go.

This IS the bad SF movie
Sounds like it so far.
with the cheesy special effects
... Yeah, I'm thinking you're "warm."

The one where they have to talk the bomb out of exploding?
I'm not entirely sure. I saw some clown try to chase around a beachball for 26 minutes. So you could be right here.

Where the hippie like astro-nots spend the hours hanging out is some weird crash pad dorm room or something.
Astro-nots! Haha. Yes... yes indeed. That's the one. I hate hippies. And I hate movies from the mid-70s. This had both! And no discernable plot.

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Let me second the Firefly recommendation. It's an incomplete series, and there're some dangling plot threads, but every individual episode is pretty much self-contained. If you're a person who can get behind televised scifi at all, you'll enjoy the shows.

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Vitriola wrote:There was an unfortunate bottleneck in our netflix queue. It took me a couple weeks to realize that Robb was not going to sit down and watch the next 4 episodes of RahXephon with me
JESUS POTZER. I can either try to finish a game or watch anime. I can't do both very well. You even said that sometimes they have nothing planned for an episode and they drag it out. I can't spend time that the writers don't want to spend when it's "crunch time."

Anyway, when you get Bebop I'd certainly watch that. That has to be on Netflix, right?

Everything else got sent back so he could get more crappy movies recommended by strangers on the internet that said something funny once like 2 years ago and so then of course must have good taste in flicks.
Ha ha ha. The Sweet Hereafter was also on the recommendations list of that one guy who is obsessed with you and thinks I'm an Indian, and not just Cadre's list, so don't even.
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Wait, what? I thought that was a Cadre recommendation. Does this guy even know I exist? Where is this coming from?

As for your time management skills, I don't see you watching anime OR finishing a game, so potzer THIS.

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Vitriola wrote:Wait, what? I thought that was a Cadre recommendation. Does this guy even know I exist? Where is this coming from?
It was. It was a recommendation from him (well, not to me directly -- he wrote that it was his favorite on his website and I read it as I read his website) but people that you know liked it as well.

Anyway, I thought that there should have been a chase scene to the Sweet Hereafter. WTF? A bus? An angry guy involved in adultery? An icy, snowy terrain? They coulda dragged that out for another thirty minutes, like in "Paycheck." Boo. Boooo! Booo-ooOOOooo!!!
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One thing you know about anyone who doesn't like Dark Star:

Their soul has died.

(The other thing you know about them is that they suck at Robotron.)

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The SCARY part about me and the Dark Star thing?

I read the book first...


I READ THE FREAKING BOOK FIRST!!


Seriously, Alan Dean Foster is the kind of guy that does all these movie novelizations. Besides Dark Star he wrote the first Star Wars.(because Lucas had so much to do at the time, he got Foster to write it and stick his name on it.)

I saw the movie about a year after I read the book.

Boy, was I bummed


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You people understand this is a COMEDY, right?

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AArdvark wrote:Seriously, Alan Dean Foster is the kind of guy that does all these movie novelizations.
No, scary is reading the novelization of Pretty In Pink. Scarier is that they CHANGED THE ENDING.

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pinback wrote:You people understand this is a COMEDY, right?
If you have to 'understand' that it is a comedy, it isn't.

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Vitriola wrote:
pinback wrote:You people understand this is a COMEDY, right?
If you have to 'understand' that it is a comedy, it isn't.
Yeah!!

"So I kicked him in the head till he was dead!" -- Wag, Baldur's Gate

Blaming the audience is WEAK, PARRISH.
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If you didn't think that was a wonderfully funny movie, then frankly, I wouldn't want to be within 500 yards of you. In fact, I think I'll contact the local authorities and have them enforce this radius.

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pinback wrote:If you didn't think that was a wonderfully funny movie, then frankly, I wouldn't want to be within 500 yards of you. In fact, I think I'll contact the local authorities and have them enforce this radius.
I'm posting!

On the Internet!

How can you defend the beachball scene as anything other than a waste of time?

(Did I mention that Solaris is one of the best movies that I have ever seen and your taste is impeccable? I did? Good.)
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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:How can you defend the beachball scene as anything other than a waste of time?
Beachball alien == funny!

"Thanks!" - Bomb #19

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Idea of beachball alien = Funny.

First 2 minutes of beachball alien = Amusing.

Next half hour = We get it. Bitter, recalcitrant beachball alien. Ok, stop. Enough. Really, I get it. Ha ha.

The whole movie (that I saw) was like that. Funny gimmick does not = funny actualization.

