Dark Star with Brian Narelle: DVD Cover

    Dark Star Director: John Carpenter Cast: Brian Narelle, Andreijah Pahich, Carl Duniholm, Dan O'Bannon

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    • DVD Release Date: 03/23/1999
    • Original Release: 1974
    • Rating: Rated G
    • Sales Rank: 24,336

    Viewer Rating: (1 ratings)

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    Chapter Stops
    0. Chapter Stops
    0. Menu Group #1 with 18 chapter(s) covering 01:22:19
    1. Earth's Communication. [2:00]
    2. The Bomb Run. [6:59]
    3. Title Sequence. [2:58]
    4. The Dark Star Log. [1:11]
    5. Extra Scenes From 1974 Release. [9:41]
    6. Solitude Of The Dome. [3:22]
    7. Too Much Leisure. [2:00]
    8. Lunch Time Antics. [3:13]
    9. Pinback Gets The Shaft. [:28]
    10. Table Talk. [:45]
    11. Malfunction. [:36]
    12. Dear Diary. [:23]
    13. Let's vaporize it! [6:09]
    14. The Emergency Airlock. [:50]
    15. Drop Sequence. [:17]
    16. Talking With Commander Powell. [1:07]
    17. Destruction Sequence. [6:22]
    18. Let there be light. [:09]

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    The directorial debut of horrormeister John Carpenter comes in the way of Dark Star a parody of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001--A Space Odyssey. The story follows four hippyish techno-nerds in their mission through deep space to destroy planets and ward off boredom and loneliness as they attempt to hold on to what little they can remember of Earth. When their weapons system malfunctions, they are forced to deal with a "smart" bomb trapped in the launching mechanism, and the acting captain (Dan O'Bannon) must debate phenomenology with the device in order to dissuade it from destroying them all. The film also features an imaginative and amusing struggle between a crew member (Dre Pahich) and an inflatable alien he attempts to keep as a pet, a long reflection on the virtues of surfing, a series of personality struggles, and a cryogenically-frozen captain whose brain is preserved on computer for the purpose of consultation. Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide

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    August 27, 2003: I first saw this movie while serving in the US Navy in Japan. As we were forward deployed we would be out at sea for over a month at a time and away form port for 3 month (followed by a 2-3 weeks replenishment and then back out to sea). I, and the crew, sat there one night and watched our lives being played out in this movie. While to many this is a funnny, yet dark, movie, to me it is what people go through who are trapped in a situation that isolates them from life. Was Mr. Carpenter having fun with 2001? I think it is in there. I see it more as the struggles of person against person not man against machine. he is showing that as a person is more isloated form life that the inner person comes out - and sometimes that inner child/person needs some help. This movie is about doing your duty and still getting the short end of the deal. Do I know Mr. Carpenter? No, i have never met him. However, I have a cousin who went to school with him.