Big D Pitchas


Dastoli Digital
February 2003
4 min

A review of How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Superlaser
by Diego Kontarovsky

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Superlaser is the fourth of Dastoli Digital's five Star Wars fanfilms. It is a parody of Dr. Strangelove with James Dastoli doing hilarious impersonations of George C. Scott and Peter Sellers. This is the first Dastoli Digital movie I ever saw, and I was quite pleased with it. It's a very simple short, completely dependent on a love for Dr. Strangelove and an appreciation for the performances, both of which I happened to have on me when I watched it. However, Donny Copleand sucks and ruins everything yet again.

Here is what the Dastolis have to say about How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Superlaser:

JAMES:

"I played both parts like shit, but I wasn't supposed to play Palpatine. Robert was supposed to. The best person to play the role would have been Dan Wiznitzer."

ROBERT:

"Superlaser was in a way a test bed for parts of The Vorzyd Gambit. You can clearly see that pretty much all of the effects shots were half-assed to an extent, and the bluescreen stuff was all done in the same (inferior) room as the opening cockpit for The Vorzyd Gambit. I think all of it's shortcomings would have been downpladyed if we were able to have the song at the end and many planets being destroyed by the Death Star in a montage (which we couldn't because of copywrite reasons)."

So wait, why didn't Robert play Palpatine? Was he taking another shit (see In Plane Sight review)?

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