Sarris from Galaxy Quest was well done. Yes he was ruthless, but otherwise competent and effective. Too bad he was up against name characters with plot armor.
Right up there with the shortest line that conveys so much. "I heard you struck my son" "well yeah, he stole John Wicks car and killed his dog" "Oh." One word saying so so much.
And me, every time I play that cell phone game where you pour different colored sand into jars. I want Centauri to show up and say I’m the best at it, and that skill will save Earth.
@MiketheCabbie That is so true 😄 this was an awesome movie just takes me back to those arcade game days ! Lance guest made his debut in Halloween 2 plays Alex our titular hero , along with Catherine Mary Stewart are a very likable couple . the cast does a great job and the effects were good for their time . i needed some Nostalgia today . CHEERS .
The Last Starfighter is one of the most underrated movies of the 1980's. It is a true classic in every sense of the word. I loved the movie as a kid and it still lives up to the test of time.
Fun Fact: An L.A. County Sheriff had just returned from vacation, and just happened to be assigned to patrol the area where the trailer park is. And when he came upon the trailer park in the evening, he saw a bunch of lights and the "spaceship". He thought that it was a legit UFO, and called it in. Dispatch and his fellow officers strung him along making him believe even more that a UFO had actually landed until he realized that it was just a movie set. LOL
Only in a trailer park in the 80's, will you ever see a whole community get THAT excited over a kid beating the high score in an arcade game. lol. GOD!! Such a simpler time. I miss the 80's And even the 90's to a degree.
I remember waiting in line at the local mall arcade with a few quarters my Mom gave waiting to play Street Fighter, and Street Fighter 2 while my Mom shopped. Had to beg and plead for those quarters too. Miss those days.
Me and my buddies used to stand around a pinball machine for hours, taking turns to beat the high score. Every time someone had a good run we'd be all hyped and propably drove the bar owner crazy. I don't see people interacting like that anymore and it's sad. 80's and 90's were the best times.
@@arikauraniemi9383 I agree, it used to be really fun and a great time when you get to an arcade and meet people playing different games. Of course there were always those in the minority that were just douches, but in general it was an unsaid law hat you wanted to have a good time with your fellow Gamer Community. but what I meant about this movie is that Alex is like THE ONY Gamer; not even his little brother - Louis - seemed to be a gamer type. I mean Louis played but he wasn't good at all. lol For all these older people to cheer like that is...ummm...strange to say the least. lol.
@@patrickcromwell7554 Pinball was great too. You guys remember that game Dragonslayer or something like that? Had one button that you had to time right to trigger your success. Guy had a chain mail suit with Red cloth on top. Hated that game. Yet pumped quarters into it many times. Graphics for it at the time were phenomenal. There were a few good racing sims too, but they cost many quarters.
This movie really hit hard when I saw it. I was trapped in a small town, tied down by obligations to a family business and dying to get out and have my own life.
@incogneato I hope things have worked out for you since then !! i'm from a large city , but i can relate to being tied down by family obligations especially when i was a teen when this came out , i have different challenges now as an older dude , but doing better now , hope you're enjoying this 80's classic and having a better time now . 🙏
"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada." I remember seeing this movie in the theater when I was fourteen. It's a nostalgic trip for me, and I love the music, too. I was excited to see you guys reacting to this!
For those that don’t know, if you have a Cinemark theatre near you they are playing this movie this coming Saturday. Tickets are only $5. I never saw this in theaters as a kid, so I’ll be there. Also it’s 1984 week at Cinemark this week, tonight they’re showing Gremlins.
I was living in Germany at that time so I never saw it in theaters as a kid. If I wasn’t currently sick I’d go see it tonight. Friggin bug hit me at just the right time lol.
Mags is played by Catherine Mary Stewart. She was also in "Weekend at Bernies" and a sci fi horror called "Night of the Comet." Definitely a heart throb when I was growing up in the 80's.
Groundbreaking CGI in my favorite inspirational film. "I'm not any of those guys, I'm just a kid from a trailer park." "If that's what you think, then that's all you'll ever be." Learn from this, Patrick, and happy birthday.
This movie was so special to me. This was just a great movie ,the late great Robert Preston playing The Music Man but in space in his last movie is so perfect. They have been trying to reboot this for Years but has been in development hell for years. The computer graphics in this were beyond state of the Art for the time and many of the people went to word for ILM in its infancy
Fun trivia fact: Jolanda Egger was the Centerfold Playmate for the June 1983 issue of Playboy and it was the correct magazine in the stack. So a bravo & well done to them for accurately matching the dialogue with what is shown onscreen.
Funny thing, but the video game scene where all the people start watching and applauding was an actual thing back then. I saw it on many occasions w Pac Man, Centipede, Defender, just to name a few. Having that top score was legit 'street cred' back then.
Had that same experience...not me personally,but people crowding 'round to watch that high score...loved the arcade back in the 70s when I was a teenager Wasn't the best..Tempest regularly kicked my ass,but it was fun.
Which also got him noticed by the Kennedy administration. The song "Chicken Fat"--which was used in Apple ads ten years ago--had Preston on lead vocals. This was his final film role.
@@shag139The “old man aka boss” in Robocop plays Star Navigator 1sr Class Grig in this movie. His voice is recognizable, but his face is hidden under his alien lizard makeup.
Preston played Toddy in the terrific musical Victor/Victoria, opposite Julie Andrews and directed by Blake Edwards. Highly recommend watching it-it is sooo funny, with Preston, Andrews, and Lesley Ann Warren all getting Oscar nominations.
