Dark Star 1974 ENG 1080p BluRay x264

Year: 1974
Country: United States
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm
IMDB: Link

Language : English





Dark Star is a fun movie, and even without close analysis an obvious theme emerges. Pure and simple, Dark Star is vehemently anti-technology in its humorous musings. It dramatizes a universe wherein technology has overwhelmed man, to his ultimate detriment. The control room of the ship is the most cramped interior in the history of outer space films. There is no elbow room, and no room to maneuver or even turn around. Furthermore, the seat next to Pinback explodes for no reason, killing the captain. Other details also contribute to the notion that technology is harmful to our health. The ship is out of toilet paper because a bulkhead exploded, the telephone in the elevator is out of order, and the talking bomb malfunctions and kills the crew. These encounters with machinery suggest Dark Star’s most visible theme: that the more man overthinks his environs, the greater chance something will malfunction and undercut his so-called progress. Through the course of Dark Star, the malfunctions are often humorous (as when the elevator computer begins to play The Barber of Seville instead of assisting Pinback in his attempt to get inside the car), but there is nothing funny about what happens at the film’s climax: Technology destroys the ship.

Dark Star has also been enjoyed for 20 years because of its final ironic conceit, that a human crewman will have to convince a talking and thinking bomb not to explode by teaching it phenomenology. This is indeed a clever sequence, filled with suspense and the funny application of philosophy, but it adds just one more level of absurdity and black comedy to a film already brimming with cleverness. This scene has been reviewed more than any other in connection with Dark Star, perhaps because it is an intellectual scene, designed solely to appeal to the “smart” critics—perhaps the only viewers who would be aware exactly what phenomenology is.

Dark Star is a genre pioneer, too, because it is the first science fiction film in the American cinema to devise a visual conceit for faster-than-light travel. As the Dark Star leaves orbit of a planet it is about to destroy, all the stars race suddenly towards the camera, like a storm of lightning bolts. Soon after Dark Star, this visual notion of “light speed” would become de rigueur, a common image repeated in Star Wars and Star Trek: The Motion Picture among others. Also, Dark Star is the first Hollywood motion picture to suggest that astronauts need not be physically superior, by-the-book, All-American military martinets. Instead, the astronauts of John Carpenter’s film seemingly have no training or coping skills. They even smoke! The cigarette smoking and the blue collar feel of Dark Star would make an even bigger splash in Dan O’Bannon’s Alien in 1979.

Whether seen as an ironic, anti–2001: A Space Odyssey, a training ground for two of the 1980s’ most influential genre film talents, or the first movie of the slacker generation, Dark Star remains an enjoyable and thought provoking viewing experience at the advent of the twenty-first century, as well as one of John Carpenter’s most unusual cinematic efforts. The actors may not be recognizable, but the condition they portray is uniquely human, and strangely, uniquely ’90s. (John Kenneth Muir)

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[ Edition entry ]

UID: 17680
Hidden: No
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Chapters:
00:00:00,000-00:02:28,292: Chapter 1 {eng}
00:02:28,292-00:10:01,667: Chapter 2 {eng}
00:10:01,667-00:12:26,667: Chapter 3 {eng}
00:12:26,667-00:13:38,667: Chapter 4 {eng}
00:13:38,667-00:23:20,333: Chapter 5 {eng}
00:23:20,333-00:26:44,292: Chapter 6 {eng}
00:26:44,292-00:28:44,458: Chapter 7 {eng}
00:28:44,458-00:31:58,042: Chapter 8 {eng}
00:31:58,042-00:49:08,000: Chapter 9 {eng}
00:49:08,000-00:52:28,458: Chapter 10 {eng}
00:52:28,458-00:54:24,667: Chapter 11 {eng}
00:54:24,667-00:57:58,750: Chapter 12 {eng}
00:57:58,750-01:00:39,458: Chapter 13 {eng}
01:00:39,458-01:04:16,292: Chapter 14 {eng}
01:04:16,292-01:07:00,708: Chapter 15 {eng}
01:07:00,708-01:11:26,875: Chapter 16 {eng}
01:11:26,875-01:17:02,167: Chapter 17 {eng}
01:17:02,167-01:22:59,040: Chapter 18 {eng}

This report was created by AVInaptic (01-11-2020) on 1-10-2026 01:07:35