John Carpenters first movie features a group of astronauts flying around space, while occasionally blowing up some planets. They've grown to hate each other and have become intensely bored travelling around deep space; so its basically like the worst office job ever. They also have to deal with a sentient bomb when it becomes depressed. The bomb feels like his only function in life is to explode, but they won't let him do that. In the final scene he carries out his threat and blows up the ship, killing the crew and leaving the last survivor stranded in the wreckage. He decides to spend his final moments riding on some debris - which is conveniently shaped like a surfboard - right into a dying planet, where he burns up like a star on re-entry. As cool ways to die go, that's got to be one of the best. Dark Star's blackly comic tone sets up this ending perfectly, which is part of the reason it became a cult favourite. It was also the inspiration for Red Dwarf, so that's another reason to love it.
