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greenplasticguy		2008-03-07 02:50:20 PM

I wish I had a dollar for everytime I wish I had the power to unleash a "Death Blossom" when I'm driving home from work.

The Music Man was pretty good in that too.

/Watched a lot of musicals when I was young.
//Nothing wrong with that.

Z_Karma		2008-03-07 02:51:39 PM

Shut-up Lewis, or i'm telling mom about your pornos!

/classic

Greetings Starfighter...

mofomisfit		2008-03-07 02:51:54 PM

This is...tangentially off topic. Remember the old original Star Wars arcade game? Did anyone have the DOS version of that game, published by Broderbund? If you were playing the game and you pressed a certain key/key combo it would take you to another screen, ostensibly so it looked like you weren't playing video games. I'm trying to remember more about the menu that it took you to, does anyone know what I'm talking about?

/I got here by reading the last starfighter wiki and then clicking through to the star wars game wiki...

revvoice		2008-03-07 02:52:30 PM

..This movie is why I play always wanted to be the best at video games.

/One day I might get picked up.
//Still might happen.

Jakevol2		2008-03-07 02:58:16 PM

revvoice: ..This movie is why I play always wanted to be the best at video games.

/One day I might get picked up.
//Still might happen.

Sorry being the best at Lesiure Suit Larry won't turn you into the stud to save the distant planet full of beautiful women.

Meat's dream		2008-03-07 02:59:03 PM

This movie was awesome, but to this day, the memory of that scene where the clone-thingy was laying in bed morphing into the kid it was replacing...gaah! Gives me chills.

greatmoose		2008-03-07 02:59:40 PM

Anviltongue: greatmoose: Oh man, i loved that movie. Even had the "movie book." Got an AWESOME model of the Gunstar. Friggin' heavy. Made out of solid resin. And Win.

Where did you procure such a model of such perfect awesomeness? I've found a resin kit, but I am lazy and lack skill.

I got mine several years ago from monstersinmotion.com. Was something like $150 and 10 pounds of solid PINK resin. A little cleanup and fitting, a bit of primer, and some very patient paintwork, and BLAMMO. Sweetness on a stick.

Jakevol2		2008-03-07 03:02:51 PM

Meat's dream: This movie was awesome, but to this day, the memory of that scene where the clone-thingy was laying in bed morphing into the kid it was replacing...gaah! Gives me chills.

This.

Paul Cinsus		2008-03-07 03:07:42 PM

sifusalinas: "The Last Starfighter is..."

...the inspiration to my favorite move in Battlefield - The Death Blossom. Nothing like parachuting into an enemy stronghold, tossing a flashbang, and spinning around throwing grenades and emptying clips like a madman.

That's so farking funny , dude.

OtherLittleGuy		2008-03-07 03:10:11 PM

How would a sequel to The Last Starfighter go forward without Dan O'Herlihy?

Bring in his son, Chuck Cunningham (new window)

nightshft13		2008-03-07 03:13:49 PM

But while on remakes and Catherine Stewart..

Night of the Comet

dryden.eastmanhouse.org

"Daddy would have gotten us Uzis"

Best line ever to come out of the 80's

revvoice		2008-03-07 03:15:13 PM

Jakevol2: Sorry being the best at Lesiure Suit Larry won't turn you into the stud to save the distant planet full of beautiful women.

Yet somehow Dr. Mario prepared me for a life of frequent drug abuse..

Can't win them all I guess.

Jakevol2		2008-03-07 03:16:16 PM

nightshft13: But while on remakes and Catherine Stewart..

Night of the Comet

"Daddy would have gotten us Uzis"

Best line ever to come out of the 80's

I have to go with "You already have an asshole, Doris. You don't need Chuck" from the same movie.

+3 internets for having Chakotay in the movie!

Stranglehold		2008-03-07 03:17:18 PM

kennedy311: Wait, wil was in that movie? Who in the hell did HE play?

According to Wiki - "Wil Wheaton, known for his portrayal of Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation, had a part in the movie, but his scenes were cut. However, his name still appears in the closing credits and he can be seen as the tallest child running through the trailer park in one of the earliest scenes"

Saw this on cable just last night and was wondering why they never made a sequel to it to start with. Kind of sucks that Preston and O'Herlihy aren't around. But maybe they could talk Ian McKellan into playing Centauri.

