{"id":27941,"date":"2020-03-14T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27941"},"modified":"2020-03-14T10:40:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T15:40:32","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-ctd-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/14\/belated-movie-reviews-ctd-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader remarks on my review of Dark Star<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

You found a lot more meaning and more in that film than I did. Seemed more like a semi-tongue in cheek film made by a bunch of stoners who couldn’t quite keep their not-very-funny jokes together long enough to deliver real laughs. I saw it in college, and was semi-amused because it was so camp and so bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think it the consistency of its awfulness. Sure, other films can be bad, but the dreadfulness of the entity relationships was so distinctly terrible and, well, noir<\/em>, that I thought there had to be a little more here than met the eye.<\/p>\n

Or maybe I just made it all up out of whole cloth.<\/p>\n

Even then, I think the only reason we watched it was because it had a myth (true? false?) of having been the place where some of the crew who did Star Wars amazing special effects got their start.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The late Dan O’Bannon<\/a> co-wrote the screenplay, was editor of the movie, played Sgt Pinback \/ Frug, and worked on special effects. He also contributed special effects to Star Wars<\/strong><\/em>, as well as the legendary chest-bursting scene in Alien<\/em><\/strong>. Ron Cobb<\/a> did design work on both movies; incidentally, he also designed the Ecology<\/em> symbol, later incorporated into the Ecology<\/em> flag. Greg Jein<\/a> did model work for Dark Star<\/em><\/strong> and various Star Trek<\/strong><\/em> franchise episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reader remarks on my review of Dark Star: You found a lot more meaning and more in that film than I did. Seemed more like a semi-tongue in cheek film made by a bunch of stoners who couldn’t quite keep their not-very-funny jokes together long enough to deliver real \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27944,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941\/revisions\/27944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}