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Why I Still Love The Last Starfighter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video we take a look back at the 1984 film The Last Starfighter and explore why it is a film that is still enjoyable almost 40 years later.
Living In The Past is a channel about revisiting pop culture from the past. Hosted by Jeremy Scott and Devin Kleffer (along with Carl the Intern), these two (three) friends can’t help but revisit the movies and TV shows that they loved from their younger years. Come along and get a little nostalgic with us as we look back, enjoy, and ask the important question: is it still OK to like this stuff?
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It was great! We loved it back in the day. It still holds up.
I was 10.years old in 1984 and got to see it in the theatre. Freaking loved it and still do. Absolutely a great year for sci-fi, fantasy, and adventure - we got 'TLS', 'Temple of Doom', and 'Gremlins' + the TV premiers of 'V' and the Transformers cartoon. What a time to be alive, send me back to the 80s please!
I forgot V was on TV that year too. Wow, what a year!
One of the great sci fi films❤
Dune and The Last Starfighter! Oh man what a double feature! The Last Starfighter is truly one of those epic nostalgic movies I hold close to my heart. I love the story, the action, and the music was a perfect fit. To this day, hearing the music gives me goosebumps. I really wish they would make a sequel. I keep on hearing rumors but nothing 100% yet.
They would ruin it.
I STILL HAVE THIS MOVIE ON VHS AND I'M NEVER GIVING IT AWAY!!!
I WATCHED IT SO MANY TIMES AS A KID!!!
The part at the end where she decides to go with him still gets me every time.
It is part of my dvd colle tio , and I watch it from time to time. I am absolute fan of Ivht of the Comet, too
I was just thinking about this movie the other day. Specifically that Centauri was out recruiting on primitive non-aligned planets and what that suggests about the Star League.
Oh, that is a good question/thought. I had heard that there is a sequel in the works. I would be curious what places another Starfighter story would go.
Working in 3D modelling professionally, I was gobsmackec rewatching this as an adult. As a child I didn't know it was CGI, I thought it was models, like in star wars. Having been around computers since birth (very early 80's), I am still stunned that they achieved this level of CGI quality and detail in 1984! I hope they never update the CGI. That would be like redoing the mona lisa in a more modern style. The original is a masterpiece that is timeless.
Yeah. I am of two minds. I think I want to see reworked effects because I just want to see new Last Starfighter scenes. But I do agree that it would be a shame to do away with all the amazing work done in 1984.
LSF graphics are more analogous to cave paintings rather than the Mona Lisa. An update would be awesome and bring the film to a younger audience, not just us old fogies who forgive the primitive graphics because of nostalgia.
Glad I finally got to see Dune and Last Starfighter in theaters decades later. And that last year I met Nick Castle and Lance Guest!
That is awesome!!!
It still holds up to me
I loved this movie when it came out and I still love it. I watched it over and over when I was on cable TV - probably HBO at that time. The special effects looked fine on a standard definition CRT, but I bet today's HDTVs would expose the early CGI of that era. That still would not spoil my love for this film. A great story always beats special effects.
Totally agree!
Two of the greatest movies ever!!!! Dune and TLS!!!! I love everything about The Last Starfighter. It’s been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. It’s in my top loicks. Right up there with Dune and The Neverending Story,
One of the reasons I love this movie is that it reminds me of a culture I used to take part in back in the day, which is arcades and arcade games. As a gen-xer, the arcade was one the coolest places in the world, the place where anything was possible and you forget you troubles for a little while. TLS touches on this along with the fantastical escapist elements of the story.
Good point. I loved the arcade! Miss those places. It was such a fun place to go with friends and hang out and play games.
A favorite and timeless movie with a enjoyable story.
