I just rented The Last Starfighter from Blockbuster and watched it. Tron was the first film to make extensive use of CGI; TLS was the second. It's a cheesy, feel-good movie, but great fun to watch nonetheless. And the music is just great.

"Greetings, starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xor and the Ko-Dan Armada!"


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The Last Starfighter - that's one of the GREATS in my book! I LOVED that film! I think I was about 13 or so when I saw that in the theater. Sure, it was a cheesy, feel-good movie - but MOST of the movies from that time were structured like that. At least this was a VERY COOL cheesy, feel-good movie!

I remember admiring how they used CGI for the ships and space sequences, and reading and article about how groundbreaking it was as they were the first film to not use models (physical ones - you know what I mean) to create the space battles.

I also remember wondering HOW MUCH LONGER before arcade games would employ the cool graphics featured in the Starfighter arcade game in the film - it was all 3D graphics - something VERY rare at that time. With the exception of the Star Wars arcade game and a few others (that used vector-lines only and no real solid 3D imagery) there was really no cool 3D looking games... which I had expected would have been all over the place after some other film I saw a few years earlier. What was the name of that film that got me SOOOO excited about the new 3D computer animation and stuff... and the new COOL 3D games that would surely be JUST around the corner... um... what was that film called again?

Oh yeah - !

But I really thought The Last Starfighter was a great film at the time... and still do today. Perhaps because of the age I was when it came out, and the other films available at the time and all. But it's a great one in my book!

Traahn Wrote:Yeah, I remember seeing that one and loving it when I was a kid! I had forgotten about it. Thanks for reminding! I also liked Starman, Flight of the Last Navigator and Explorers from that era.

Actually it was "Flight of the Navigator" - you were very close though. The thread title probably threw you off.

And yes, that was another great!

"Compliance!"



As was "The Explorers"...

Hmmm... I think we hit these films in another thread that was dedicated to favorite Disney films, that morphed in to favorite 80's (and late 70's) sci-fi films.

These were all great movies though and such amazing stories for us when we were younger (those who grew up in that era).

Oh my God! I totally was a "Last Starfighter" lover. I actually got to play the home game for the Atari 800 before they turned it into Star Raiders II. It was no where near as intense as the arcade game but it was fun. I used to have the soundtrack too but I wore the cassette out. Gotta get the re-released CD. Oh and Tweaker, not to be a nitpicker but it's "Xur" and the KoDan Armada.

harpo989 Wrote:I do recall, though, that the director on the director's commentary on the DVD made some interesting comments... I remember him mentioning that the only other movie that used CGI was a movie called Tron, but that (paraphrasing) "it didn't really count because it was used in an artistic style". corrent me if I got the wrong impression on the commentary.

I don't remember that particular comment, but I'll check it out tonight and get back to you.

The Last Starfighter is awesome! One of my all-time favorites in fact.

Robert Preston (who was awesome in The Music Man) is perfect as Centauri; I believe that in the director's comments it is stated that Robert Preston was the first and only person they thought of for the part of Centauri because of his work in The Music Man.

I thought the CGI special effects were awesome, and to some degree still hold up today.

And that "Death Blossom"! What an idea! Hey...

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"what do we do now?"
"We die."

Alan1 Wrote:"The Last Starfighter is......" "The Last Starfighter is dead, nothing can stop us now!" "You're on Rylos my boy, stop thinking human." "A mobile home? Well it's kinda like a cave on wheels but it doesn't go anywhere." "How do you do? I do well." ok, I'll stop now.

"Onimasuela. Preeta Preeta!"
"It will be a slaughter!"
"That's the spirit."
"No, my slaughter!"

The Last Starfighter is making a comeback... as a musical.

Check it out:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/88513.html
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The Last Starfighter... The Musical?



Oh the humanity!

Sci-fi and musicals do NOT mix!

What's next, Star Wars - The Musical?

** tries not to crack a smile **

Where will the insanity end?

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