10 Things You Didn't Know About Last Star Fighter

[@dagoelius]

'Greetings Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Zur and the Ko-Dan Armada.' Craig Safan's score is fantastic.

[@MrAndyBearJr]

I agree. I was surprised that Minty didn't mention the score. A musical score can help make or break a movie, and this one was definitely a plus for this film.

[@topherbec7578]

I had a huge crush on Catharine. An 80's beauty.

[@bfreak444]

Same! Wasn’t she also in Weekend at Bernies?

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

@@bfreak444 she stars in night of the comet. Check it out, it's free on KZbin. Great film.

[@dvt1393]

Yup, she was a stunner. And always played super characters that were super easy to fall in love with.

[@billydavidson7571]

I still watch this every once in a while, I love all these 80's movies, They're just plain COOL 😁

[@BulldogOzzy]

Best decade for movies, IMO.

[@andy7666]

Yes I loved them as a kid. Flight of the Navigator is another one!

[@johnramirez5996]

I still have original VCR tape and new blue ray DVD. It's my 4 yr olds favorite movie. He also knows all main characters. Including Lewis. He likes centauri. I know he would love to meet all of them. Including Robert. He was great!

[@johnramirez5996]

R.i.p. Robert

[@johnramirez5996]

This is the movie that broke the CG era wide open. They were the first the creator of CG

[@spliceoncharlie]

So many hidden and overlooked gems from the 80's. This was one of my classic sci-fi movie favorites from the 80's.

[@reelismproductions]

Let’s also not forget the great actor Robert Preston who played Centauri. It was his last film before he died and he literally reprised his role as The Music Man.

[@kevinouttin1806]

Well it was his last theatrical release.... according to Wiki and IMDB. Minty really notes the amazing people in movies normally, guess he just missed a beat. Perhaps because Robert Preston was such a private person? Still found the vid entertaining. And yeah @The Vegan Bear, both my wife and I clicked on it damn fast.

[@greenman5255]

Yeah, he was the biggest star in this movie. Great catch!

[@johngrayatkinson1214]

I dont think theyre very thorough reviews. Half and half. Just being honest.

[@michaelbowie3269]

I call for a Dedux!

[@captin3149]

John Gray Atkinson - He was talking about stars you might not know were stars....Robert Preston was DEFINITELY known.

[@Bman-1970]

Alex: I'm just a kid from a trailer park. Centari: If that's what you think. That's all you'll ever be!

[@brandonbentley5453]

80s movies had such powerful hopeful messages. They were never about the story but the characters growing and becoming something far more then they thought they could be. Kids today desperately need this!

[@foreordinator1471]

I don't think I've done too badly in my older days, but I still feel like Centauri is lecturing me

[@dave3588025]

Minty, I was surprised that you made no mention of Robert Preston in the film. This was his last movie of his long career, most notable for the Lead in the 1962 Music Man. He was a great actor, and a treat to see him in this film with his distinguishing voice and patter.

[@jonathantillian6528]

Preston saw Centauri as just an "intergalactic Music Man" which I always felt was fitting.

[@WolfStory]

I wondered the exact same thing. Why no mention of the veteran actor Robert Preston? He was a HUGE part of the movie.

[@BrainPollution]

THE LAST STARFIGHTER is one of my favorite movies from childhood, and it remains a favorite movie of mine to this very day, as I just upgraded it to Blu-ray. The score is a soundtrack holy grail I have yet to secure. It breaks my heart that 1) we never got a sequel, and 2) that Galoob’s action figure line never got made.

[@kyianevvare3541]

Hell yes!! The soundtrack/score is epic. It makes you want to hop in a gunstar and defend the galaxy.

[@maxmueller2794]

My brother, Mark, wrote five songs that were in the soundtrack for this flick. But you have to listen for them; one is playing on the pickup truck radio when it pulls up, for instance. They all play in the background in the flick, but they're all on the soundtrack album. "Incommunicado" was one of the better known tunes. Very proud of my brother.

