The sci-fi comedy Dark Star tells of the adventures of a spaceship crew that has been traveling in the vastness of space for 20 years. You have the task Destroy unstable stars with bombs. As the ship disintegrates more and more, sleeping cabins self-destruct and the toilet paper goes whistle, one of the bombs threatens to detonate itself.
The curious comedy began as Student project by later horror master John Carpenter (The thing from another world). Although she now occupies one of the last places in his director’s illustrious filmography, she quickly acquired cult status and, according to Tarantino, is said to have even inspired Star Wars. In the Video Archives Podcast he explained:
I want the word masterpiece to mean something. I think it fits Dark Star. The film is a science fiction masterpiece. It’s an anti-establishment hippie masterpiece. […] It has the Jump to lightspeed anticipated in Star Wars. It’s obvious that [Star Wars-Macher] George Lucas saw the film and used the idea.
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Critics have been divided about Dark Star over the years. While Empire shares Tarantino’s stance, Variety called the film at the time “a limp parody of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey“.
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