This and Buckaroo Banzai were my twin obsessions in 1984. Read the comic book adaptations and novelizations waiting for them to finally get to a theater near me. Never got to see this in the theater. Saw it at a drive-in, but the picture was blurry and the audio was terrible, so I didn't get to properly watch it until renting it on VHS months later.
I soo miss drive in movie theaters. Imagine if they had them now and you could bluetooth the sound into your car instead of the crappy speaker you slid onto the side window?
The mom is played by Barbara Bosson, who played Fay Furillo, the ex-wife of Frank Furillo on the tv series 'Hill Street Blues'. She was married to 'Hill Street Blues' creator Steven Bochco.
The "We die" line made a huge impression on me as a kid when I watched this movie (at a drive-in theater 😁). I just thought it was rather bad-ass for someone who was about to die for sure.
Ah a classic VHS staple, my Dad rented this movie on a whim when I was little many years ago and we both loved it. After he passed away earlier this year, watching it was one of the first times I had some happiness after losing him, this movie just has such a charm to it that always makes me smile, like everything about it just harkens back to a much simpler and more optimistic time. And as the movie itself, I love the story and the casting is great.
When they were finishing this movie they realized that the rendering time on the computer was so long that it would never be done in time for the release of the film! So they had to cut the quality of some scenes down just to finish on time. They had the technology to do better than this, but it just took a long time to render at high quality!
Love this movie. Watching this first time 1987 with my dad and brother. I was 10 years old. I wear my brother bike helmet all thru the movie, because that was a space helmet 😃 The scene, where the fake Alex was regenerating was horrible,,, remember that always. Great reaction and a great movie.
In 2020 Gary Whitta and Jonathan Betuel were saying the sequel was in development. By 2022 Gary Whitta was saying there is a decent chance it never happens.
This is such a fantastic movie! So much fun! Robert Preston basically played the same character he played in The Music Man, but without the singing! It wasn't a real video game till someone created it for himself years later! Happy Birthday Patrick
Zuir is a great character, hilarious. Imagine a megalomaniacal character like him, but he works at a car wash, trying to become assistant manager and gain real power, complete authority over the towels.
I'd watch that movie. *_"My dear, car wash friends - as you know it is I who was given authority of wax detail by the owner, as only I know the secret of the No-Streak Wax, therefore ONLY I WILL GIVE THE ORDER FOR MORE WAX"_*
Happy Brithday Patrick. My dad took me to this one as a kid. He took me to the majority of movies from the 80s that folks on the TH-cam react to. Miss him still.
Remember my Dad taking me to Return of the Jedi back in 83. Dad just passed away this week. He took off work early, yet we missed a minute or two of it. Still was wonderful. We both loved Sci Fi, still do. Phillip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury FTW!
@@Efilnikufesin76 hits hard at first, my condolences. We were both lucky to have fathers who were into films. So many trios to drive ins before they mostly went away. Really liked how they used to run cartoons before they started the show. Some even had jungle Jim’s and playground crap to mess around before dark. These memories always come back when I watch videos about certain flicks.
26:20 This is the same setup as an AH-63 Apache helicopter. The pilot flies the helicopter, sitting above and behind the gunner. It seems to work well in both sci-fi and real-world.
Hey guys another great reaction. This was one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies as a kid. My grandmother had taken me to see it in the theater for my 12th birthday. My grandma thought it a bit strange, but was glad I liked it. I had hoped that they would have made THE LAST STARFIGHTER II a few years after the 1st one, but as the years passed I gave up on the idea. I thought they were supposed to make the sequel 10yrs after the 1st, but then it got scrapped for some reason. So much time had passed, they'd have to have Alex's son take over.
This movie is very sentimental to a lot of people, including me, for some reason. Yeah the ‘CGI’ doesn’t really hold up, but the story has a lot of heart. I’d love to see some kind of sequel.
Summer of 1984: Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Last Starfighter, and Red Dawn. A great season of air conditioned cinema for an American teenager. Night of The Comet also came out this year, but in the fall.
The Last Starfighter was directed by none other than Nick Castle, the long time friend of director John Carpenter, who appeared as Michael Myers ("The Shape") in Halloween, and co-wrote Escape from New York.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! Behind Tron (1982), made me want to be a pilot even more than Top Gun did. Even though I'm blind as a bat and cant ever fly a plane, I have this. The Last Starfighter!!! This got me into computers and further making my life it is today. The Cray computer. A WOWZA!! For that time period. Watch the extras on it and how big of a leap CGI made from this movie. I dream of a sequel and I'm hopeful (like Tron Legacy and Ares(I hope is good)) will be Ultra Successful!!! Thank you two for watching this and HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATRICK and thank you for reminding me that we all have a start. This movie was part of mine. Thank you!
Robert Preston's Centauri was basically the same character he played in Music Man. Unfortunately he died soon after this movie. Greig was played by Dan O'Herlihy.. The Old Man in RoboCop. He said loved playing Greig. 42:21 Will Wheaton had most of his parts cut, but you can see him in the background here The Beta unit was very popular with test audiences, so they wanted to shoot more scenes of him. Lance Guest had already cut his hair for another role. In the scene where Beta took his head off you can see he is wearing a wig. The Starfighter arcade game is not real, but just a few years ago, someone made a homebrew game that looks and plays just like it did in the movie.
