Orginally a student film, filmed over a number of years by John Carpenter and a few of his fellow students at USC. This movie was eventually turned into a feature film and released.
In many ways it's the anti 2001 A Space Odyssey. Instead of showing the majesty of space, it portrays the boring isolation of being in the middle of nowhere, doing a job that has no reason to be done. All the while plagued by the problems of failing equipment.
Low budget, low plot, but not low fun. There aren't many sci-fi comedies, but this is one of them. If you're into having to speak phenomenology with an artificially intelligent thermostellar bomb, this movie may be for you!
A movie not to be missed for Carpenter fans.
