"Don't give me any of that intelligent life crap, just give me something I can blow up."
- Dark Star (1974)
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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-laughs and applauds- Gods, I love that movie. Talking phenomenology with the bomb - beautiful stuff.
ReplyDelete-goes to look for his DVD-
For anyone who doesn't have it, if you look around the video section of AMC's website, they have said film up for your streaming pleasure.
ReplyDeleteHi folks,
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge fan of Dark Star too. A terrific space comedy, and those are hard to do (see: Galaxina; The Ice Pirates...). Good to know AMC is showing/streaming Dark Star.
All my best,
JKM