Happy birthday Patrick. Great choice. I saw this when it came out and man was the theater wild! There's been rumors for decades for sequels and I think it had a short lived comic.
In 2020 Gary Whitta and Jonathan Betuel were saying the sequel was in development. By 2022 Gary Whitta was saying there is a decent chance it never happens.
YES! Another react channel getting to one of my favorites!! Dad took my bro and I to this multiple times in 84 in Kalispell. When he passed, I got his copies of the movie. Between the two of us and the vhs, dvd, Blu-ray editions I have 7 plus the digital version 😂
Does anyone realize that the lead in this film is Lance Guest, who played Jimmy the paramedic in “Halloween 2”, Laurie Strode’s “crush” who hopefully survived the hospital massacre? lol I love this guy
I was just saying like a day or two ago I wish someone would react to the last starlighter wow this movie was epic and I use to watch over and over as a kid
The Last Star Fighter was one of the first heavy version 1.0 CGI films. Some fans in the early 2000's did create the video game. You can find the emulator, download and play it on your computer.
Catherine Mary Stewart was in a bunch of 1980s films. Someone I was friends with went to high school with her and said she was a real sweetheart. She was not in Footloose. She was in Night of the Comet, Mischief, and a ton of TV movies. One of, if not the first major CGI film. They made a real arcade game for the film, but it was never publicly released.
I saw the paperback for the movie when it came out, read it, then saw the movie. I love this movie. It has heart, a good story, great casting, and a phenomenal score. Simply a great one and done flick.
I broke a million on Defender in my roller skating rink a couple of years before this and the DJ announced it on the speaker. That scene when the trailer park runs over to watch it hapoen still makes me smile to this day.
Trivia: Centauri was played by Robert Preston. This was his last screen appearance as he died shortly after this film's release. He is mostly known for playing the showman in "The Music Man". This character is quite similar to that one.
7:00 - I literally never noticed the Zaxxon machine in the background of this shot. In reality, that was a Coleco tabletop LED arcade game that was NOWHERE near as big as it looks here. It was actually about the size of a classic lunchbox. It's interesting that they chose to make it look like a half-sized arcade machine. I can't see any possible way they could have filmed this normally and have it look that large. 16:23 - Most used sci-fi prop ever. It's been seen in dozens of movies and TV shows. Most people just know it as "the thing with the light tubes". 22:46 - "Who's this guy?" - Marc Alaimo, who would go on to play the Cardassian commander, Gul Dukat on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 40:55 - "Why did Grig treat him like he was dead, then?" - I'll willing to bet that the whole idea that he was just regenerating was written in because of a test audience. I think it's likely that he originally did die, but test audiences didn't like it, so they shot this happy ending. At least that's my theory.
TRON was the first movie to incorporate CGI into the film, but The Last Starfighter was the first film to utilize a fully-rendered CGI environment. Back in the 1980's the movie required a Cray Supercomputer to render the CGI for the film.
It took the computer over 6 months of to render all the CGI. Imagine waiting 6 months and just as it finishes it pops an error and you have to start all over.
Same had been the case for Jurassic Park if they only had one computer. Super or not. So assuming it was actually more of a budget question than time issue.
TRON was not the first. ST:TWOK came out before TRON that year, and had the “Genesis planet” sequence that was fully CGI. There were also CGI elements in other movies previously.
@@Parallax-3D That was just a simulation of the intended environment though I think, not the actual environment later visited. ? One can always argue what is an environment, what is a movie, or even what CGI is. But I assume the OP meaning was an environment the actors are pasted into, or at least in front of. Not just on a monitor screen in the set.
For me this movie did what very few do in stories like this, usually when the character finds themselves journeying to some other world, dimension or reality and ends up having this amazing adventure making great friends, finding their true selves, and being recognized for their actions they end up going back home to live their normal everyday life like nothing happened, this is one of the very few where they make the choice to keep having the adventure.
According to Lance Guest(Alex), he said this movie is where they started using the “green screen” green material. Before this movie productions used a blue material.
About the game: Atari was working on an actual arcade game, although it probably wouldn't have looked exactly the same as seen in the movie, since those graphics were rendered on a supercomputer. Apparently some Atari exec canned the project when he felt the film wouldn't be that successful. It wasn't theatrically successful, but became a cult hit on cable and home video. A Last Starfighter game was created for Atari 8-bit computers, and the Atari 5200, although it didn't look much like the one in the movie. When the film wasn't a hit, the 5200 version was scrapped (a prototype exists), and the computer version was released as Star Raiders II, with the whole Last Starfighter intro removed. The game was also ported to the Commodore 64 under the Star Raiders II name. The version with the Last Starfighter branding and intro can be found on the net for Atari XL/SE computers. There was a Last Starfighter game planned for the Atari 2600, but that game was eventually released as Solaris, which bears no resemblance to the movie. There was also a Last Starfighter game for the NES, but it was actually just an older computer game called Uridium with a name change, and minor graphical tweaks. Then in the mid 2000s or so, a group called Rogue Synapse wrote a freeware Windows game of Starfighter to mimic what was shown in the film. It can still be downloaded and played. At least, I think it still works on current versions of Windows. It mimics the whole boot up procedure of a real arcade machine, with the intention that people could use it to build their own Starfighter arcade machine and have it seem authentic. I don't think it actually detects alien assassins though. Maybe in the next version...
Grig was played by Dan O'Herlihy, who you may remember as the old man boss of OCP in Robocop as well as the evil owner of the mask company in Halloween 3:Season of the Witch.
