Ask any male that grew up in the eighties about The Last Starfighter and I'm sure they'll all say the same thing, "It's fucking great!" It took every Star Wars crazed fantasy and made it reality. Imagine your playing a video game and you discover it's really a recruitment tool for an intergalactic army. That's what The Last Starfighter is all about. Alex Rogan masters the video game that mysteriously appears at his trailer park. Soon he finds himself whisked away by Centauri, an alien flim-flam man who takes him into space to the planet Rylos, which is at war. Alex initially refuses, but after all the other Starfighters are wiped out and threats appear back on Earth, Alex takes on the role as....you guessed it, The Last Starfighter. For 1984, the special effects and CGI are really amazing. The space combat is great to look at and different from Star Wars and other sci-fi films. I always heard there was an actual stand up Last Starfighter game, but I think it's urban legend. If this was made today, the game would be everywhere. Another one of those early eighties classics. I like to think of The Last Starfighter as the sci-fi movie John Hughes never made. It seems like what he might have done if he hadn't wasted so much time with teenage girl angst.
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