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From: lewis%Shasta@spider.UUCP
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Subject: Dark Star
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Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 16:15:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 16:15:36 1984
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The more you know about SF and SF movies the funnier Dark Star is.  If
you don't know about the scene that a scene in Dark Star is satyrizing,
you will certainly not think it is funny and might well wonder what is
going on.  And since it has a basically nihilistic underlying theme, it
could easily stike one as so-so without the knowledge of all the gung-ho
heroics it is parodying.

I really like the dead captain in the block of ice (preserved in a semblance
of alive by elctrical current through his brain) complaining that his
crew didn't come to visit often enough.  The talking bomb that had to be
persuaded to do what it was supposed to and kept spouting philosophy (not
quoting, it had arrived at its conclusions independently).

I was in stitches!  Just the parody of the noble "boldly go where no man
has gone before, seek out new life" .... and kill it before it gets dangerous!

With the world acting so much like a parody, intentional parody gets harder
to recognize every day, but parody Dark Star is!

                                - Suford