Dark Star (film)

Dark Star is a 1974 American comic science fiction film directed, cowritten, produced and scored by John Carpenter, and cowritten by, edited by and starring Dan OBannon.

The ships crew consists of Lt. Doolittle helmsman, and initially, secondincommand, Sgt. Pinback bombardier, Cpl. Boiler navigator, and Talby target specialist. Dark Star Commander Powell was killed during hyperdrive as a result of an electrical short behind his rear seat panel, but remains onboard ship in a state of cryogenic suspension. The crew performs their jobs with abject boredom, as the tedium of their tasks overyears has driven them around the bend. The Dark Star ship is in a constant state of deterioration and frequent system malfunctions for example, a radiation leak which is not repairable, their cargo of intelligent talking bombs lowering from their bomb bay without a command to do so, an explosion destroying their sleeping quarters, the food processing computer repeatedly serving chickenflavored liquid meals, and a storage bay self destructing and destroying the ships entire supply of toilet paper, and only the softspoken female voice of the ships computer for company. They have created distractions for themselves Doolittle, formerly a surfer from Malibu, California, has constructed a musical bottle organ Talby spends his time in the ships observation dome, content to watch the universe go by Boiler obsessively trims his moustache, enjoys smoking cigars, and shoots targets with the ships emergency laser rifle in a corridor while Pinback plays practical jokes on the crew members, maintains a video diary, and has adopted a ships mascot in the form of a mischievous beachballlike alien who refuses to stay in a storage room, forcing Pinback to chase it around the ship. With regard to Pinback, he may not actually be Sgt. Pinback at all in his video diary, he states he is liquid fuel specialist Bill Froug, who inadvertently took the real Sgt. Pinbacks place on the mission. It is unclear, however, whether or not this is a paranoid illusory fiction Sgt Pinback has created, due to his prolonged time working in deep space.En route to their next target the Vei

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