Love this. You got Lance Guest, Jimmy From Halloween 2 basically playing Luke Skywalker, with his own vibe going on for sure. And Dan O’Herlihy , who played Cochran in Halloween 3 as Grig teaming up to save the universe:) haven’t seen this one in a minute. Brings back great memories:)
@You, Me, and the Movies, the interesting thing about this movie was the fact that it has many inspirations to the transformers movie because of the concept that the computer programs that they used for the special effects for the movie was still being developed while the movie was being filmed and produced
48:41 "Obviously, They'd Have To Recast It?" Yeah, especially since a couple of the actors involved in this movie have since passed away: Robert Preston, who played Centuri The actor who played Grig had also passed And most recently was Barbara Bosson, who played Alex's mother
This was my all time favorite movie growing up besides Starwars. I've always imagined a sequel where the government reverse engineers the ship that the truck crashed into. And Zor hides out on earth, as a human, and becomes an evil tech billionaire.
As an 80's teen, Catherine Mary Stewart was high on my celebrity crush list. As others have said, along with this movie, she is perhaps best remembered for the sci-fi horror film, "Night of the Comet," which is a must watch.
Dude and Lady dude, I have this childhood favorite on DVD!!! You are in for a treat! Plus, fun fact: the computer generated graphics we have today wouldn't be if not for this movie!! This movie was the ground-breaker of that technology. Just like with gaming. The late 70's - early 80's paved the way for all these current gamers who have absolutely NO respect for where it all started. ALSO...If you decide to watch Future Man, they reference this movie in the first episode. Oh and "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" says Frosty the snowman every time he comes alive. 😂
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The absolute best final line of a villian, EVER.
"We Die"
It's rare to see a competent and somewhat respectable villain. Especially in Sci Fi
@@captin3149 Especially when said villian is standing next to a cackling idiot. lol
Sarris from Galaxy Quest was well done. Yes he was ruthless, but otherwise competent and effective. Too bad he was up against name characters with plot armor.
Death with dignity. Respect
Right up there with the shortest line that conveys so much.
"I heard you struck my son"
"well yeah, he stole John Wicks car and killed his dog"
"Oh."
One word saying so so much.
This movie was wish fulfillment for every kid who played video games in the 80s.
And me, every time I play that cell phone game where you pour different colored sand into jars. I want Centauri to show up and say I’m the best at it, and that skill will save Earth.
This...and Cloak and Dagger...
It still is for this 69-year-old gamer (currently playing Starfield) . . .
@MiketheCabbie That is so true 😄 this was an awesome movie just takes me back to those arcade game days !
Lance guest made his debut in Halloween 2 plays Alex our titular hero , along with Catherine Mary Stewart
are a very likable couple .
the cast does a great job and the effects were good for their time .
i needed some Nostalgia today .
CHEERS .
And the game exists.
The Last Starfighter is one of the most underrated movies of the 1980's. It is a true classic in every sense of the word. I loved the movie as a kid and it still lives up to the test of time.
you betcha, last starfighter, Krull, Dragonslayer..... even beastmaster. Fun times.
Fun Fact: An L.A. County Sheriff had just returned from vacation, and just happened to be assigned to patrol the area where the trailer park is. And when he came upon the trailer park in the evening, he saw a bunch of lights and the "spaceship". He thought that it was a legit UFO, and called it in. Dispatch and his fellow officers strung him along making him believe even more that a UFO had actually landed until he realized that it was just a movie set. LOL
Only in a trailer park in the 80's, will you ever see a whole community get THAT excited over a kid beating the high score in an arcade game. lol. GOD!! Such a simpler time. I miss the 80's And even the 90's to a degree.
I remember waiting in line at the local mall arcade with a few quarters my Mom gave waiting to play Street Fighter, and Street Fighter 2 while my Mom shopped. Had to beg and plead for those quarters too. Miss those days.
Me and my buddies used to stand around a pinball machine for hours, taking turns to beat the high score. Every time someone had a good run we'd be all hyped and propably drove the bar owner crazy. I don't see people interacting like that anymore and it's sad. 80's and 90's were the best times.
@@arikauraniemi9383 I agree, it used to be really fun and a great time when you get to an arcade and meet people playing different games. Of course there were always those in the minority that were just douches, but in general it was an unsaid law hat you wanted to have a good time with your fellow Gamer Community. but what I meant about this movie is that Alex is like THE ONY Gamer; not even his little brother - Louis - seemed to be a gamer type. I mean Louis played but he wasn't good at all. lol For all these older people to cheer like that is...ummm...strange to say the least. lol.
@@patrickcromwell7554 Pinball was great too. You guys remember that game Dragonslayer or something like that? Had one button that you had to time right to trigger your success. Guy had a chain mail suit with Red cloth on top. Hated that game. Yet pumped quarters into it many times. Graphics for it at the time were phenomenal. There were a few good racing sims too, but they cost many quarters.
This movie really hit hard when I saw it. I was trapped in a small town, tied down by obligations to a family business and dying to get out and have my own life.
@incogneato I hope things have worked out for you since then !!
i'm from a large city ,
but i can relate to being tied down by family obligations especially when i was a teen when this came out , i have different challenges now as an older dude , but doing better now ,
hope you're enjoying this 80's classic and having a better time now . 🙏
@@harveylee51 Thanks, got my chance a couple years later. Grabbed on with both hands and held tight.
@@incogneato790 Glad to hear that , have an awesome day mate !! 😄
"We die" -- EPIC 80s moment. Definitely one of my favorites.
