Reply To: Do you reach an age where you go off of sci fi?
I can’t stand DARK STAR, sorry to say. I saw it for the first time way into my 20s, and couldn’t even get a camp laugh out of it. Yes, it’s probably satire and playing around with sci fi tropes, but that’s not the sci fi I’m looking for. Whenever I see someone say “I like [Film X], because it doesn’t take itself too seriously”, I cringe. I want my sci fi to take itself as seriously as humanly possible. I’ve tried to rewatch it a couple of times since, and it’s always failed.
Maybe if I’d seen it as a kid, there would be some kind of guilty pleasure in it, I don’t know.
The only good thing I can say about DARK STAR is that, when you strip away all the nonsense, there was enough of a core story there to adapt it into what turned out to be the greatest science fiction film ever made.