10 Movies With Ridiculous Endings

There was no greater shock than discovering that Dark Star was critically well-received.

To give credit where credit is due, it is a very interesting concept. The crew aboard the Dark Star have AI-controlled bombs called "Thermostellar Triggering Devices" that are to be used to destroy any planet that could be a threat to humanity's colonisation of other worlds.

After Commander Powell is killed, the remaining crew consists of Doolittle, Pinback, Boiler and Talby to continue their twenty-year-long mission.

After a turgid string of events where their decaying ship is struck electromagnetic waves and other malfunctions, bomb #20 aboard the ship is set to detonate.

A bomb about to be detonated on-board your ship that, should you miraculously survive, would send you spinning off into the empty void of the universe to slowly die alone? Sounds like a captivating edge-of-your-seat watch.

What if I told you that Dark Star ends with the astronauts trying to talk it out of exploding, only for it to explode anyway, sending Talby spinning into the cosmos whilst he talks about circling the Universe forever, while Doolittle attempts to surf safely down to the planet they had intended to destroy on a piece of debris?

Because that's exactly how this John Carpenter sci-fi comedy flick rounds up its 83-minute runtime.