The Dark Side Of The Moon (1990)

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Movies: Thriller/Horror: The Dark Side Of The Moon (1990)
By Felix Atagong (Felix_atagong) on Saturday, January 04, 2014 - 8:34 am:

The Dark Side Of The Moon (1990)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099364/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

This has nothing to do with Pink Floyd as it is a horror movie set on a spaceship in 2022. Spacecore 1 is a satellite repair ship, orbiting the world, and as usual in these kind of movies its crew is the default bunch of people you wouldn't allow to repair your car, so the army gave them a job in a nuclear missile maintenance team instead.

When their systems suddenly fail their mayday is answered by an approaching space shuttle, that disappeared in the Bermuda triangle 3 decades before. The shuttle has one dead pilot who appears not to be so dead after all, and one by one the crew members get eliminated. The movie is pretty decent, despite its many flaws. It can be found on Youtube.

Funny Star Trek related quote: I'm a doctor, not a detective at 26:51.

Nits:

A space shuttle can automatically dock with a ship from 3 decades later, the airlock tunnel between both ships fits, and so is the emergency tube to pass the air from one ship to the other. The Discovery shuttle has enough air on board to supply the Spacecore that is 4 or 5 times bigger.

The Discovery is like the Tardis, small from the outside, big from the inside. It has several floors, wide corridors, separate rooms and even an air-conditioning tunnel network, big enough to climb through. All security doors are from solid steel, except the one with a glass window that can be broken by hitting it with your fist.

After the shuttle docks it mysteriously inherits the artificial gravity that is present on the Spacecore.

Cigarette smoking on spaceships is allowed.

Not only does the crew repairs defective nuclear missiles in space, they can also fire them at will at any target they want to. Just feed in the coordinates and bingo.

When captain Flynn gets a thirty minutes time limit to go to the shuttle and bring back a specific electronic relay it takes him ten (10!) minutes to cross the airlock tunnel. What did he do, drink a coffee and have a bagel first?

If you program a nuclear satellite to fire a missile it will take another five minutes before that order is carried out, giving just enough time to escape.

To rescue someone floating in a vacuum without a spacesuit you just open an airlock and grab him by the hand.

An electronic relay, taken from a ship from 30 years before, can be used on any modern ship. Just click it in.

Ships in 2022 have a communication module in the form of a female android, dressed in a rubber catsuit. However, you need to be present in the same room to talk to her, except when her head has exploded then you can use the intercom.

Shooting assault rifles inside a spaceship will not damage it. These vintage Styr Aug 5.56 guns just happen to lay around for anyone who feels the urge to fire a couple of shots.


By Felix Atagong (Felix_atagong) on Saturday, January 04, 2014 - 9:26 am:

I forgot the best of them all.

Asking a 2022 computer to remove all the digits - other than 6 - from three different six digit numbers, not only takes a helluva processor time, but will result in... only sixes!

http://youtu.be/F2Jod9u4Jx0?t=1h2m15s


By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Saturday, December 30, 2017 - 5:00 am:

One of these obscure little movies.


By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 5:52 am:

Now on Tubi.

The correct term is Far Side of the Moon, as it does get sunlight. Of course, Dark Side sounds scarier.

This movie is set in the distant future of...2022!

The ship they're on, and the old NASA shuttle, seem to have artificial gravity a la Star Trek.

As Felix pointed out, a decade ago, the interior of the space shuttle is way to big.

So the main computer is built like a sexy woman for what reason?


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