[@RonnieG]

My brother Mark did the same. Brother?😅

[@Nevada_Dan]

Actress Meg Wyllie played Maggie’s grandmother, Granny Gordon, in The Last Starfighter, BUT she also played the mind-reading/controlling alien Talosian in the Star Trek pilot episode, "The Cage." And now you know!

[@MaveRick-on2cm]

eeewww! you ruined it!

[@jeebuschristos8423]

Don't forget that they also use that red flashing light prop from Airplane 2, Star Trek II and TNG at the Starfighter Base...

[@davidcrowell7043]

The alien bounty hunter that arrived at the trailor park was played by Marc Alaimo, who is better known as Dukat on Deep Space Nine.

[@Rubix003]

You forgot that the CGI scenes were the first fully rendered CGI scenes in a movie ever... Even the ones in tron were a combination of matt paintings and rendered assets.

[@wetenggembul938]

I would have fantasized if the transformers character made in the live action film version in the 1980s using special effects like in this last star fighter movie it will be so epic

[@wetenggembul938]

I would have fantasized if the transformers character made in the live action film version in the 1980s using special effects like in this last star fighter movie it will be so epic

[@wetenggembul938]

I would have fantasized if the transformers character made in the live action film version in the 1980s using special effects like in this last star fighter movie it will be so epic

[@bosunhiggs9708]

TRON had many fully CGI shots, like the lightcycle arena, Flynn's trip in the recognizer, etc. Scenes with composited actors were the shots involving lots of hand-drawn artwork.

[@Lanceawright]

What Rubix003 said!

[@mykal.7424]

('84 )One of the best film summers of all-time. Great childhood memories

[@lordbyron2495]

Being a teenager in the 80s was the best time ever to live!

[@bertdog7639]

Same with being in your 20's.

[@johnphantom]

Started 1989 at age 19 so I spent all my teen years in the 80s. Would you like to read about real modern pirates based out of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands taking place in the end of the cocaine fueled 80s? www.amazon.com/dp/1653714360 or Kindle www.amazon.com/dp/B083C3DD19 (free with Ultimate).

[@sgtjohnnywallsmith8720]

Also being a kid in the 80s. Simpler times! Great times! I think we had the right amount of technology. Not enough to keep us from going outside and riding our tricked out Mongooses or whatever BMX bike you had. Listening to Run D.M.C. , The Beastie Boys, Motley Crue, Michael Jackson on the huge boom box .Seeing kids carrying their huge piece of cardboard to breakdance on . Man, the 80s were great!

[@sherryjones3724]

@rustytr Hey I assume you are still young and fresh....but watch it you "youngin".... We 80's teens are experienced, wise and have lived long enough to talk of the era first hand! There's a lot of young dead M. Fletchers that THOUGHT they were gonna be young and cool forever. Im hoping you make it to the age of us old codgers! Ha...Cheers

[@kelshadou]

Agreed... High school class of '88'

[@vikkilooper4075]

That's awesome that Catherine Stewart saw and shared your video! That means you're doing something right! We've known you're awesome so it's great that you're getting noticed by the actors you talk about 😁

[@Loonaticx]

Wow, really? Good for Minty, he deserves every bit of positive feedback he gets.

[@randalgraves6979]

Gwen from Weekend at Bernie’s Sweet

[@ferarias1up]

Vikki Looper you’re beautiful 🤫

[@davidowen2923]

Catherine is a class act

[@ericroethe8716]

Had a huge crush on her in the 80's. Loved her in Night of the Comet.

[@AstroNerdBoy]

I loved "The Last Starfighter" -- I could relate to Alex on multiple levels. And I wanted a girlfriend like Maggie.

[@ShastaHawk]

Same here. I even lived in a mobile home park that looked very similiar to the one in the movie. It was outside of a town called Lone Pine Ca. The town was so small and I wanted out in a bad way.

[@LordPrometheous]

I never wanted a girlfriend LIKE Maggie. I wanted Maggie.

[@AstroNerdBoy]

@@LordPrometheous Haha! Well, in a fictional sense, yeah.