Truly epic as a kid
Speaking of Catherine Mart Stewart, you should watch her starring in the 1984 sci-fi comedy "Night of the Comet."
Yes! Not enough reactions to the movie. Hopefully it’s on the list.
@@franticrage73actually it’s on my list. So leaning towards it for December.
And John Carpenter’s Christine
Definitely.
I love Night of the Comet! Yes they must watch it👍
"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada." I remember seeing this movie in the theater when I was fourteen. It's a nostalgic trip for me, and I love the music, too. I was excited to see you guys reacting to this!
Same, absolutely loved it, and the death blossom was all my friends and I talked about for weeks!
I have that speech as one of the idle sounds on my arcade cabinet.
Same here.
For those that don’t know, if you have a Cinemark theatre near you they are playing this movie this coming Saturday. Tickets are only $5. I never saw this in theaters as a kid, so I’ll be there. Also it’s 1984 week at Cinemark this week, tonight they’re showing Gremlins.
That's awesome. I saw Gremlins in the theatre back in '84. And I saw again in the theatre back in December of 2018 as a double feature with Die Hard.
I was living in Germany at that time so I never saw it in theaters as a kid. If I wasn’t currently sick I’d go see it tonight. Friggin bug hit me at just the right time lol.
84 is getting a lot of representation this summer. Just a couple of weeks ago Alamo showed Buckaroo Banzai.
Never forget that you are very lucky.
I'm going.
"Itll be a slaughter !!!"
"That's the spirit !!"
"No! MY slaughter!" 😂
@@psytrancedj "Great, I'm about to be killed, a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana who's telling me to relax."
“CHAAARGE!!!”
Mags is played by Catherine Mary Stewart. She was also in "Weekend at Bernies" and a sci fi horror called "Night of the Comet." Definitely a heart throb when I was growing up in the 80's.
BAM!
Don't forget the movie "Dudes" with John Cryer.
She still is good looking. She took care of herself and didn't let Hollywood ruin her.
@@McPh1741
Don't forget the movie "Mischief".
Grig is the CEO in RoboCop
And Cochran the mask maker in Halloween III: The Season Of The Witch
@@MLJ7956and don’t forget Lance Guest who played Alex Rogan in THE LAST STARFIGHTER, also played as Jimmy Lloyd in 1981’s HALLOWEEN II.
O'herlehy Also played Dr. Ravashal in the Tos Battlestar Galactica 2 parter 'the gun on ice planet zero'.
Blew my mind when I found that out.
Before his mask was removed, the Alien Hitman was played by Marc Alaimo, better known as Gul Dukat on Deep Space 9.
Got me all 80's space flicks nostalgic up in here. Need to see some "Enemy Mine" next!
YES great one!
Groundbreaking CGI in my favorite inspirational film.
"I'm not any of those guys, I'm just a kid from a trailer park."
"If that's what you think, then that's all you'll ever be."
Learn from this, Patrick, and happy birthday.
There were some real gems back then. Cloak and Dagger, D.A.R.Y.L. and such were movies I grew up watching as a kid.
This movie was so special to me. This was just a great movie ,the late great Robert Preston playing The Music Man but in space in his last movie is so perfect. They have been trying to reboot this for Years but has been in development hell for years. The computer graphics in this were beyond state of the Art for the time and many of the people went to word for ILM in its infancy
Fun trivia fact: Jolanda Egger was the Centerfold Playmate for the June 1983 issue of Playboy and it was the correct magazine in the stack.
So a bravo & well done to them for accurately matching the dialogue with what is shown onscreen.
Funny thing, but the video game scene where all the people start watching and applauding was an actual thing back then.
I saw it on many occasions w Pac Man, Centipede, Defender, just to name a few. Having that top score was legit 'street cred' back then.
That it was.
Had that same experience...not me personally,but people crowding 'round to watch that high score...loved the arcade back in the 70s when I was a teenager Wasn't the best..Tempest regularly kicked my ass,but it was fun.
Robert Preston "Centauri" played Harold Hill in "The Music Man"
He was also the old man aka boss in Robocop wasn’t he?
@@shag139 ...no.
Which also got him noticed by the Kennedy administration.
The song "Chicken Fat"--which was used in Apple ads ten years ago--had Preston on lead vocals.
This was his final film role.
@@shag139The “old man aka boss” in Robocop plays Star Navigator 1sr Class Grig in this movie. His voice is recognizable, but his face is hidden under his alien lizard makeup.
Preston played Toddy in the terrific musical Victor/Victoria, opposite Julie Andrews and directed by Blake Edwards. Highly recommend watching it-it is sooo funny, with Preston, Andrews, and Lesley Ann Warren all getting Oscar nominations.
This and Buckaroo Banzai were my twin obsessions in 1984. Read the comic book adaptations and novelizations waiting for them to finally get to a theater near me. Never got to see this in the theater. Saw it at a drive-in, but the picture was blurry and the audio was terrible, so I didn't get to properly watch it until renting it on VHS months later.
I soo miss drive in movie theaters. Imagine if they had them now and you could bluetooth the sound into your car instead of the crappy speaker you slid onto the side window?
The mom is played by Barbara Bosson, who played Fay Furillo, the ex-wife of Frank Furillo on the tv series 'Hill Street Blues'. She was married to 'Hill Street Blues' creator Steven Bochco.
