The Last Starfighter

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-19 10:45pm

OK, I love the Gunstar from the film 'The Last Starfighter'. Here are some pics.

Post by **Dalton** » 2002-11-20 12:00am

That was a fairly cool movie.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-20 12:05am

I've never seen it. Should I go out and buy it?

Post by **Dalton** » 2002-11-20 12:22am

Eh, rent it first.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-20 12:50am

Dalton wrote:Eh, rent it first.

Will do!

Mike_6002 · Post by **Mike_6002** » 2002-11-20 09:29am

That was a good movie, and a sweet starfighter

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-11-20 04:39pm

God, I don't remember the SFX being *that* bad...

Good movie, though, and a funky fighter.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2002-11-20 06:54pm

Howedar wrote:God, I don't remember the SFX being *that* bad...

Good movie, though, and a funky fighter.

The SFX were good for their time. Not up to the standards of Star Wars by any means, but not half as corny as the original Star Trek.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2002-11-20 09:38pm

I just barely remember that movie, (I was probly 8 the last time they played it) If I'm not mistaken it's the one where the guy is an expert at a game on earth that is basicly the same flying a real ship like that, and it has 360 degree rotaition.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2002-11-22 08:47am

That ship was TOUGH as hell, and had some really sweet gunnery systems. Powerful, with 360 degree turrets, and a pilot/gunner configuration. The gunner had 360 swivel and a nice HUD, while the pilot sat above and behind, facing forwards. Really nice layout for a starfighter.

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-11-22 09:06am

As I recall- doesn't the bad guy get away at the end?

SEQUEL!!!

Must watch that movie. But I REFUSE to watch it on VHS. I'd rather wait an eternity for the DVD.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-22 09:09am

They never made a sequel.

And never will.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-22 09:12am

Looks pretty good.
Stats?

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-22 09:14am

None, although I can tell you this much:

It's fast, agile, VERY heavily armed w/missiles and laser cannons, has an FTL drive of indeterminate speed, and is built out of some kind of ultratough armor.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2002-11-22 09:17am

Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:Looks pretty good.
Stats?

I don't think there are any. But she has multiple turrets capable of vaporizing opposing fighters with one shot, and essentially single-handedly ripped the enemy flagship apart with only one or two combat passes and a volley of missiles.

The hull allowed it to sit still for almost twenty seconds, as I recall, while a large portion of the enemy fleet bombarded it with fire.

And it contained a significant hold of missiles in addition to the main turrets.

Other than that, it's a blindingly fast ship. I wish I had the movie to confirm it, but I seem to recall it made galaxy-wide jumps in a matter of minutes.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2002-11-22 09:21am

THe movie also had one of the coolest bad-guy death sequences I remember.

Bad alien captain: "Guidance system out! Weapons systems out! We can't break free. We're being pulled in by the moon's gravitational pull. What do we do??"

Bad alien admiral, slowly closing his auto-monocle, and in a stern and serious voice: "We die."

BOOM.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-22 09:27am

Lagmonster wrote:THe movie also had one of the coolest bad-guy death sequences I remember.

Bad alien captain: "Guidance system out! Weapons systems out! We can't break free. We're being pulled in by the moon's gravitational pull. What do we do??"

Bad alien admiral, slowly closing his auto-monocle, and in a stern and serious voice: "We die."

BOOM.

Well, with a kick-ass death scene and a bad-ass fighter, it's a wonder it wasn't mroe popular.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-22 09:27am

Yeah, Admiral Krill was pretty scary, a lot better than Xur.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2002-11-22 09:30am

[quote="Evil Sadistic Bastard"/] Well, with a kick-ass death scene and a bad-ass fighter, it's a wonder it wasn't mroe popular. [/quote]

The problem is that 3/4 of the movie was them hauling this trailer-park trash kid out of shithole, wisconsin, and trying to get him to single-handedly fight an interstellar war by virtue of being a really good video game player, thus satisfying the masturbatory dreams of every kid of the Nintendo generation.

Oh, yeah, and there was the 1/4 part involving kickass space battle.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-22 09:40am

Lagmonster wrote:
Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote: Well, with a kick-ass death scene and a bad-ass fighter, it's a wonder it wasn't mroe popular.

The problem is that 3/4 of the movie was them hauling this trailer-park trash kid out of shithole, wisconsin, and trying to get him to single-handedly fight an interstellar war by virtue of being a really good video game player, thus satisfying the masturbatory dreams of every kid of the Nintendo generation.

Oh, yeah, and there was the 1/4 part involving kickass space battle.

Damn. Still wish i could have watched it though.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-11-24 01:22am

Vympel wrote:As I recall- doesn't the bad guy get away at the end?

SEQUEL!!!

Must watch that movie. But I REFUSE to watch it on VHS. I'd rather wait an eternity for the DVD.

I have it on DVD look harder

Post by **Dalton** » 2002-11-24 01:25am

Odd thing tho is that all those *other* starfighters got blown to kingdom come, didn't they? When the enemy managed to open the shield wide enough to fire a missile or somesuch at the base?

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2002-11-24 01:28am

they only managed to blow half the base up with guided asteroids. the last Gunstar was in a special hangar being worked on, and iot wasnt they droped the shileds it was because a Traitor blew up the CIDS controls

Post by **Dalton** » 2002-11-24 01:30am

Typhonis 1 wrote:they only managed to blow half the base up with guided asteroids. the last Gunstar was in a special hangar being worked on, and iot wasnt they droped the shileds it was because a Traitor blew up the CIDS controls

I remember now. They had to burn a hole through the shields to get the warship in.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-24 01:30am

Isolder74 wrote:
Vympel wrote:As I recall- doesn't the bad guy get away at the end?

SEQUEL!!!

Must watch that movie. But I REFUSE to watch it on VHS. I'd rather wait an eternity for the DVD.
I have it on DVD look harder

It's available at Amazon.com for about 30 bucks. Pretty damn expensive though. Dvdpricesearch.com brings up a listing for about 25 bucks. Don't know about the company though.