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[fido]

I just hope The Last Starfighter never gets a remake, because the way Hollywood is today they will screw it up even worse than what they did to Star Wars and Star Trek 😒

[sgt_sundr]

This and Flight of the Navigator were films I loved as a kid in the 80s.

[drewdavis]

This movie deserved more love then it got, this was really fun to watch as a kid.

[LeeAnnDohany]

Loved this movie! Fun fact! Did you know that Meg Wylie, who played Maggie’s granny, also played the big-headed bald alien known as the Keeper, in the original pilot of star Trek, about Captain Pike? She was uncredited for it.

[edmanning]

The Last starfighter was my go-to movies in the 80's. I watched it hundreds of times, many times just in the background of whatever else I was doing. i am a Boomer in my 70's and it was like a space version of a Halmark movie if I were to compare it to today. Catherine M stewart was a crush and I was surprised Lance Guest never had a better career with all of the 80's coming of age Rom-Coms that were made then.

[wiseoldman]

"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada." Just hearing that brings me back to my fourteen year old self sitting in the theater, anxiously awaiting for the movie to start. Great video, Dan! You always come through.

[theskid]

“Louis, Go back to bed or I’m telling Mom about the Playboys!” 🤣🤣🤣

[asdfasdfasdf]

Rule #1 for a Dan Monroe video: 👍. Rule #2 Watch video. Rule #3 Double check that I gave it a 👍

[zaphodhead]

I was just reading Ready Player One...again... and in chapter one, the very first time we see Wade venture into the Oasis, his login passphrase is "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada."

[theskid]

“Commander Krill, what do we do?” ……., ”We DIE!”😱

[TEZabel]

What a great movie. As a former cop I got a kick out of the scene where Centaury's car was clocked at 303mph.

[richardhart]

I adore this movie; can’t believe it was 40 years ago, which would make me 19/20 at the time. Plus, it stars one of my favourite 1980s starlets, the gorgeous, Catherine Mary Stewart.

[javiernoriega]

I love this movie. My fave scene is when the commander of the ship tells his subordinate "We die"...

[JeffKlavir]

My classmates and I, all Computer Science majors, watched this back in 1984. We recognized its primitive nature but knew it was the future of movie effects. It's incredible to see how much has evolved since then.

[Snoodlehootberry]

The last star fighter also has the best feedback line in any film ever ” she won’t answer the helm, we are locked into the moons gravitational pull, what do we do?…….. We Die.”

[fleasname]

Legendary movie, loved this video with all the info in it. No wonder it was great, so much talent in every aspect of the movie. Still one of my favorites and I got the 4k remastered version when it came out. It aged remarkably well and I find it less campy than other scifi of the era. Probably because the movie played it mostly straight and serious. I have mixed feelings about a sequel or reboot, I wouldn't want it to tarish the legacy of the original. Fun fact : Ready Player One did not have a Gunstar, but Wade's authentication phrase for logging into the Oasis is : You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada.

[glazdarklee]

Because I was born in 1962, I saw this in a drive-in theater with my girlfriend. OMG I adored it for all the reasons you describe. When I saw this I very much picked up on the "The Music Man" influence, but I didn't realize this was Preston's last film. Sad. As I recall, the CGI came of as pretty cool at the time. And my god I loved that car!! But what I really appreciated was the plot. It was much more sophisticated than it had to be. One thing I especially liked about this film is the way that the robot was presented as not having an innate fear of death. It did the right thing because that's how it was programmed. That was a pretty sophisticated take for the era. Thank you, as always, for providing such fascinating information about such a wonderful part of my youth.

[TheWebcrafter]

25:11 - THE HITCHHIKER/ASSASSIN - was portrayed by Marc Alaimo. Also known for his portrayal of Gul Dukat in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

[garycorbin]

FYI, Centauri's Star Car was in The Back to the Future movies parked opposite the Cafe 80's building 🎉

[nufosmatic]

8:20 - In 1984 I was working a project with a computer manufacturer with licensed technology from Cray. The TLSF graphics were rendered on a CRAY-XMP. I went on to work as a real-time computing analyst for that manufacturer with machines derived from the computing systems used by Lucasfilm to manage the X-wing fighter sequences in Star Wars. I also worked at integrating the many computers that rendered real-time graphics for flight training simulators from the predecessors to Silicon Graphics.