This film is on my list of movies that I watch once every year or two since it came out. Thus I have seen it a couple of dozen times and will continue to dust it off every year or two until I die. A great classic. One of THE best premises for a story ever. Footnote: I am tired of people laughing at the people in the trailer park gathering around Alex to watch him beat the record as if that could never happen. I can testify as the best arcade gamer in my town back then that I almost daily had a crowd of a dozen people pile around me to watch me play arcade games and beat records. There was no twitch or internet back then and video games were considered kind of magical in those days. People crowding around a hotshot player was commonplace in those days. Ahhhh the nostalgia... playing Space Ace blindfolded always drew a crowd. My goodness I am SUCH a nerd. I wouldn't change a thing though. :) LOVE your channel. Please keep it up.
Thanks for the kind words! Love your comments!You are right, every arcade had players that people considered “the best”. I remember crowds forming around Tron and Missile Command when records were about to be broken.
The Last Starfighter is an 80s boy's dream. To "fight a desperate battle against incredible odds" then win the battle, defeat the bad guys, save the world, and get the girl next door.
THAT is why it resounded all those years ago. As for the Gunstar. I dare anyone to find me a better and more realistic space fighter built for Newtonian physics. There aren't any better. The next closest with the same realism would be a Starfury from Babylon 5. Which has no armor and is little more than an armed flying nuclear suicide bomb. I'd happily drop a Gunstar into a fiction like Star Wars where the Gunstar would not only survive handily but would acquit itself with great success.
I was 14, and my friends and I really dug this flick! I just re-watched it 2 weeks go, and I still love it.
It still holds up!
When I was about 12 I was reading an early 80s issue of omni magazine and in the silver pages was an article about the CIA recruiting kids who are high scores on defender tail gunner and missile command. Ever since the last star fighter came out a few years later I have never been able to separate that article from the movie when it's mentioned.
That is awesome!
@@livingthepast For sure and that is the common response for that story.
It's really kicked me in the pants to find out in this video that the co-writer of Escape from New York directed the last star Fighter.
Escape from New York is one of Those movies I know like the back of my hand and for the thousandth time last week I did my impression of Donald pleasant's killing the Duke complete with accent and M-16 Sounds.
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There's some movie scenes you never forget. The hanger entrance and final battle in Last Starfighter. The video game and audio. I remember playing the arcade game in the mall.
I loved playing the NES Last Starfighter game. I don’t think I played the arcade game though.
Not only is Preston Henry Hill in the Music Man but Centauri is fairly blatantly a sci-fi version of the same character. That said, I love this movie and would kill for some kind of remaster that brings the special effects up to modern standards as the CGI is the only thing that really holds it back.
Great point!
Love this movie! I still watch it on the regular…I wish Whitta could get the sequel off the ground…
This is a film that I really wouldn’t mind seeing a sequel to.
I would LOVE it if they did a special edition and updated the CGI outers pace and space ship battles in the movie, if only those that own the rights would do it. ffs
I would be curious to see a Special Edition. The story structure is well done and new visual effects would be interesting to see.
Love the film. baby boomer here
Dude there is nothing not to love about this movie. It's perfect. And there is none of the fan hate/controversy baggage that Star Wars drags along with it. I heard they're remaking it and I sincerely hope they don't but if they do I hope it just disappears from the cultural radar like the Red Dawn and Point Break remakes. They will never capture the charm and magic this movie has.
Yeah this is a decent film not great, but decent. I always felt it was ripe for a remake...but not just yet, when the pendulum swings back to hero films.
The effects felt dated when it came out! The girl is just the beautiful all-American girl, I can see how she would embody the 80's, Night of the Comet is a great under-looked film.
The ship feels of it's time, something was in the zeitgeist. The Roboskull, Blake 7, Battle Beyond the Stars, Ulysses 31.
The idiots who work in Hollyweird today should study cult classics from the past to stop their $300 million dollar movies tanking at the box office (I'm looking at you Dial Of Destiny). This is still one of my movie night favourites.
It really seems that many storytellers in film are forgetting how to tell a story that engages. I think Top Gun: Maverick was a good reminder that it can still be done, but sadly many filmmakers are not doing some of the basic things that work with audiences.