One of the stranger sci-fi movies you are likely run across . Here a motley crew formed by 4 bombed-out astronauts journey endlessly through the galaxy , whiling away the time antics , jokes , sunlamp treatment , personal diaries on videotape and games with their own pet alien , a beach ball-alike . They have been in space entirely too long (a 20 year mission) as they seek and destroy unstable planets that are in the way of navigation routes. Things go wrong when after a series of mishaps Mother, the ship's computer , can no longer persuade Bomb not to explode . Along the way an astronaut at the outer space arguing with Bomb about to detonate and that is bound to do his duty.
John Carpenter's first and lowest-budgeted film is very funny and fun in spurts and always crazy enough to hold spectator's attention , and it also anticipated the fictin of the seventies . Enjoyable, likeable and sheer delight Science Fiction film along Alien lines but much more jokey , with the cracks just about pasted over in the sets Carpenter and his team had built at their homes . Arguably the last and weirdest hippy movie with jokey references drugs , absurd phylosophical conversations , being rated PG because of language and adding California surfing , in fact one crew member makes it back to Earth on an improvised board . Stars Dan O'Bannon who gives a sympathetic acting as Pinback, but he also carries out efficiently the Editing , Production Design , as well as the amusing and entertaining script . Dan O'Bannon got his start when he and John Carpenter collaborated on this cult sci-fi film Dark Star (1974). After a failed attempt to make "Dune" with bizarre surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky in Europe, O'Bannon went back to the US and began work on "Star Beast" later retitled ¨Alien¨with Ronald Shusett with whom he later worked again on ¨Dead and buried¨(1981). He continued working in the Sci-fi/Horror genre mostly as a script doctor, but his directorial debut , The return of the living dead (1985) is known as one of the best zombie movies ever made .
Director John Carpenter is in familiar ground with this well-done tale about a group of unfortunate astronauts . Filmmaker himself described as: ¨One big optical-waiting for Godot in space¨. The film was made during his first period in the 70s and 8os , subsequently to direct classics as ¨Assault on Precint 13¨, ¨Halloween¨, ¨The Fog¨, ¨Christine¨, ¨Big trouble in little China¨, ¨They live¨, ¨1997 escape from N.Y .¨ , ¨Starman¨, Prince of darkness¨and ¨The thing¨.
John Carpenter's first and lowest-budgeted film is very funny and fun in spurts and always crazy enough to hold spectator's attention , and it also anticipated the fictin of the seventies . Enjoyable, likeable and sheer delight Science Fiction film along Alien lines but much more jokey , with the cracks just about pasted over in the sets Carpenter and his team had built at their homes . Arguably the last and weirdest hippy movie with jokey references drugs , absurd phylosophical conversations , being rated PG because of language and adding California surfing , in fact one crew member makes it back to Earth on an improvised board . Stars Dan O'Bannon who gives a sympathetic acting as Pinback, but he also carries out efficiently the Editing , Production Design , as well as the amusing and entertaining script . Dan O'Bannon got his start when he and John Carpenter collaborated on this cult sci-fi film Dark Star (1974). After a failed attempt to make "Dune" with bizarre surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky in Europe, O'Bannon went back to the US and began work on "Star Beast" later retitled ¨Alien¨with Ronald Shusett with whom he later worked again on ¨Dead and buried¨(1981). He continued working in the Sci-fi/Horror genre mostly as a script doctor, but his directorial debut , The return of the living dead (1985) is known as one of the best zombie movies ever made .
Director John Carpenter is in familiar ground with this well-done tale about a group of unfortunate astronauts . Filmmaker himself described as: ¨One big optical-waiting for Godot in space¨. The film was made during his first period in the 70s and 8os , subsequently to direct classics as ¨Assault on Precint 13¨, ¨Halloween¨, ¨The Fog¨, ¨Christine¨, ¨Big trouble in little China¨, ¨They live¨, ¨1997 escape from N.Y .¨ , ¨Starman¨, Prince of darkness¨and ¨The thing¨.