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Jeudi, avril 1st, 2010 |
Watch The Last Starfighter Online.
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Has it really been 25 years since this movie was released?
That was my first view when I heard this movie was being released on Blu-ray. My second plan was that my ever burgeoning Blu-ray collection would be increasing by at least one more movie in August.
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I will discuss the space later in this review but I am suspecting that most customers checking this Blu-ray catalog item out on Amazon are perhaps more keen in the Recount and Audio and the special features.
I have never seen the HD-DVD but have read that the HD-DVD transfer was simply corrupt and was bracing myself to be disappointed with the quality of the Blu-ray release.
While the transfer is a far yell from anything that anyone would cite as reference quality with a lot of the scenes suffering a smoky perceive at times, the colors are OK with some sure sad and white levels, but on other occasions muted too mighty. Mild it is an improvment over the previous DVD release, though it”’s questionable if this should be enough to double-dip.
The audio has some nice surround and gigantic bass but again is also somewhat average, so if you are expecting an audio track to rival more fresh movies you will likely be disappointed.
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The highlight of rhe special features is the audio commentary between director Carve Castle and production designer Ron Cobb. This is evidently an worn audio track but the two seem to have an delectable time. There is also a Making of featurette called “Crossing the Frontier” and, as one would seek information from with a movie touring itself as a 25th Anniversary Edition, a current featurette that includes cast and crew looking benefit on the movie and their roles as mentors.
The movie follows the adventures of Alex Rogan (played by Lance Guest) . Living in a trailer park and with a delicate girlfriend Alex spends his time mastering a video arcade game in between doing oddjobs for his neighbors. However, after a particularly successful game at the controls, he is visited by a mysterious character. It turns out that the video game is frail as a recruiting tool of sorts to locate those who would be huge intergalactic fighter pilots.
Before Alex knows what has hit him the bewildered teen is whisked off across the galaxy and discovers that what was once fair a video game is now all too genuine.
Yes, it’s apt worn 1980s cheese and the early CGI effects are powerful less impressive now than they were 25 years ago, but for a pure fun movie that does not buy itself too seriously you can do considerable worse 
The Last Starfighter is essentially a plot opera hinged on the fantasy that video game skills will do the day. Obviously this movie was made for the young teen crowd (essentially 13 yr used boys with Ataris/ Intelivisions/ColecoVisions/etc) and has its section of action and comedy that, like most position operas in the 80’s, has more than one similarity to Star Wars (but then again Star Wars was a homage to the classic site operas of the golden age of television) . So it’s not high caliber sci-fi, but it’s not B-movie fodder either.
The epic is radiant simple: Base leader of spoiled aliens wants to attack respectable aliens, so in walks a single hero who is the last hope for freedom. That’s about it. The movie doesn’t deviate too far from this premise other than to further flesh out the fish-out-of-water scenario of an 80’s Earthling thrust into position (as well as a small fun with an alien in 80’s Earth) as well as the inner battle of said Earthling to stop and fight for a Star League he doesn’t know or discontinue home and go to community college. A serviceable sage, if not deep.
The acting does obtain the simple yarn appetizing to notice. Lance Guest seems to have fun with the role, which works for the character. Biggest props go to esteemed Robert Preston’s Centauri, who plays the role with the style of a magician and the charisma P.T. Barnum. Another esteemed actor, Dan O’Herlihy, does a surprisingly generous performance. Especially when you reflect he is wearing fat prosthetics with less facial mobility than the costumes from the current Planet of the Apes. Yeah there is a bit of theatrical “drama”, but that works with the whole location opera motif.
Special effects are a benchmark here because this is the first film to incorporate live action elements to computer generated animation. The CGA is blooming barbaric by today’s standards and even serve then was noticeable. The biggest glare in this are the scenes flying in around asteroids, which leer stunning “plastic” CG-wise. However the CG ships looked awesome and you can’t beat the camera angles and fly-byes that computer animation affords. Plus succor then this was ravishing location of the art.
The modern DVD was released years ago and not too long ago an HD-DVD release was done. Both were graceful great in their format, but this Blu-Ray is a factual remastering of the movie. It’s a MPEG-4 codec on a BD-25 (25 gigabyte single layer Blu-ray Disc) in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio. It looks like a lot of the grain was taken out too, and for some that could be annoying if you are really into the proper theater view. Serene the images are a salubrious deal sharper and leer better than any previous release (including the HD-DVD release) . The CG effects really stand out, and while I liked it that aspect also separated those scenes more from the live action shots as far as differences in detail, color and lighting. All in all it’s a colossal transfer/remaster in spite of it not being perfect (then again how many 15 year dilapidated movies can really stand up to novel digital transfers? ) .
The Blu-Ray comes with the same features as the DVD release only the unusual documentary is in high definition and you salvage a few Blu-Ray centric features like BDLive and D-Box compatibility (that’s a motion control chair that responds to queues from the movie) . Extras are as follows:
Commentary with director Sever Castle and production designer Ron Cobb - It’s informative and intelligent hearing the two banter between each other. You can sigh they enjoyed making this movie.
Crossing the Frontier: Making The Last Starfighter - This was in the new DVD release. Lance Guest hosts this half hour documentary going leisurely the scenes on the technical and other aspects of the movie.
Heroes of the Camouflage (in HD) - Essentially interviews with cast and crew talking about how the movie was made and how they felt about the production.
DTS-HD 5.1 in English and subtitled in English (SDH), Spanish and French - Can’t direct for the accuracy of the subtitles, but the English audio sounds mammoth. Not a whole lot of surround sound stuff going on, but then again this is an older movie.
Theatrical and teaser trailer - Standard definition. Not great to say here.
Image gallery - Includes rare production photos, promotional stuff and bid from an alternate ending.
This movie is definitely a time capsule for 80’s science fiction and is very distinguished a product of that time. If you like that sort of charm then by all means seize this one up. If you already have the recent DVD you were definitely delight in the updated visuals and sound as well as the original interviews. It’s worth the double dip.
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