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498. Movie Review: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starman, Explorers, Dark Star, Tron

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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Movie Review - The Beach Ball Alien

It was originally a forty five minute student film. It got shown to a preducer or ctive who said, o we could make this into a real movie. They added the whole thing, they added a bunch of stuff, including the whole thing with the beech ball alien,. To pad it out to feature length. And so there was acully a funny quote from dan o'bannon where he says, it went from being the most impressive student film of all time to the least impressive professional film of all times.

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