Undecided as to whether or not I'd rather see a well done remake or a well done sequel. With the way Hollywood is run, I probably won't hold my breath for either.

bhcompy		2008-03-07 03:20:31 PM

my understanding is they didnt make a sequel because it wasnt nearly as successful as star wars. i believe they had originally planned for them

ElWampa		2008-03-07 03:27:49 PM

OH Centauri! You're alive! Now I can kick your ass for shanghaiing me you farking asshole!

howdyyall9999		2008-03-07 03:28:09 PM

Jakevol2: nightshft13: But while on remakes and Catherine Stewart..

Night of the Comet

"Daddy would have gotten us Uzis"

Best line ever to come out of the 80's

I have to go with "You already have an asshole, Doris. You don't need Chuck" from the same movie.

+3 internets for having Chakotay in the movie!

Or her retard sister throwing shoes while the semi-zombies spray the store with Mac-10's.

oldebayer		2008-03-07 03:37:03 PM

Dubb

In stead of a sequel, it should just be remade. And then have a sequel.

Could work, but you might get the wrong kind of crowd if you called the remake The Penultimate Starfighter.

nightronin		2008-03-07 03:38:14 PM

I actually just watched this last night. The graphics don't hold up very well, but it was still very enjoyable

dalovindj		2008-03-07 03:38:57 PM

oxxymoron: Pocket Ninja: oxxymoron: The games didn't train starfighters. They identified them.

Maybe they identified some innate talent...but it was basically a simulation so there had to be some training going on, too. In any case, the same question stands. They can build the ships and spread video games across the galaxy, but can't find talented pilots within their own population?

Sure, some training. But only record breakers got the callup.

And I think you have it backwards. They couldn't find enough starfighters in their ranks so they built the games to spread across the galaxy.

Cameron_Talley: It's been a long time since I've seen the film, but wasn't the video game thing a one-off by Centauri?

This is correct. The tool was openly a recruiting mechanism on all other planets. Designed to test a life form's capacity for becoming a great Starfighter pilot. Centauri went off the reservation disguising it as a video game and putting it on a non space-faring world. He took some flak for that when the higher-ups found out, too.

MonkeyButler		2008-03-07 03:44:29 PM

Grig: [scoffs] Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil, in another dimension.

dalovindj		2008-03-07 03:45:56 PM

"They can build the ships and spread video games across the galaxy, but can't find talented pilots within their own population?"

Also, the above isn't a valid point. The League that conrolled the starfighters was an alliance of planets. So placing testers on member planets is, in fact, recruiting from their own population.

katerbug72		2008-03-07 03:51:40 PM

this was one of my favourite childhood movies. i still love watching it and pretty much anything preston was in. (victor, victoria)

ahhh, night of the comet, i totally forgot about that movie. i loved having cable as a kid....saw soooooooo many movies. (ON tv)

katerbug72		2008-03-07 03:56:16 PM

hmmm i guess ON-tv wasn't cable. oh well, i was a kid, what did i know. it was stolen from detroit by my crafty dad.

ON-tv wiki (pops)

Sliding Carp		2008-03-07 03:58:50 PM

Dubb: it should just be remade.

You are utterly dead to me.

As if the sequel isn't going to make me poke my eyes out with a spoon, anyway.

Sliding Carp		2008-03-07 04:01:38 PM

Captain_Sissypants: What the hell is the Last Starfighter and who is Dan O'Herlihy.

Never mind, Dubb; I found somebody even deader to me.

mouser_inc		2008-03-07 04:06:30 PM

I loved this movie growing up and I still like it even though it's kinda cheesy.

Remember watching a TV show about the making and the CGI almost brought a cray computer to it's knees

Sliding Carp		2008-03-07 04:07:18 PM

nightshft13: "Daddy would have gotten us Uzis"

Best line ever to come out of the 80's

Well, "Hey think tank! Think on this!" is right up there, as well as "Going to visit Santa Claus", but no one could really argue with that one as the best.

Anviltongue		2008-03-07 04:07:54 PM

greatmoose: I got mine several years ago from monstersinmotion.com. Was something like $150 and 10 pounds of solid PINK resin. A little cleanup and fitting, a bit of primer, and some very patient paintwork, and BLAMMO. Sweetness on a stick.

Much thanks for the info. Due to the aforementioned lack of skill, I will probably wait and hope for a pre-assembled and pre-painted setup.

