Micahs Movie Calendar

Notes History

Date Viewed	Venue	Note
12.28.06	Netflix	This movie was Carpenter's feature debut... two years before Assault on Precinct 13. The DVD production notes say that the movie started out as a student film, then got $60K funding, and was flushed into a full-length movie. It's basically about 4 hippyish astronauts travelling around blowing up unstable planets. Most of the astronauts are bored with their jobs. The movie is deliberately-paced, but was interesting enough that I never felt bored. One of the actors, Dan O'Bannon, went on to write all of the Alien films (including AVP). The Netflix sleeve calls it a brillaint parody of 2001. I don't know if I'd go that far, but the final sequence involved the astronauts' attempt to talk a self-aware bomb out of blowing everybody up. Definitely not for everybody (it's very different that most other Carpenter films), but I liked it.

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