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[CONTAINER][POSTER] [/POSTER][MOVIE]Title: The Last Starfighter

Tagline: He didn't find his dreams... his dreams found him.

Genre: [GENRE]Adventure[/GENRE], [GENRE]Science Fiction[/GENRE], [GENRE]Action[/GENRE]

Director: [DIRECTOR]Nick Castle[/DIRECTOR]

Cast: [ACTOR]Lance Guest[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Dan O'Herlihy[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Catherine Mary Stewart[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Barbara Bosson[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Norman Snow[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Robert Preston[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Kay E. Kuter[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Dan Mason[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Chris Hebert[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]John O'Leary[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]George McDaniel[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Charlene Nelson[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]John Maio[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Robert Starr[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Al Berry[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Suzanne Snyder[/ACTOR]

Release Date: [RELEASE]1984-07-13[/RELEASE]

Runtime: [RUNTIME]101[/RUNTIME]

Plot: [PLOT]A video-gaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.[/PLOT][/MOVIE][/CONTAINER]

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Oh man, this is like, it's own sub forum. I just saw this in new posts and thought it was a thing you were doing. This makes more sense now.


also I really liked this movie back in the day.

Another movie I've actually seen.

--Patrick

I actually saw it on the big screen back when, and loved it. Even then I loved the heck out of Robert Preston's performance, as well as O'Herlihy as Grig. Combined with the plot and the special effects, young me (14 years old) was blown apart.

Rewatched it as soon as it was available on DVD, I still love it.
The effects have aged, a lot.
But Preston, O'Herlihy, the Gunstar and its Death Blossom still captured my heart and took me in.And of course: Beta!
Nostalgia is a bad drug and can blur one's vision, but I'd sign up without thinking to watch that version on the big screen again (though please not much bigger as they were back then in '84 ).

Just Me said:

Nostalgia is a bad drug and can blur one's vision,

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That's what I worry about in regards to this film. I really enjoyed it, but I was the target audience - a male teenager. Good to know it's got legs.

stienman said:

Good to know it's got legs.

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To be fair, that's exactly the sort of thing that attracts the male teenage audience.

--Patrick

That guy getting his brain lasered stayed in my dreams for years.

The ending battle was pretty dumb, though.

Dave said:

The ending battle was pretty dumb, though.

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Yeah but
"What do we do?!"
"We die." #MonocleFlip

One of my favorite movies as a kid. And yeah, some of the deaths were pretty gruesome.