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Ok, bomb scene is great
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60 minutes too long
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Re: John Carpenter's Dark Star
« Reply #20 on: February 16, 2010, 01:45:52 PM »
So 2 people only saw the movie so far...

And I knew both opinions before starting the poll already... :-)
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Re: John Carpenter's Dark Star
« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2010, 01:56:05 PM »
Sorry, should I get around to watching a free preview, courtesy of Mr. WWW?
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Re: John Carpenter's Dark Star
« Reply #22 on: February 16, 2010, 02:05:16 PM »
If you have the time. I would appreciate your opinion
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Re: John Carpenter's Dark Star
« Reply #23 on: February 16, 2010, 02:09:36 PM »
Right then, I'll just hop over the Mr. WWW's house and make my order. He'll have my free preview hopefully by sometime tomorrow ;p
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Re: John Carpenter's Dark Star
« Reply #24 on: February 16, 2010, 07:42:19 PM »
I got it (courtesy of a friend with big glasses), so i'll watch it quite soon i guess... i'll keep you informed :)
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Re: John Carpenter's Dark Star
« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2010, 10:08:19 PM »
I like budget movies.
I like the pacing, I like the way they try to tell stories, it seems more real.

Not b-movies, which are movies that are terribly good, but movies that could've been great with a good budget, but more likely slashed if they ever saw a cent, even so.

I think this fits it. They had a good idea of how to build suspense and how to create twists that would change your idea of the story, of the ship, and of the people.

I love the last two twists. The asteroids, wasn't a twist just a reveal, but the bomb's religion and the surfboard . . . wow.

The story did drag itself out, in that the hunt for the alien went on well after they could've cut to Pinback saying "and then it deflated, like a balloon".
But they had a really good scene there, the elevator scene, which was too good to cut but too long to leave in.
I think they drew that out a bit much.
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Re: John Carpenter's Dark Star
« Reply #26 on: March 05, 2010, 11:02:17 PM »
Quote from: DarkLord on February 10, 2010, 08:17:48 PM
I hated Avatar myself, while everyone seems to think it's great... For me it was just a great collection of (crap) clichés...

Then what about this picture? :D :D :D
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Re: John Carpenter's Dark Star
« Reply #27 on: April 13, 2010, 04:37:35 PM »
I'll have to watch Dark Star as I don't know this movie at all.

<EDIT>
I just found the movie on YouTube DarkStar-pt.1 (1-19)
I noticed that John Carpenter is also a scenarist and a musician as he wrote the music of the intro of Dark Star.
For now I can all I can say about the movie :
¤ I see hippies in space with beard and long hair (where did they hide the weed ?  :icon16:)
¤ some elements of the movie are very similar to Star Wars (that came 3 years later) such as captions (almost same blue font), the shape of the ship makes me think a bit of the Imperial Cruiser and the scene of the planet destruction makes me think a bit of the Death Star strike.
¤ some effects are a bit messed up : the way the ship accelerate and then stops is NOT realistic. (sudden stop, no "drifting" in space)
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About Avatar, I think it bears an ecological message, don't you ?
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Re: John Carpenter's Dark Star
« Reply #28 on: May 05, 2010, 12:01:03 PM »
Recently watched Avatar, as it was a free movie to take because of the ammount of other movies we took, and yes, it bears an ecological message BUT

I don't need a 3 hour movie to constantly hammer something into my head what I already know, especially not when the movie is so mediocre. I don't know who the target audience for the message was supposed to be but man, that really was a subtle attempt to get the message across ;-).
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