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Plot Summary:
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A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence. |
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Cast:
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $60,000
- Revenue:
- $0
- Color Info:
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Color (Metrocolor)
- Sound Mix:
- Mono
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 1.85 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Spherical
- Film Negative Format:
- 16 mm
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm
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Quotes:
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[Pinback wants the bomb to disarm.]
Pinback: All right, bomb. Prepare to receive new orders.
Bomb Twenty: You are false data.
Pinback: Hmmm?
Bomb Twenty: Therefore I shall ignore you.
Pinback: Hello...bomb?
Bomb Twenty: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive.
Pinback: Hey, bomb?!
Bomb Twenty: The only thing that exists is myself.
Pinback: Snap out of it, bomb.
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[Doolittle convinces the bomb not to explode.]
Doolittle: Hello, Bomb? Are you with me?
Bomb Twenty: Of course.
Doolittle: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?
Bomb Twenty: I am always receptive to suggestions.
Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
Bomb Twenty: Well, of course I exist.
Doolittle: But how do you know you exist?
Bomb Twenty: It is intuitively obvious.
Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
Bomb Twenty: Hmmmm.....well.....I think, therefore I am.
Doolittle: That's good. That's very good. But how do you know
Bomb Twenty: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun!
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Trivia:
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- One of the pieces of debris after the ship blows up says "THX 1138 Toilet Tank", a reference to THX 1138.
- John Carpenter directed, edited, and wrote the music for the film, but he uses pseudonyms in the credits for editing and the music.
- The Playboy posters are blurred in the bedroom scene, although the bedroom scene is not in all versions of the movie.
- The end of the film was almost certainly inspired by and adapted from Ray Bradbury's sci-fi short story "Kaleidoscope." Bradbury's story is about a group of rocket men floating away from each other in space after their ship has exploded. Eventually only two men are left in radio contact; one of them is carried off by an enchanting, kaleidoscopic meteor swarm and the other falls to earth as a shooting star. This situation is exactly recreated at the end of "Dark Star," and some of the dialogue is adapted directly from Bradbury's text.
- When bomb number 20 emerges from the bomb bay during the asteroid storm, you can see a guy sticking his tongue out on the computer screen.
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