1984 Directed by Nick Castle
A video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
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"The Last Starfighter" is a 1984 science fiction/ fantasy film directed by Nick Castle. Although the film was older than myself upon release of things, this was an endearing film that I enjoyed from my childhood from time to time in all its thick 80's laden glory. Narratively, we get the imaginative tale of Alex, who lives his day by day in the charmingly appropriate entitled trailer park of "Starlight, Starbright". Surrounded in the middle of know where, Alex spends his days in odd job application being the handy man at the park, dreaming of a chance of more life than his limited horizon of things. Much of that escapism is poured into his efforts to beat the high score…
After my first viewing of this film as kid, I came away with three things: 1) I wanted to live in a trailer-park, 2) Catherine Mary Stewart was all I would really need to be happy in life and 3) I wanted to fly that damn ship.
The Last Starfighter, directed by Nick Castle (the first Michael Myers), is a slightly more than lightweight, slightly less than impactful sci-fi drama about a young man who qualifies for interstellar combat by being a arcade stud. Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), the young man, lives in the greatest trailer park on earth. Scenic, friendly, charming and quirky with a restaurant, a video game and the prettiest T-park girl ever (ol' C.M.S.). This is…
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Well, I guess you could say these Play Station 2 level graphics ... were way ahead of their time in 1984.
"Things change. Always do. You'll get your chance! Important thing is, when it comes, you've got to grab with both hands, and hold on tight!"
The Last Starfighter is a super cheesy and dated intergalactic adventure, but it did have some charm to it. The premise is fun as a high school senior is recruited by aliens to fight for them as a Starfighter based on his skills playing an arcade game. But his almost never-ending stream of cliched reluctance throughout this hero's journey was a major drag.
"Listen, Centauri, I'm not any of those…
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Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
This is one of those films that is absolutely primed for a remake/reboot. The story itself and overall concept works extremely well, even with lackluster filmmaking and effects. The level of cheese is heavy and almost overwhelming at points, but there is something magical about the nostalgic feeling it carries throughout (even when I have no nostalgia towards it). The idea of our lead not feeling worthy enough to “save…
An uptempo science fiction adventure ripe with mid-1980s flair, Nick Castle's "The Last Starfighter" is a tremendously fun ride. Revolving around Lance Guest's Alex Rogan, the film finds Rogan an unlikely soldier in an intergalactic struggle. Splitting time between Earth and the galaxy at-large, the film boasts a humanly heroic tone, a worthy cast, and cutting-edge effects that are no longer cutting edge. Full of charm and wit, "The Last Starfighter" is an exciting and entertaining lightweight space odyssey.
Picked this one to watch with the family last night and three times I had to yell at my wife to wake up. I told her it reminded me of the time Jesus was praying in Gethsemane and asked Peter, James, and John to please stay awake. Three times he got up from his prayers to check on them, and three times he busted the lazy knobs sawing logs.
My wife yawned, stretched her arms out, and said, “Oh, so they were watching The Last Starfighter too?”
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Film #18 of the March Madness 80s Sci-Fi Movie Challenge!
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A nostalgic tip toe thru the tulips that in the end revealed its blarring inadequacies namely amateur hour special effects and a severely anemic script resulting in a pretty mediocre juvenile affair!
Unfortunately for me it wasn't one of those films that's so bad it was good!
when i refer to that list of gifted kid scientist recruitment shit as hey-80s-kids movies does anybody know what i mean? anyway this is a, maybe THE hey-80s-kids movie
While my perspective on The Last Starfighter is admittedly heavily coated with 80's nostalgia (my taped-off-cable VHS copy was in heavy rotation back in them days) there are still several points nostalgia can't explain away:
1) The Last Starfighter is one of the best Star Wars rip-offs to be released into a heavily saturated market in the wake of the original trilogy's success
2) it's one of the best most vivid and energetic depictions of the classic arcade video game experience and
3) it's got one of the best smartass 80s kids in the hero's little brother Louis (Chris Hebert). He's got some great reactions to the weirdness that starts sneaking into his life once his big brother Alex's gaming…
Inter-STELLAR! I guess the Seven Pillars of Gulu brought that kid some good luck.
After leaving the theatre, I jokingly chided my kid over playing so many racing games. What? You tryin’ to get recruited or something? Even though this came out a year after the Video Game Crash of 1983, Jonathan Betuel’s concept remains infinitely savvy and brilliant. Who doesn’t want to believe all those hours of riding that joystick (phrasing!) and pumping quarters into those arcade cabinets could lead to something great, even heroic? I blew 40 bucks on Galaga and I don’t even get to save the universe? What a gyp! And speaking of swindlers... There’s trouble in Rylos City!
It’s sad that this was Robert Preston’s…
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Some definite nostalgia here, but this simple story is executed fairly well.
What really surprised me is how everything on Earth works so much better than everything in space (except for Grig - he is extremely comforting in a weird way, maybe it's the laugh). The Earth characters, setting, plot, and shot selections all work really well - I was in from the start. It starts to lose momentum once Alex is recruited, though. The plot becomes paper thin with mostly uncompelling villains and allies that are dispensed with nearly immediately. Meanwhile, the fish-out-of-water fake Alex story is entertaining, funny, and full of great effects. Back in space, you could complain about the terrible CG, but the fact that it matches the video game so well actually makes it fit. Add in the fact that they're using as much practical effects as they could and it is completely forgivable.
Not great, but a fun revisit.