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Jonsey - watching japanimation and using AIM? Next time you're in town, you might walk to collect your testicles which apparently you left in your bedroom, probably hidden in a secret compartment behind the Hall & Oates drawing. Jesus. At this rate, you'd put a fuzzy steering wheel cover on the WRX as soon as you got it. To say nothing of "Sweet Hereafter" - gads. What happened to the Jonsey that was eagerly anticipating the special edition of Street Trash? That was a "Re-Animator" fan? He's now wating Sweet Hereafter when Tromeo and Juliet goes unseen by him???????????????????

Re: TV on DVD. "Son of the Beach". 'nuff said.

Re: Scifi parodies. Way back when, there was a movie called "Spaceship" that was kind of like "Airplane" except that it parodied Alien instead of Airport, only it wasn't as funny and it wasn't as well known. When I was a kid, I thought it was pretty amusing but haven't seen it in years. Anyways, from what I understand of Dark Star (which has been on my list of "to see" flicks for years and years, but has never bubbled to the top), some of the concepts are similar - most significantly, the silly alien monster.

Re: Foster. Actually, George Lucas is the author of the original Star Wars, or at least, he's listed as much on my own battered copy. A.D. Foster did do the sequels as well as countless other scifi movie adaptations (and I've probably got about half of 'em at least.) I tried one of his non-adaptation books once ("Nor Crystal Tears") and could never get into it.

Re: Lovecraft. There's no such thing as bad H.P. Lovecraft. Read it all.

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Jethro Q. Walrustitty wrote:Re: Scifi parodies. Way back when, there was a movie called "Spaceship" that was kind of like "Airplane" except that it parodied Alien instead of Airport, only it wasn't as funny and it wasn't as well known. When I was a kid, I thought it was pretty amusing but haven't seen it in years.
That plays on Comedy Central occasionally, and it is awful. And this is coming from a guy who still annoys people by ripping off the "Cigarette? Yes, it is." gag from the original Police Squad.

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Jethro Q. Walrustitty wrote:Jonsey - watching japanimation and using AIM? Next time you're in town, you might walk to collect your testicles which apparently you left in your bedroom, probably hidden in a secret compartment behind the Hall & Oates drawing. Jesus. At this rate, you'd put a fuzzy steering wheel cover on the WRX as soon as you got it. To say nothing of "Sweet Hereafter" - gads. What happened to the Jonsey that was eagerly anticipating the special edition of Street Trash? That was a "Re-Animator" fan? He's now watching Sweet Hereafter when Tromeo and Juliet goes unseen by him???????????????????
LO! ANOTHER JONSEY GETS A GIRLFRIEND AND NOW HE HAS NO BALLS THREAD! OH, MY ACHING SIDES! First of all, since you insist on using the term 'Japanimation', you are automatically dismissed from the conversation. Being the stubborn and reactionary mocking person you are, I'd almost guarantee you wouldn't be so put off it if you weren't surrounded by a bunch of women who watch it and tried to get you to like it. Just like every post today, and most days, of someone says X, you say Y, like agreeing with someone is complete anathema to you.

Secondly, what the hell is so ball-less about mecha? It's not like I'm renting Oh! My Goddess for chrissakes. And, I repeat, he wasn't into it. As for 'The Sweet Hereafter', that wasn't my recommendation, but that of a couple guys online. I didn't hate it, but I much prefer kung-fu, foreign and anti-summer-blockbuster type movies. Or 'Films'. Of the 'Art' variety. Because, you know, you can't say 'I'm into art films'. Besides, some of those are pretty gay, too.

Onward, we've already watched his copy of Re-Animator, rented the second Re-Animator, and downloaded the third one, which we will watch as soon as he can get Nero working and burns it to DVD. Which might be awhile.

We still need to watch Street Trash. And will, as soon as the definitive Q-Bert champion is determined. As for Tromeo and Juliet, I've seen it very recently, so suggested we wait awhile to get it so I can watch it with him and enjoy it, too.

And with AIM, like I said, he might have 8 windows up when AIM is on, but using icq fills the screen with windows like a virus. I like icq better, too. Which reminds me I have to have another go at installing Trillian. I filled out all the info, and tried to turn it on, at which point I might have been a naked guy in a raincoat walking down a sunny street for all it acknowledged my presence. I think I'm just going to try and re-install it.

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I think Dark Star was 'sposed to be funny in a drug induced stupor kind of way. makes me wonder what the director was on while filming...


http://www.alandeanfoster.com/version2.0/frameset.htm

Little known fact: Foster DID write the first Star Wars book.
George Lucas had written the story outline and the screenplay
but had no time to actually write the novel. Of course when the movie hit the screens in '76 they needed something to put on the shelves when the movie did come out so they gave the job to Alan.

Try the first three commonwealth books and go from there. It really sets the pace for the rest of them.

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I'm not reading all this.

You're all stupid.
WHOOA!

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