[@MaveRick-on2cm]

Didn't we all, and she seemed so sweet.

[@jonmacdonald5345]

@@ShastaHawk Lone pine absolutely sucks sorry to hear that!

[@Kendro311]

This movie turns me into a kid again every time I watch it. That's what I call magic. So glad I was an 80s kid, and love this flick.

[@foreordinator1471]

Watching this again several times again over the years makes me realise that I never really left this film. It's rent free in my head and always will be.

[@erictaylor5462]

5:10 One thing to understand about the Last Star Fighter, though the CGI looks primitive today, when the movie came out they were truly spectacular. It was, by far, the most realistic looking CGI every produced in a movie.

[@hubbaman9885]

I agree, the graphics were definitely a far more advanced upgrade from "Tron" but I liked what they did in that movie as well.

[@stischer47]

I was studying for my PhD in Computer Science, taking a graphics course, and one of our assignments was to watch The Last Starfighter (which I did three times) and analyze the CGI. All of us in the class were amazed (remember, this was when everything had to be constructed pixel by pixel using HUGE computer resources. The rumor was that they used a Cray).

[@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv]

@@stischer47 Not a rumor, they used a Cray XMP. Source, Cinefex and my memory since I don't any copies of Cinefex anymore.

[@les4767]

Yeah...the effects in "The Last Starfighter" are criminally underrated and overlooked for their importance in the development of CGI in film effects. It was the first film to do all their space/spaceship/planets 100% in the computer and so impressed Dennis Murren and his team at ILM that they began looking into adapting CGI for their studio. Every CGI-fest film owes its existence to "The Last Starfighter."

[@skylined5534]

I thought they looked rather good!

[@Prometheus_s_Creations]

Beta Alex looking off actually better plays to the idea of a doppelganger. I always thought it was intentional; thanks Minty!

[@nightwingx6]

YYEEAAASS!! I always thought that too. It totally worked.

[@alexwolf3684]

It's what I always thought also.

[@tamiaugustson2562]

"It'll be a slaughter!" "THAT'S THE SPIRIT!!!"

[@shallendor]

The Last Star Fighter in one of the best movies of the 80's!

[@schlumbl84]

This is still one of my all time favorites! I've seen this one at least a bazillion times in my childhood and appreciate it even more as an adult: Effects, story, music - I love it!

[@cavernstones6423]

you start mentioning stars, and neglect to talk about the biggest star in the movie,, the incomparable Robert Preston, best known for his leading role on broadway and the cinematic versions of The Music Man. Also a veteran of many roles on tv. his career spanned almost 50 years.

[@ShaunWinburn]

The Last Star Fighter.. Was And Has Been My All Time Fav Movie(As A Kid). Time Has Rolled On And I Now Have Other Movies That Are In My #1 Spot. But WOW The Last Star Fighter Is Still High On My Love List Of Movies!!! Thank You For This Movie !!! :)

[@kryptych]

Besides Wil Wheaton, there's also the fact that several of the other actors were or would become Star Trek alumni. The drifter who becomes the Zando-Zan was Marc Alaimo, best known for playing Gul Dukat on DS9. Norman Snow, who plays Xur, once played a Klingon in an episode of TNG. Kay E. Kuter, who plays Enduran, was in an episode of TNG and an episode of DS9. Alex's mom, Barbara Bosson was in an episode of DS9. Meg Wyllie, who plays Granny, was in the very first Star Trek pilot, The Cage.

[@g.cosper]

THANK YOU !! I knew some of those people were familar and you've put names and places to them! Awesome.

[@jackchatham3947]

Wasn't the guy who played General Dodona in Star Wars in this too

[@johnwclick]

You beat me to it; if there is a sequel to this film (hope not) it would be cool to see Armin Shimerman as Centauri.

