The Last Starfighter (1984)

6.4	Listal rating
6.5	IMDB rating

Directed by

Nick Castle

Starring (View all)

Lance Guest

Alex Rogan / Beta Alex

Dan O'Herlihy

Grig

Catherine Mary Stewart

Maggie Gordon

Jane Rogan

Xur

Centauri

Enduran

Lord Kril

Written by

Jonathan R. Betuel

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The Last Starfighter Theatrical Trailer

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The Last Starfighter (1/10) Movie CLIP - Record Breaker (1984) HD

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The Last Starfighter (10/10) Movie CLIP - A New Adventure (1984) HD

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Sci-Fi Fail...or, at least, Stale

1 year, 8 months ago at Aug 23 12:04

charidotes20

I saw this when I was a kid; my dad told me it was good, but it sucked.

Everything about it was bad--the characters sucked, the plot sucked, the total unrealism insulted your intelligence, the sci-fi wonder-workings were bland and ordinary, even the much-hailed final fight was stupid and not worth watching.

....And, on further reflection, I'll admit: maybe it was sup... read more

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Release date : 13 July 1984
UPC: 025192051920

Sci-fi (10), Adventure (9), Action (7), Aliens (5), Family (4), 1980s (4), 1984 (4), Romance (4), Alien (3), Comedy (3), Space (3), Fantasy (3), Students (2), Flying (2), Usa (2), Sci-fi: Drama (1), 2.20:1 (1), 1980's (1), HD-DVD (1), Classic (1)

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"The first movie to do all special effects (except makeup and explosions) on a computer. All shots of spacecraft, space, etc were generated on a Cray X-MP computer. Atari actually programmed games for its 5200 SuperSystem and 400/800 series home computers as a tie-in with this movie. The games never went past the prototype phase (though extant copies do survive). Also, the game was nothing like the arcade machine Alex played in the film - the technology did not exist at the time to produce real"