As they were for me and BACHATA (27D: Romantic music genre originating in the Dominican Republic), though man was I sweating that last letter (i.e. Hopefully, the crosses were helpful enough to get you through.
#Too legit to quit star wars movie#
I just want you to know that at the same moment I was thrilled to see that movie in the grid, I was thinking of alllll of you who would be going "what. I went from howling "how am I supposed to know that!?" at BACHATA to howling, louder, "how is anyone but me supposed to know that!?" at " DARK STAR." LOL, how many of you have seen or even heard of " DARK STAR"? I actually watched it recently, but the only reason I even knew it existed was because it was one of the first movies featured on Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary's podcast " Video Archives," which started just last summer, and which I listen to semi-religiously. It was the feature debut for O'Bannon, who also served as editor, production designer, and visual effects supervisor, and appeared as Sergeant Pinback. Its final budget is estimated at $60,000. While initially unsuccessful with audiences, it was relatively well received by critics, and continued to be shown in theaters as late as 1980. The home video revolution of the early 1980s helped the movie achieve " cult classic" status O'Bannon collaborated with home video distributor VCI in the production of releases on VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, and eventually Blu-ray.ĭark Star was Carpenter's feature directorial debut he also scored the film.
It follows the crew of the deteriorating starship Dark Star, twenty years into their mission to destroy unstable planets that might threaten future colonization of other planets.īeginning as a University of Southern California student film produced from 1970 to 1972, it was gradually expanded to feature-length until it appeared at Filmex in 1974, and subsequently received a limited theatrical release in 1975. Dark Star is a 1974 American science fiction comedy film directed and produced by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon.
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