The "We die" line made a huge impression on me as a kid when I watched this movie (at a drive-in theater 😁). I just thought it was rather bad-ass for someone who was about to die for sure.
Ah a classic VHS staple, my Dad rented this movie on a whim when I was little many years ago and we both loved it. After he passed away earlier this year, watching it was one of the first times I had some happiness after losing him, this movie just has such a charm to it that always makes me smile, like everything about it just harkens back to a much simpler and more optimistic time. And as the movie itself, I love the story and the casting is great.
When they were finishing this movie they realized that the rendering time on the computer was so long that it would never be done in time for the release of the film! So they had to cut the quality of some scenes down just to finish on time.
They had the technology to do better than this, but it just took a long time to render at high quality!
Love this movie. Watching this first time 1987 with my dad and brother. I was 10 years old. I wear my brother bike helmet all thru the movie, because that was a space helmet 😃
The scene, where the fake Alex was regenerating was horrible,,, remember that always. Great reaction and a great movie.
Wow this never got a sequel make it happen Hollywood. #nomoreremakes
Happy Birthday Patrick! 🥳
In 2020 Gary Whitta and Jonathan Betuel were saying the sequel was in development. By 2022 Gary Whitta was saying there is a decent chance it never happens.
This is such a fantastic movie! So much fun!
Robert Preston basically played the same character he played in The Music Man, but without the singing!
It wasn't a real video game till someone created it for himself years later!
Happy Birthday Patrick
There's a lot of "Ya Got Trouble" in Centauri's sales pitch.
@@kivimik I love it!
This theme has lived in my head since I saw this as a kid!
Zuir is a great character, hilarious. Imagine a megalomaniacal character like him, but he works at a car wash, trying to become assistant manager and gain real power, complete authority over the towels.
I'd watch that movie.
*_"My dear, car wash friends - as you know it is I who was given authority of wax detail by the owner, as only I know the secret of the No-Streak Wax, therefore ONLY I WILL GIVE THE ORDER FOR MORE WAX"_*
Steve, there are some comedy vids about Chad Vader, assistant manager at a supermarket. Not as famous as his brother Darth, but he tries.
I've seen that show. It's called Devil is a Part Timer.
Happy Brithday Patrick. My dad took me to this one as a kid. He took me to the majority of movies from the 80s that folks on the TH-cam react to. Miss him still.
Remember my Dad taking me to Return of the Jedi back in 83. Dad just passed away this week. He took off work early, yet we missed a minute or two of it. Still was wonderful.
We both loved Sci Fi, still do. Phillip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury FTW!
@@Efilnikufesin76 hits hard at first, my condolences. We were both lucky to have fathers who were into films. So many trios to drive ins before they mostly went away. Really liked how they used to run cartoons before they started the show. Some even had jungle Jim’s and playground crap to mess around before dark. These memories always come back when I watch videos about certain flicks.
26:20 This is the same setup as an AH-63 Apache helicopter. The pilot flies the helicopter, sitting above and behind the gunner. It seems to work well in both sci-fi and real-world.
Patrick has excellent taste in movies.
Hey guys another great reaction. This was one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies as a kid. My grandmother had taken me to see it in the theater for my 12th birthday. My grandma thought it a bit strange, but was glad I liked it.
I had hoped that they would have made THE LAST STARFIGHTER II a few years after the 1st one, but as the years passed I gave up on the idea. I thought they were supposed to make the sequel 10yrs after the 1st, but then it got scrapped for some reason. So much time had passed, they'd have to have Alex's son take over.
Wil Wheaton was in a scene that was cut but is still credited. He still receives royalty checks for this movie every once in a while.
"Hey! Aliens!"
The first movie I remember seeing in the theater with my dad. One of my all-time favorites. The theme song is my ringtone.
This movie is very sentimental to a lot of people, including me, for some reason. Yeah the ‘CGI’ doesn’t really hold up, but the story has a lot of heart. I’d love to see some kind of sequel.
🙂GREETINGS STARFIGHTER.
You have been selected by the Star League to defend The Frontier against ZUR and the Kodan armada.
Summer of 1984: Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Last Starfighter, and Red Dawn. A great season of air conditioned cinema for an American teenager. Night of The Comet also came out this year, but in the fall.
Happy Birthday Patrick! This one is an underrated gem.
Happy Birthday Patrick
The Last Starfighter was directed by none other than Nick Castle, the long time friend of director John Carpenter, who appeared as Michael Myers ("The Shape") in Halloween, and co-wrote Escape from New York.
Grig, the Gunstar navigator, was played by Dan O'Herlihy, who was the CEO of OCP in the first two ROBOCOP films.
And he also was Cochran the mask maker in Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch
Behave Yourselves!
I never noticed this until your video, but the guy who owns the truck was Brian from V: The Miniseries. He was the father to the alien hybrid.
The ko-dan commander at the end. We are locked in the moon's gravity. What do we do. We die. So dark but badass.
One of the best scenes in the movie!
Heck yeah with his automatic eye piece flipping over his eye to make it more dramatic.
Very underrated movie.. no one talks about this one!
Love it.
Grig, the navigator, from this movie is also the "old man" big boss from Robocop. ACTING!!
Little trivia knowledge. Grig is played by Dan O'Herlihy. The "Old Man" head of OCP in Robocop.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! Behind Tron (1982), made me want to be a pilot even more than Top Gun did. Even though I'm blind as a bat and cant ever fly a plane, I have this. The Last Starfighter!!! This got me into computers and further making my life it is today. The Cray computer. A WOWZA!! For that time period. Watch the extras on it and how big of a leap CGI made from this movie. I dream of a sequel and I'm hopeful (like Tron Legacy and Ares(I hope is good)) will be Ultra Successful!!! Thank you two for watching this and HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATRICK and thank you for reminding me that we all have a start. This movie was part of mine. Thank you!
