Remember when Dark Star for 5.98 was a big deal?

[tombow]

Dark Star on the cheap!

it’s probably 10p in CEX now…

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[Flap Jack]

I just checked. It’s £1.50!

They only seem to have 4 copies total in stock, though.

[tombow]

def a big influence on RD with a radiation leak, emotional scenes in a round observation deck, etc. I haven’t seen it for years, it’s on youtube but the version on there has crap sound.

[clem]

Or £6 for the Blu-ray which has a pretty good documentary. I was dumbfounded to learn that the actors who played Doolittle and Talby filmed their parts in the observation dome separately and never met.

[Phil]

Shout Factory has been gradually putting out some truly lovely John Carpenter steelbooks:
https://www.shoutfactory.com/search?q=john+carpenter

Not a direct link to the steelbooks, but you’ll see them there. I really hope they do Dark Star at some point. Honestly I’d be surprised if they didn’t.

[Dave]

I watched this tonight. It was fun, although not quite what I expected, and it was definitely interesting to note the many RD influences, big and small.

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