The Last Starfighter (1984) - 🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review

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[wyrmshadow]

The Gunstar is still one of the most popular and beautiful starfighter designs in any scifi genre.

[Thewingkongexchange]

"It'll be a slaughter!"
"That's the spirit!"

I used to watch the hell out of this as a kid! Nice and simple, good-natured adventure with a kickass theme, interesting designs/costumes and a good sense of humour.

[excalibur]

There are some 80s movies that are so 80s that they're living time capsules of the 1980s, and The Last Starfighter is one of them.

[GeneralZodFDNY]

Death Blossom is still one of the most badass final attacks in cinema. 40 years later, I still believe that.

[FeaturingRob]

This was the last big screen movie Robert Preston (Centauri) made, having been in films since the late 1930s. He is best known for the role of Professor Harold Hill in the film version of 'The Music Man' (1962), a role he played for 2 years on Broadway, winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (1957). When he was cast as Centauri, the role had been written as "a Harold Hill as an alien", and they almost didn't approach Preston because of that...they didn't want him to feel he was being typecast. Especially since he had been nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar a couple of years previously for the Blake Edwards movie musical 'Victor/Victoria' with Julie Andrews, James Garner, Lesley Anne Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys Davies...I cannot recommend 'Victor/Victoria' enough!!!
The story was adapted as a stage musical in the early 2000s but has only been done regionally.
There was a video game in development to tie into the film, but when the film didn't perform as well as needed, the video game was scrapped. There are others made since an NES version in the 90s and another for PC. There was even a replica playable arcade-style one.
This is one of my absolute favorite movies. I call it the best Spielberg movie not directed or produced by Steven Spielberg.

[johnjr]

This movie and The Black Hole were my childhood sci-fi favorites. Couldn't get enough of them.

[derekfnord]

I was 16 in 1984, male child of a single mom, who was obsessed with arcade games and sci-fi, and who lived in a mobile home park. Like, I could not have identified more with this movie. And to top it off, Robert Preston is one of my favorite actors of all time. This isn't an all-time cinema classic or anything, but for me, it's just a ton of fun and nostalgia, and I'm happy to watch this any time. 😀

[kathyastrom]

For the best of Robert Preston, you really have to watch both The Music Man (with Shirley Jones) and Victor/Victoria (with Julie Andrews and James Garner). He is brilliant in both.

[jamielandis]

I always think of this movie as a companion to “Dragonslayer.” Both were lightly marketed, found by accident movies; kind of Little Movies That Could. Love them both.

[DarthTach]

"We Die." The most bad ass line in cinematic history.
This movie inspired an entire generation of kids to believe that if you get good at any video game you would become the next Alex Rogan.

[excalibur]

The scene where a crowd of people gather around Alex to watch him play was not unusual for the 1980s. I remember similar scenes after Dragon's Lair came out in video arcades in 1984.

[Regal]

I always love that bit at the end when the little brother rushes to start practicing the game.

[Robert-htom]

What I always loved about this movie is that other stories similar to it where the main character has an amazing adventure in another world usually make the choice to go back to their old life and just be normal, so to see Alex make the choice to stay in the role of Starfighter made me so happy.

[davevannatta]

Robert Preston's role as Centauri is just a natural continuation of his Harold Hill character from The Music Man

[memnarch]

Several things about Centauri. They wrote the role as a near copy of his role from the movie "The Music Man". Where he plays that snake oil salesman type and sells musical instruments to a town. They didnt think they could get Preston and looked at other actors. Then someone I think suggested giving it a shot and they where able to get Preston to sign onto the film. The other bit is that this is Prestons last movie he made before he died. So he went out with a character that was inspired by his most iconic role he had ever played.

On the VFX they where INCREDIBLY ahead of their time. They where using a CRAY computer, pretty much the most advanced commercially available computer at the time, and the original systems and shots they had planned it would of taken the CRAY a total of a YEAR AND A HALF to complete all the VFX shots. So they had to simplify down the effects as they only had I think it was a 6 or 8 month time frame to get the VFXs done.

[ReklawLah]

I was nine years old when I saw this in the theater. I loved it so much it's hard to even explain.

[JeshuaSquirrel]

Because of this movie, every time someone says "What do we do?" my immediate answer is, "We die."

[musiclover]

"The Last Starfighter" was one of the first movies to extensively use CGI, which was still in its infancy.

[NightRanger-lztp]

Fun Fact: This movie has a big connection to the Halloween films as Lance Guest (Alex Rogan) played Jimmy the young paramedic in Halloween 2 and as someone else pointed out, Dan O'Herlithy (Grig) played Conal Cochran in Halloween 3 and the movie was directed by Nick Castle who played Michael Myers in The first Halloween movie.

[JGComments]

Robert Preston(RIP) plays the perfect salesman as Centauri. He had a long career in show business and in musicals in particular. He is probably most famous for his film role in The Music Man.