Review of Dark Star

Dark Star (1974)
7/10
Just what was Carpenter smoking?
5 February 2000
Well, this was an experience. I feel oddly attracted to this piece of cinematic weirdness, it has a certain touch of poetry one normally doesn't find in films like these.

I think I would say it's 50% brilliant and 50% total garbage - it has a lot of wonderful ideas but it really has tons of weak spots. Ten minutes hunting down an alien beachball, followed by ten minutes hanging from an elevator going up and down for no reason whatsoever, is not my idea of cinematic magic. The wonderfully twisted 'glass and wood'-organ piece, however, is.

Don't miss this one. All in all, it's worth the 80 minutes.
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