[@GregLionProductions]

Last Starfighter, Flight of the Navigator, and Masters of the Universe were all I needed to survive as a child

[@robertharriman4614]

Loved this flick as a kid me and my brother would watch it all the time. I dont think kids today have the same experience we did as kids in the 80’s. VHS forever

[@gutspraygore]

"The movie has a lot of heart." I think that sentiment nails it. From Centauri's portrayal as a con man being revealed as altruistic, to beta Alex being just as human as the person he's pretending to be. We were all pulling for Alex and Grig. It truly felt like we were being transported into high fantasy.

[@kungfew1396]

This movie was one of my happy childhood memories and Mary Katherine Stuart? So damn fine!

[@Scripture-Man]

She looks great in comic book form :D

[@MrEtoiledoree]

The makeup and wig on the Beta scenes kinda works since he was supposed to be a robot/cyborg(or what have you). Nice video and fun info about a great flick!

[@frankwilson8526]

Loved this movie! Watching this I was suddenly reminded of the Dennis Quaid(?) Movie, Enemy mine. That would make a great episode, hint,hint. Awesome as always, Minty!

[@beeman2075]

I watched Enemy Mine a few months ago, it still holds up very well. The book that the movie Enemy Mine was based on sounds like a great read also.

[@Pernection]

Maybe they could have been a crossover?

[@nickmattio3397]

“Dowwwittchh! Dasss FfuuUuUuuddd...DaaEaattaahhhh (grotesque slime worm the size of an eggplant)” -“You’re Kidding...

[@LambentLark]

I thought that too. But now I have to run out and delete the post I made before I read yours! Lol

[@adib396]

Me too.

[@kelshadou]

In my youth, I watched "The Last Star Fighter" as often as I could. When I saw the title of this video, I clicked on it because I felt that it challenged my knowledge of the movie. So... I was wrong! All ten of the things I didn't know about The Last Star Fighter professed in this video were completely true. I didn't know a single one of them. Thank you for this enlightening look at this iconic movie.

[@TheVeganBear]

Omg I've never clicked a video so fast this was my all time favorite movie growing up as a kid, I liked it more than starwars. It would be really cool if they upgraded the cgi flying scenes with some sick new effects but otherwise this movie still rocks.

[@Lowlander-ci7is]

Same for me, watched it as a kid over 100 times, the music gives me chills!!!!

[@TheVeganBear]

@@Lowlander-ci7is same I had it on repeat almost every weekend. That and enemy mine both brilliant movies

[@TheVeganBear]

@Sharrel Wright I'm talking like a special features version only. Something you can select at the start of the disc what you prefer to watch. Old version or new

[@tyrinonbrightblade]

I was thinking the same thing watching the video that it'd be nice to do an update, but I believe it would lose some of the charm of the video. Like Minty said, it ties into the video game, etc. ...and if they did redo the CGI, it would turn into five different releases like Star Wars. We don't need that. lol

[@TheVeganBear]

@@tyrinonbrightblade I'm not talking about giving it the George Lucas treatment with weird new aliens added etc. I'm just talking a little extra polish on the ships, more textures, better lighting just simple tweaks.

[@HunterXray]

6. I think the wig and makeup because he was sick, actually made beta seem more beta.

[@Malo-Hombre71]

They're all dead?! Death is a primitive concept.. I prefer... fighting evil in another dimension.

[@aleksander8497]

fantastic line

[@christalbot210]

In another dimension? Well how many are left? Including you? Yeah! One! One?!!! {unheard cursing as they lift off}

[@greggepstein1164]

"ANOTHER DIMINENSION!?"

[@Joreel]

I remember watching this movie in the theater with my friends. It was such an underrated movie and I wish they could have made a sequel. The computer graphics were sooo cool back then. Thx for reminding me of a movie I loved when I was 14 😍. I really wish they'd released the video game from the movie into the arcades... It would have been a huge hit I think.

[@generalzzodd595]

Catherine Mary Stewart is one of the most beautiful women of the 20th and 21st century.

[@Angelus13AOV]

One of the greatest science fiction movies of all time. I showed this to a friend of mine who hates sci-fi movies and he loved it. I still wish we would've got a sequel.

