Last Starfighter, The
Last Starfighter, The | ||
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Director: | Nick Castle (I) | Actors: | Lance Guest (as Alex Rogan/Beta), Dan O'Herlihy (as Grig), Kay E. Kuter (as Enduran), Dan Mason (III) (as Lord Kril), Catherine Mary Stewart (as Maggie Gordon), Barbara Bosson (as Jane Rogan), Norman Snow (as Xur), Robert Preston (I) (as Centauri), Chris Hebert (as Louis Rogan), John O'Leary (I) (as Rylan Bursar), George McDaniel (II) (as Kodan Officer), Charlene Nelson (as Rylan Technician), John Maio (as Maio (Friendly Alien)), Robert Starr (as Underling), Al Berry (as Rylan Spy) | Country: | USA | Category: | Comedy | Year: | 1984 |
| Description: | A videogaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force. | Comments: | Actually I wasn't even going to write a comment on this one, a waste of words I felt, cause the grade here 6 point something proved my point. This is not a film believed to be great by a large number of people. But then I read the comments section and I saw about 2 to 4 negative comments out of 29 and I thought what the f (I'd rather not specify that thought any further). How can you like this film???? I mean when you are anything from 4 to 10 I might see why you liked it, by all means I LOVED E.T. when I was about that age and I liked The Neverending Story but later I had to change my views. They are kids movies as is this one. So here is a comment for all people exceeding that child - age. You really can't like this one unless you are insane or really just a big child, because this flick really only has two good things in it, well 2 and a half. First of all there are some pretty good creatures here, they look pretty nice (some of them), like that Alien friend of the Last Starfighter and the evil guys. No not that ludicrous idiot with the bold head. What the hell are those guys supposed to be anyhow. Second of all I felt the rather short scenes with the beta unit were rather funny and third of all I thought the music was pretty good (although it reminded me of Indiana Jones (RIP - OFF???)) Well there certainly are major rip - off' s in this film, some of the creatures look like inspired by Star Wars, the clothes look like Battlestar Galactica, the fighting scenes look like (again) Star Wars and the music (well I already covered it and I'm not sure so I'll keep my mouth shut). Well that' s it actually. Now we come to the story, I'm looking for a word here eh..limp...loser...lame!!!! That' s it LAME. It really makes no sense at times, everyone dies, when the base is COMPLETELY destroyed (half of it is still there), except that Alien friend of the Last Starfighter. All that is left is one battle - ship, but its a PROTOTYPE (that's original) and the boy does not want to save the world. Well he wanted some adventure, but this seems to be not adventurous enough. Well for the rest this piece of crap has got special effects that are, how do I put it, constantly there. In other words I couldn't get it out of my mind, these are effects, that's not what happens, they are far from realistic. The space ship' s look like they have been ripped out of a computer game (an expensive one though) and the explosions are crap!!!, I could do better with a match and some firecrackers. Also I found the name for the beta unit rather imaginative, they are called simuloids, how did he come up with it, I mean, the robot simulates to be another being and from there to simuloids, MAN, that' s a long way. I'm probably a reviloid (as in review) or a commeloid (as in comment), I know it doesn't sound as good as simuloid, but hey I only had a second to figure it out. I guess the writer must have taken days. The cast is also merely so - so, so that is why we never saw one of these passable faces in a blockbuster you say, that' s right, producers probably thought the actors sucked ALSO!!! Well this was not total crap but I would not watch it again, even if I had nothing else to do and was bored out of my mind. Still considering it as a kid' s movie I have to admit I've seen poorer ones and if you're a kid you might like it: I give it a mild 5 out of 10 |
Languages: | English | Subtitles: | Length: | 200 | Video format: | DivX 3.11 Low Motion | Audio format: | MPEG Layer 3 (MP3) | Resolution: | 640x288 | Files sizes: | 650 |