Grandma with the shotgun is played by Meg Wylie who played The Keeper in the first star trek pilot, The Cage.
Robert Preston's Centauri was basically the same character he played in Music Man. Unfortunately he died soon after this movie.
Greig was played by Dan O'Herlihy.. The Old Man in RoboCop. He said loved playing Greig.
42:21 Will Wheaton had most of his parts cut, but you can see him in the background here
The Beta unit was very popular with test audiences, so they wanted to shoot more scenes of him. Lance Guest had already cut his hair for another role. In the scene where Beta took his head off you can see he is wearing a wig.
The Starfighter arcade game is not real, but just a few years ago, someone made a homebrew game that looks and plays just like it did in the movie.
Happy birthday Patrick. Great choice. I saw this when it came out and man was the theater wild! There's been rumors for decades for sequels and I think it had a short lived comic.
In 2020 Gary Whitta and Jonathan Betuel were saying the sequel was in development. By 2022 Gary Whitta was saying there is a decent chance it never happens.
I used to watch this on syndication on TV all the time as a kid. It really deserves more recognition than it gets.
YES! Another react channel getting to one of my favorites!! Dad took my bro and I to this multiple times in 84 in Kalispell. When he passed, I got his copies of the movie. Between the two of us and the vhs, dvd, Blu-ray editions I have 7 plus the digital version 😂
Does anyone realize that the lead in this film is Lance Guest, who played Jimmy the paramedic in “Halloween 2”, Laurie Strode’s “crush” who hopefully survived the hospital massacre? lol I love this guy
And his friend Grig is Connal Cochrane in Halloween 3.
This film is directed by Nick Castle, who believe it or not, played Michael Myers in John Carpenters original Halloween in 1978.
@@davidfrost901 ahh yes.... "The Shape".
@@davidfrost901 wow I did not know that!👍🏻
I was just saying like a day or two ago I wish someone would react to the last starlighter wow this movie was epic and I use to watch over and over as a kid
JustSumm reactions and Jen Murray have also got this on their channels too.
The Last Star Fighter was one of the first heavy version 1.0 CGI films. Some fans in the early 2000's did create the video game. You can find the emulator, download and play it on your computer.
Catherine Mary Stewart was in a bunch of 1980s films. Someone I was friends with went to high school with her and said she was a real sweetheart. She was not in Footloose. She was in Night of the Comet, Mischief, and a ton of TV movies.
One of, if not the first major CGI film.
They made a real arcade game for the film, but it was never publicly released.
Happy birthday Patrick 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Ahh, one of my favorite films! So glad your Patron suggested it! Happy birthday. I’ve seen this one a couple dozen times and enjoyed it each time.
Happy Birthday Patrick 🎉
Ahhh, one of my guilty pleasures from my childhood.
Thanks for bringing it to the surface.
My favorite line is from Grigs... "Now you look Human!"
I saw the paperback for the movie when it came out, read it, then saw the movie. I love this movie. It has heart, a good story, great casting, and a phenomenal score. Simply a great one and done flick.
I broke a million on Defender in my roller skating rink a couple of years before this and the DJ announced it on the speaker. That scene when the trailer park runs over to watch it hapoen still makes me smile to this day.
Trivia: Centauri was played by Robert Preston. This was his last screen appearance as he died shortly after this film's release. He is mostly known for playing the showman in "The Music Man". This character is quite similar to that one.
Great movie !! And Happy Birthday Patrick!!!
Thank you for the pick it's definitely a favourite happy birthday 🙂🙂🙂
7:00 - I literally never noticed the Zaxxon machine in the background of this shot. In reality, that was a Coleco tabletop LED arcade game that was NOWHERE near as big as it looks here. It was actually about the size of a classic lunchbox. It's interesting that they chose to make it look like a half-sized arcade machine. I can't see any possible way they could have filmed this normally and have it look that large.
16:23 - Most used sci-fi prop ever. It's been seen in dozens of movies and TV shows. Most people just know it as "the thing with the light tubes".
22:46 - "Who's this guy?" - Marc Alaimo, who would go on to play the Cardassian commander, Gul Dukat on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
40:55 - "Why did Grig treat him like he was dead, then?" - I'll willing to bet that the whole idea that he was just regenerating was written in because of a test audience. I think it's likely that he originally did die, but test audiences didn't like it, so they shot this happy ending. At least that's my theory.
She's the "Night of the Comet" girl.
Please, check out that movie, btw.
It will e my request for December
TRON was the first movie to incorporate CGI into the film, but The Last Starfighter was the first film to utilize a fully-rendered CGI environment. Back in the 1980's the movie required a Cray Supercomputer to render the CGI for the film.
The tech was astounding back yhen. Led to the revolution of the 1990s.
It took the computer over 6 months of to render all the CGI. Imagine waiting 6 months and just as it finishes it pops an error and you have to start all over.
Same had been the case for Jurassic Park if they only had one computer. Super or not.
So assuming it was actually more of a budget question than time issue.
TRON was not the first. ST:TWOK came out before TRON that year, and had the “Genesis planet” sequence that was fully CGI. There were also CGI elements in other movies previously.