[@TheFlipped1]

Great movie, loved it as a kid. Another one was "Cloak and Dagger" which I haven't seen since I was like 1990

[@AlexanderTheGreat1000]

TheFlipped1 your almost 2000 years old ? 😂😂😂

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

TheFlipped1 You were the 1990s?

[@QunMang]

Grammatical error aside, I don't know if this was a request, but I second it. Video game movie starring Dabney Coleman and the kid from ET- great kids action movie from the 80s.

[@johnlloyddy7016]

I actually used to imagine Jack Flack was my imaginary guardian angel as a kid after watching Cloak and Dagger.

[@welshdober]

Them old people scared the fuck out of me, the missing fingers and shit!!!

[@alexwolf3684]

This was one of my favorite movies as a teenager. I have it on DVD, which was not easy to find, and still watch it at least once a year. Back to sleep Louis, or I'm telling Mom about your Playboys.

[@karlsmith2570]

Hey, Minty You forgot to mention that "The Last Starfighter" was The last film that the actor that played Centauri, Robert Preston had starred in before his death

[@MichaelTrocki]

I was a kid when The Last Starfighter released and Maggie was possibly my first crush. I don't think I ever got over that crush. lol

[@AROBASPARK]

Would you be open on a 10 things you didn't know on Smokey and the Bandit or any other Burt Reynolds films? Considering now he has sadly passed away.

[@maxiepattie85]

Dude you know he's already on this one. Minty has THE BEST TASTE in movies!

[@MattyMosArcade]

Agreed

[@simonwillis1529]

Simon says yes to this make it so minty Great vids

[@roncasement8382]

The last movie he ever filmed in this coming out in December called Defining Moments, and it was filmed just north of Toronto. You should all check it out, I know I am. It's the last chance to see this amazing actor on the big screen.

[@adamross2256]

Random fact about Smokey and the Bandit: The movie was filmed in and around small towns in GA east of Atlanta. I went to the elementary school that you see in the background during the funeral parade scene :) (Redan High School in Redan, GA).

[@Scorch1028]

I just watched ‘The Last Starfighter’ and ‘Tron’ recently and I noticed numerous similarities in their CGI. The ‘Last Starfighter’ was a very unique film that was ahead of its time. I watched it many times as a kid, and I never got tired of it.

[@captaintyrrell6428]

Best lines from the film: Q. What do we do now? A. (flips techno eye patch) We die....

[@pinrod1]

alex: how many starfighters are left? grig: Including you? alex:yeah! grig: ONE!

[@QunMang]

@ajs1031 Alex: "No, our slaughter!" (was just thinking of this exchange before I read CT's comment and your reply, including this line)

[@TheRealNormanBates]

(Alex wants to leave after seeing Rylan spy have his face melted) Centauri: "Leave?! And miss all the excitement?"

[@CaveWyatt]

Q: What do we do now? A: We buy a damn lav mic!

[@BladeGTR]

Grig: Up to your old Excalibur tricks again, aye Centauri ? Centauri: Earth's in danger too isn't it? And no, I did not use the Excalibur this time, it was called a video game.

[@michaelfarquhar9355]

Remember seeing this as a 8 yr old and it was amazing still get shivers down the spine every time I hear the theme tune as far as I’m concerned it’s right up there with the other iconic themes from 80’s movies

[@johnporteriii9130]

I just watched this movie yesterday. Was hoping you would do a video on it...sweet!! Death Blossom!!

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

It's become one of those geeky catch-phrases that everyone knows, but no one will admit to knowing ("Glitch, Death Blossom!')

[@johnchrysostomon6284]

Showing your age - as you left out Robert Preston who was a star “The Music Man” He was an Academy Award nominee and a Golden Globe winner, and thus a large ‘star’ than the ones you mentioned.

[@stevegeorge6880]

You need to wear the Captain America hoodie for every review. Favorite bit in the movie: "And where were the starfighters?" "In the hanger." "You mean they're dead?" "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension." "In another dimension!? How many are left?" "Including yourself?" "Yeah!" "One." "One?!!!"

