Comments | isomeme: Ummmm...bomb?

isomeme

Ummmm...bomb?

Oct 20, 2008 10:41

Despite my lingering head cold, it was a fun and active weekend. Saturday evening, I had some friends over to watch Dark Star, John Carpenter's first film (it started out as his film-school project before being remade as a feature film). Dark Star is a wonderfully bleak comedy about four bitter, bored astronauts who've spent far too many years ( Read more... )

lvx, health, oto

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mc156 October 20 2008, 18:40:01 UTC

Bomb, Bomb, please return to the bay!

I have loved Dark Star since I first saw it circa late 1970's...

Let there be light!

teeheehee
gotta love a bomb with ATTITUDE

ommadawn October 20 2008, 20:05:06 UTC

I think the first time I saw this was a midnight show at the State Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan in about 1981.

Echoing the previous comment about the bomb with an attitude: Do we *really* want artificial intelligence? What if when you hit ctrl-alt-del the computer came back and said "dude, this didn't work last time, can you knock it off now?"

anubis75 October 20 2008, 20:19:31 UTC

ardras156 gives good mass.

chimpstop October 21 2008, 01:37:40 UTC

I've only seen that Movie once, in a Theatre, in 1984. One of the few times it played at the KEN, then abducted by friends to go to the Strand and see Terminator ONE MORE TIME.

A film I only knew via infamous reputation as a kid and Alan Dean Foster's adapation, whic was actually a whole lot better than the flick. And the foto-inset in that adapation was better than the movie!

Rest is for the exhausted