@@Parallax-3D That was just a simulation of the intended environment though I think, not the actual environment later visited. ?
One can always argue what is an environment, what is a movie, or even what CGI is.
But I assume the OP meaning was an environment the actors are pasted into, or at least in front of. Not just on a monitor screen in the set.
Happy birthday, Patrick!!!!!
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Happy Birthday Patrick!
"Greetings Starfighter" Classic!
For me this movie did what very few do in stories like this, usually when the character finds themselves journeying to some other world, dimension or reality and ends up having this amazing adventure making great friends, finding their true selves, and being recognized for their actions they end up going back home to live their normal everyday life like nothing happened, this is one of the very few where they make the choice to keep having the adventure.
According to Lance Guest(Alex), he said this movie is where they started using the “green screen” green material. Before this movie productions used a blue material.
"Battle Beyond The Stars" is another cheesy/campy 80's "lone hero vs the bad guys" SciFi flick worth checking out.
Also liked that one from the 80s. Basically the sci-fi version of The Magnificent Seven.
That's the spirit!!
Happy Bday Patrick. Starfighter got rewatched so much as a kid so this is a treat!
I always liked that line..a gungho iguana telling me to relax. 😂😂
Happy birthday pateick
About the game:
Atari was working on an actual arcade game, although it probably wouldn't have looked exactly the same as seen in the movie, since those graphics were rendered on a supercomputer. Apparently some Atari exec canned the project when he felt the film wouldn't be that successful. It wasn't theatrically successful, but became a cult hit on cable and home video.
A Last Starfighter game was created for Atari 8-bit computers, and the Atari 5200, although it didn't look much like the one in the movie. When the film wasn't a hit, the 5200 version was scrapped (a prototype exists), and the computer version was released as Star Raiders II, with the whole Last Starfighter intro removed. The game was also ported to the Commodore 64 under the Star Raiders II name. The version with the Last Starfighter branding and intro can be found on the net for Atari XL/SE computers.
There was a Last Starfighter game planned for the Atari 2600, but that game was eventually released as Solaris, which bears no resemblance to the movie. There was also a Last Starfighter game for the NES, but it was actually just an older computer game called Uridium with a name change, and minor graphical tweaks.
Then in the mid 2000s or so, a group called Rogue Synapse wrote a freeware Windows game of Starfighter to mimic what was shown in the film. It can still be downloaded and played. At least, I think it still works on current versions of Windows. It mimics the whole boot up procedure of a real arcade machine, with the intention that people could use it to build their own Starfighter arcade machine and have it seem authentic. I don't think it actually detects alien assassins though. Maybe in the next version...
Childhood favorite! Miss you pops!
I used to watch this all the time as a kid at my grandparent's. Such an underrated classic!
7:00 I love how supportive everyone is.
Grig was played by Dan O'Herlihy, who you may remember as the old man boss of OCP in Robocop as well as the evil owner of the mask company in Halloween 3:Season of the Witch.
Bit of TV trivia. The grandmother also played the alien leader in the original Star Trek pilot.
The actress that played granny starred in the original series of Star Trek in the pilot episode The Cage as an alien.
The first bounty hunter sent to Earth was Marc Alaimo or Gul Dukat from DS9
@@Darth_Kael Good shout!
Seeing Mrs Movies laugh is the best thing ever. I recently saw her reaction from pet cemetery and that was not pleasant
Lance Guest (Alex Rogan) later starred as Michael Brody in the hated "Jaws: the Revenge".
Love this. You got Lance Guest, Jimmy From Halloween 2 basically playing Luke Skywalker, with his own vibe going on for sure. And Dan O’Herlihy , who played Cochran in Halloween 3 as Grig teaming up to save the universe:) haven’t seen this one in a minute. Brings back great memories:)
@You, Me, and the Movies, the interesting thing about this movie was the fact that it has many inspirations to the transformers movie because of the concept that the computer programs that they used for the special effects for the movie was still being developed while the movie was being filmed and produced
Happy birthday Patrick!!!
Great movie!!! 👍😎👍
"We *DIE* !" 😁
48:41
"Obviously, They'd Have To Recast It?"
Yeah, especially since a couple of the actors involved in this movie have since passed away:
Robert Preston, who played Centuri
The actor who played Grig had also passed
And most recently was Barbara Bosson, who played Alex's mother
🎂 excellent choice, Patrick. A truly cultured pick.
Actually, that 12:15 looks like George Washington hair. Hey, now maybe HE was one of THOSE aliens.
this was my favourite movie when I was a kid
This was my all time favorite movie growing up besides Starwars. I've always imagined a sequel where the government reverse engineers the ship that the truck crashed into. And Zor hides out on earth, as a human, and becomes an evil tech billionaire.
As an 80's teen, Catherine Mary Stewart was high on my celebrity crush list. As others have said, along with this movie, she is perhaps best remembered for the sci-fi horror film, "Night of the Comet," which is a must watch.
Sweet! Been waiting for a reaction on this channel to this. One of my favorite films from the 80’s.
Dude and Lady dude, I have this childhood favorite on DVD!!!
You are in for a treat!
Plus, fun fact: the computer generated graphics we have today wouldn't be if not for this movie!!
This movie was the ground-breaker of that technology. Just like with gaming. The late 70's - early 80's paved the way for all these current gamers who have absolutely NO respect for where it all started.
ALSO...If you decide to watch Future Man, they reference this movie in the first episode.
Oh and "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
says Frosty the snowman every time he comes alive. 😂