[@TheRealNormanBates]

"Don't worry.. I'll have a plan by the time we reach the Frontier" (BWA WA WA WA) "What's that?" "... the Frontier"

[@DaveMire]

"I'm kind of new at these gland games."

[@immikeurnot]

"It'll be a slaughter!" "That's the spirit!"

[@constancemiller3753]

I found the coloring book for LSF I had as a kid. I loved the story because in the end he left the park for good. Most kids movies had the hero come back with a "dad, you'll never believe where I've been!" story ending. Still great adventure from a time when video games were at the pizza parlor and cost a quarter.

[@michaelb6729]

Finally!!! ... it took you a while. Now do the original Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze !!!

[@Drayton42677]

Michael B classic WOLVERINES!!!!!

[@shaneburst5661]

Please Minty!!!...

[@richardgriego42]

HELL YEAH !!!!!! WOLVERINES !!!!!!

[@BulldogOzzy]

The ONLY Red Dawn worth watching.

[@immikeurnot]

The original Red Dawn is the only Red Dawn. The remake is horrible.

[@Robert-ht7om]

I loved that this story ended with the two of them leaving for the stars, similar stories would have Alex go on this great adventure becoming something more than what he could be on earth, but end with him going back home to lead a normal life.

[@californiaman4000]

10 Things You Didn't Know About Blues Brothers movie 1980

[@NewLifestyleMentor]

Actually, the video game “The Last Starfighter” was released by Atari as “Star Raider II” on the Atari ST.

[@blacksun8173]

I met Chris Hebert a year ago. He was one of my ex girlfriends daughters teachers at her high school. Really cool guy! It took everything I had not to say "And you must be Louis!" And I still regret it lol!!

[@matthewwynne939]

The last time I watched The Last Starfighter was my first time seeing it as an adult, having not seen it since I was a kid. I found it to be a much more emotional movie than young me recognized.

[@heatherc1969]

Robert Preston was the Music Man in Music Man we've got trouble right here in Rylos

[@richardmark9161]

I saw this review two years ago and it popped up again this morning. I can’t believe you still didn’t re-edit this to add information about the great Robert Preston.

[@tomservo5347]

I loved this movie as a kid. Was so happy to get it on blu-ray and relive my childhood. The CGI in that film is totally cool-and was mind blowing to an 8 year old in the movie theater. Great soundtrack also. I always liked the part where the pilot (can't think of his name) and Alex are showing family pictures to each other and neither could believe one lived on the surface and the other burrowed underground. You see the pilot's underground burrow with wife and kid-just everyday life with a different setting. It was also a great moral on how regardless of species the fight against evil is a universal one-united we stand, divided we fall. The 'death blossom' scene still kicks ass!

[@jingo500]

Just went through one of my old movies harddrives, and found this. I'd forgotten I had it. Good memories. Saw it at the theatre decades ago.

[@adambowman5964]

LSF is still one of my favorite films. I thought it was really innovative for its time. I loved the story and the score was great.

[@kevinmoore4887]

This is how the USAF will recruit drone pilots. Ender's Game in our time.

[@clouds4media496]

Xbox Controllers?

[@makomadns4]

Kevin Moore - No, for that go watch the movie Toys

[@meanmikebojak1087]

S.S. Spacefarce recruiting program.

[@NoNamenoonehere]

I still think the wig and illness(unfortunate) in fact help portray the betazoid better you could see he was Alex but. Because of the wig you believe more it was a betazoid

[@fjones1914]

I have this on dvd and watch it often. A classic 80’s flick.

[@Bigbacon]

such a great movie. Hollywood better not ever try to remake/reimagine/sequel this puppy.

[@Bigbacon]

there is a last starfighter game out there now that actually looks and plays like the game in the movie.

[@acrovader]

Hollywood hack Damon Lindleof has already has it in mind.

[@Techrat3D]

The Last Starfighter is one of my favorite movies. It had a great soundtrack and 3D animation made a lot of advancements through this movie. The company even made a small Star Wars short and showed it to Goerge Lucas, but who at the time did not think that is was advanced enough yet for his original trilogy.

