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**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 2:36 am Post subject: Classic low budget Sci-Fi

Dark Star movie (1974) from John Carpenter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocse-0bBfo8

**kal** · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:41 pm Post subject:

Heard a lot about this over the years but have never got around to watching it. It's a spoof of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Kal

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12026 Location: Fort Collins, CO

It's incredibly low-budget and cheesy. It cracked me up when I was in college, but I just watched 10-15 minutes of it and I thought "Geeze what garbage..." Laughing

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 10:09 am Post subject:

I had never heard of it until a local guy I was getting some CD-ROM's off of told me about it.

NEXT UP, my favorite: HARDWARE WARS!
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss 3 bucks good-by!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL4XPSZV7NA

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12026 Location: Fort Collins, CO

Yeah it was John Carpenter's school project, and then they stretched it out to a longer movie.

Hardware Wars! Hahaha, I haven't thought of that one in years. That was another one that made the circuit of SF cons in the 70's. The Narrator was Paul Frees, who did a LOT of voiceover roles including the Narrator for the Rocky & Bullwinkle show. Smile

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

Enemy Mine was pretty good

what's the one from the 1980's, orbiting nuke platform post apocalypse?

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10273

Let's not forget Bruce Dern in Silent Running.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running#:~:text=Silent%20Running%20is%20a%201972,Ron%20Rifkin%20and%20Jesse%20Vint.