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Is this the movie where... ???


I saw that movie many years ago in which a crew of astronauts tries to maneuver their broken ship through space while their board computer in shape of a growing red ball (tomatoe? homage to the red light of space odyssee´s hal? can´t remember for sure but it looked cheap) tries to sabotage them. It was a really strange movie - weird humor - with very long silent passages. Actors were all very 70s.
Possible spoiler ahead --->
In the end the computer succeeds and blows up the ship. In the last scene one of the astronauts "surfs" a part of the wreckage through space. I think this was underlined by "surfin usa" by the beach boys but i´m not sure if i maybe confuse this with an old atari videogame.
Is this airplane 2? If not, any ideas?

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OK, since nobody´s answering, I guess this is not the movie i was talking about, is it?

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Yeah, you got that right.

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Sounds like Dark Star.

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Yep, it's John Carpenter's "Dark Star." Big red beach ball alien. Sentient nuclear bomb that wants to commit suicide. Ship blows up, guy surfs into atmosphere on a piece of the wreckage.

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From the sounds of it, I'm glad I missed it.

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