[@Graftanker98]

Damn, you should do Runaway, with Tom Selleck.

[@DefCon1966]

Oh yeah, great flick and Gene Simmons is such a great villain!

[@DLJohnsonHonourofKings]

The first person killed in that movie just had to have my name in that movie. Damn those heat seeking bullets! Lol

[@Pernection]

Now that needs a sequel. It would make a great franchise.

[@DLJohnsonHonourofKings]

@@Pernection Shhhh! If they hear you they will make a reboot of it. You know great films can't stand alone. While Superfly wasn't great look what happened.

[@Zerofightervi]

The robots for the most part look awful, although those spider robots are still creepy.

[@R0n8urgundy]

“All squadrons ahead, half speed, with energy probes on” has to be both the worst and greatest line ever.

[@scottmccluremcclure3916]

Will Wheaton is still in the credits We spent a lot of time trying to figure out which one was him

[@frankboneno1614]

Love this movie. Watch it all the time. Was one of my dad's favorites as well

[@damntakes525]

Great one Minty! Any chance of "Starman?"

[@MegaPowerman88]

Heck ya!

[@davincent98]

Surely you can't be serious

[@davincent98]

@Rose Tico Enthusiast sorry, I had just read a fanfic which featured the TV version, Robert Hayes (Ted Stryker). I was quoting Airplane

[@damntakes525]

davincent98 Yes I am and don't call me Shirley. lol 😉

[@VanielDeeform]

And he did it ladies & gentlemen!

[@KamenRiderGumo]

Nostalgia..... This is my #2 favorite movie of all time, right behind another 80s classic "Iron Eagle". Glad to see this old warhorse getting some love.

[@adamgabourie3327]

Hi Minty. Love your channel. Can you do a video of the movie "Enemy Mine" staring Dennis Quaid. It's one of my all time faves. Keep up the great work. Thanks and cheeers.

[@paulsmith5150]

We watched this movie over and over again when we were kids. Still love it!

[@brotherbrian1]

I can't believe you didn't mention Robert Preston. You must be too young to have grown up with the original Music Man. Otherwise, wonderful Flashback to my childhood.

[@shallendor]

Robert Preston is one of my favorite actors of all time.

[@urbanmidnight1]

@ajs1031 Was in "Total Recall" too 👍

[@les4767]

The hitchhiker/Xandozan assassin? Yeah, good call.

[@jasonharris1636]

=)

[@randallulrich]

@brotherbrian1 : And you're obviously too young to remember Robert Preston in "Beau Geste" (1939) with Gary Cooper and Ray Milland as the adult Geste brothers and Brian Donlevy as Sergeant Markoff.

[@joninapepperell1151]

Omg Minty thank you for every movie you explore i am having a lot of good memorys about films i had forgotten. I love the way you are bringing these old movies into a new generation so they could explore them too. So please keep up the good work x

[@neil0666]

Would love to see a 10 things you didn't know about TRON

[@Hal891]

This movie had some great lines. My 2 favorite are 1. after Lance Guest says he's just a kid from a trailer, Robert Preston says"If that's what you think, that's all you'll ever be" 2. "It takes more than a scepter to rule, Xur. Even on Rylos"

[@Graftanker98]

My life is complete!

[@CMOS4081]

Get the Bluray and watch the extras and interviews

[@MrDruism]

This was my favorite movie as a kid! I had this recorded from tv and would watch it all the time! This and ‘cloak and dagger’ were my two favorites as a child of the 80’s.

[@KaraMorassco]

The Last Starfighter is one of my top 10 all time favorite movies.

[@jc.1191]

Yes. I like it over Star Wars

[@KaraMorassco]

@@jc.1191 are you talking about the series as a whole or one of the trilogies? I personally love the original trilogy, like the prequels, and don't care/hate the sequels trilogy.

[@jc.1191]

@@KaraMorassco series in general. I liked the original 3 ok.

