John Carpenter’s notoriously irreverent sci-fi satire revolves around a deep space crew of slackers, a bomb with a brain, and a ship’s computer provocatively named Mother. The bored crew has been stranded in space for over twenty years on a mission to destroy planets that could pose a threat to Earth. To pass the time, they muse philosophically on their mission while janitor-turned-astronaut Pinback clowns around with his alien sidekick.