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Watch The Last Starfighter 25th Anniversary Edition Movie Online.
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In 1984, Lorimar Film Entertainment and Universal Pictures joined forces to create a very engaging and entertaining sci-fi film entitled “The Last Starfighter”. Directed by Nick Castle, the story begins in the dreary and dusty “Starlite Starbrite” trailer park where the teenager Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) lives with his mother Jane Rogan (Barbara Bosson) and his inquisitive little brother Louis Rogan (Chris Hebert). Alex has very little free time for himself as he has become the de facto trailer park maintenance man, repairing various problems in neighbors’ trailers. He would like to go to college and leave the trailer park behind, but his mother’s meager wages make that impossible. His girlfriend Maggie Gordon (Catherine Mary Stewart) also lives in the trailer park. When not with Maggie, Alex’s favorite enjoys playing a videogame called Starfighter located next to the trailer park’s office. Alex becomes very skilled at beating the videogame to the delight of trailer park residents. One night, a mysterious, fast-talking man named Centauri (Robert Preston, 1918-1987) pulls up in a fancy car. After asking about who beat the videogame, he invites Alex to join him in his car for a meeting. To Alex’s dismay, Centauri drives them away from the trailer park and then into outer space, where he takes Alex to the planet Rylos so that he can become a real starfighter to fight the evil Xur (Norman Snow) and the Kodan armada.
With inspiration from the first three “Star Wars” films (which were released in 1977, 1980 & 1983), the highly successful 1982 videogame-based film “Tron” and the overall popularity of videogames in the 1980’s, “The Last Starfighter” is a fun film to watch and was one of the earliest films to use computer-generated graphics to depict outer space scenes. As always, Robert Preston did a magnificent job of acting in what unfortunately was his last big-screen appearance. Lance Guest’s portrayal of Alex was probably not as good as Mark Hamill’s portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the 1977 “Star Wars”, but it was good enough to keep the film’s momentum going. Catherine Mary Stewart did do a good job with her portrayal of Maggie. Other memorable characters in the film include Alex’s lizardy copilot Grig (Dan O’Herlihy), trailer park manager Otis (Vernon Washington, 1927-1988), trailer park resident Elvira (Peggy Pope), Maggie’s grandmother (Meg Wyllie, 1917-2002, who played the Talosian Keeper in the original 1965 “Star Trek” TV series pilot “The Cage” that was later refashioned as the two-part episode “The Minagerie”), Lord Kril (Dan Mason) and Enduran (Kay E. Kuter, 1925-2003). Memorable scenes include Alex at the trailer park, Alex beating the videogame, Centauri’s arrival and trip into space, Alex’s arrival on Rylos, meeting the other starfighter pilots, the surprise attack, Alex talking with his beta unit, the Kodan spy, Alex’s time with Grig, the battle scenes and the final scenes. Overall, I rate “The Last Starfighter” with 4 out of 5 stars.
Quite a good film, especially for kids, although older viewers will find it appealing. Yes it does jump on the Stars Wars bandwagon and there is a bit of dialogue in the eariler space scenes which is a blatant rip-off from Star Wars… but its a good enough film in its own right, pioneering some excellent Cray Super computer graphics, which were very impressive in its day, and still looks good now. This film is really done justice on DVD. The picture quality is good overall, but is a bit grainy throughout and the colours are a little pale. Its widescreen (2.35:1) and anamorphic, the best this film has ever looked for home use. The sound though is the real surprise, its Dolby Digital 5.1 and impressive. For a film of its age and considering it was originally in Dolby Stereo, the sound engineers have done an excellent job for this DVD presentation, the music is excellent, great clarity and quality. The dialogue sounds fine and is clear. The sound effects are good and quite well placed in this new sound mix. The rear speakers are used where necessary and the sound surrounds you at times quite well. Overall, good enough picture quality, excellent sound and well worth owning on DVD. The extras on DVD include a “making of documentary” with some interesting comments from ILM who did Star Wars.
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