Sliding Carp		2008-03-07 04:12:17 PM

mouser_inc: and the CGI almost brought a cray computer to it's knees

For its time, it was really hot stuff, even if it looks pretty crappy by today's standards.

prinstipal_skinner		2008-03-07 04:14:30 PM

Maybe Wil's lines won't end up on the cutting room floor this time.

nightshft13		2008-03-07 04:15:01 PM

"Going to visit Santa Claus", but no one could really argue with that one as the best.

Oh yeah, Forgot about going to visit Santa Claus..

God--		2008-03-07 04:15:47 PM

Life has not been kind to Lance Guest (Nor has the fast food industry apparently)

Sliding Carp		2008-03-07 04:16:03 PM

Incidentally, you DO KNOW that the game itself was developed and released as freeware, with licensed sound clips of the voice from the movie?

Rogue Synapse

jdetweiler		2008-03-07 04:16:13 PM

Im a little sad no one quoted the coolest scene in the movie....

Bad mook to head bad guy "we're caught in the moons gravitational pull...we'll be sucked in...what do we do, what do we do??!?!"

Bad leader activates his head-mounted sigthy thing "WWhhhiiirrrr"
"We Die"

Sweet resignation....

xenomorpheus		2008-03-07 04:20:42 PM

Dan O'Herlihy is the Matador - An inspiration to all true soldiers of our country.

// Blackey, I've got a mission for you...

Mrbogey		2008-03-07 04:24:03 PM

The death blossom was "supposed" to work but in reality was just as likely to blow up the Gunstar. He barely made it out alive when he used it. Had he not had every target in range and not blown up when he activated it, he'd be a sitting duck as he had to wait for all his systems to come back up.

So "pushing a button" and have it being the greatest weapon is simplifying the issue.

/geek

fortean chicken		2008-03-07 04:32:00 PM

I would love to see a remake of the Last Starfighter, but mixed with Alan Dean Foster's "A Call to Arms." In the book, humans are found to be the fastest, most powerful sentient species in the galaxy. Moreover, humans are the only species psychologically adapted to warfare. The aliens end up hiring humans as mercenaries to fight wars for them. It would explain why the aliens in the film have such a hard time piloting their own starfighters.

xenomorpheus		2008-03-07 04:32:34 PM

I can clearly remember the day my dad dropped me off at the AMC theater and I saw 'The Last Starfighter' - greatest movie ever - however since that movie had the best graphics for it's day, the next one needs to therefore up the ante. It will be pretty difficult since we are already accustomed to life-like CG with dynamic surfaces - things the original artists could only have dreamed of.

Zur escaped, so obviously that will be the protagonist

//Maybe they can make a real starfighter recruitment game and use it in the movie as the recruiting tool, but also have it fully functional for release onto consoles and maybe a kick-ass motion simulator ride. Would have to clean up the puke after each Death Blossom though....

xenomorpheus		2008-03-07 04:34:33 PM

Protagonist, Antagonist,, I can't tell the difference these days

BTW, they sure do play that soundtrack alot on the XM Cinemagic channel,, since I have my own disc I can play it whenever I want, like when running from the po-po

Cubicle Jockey		2008-03-07 04:41:27 PM

Im a little sad no one quoted the coolest scene in the movie....

*cough*
gtraz 2008-03-07 02:01:46 PM
What do we do now?

World Eater 2008-03-07 02:05:55 PM
......we die!

Sultan Of Herf		2008-03-07 04:50:07 PM

Smidge204: But it was supposed to be the last starfighter.

=Smidge=

Yeah, yeah...and the first game of a very long series was called "final Fantasy".

Sultan Of Herf		2008-03-07 04:53:42 PM

MonkeyButler: Grig: [scoffs] Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil, in another dimension.

The Gunstar rocks. Monstersinmotion.com sells a really cool model kit of it.

howdyyall9999		2008-03-07 04:55:20 PM

Sultan Of Herf: Smidge204: But it was supposed to be the last starfighter.

=Smidge=

Yeah, yeah...and the first game of a very long series was called "final Fantasy".

And none of those Magnolia's were steel...

Petey4335		2008-03-07 05:12:51 PM

Greetings, Screenwriter, you have been recuited by Hollywood to destroy a movie and my childhood. Ready?

M Bison		2008-03-07 05:15:03 PM

Greetings Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada!

/just recited from memory
//Loved the movie

"What do we do now?"
*eye lense slaps into place over eye*
"We DIE!"

Dubb		2008-03-07 05:19:56 PM

Sliding Carp: Dubb: it should just be remade.

You are utterly dead to me.

As if the sequel isn't going to make me poke my eyes out with a spoon, anyway.

Was I ever alive to you?