[@leemurcutt2072]

Met Lance Guest & Catherine Mary Stewart a couple of months ago at a convention..Really great people to chat with and they were amazed at how much love the film has, especially being 34 years since it's release.

[@oldirtygamer]

I remember watching this on heavy rotation on HBO. The kids of today will never know the struggle 😄

[@aevangel1]

"Shut up Wesley"

[@jagarcia0705]

*Lord Kril:* Damage report! *Kodan Officer:* Guidance system out. Auxiliary steering out. *Lord Kril:* Divert! Divert! *Kodan Officer:* She won't answer the helm! We're locked into the moon's gravitational pull. What do we do? [sound of Lord Kril's eyepiece swinging over left eye] *Lord Kril:* We die.

[@travisthornton7614]

Of all the movies rehashed why not this one. Truly a Sci fi masterpiece.

[@ForTheRecordaudiophileMichael]

Love The Last Star-fighter. Have it on DVD for years great stuff

[@michaeltate227]

An absolute classic in my opinion. The music is super hero like and still gives me goose bumps.

[@richardmark9161]

I always thought the STAR CAR was influenced by the DeLorean. I wonder if BACK TO THE FUTURE using the DeLorean was influenced by THE LAST STARFIGHTER

[@RoqueFortStu]

exactly what I was thinking! the DeLorean was chosen because it looked futuristic, and would have even more so in the 1950s! Peabody's son even says it looks like a space ship

[@richardmark9161]

RoqueFortStu both films are from UNIVERSAL only a year apart. hmmmmm :D

[@787brx8]

Back to The Future, Star Wars, The Last Starfighter and hundreds more screenplays were written by a ghostwriter. That's why you can find Yoda in E.T., Roger Rabbit in BTTF 2 and Groot in BTTF ect. The Star car from The Last Starfighter is also in Back to the Future part two in the background.

[@robwheeler7552]

The Star Car is actually in Back to the Future 2! starcarcentral.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/the-last-starfighter-star-car-where-is-it-now-hello-mcfly/

[@gamingandnerdy2009]

Great video! Loved this movie as a kid and watched it with my kids a few months ago. Effects may age but a good story is forever.

[@memnarch129]

Cant believe you missed talking about Robert Preston. Him playing Centauri MADE this film.

[@aleksander8497]

One of the best films of the 80's. A real classic.

[@McPh1741]

Awesome episode of one of my favorite 80’s movies. That’s so cool that Catherine Mary Stewart commented you. SpeakIng of her, it would be cool if you did episodes on the movies “Dudes” and “ Weekend at Bernie’s”. Not to divert, but I would love it if you did “Remo Williams”.

[@BulldogOzzy]

Remo Williams was one of my favorites.

[@krist7697]

Thanks for the hard work you put into bringing us all the information you do on these movies we all loved as kids . This is truly your talent ! Keep it going good sir !

[@sjs7820]

"explorers", "flight of the navigator", "daryl", "enemy mine", awsome era for proper blockbusters!.. 👍, edit, i know off topic, but cant forget "goonies"

[@jc.1191]

And short circuit

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

Loved explorers. Monster squad was my favourite movie as a kid in the 80s, with lost boys and fright night. Gotta mention wierd science too. Actually, there are too many favourites to mention.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

@@jc.1191 great movie.

[@iarthur3211]

this movie deserves a sequel. my favorite teenage memory

[@stevefratus1546]

When I was a kid I had a single comic of The Last Starfighter. It was a deluxe edition or something. It was the same artwork based on what I saw in your video.

[@PinePrince]

I loved this movie when I was a kid. You cover every movie I watched growing up and I love it!

[@MetalDragon42]

10 thing on "Battle Beyond the Stars" would be a good follow up to this ;)

[@MrFlintlock7]

I don't know if it's worth the time, since I think we are the only 2 who saw it.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

The one with Robert Vaughn and John-Boy Walton? I saw that too.

[@1888swordsman]

God bless the 80's. Loved this film, saw it at the cinema, then on glorious VHS. Great theme, perfect open ending