What other Sci Fi should we check out? SCI FI Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLQHhQlj8i5doQmNbYogcJTYZkxhGMHpah 1980's Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLQHhQlj8i5drsQx2uSifPV3sKWZEJrnyx
@jbwade56766 ай бұрын
❤❤❤
@josephsearles11116 ай бұрын
Explorers. 80's sifi action adventure.
@waterbeauty856 ай бұрын
Night of the Comet, sci-fi comedy starring Catherine Mary Stewart (Maggie in Last Starfighter)
@waterbeauty856 ай бұрын
The Time Machine (1960)
@waterbeauty856 ай бұрын
"Outland" (1981) starring Sean Connery
@davidscottking6 ай бұрын
"ENEMY MINE" - A sci-fi adventure starring Dennis Quaid and (the recently deceased) Louis Gossett Jr.
@jasonbeatty8316 ай бұрын
YES.
@ericreed56486 ай бұрын
I loved that movie as a kid!
@Joel_Matrix6 ай бұрын
Just suggested the same 🤪
@3DJapan6 ай бұрын
Loved that one.
@Baneironhand6 ай бұрын
Yes Great movie
@mitcharcher75286 ай бұрын
“This is pretty hardcore for what I thought was a kid’s movie.” It’s an eighties kid’s movie. Old kid movies were based on the premise that a little trauma is necessary and natural.
@hellomark15 ай бұрын
Superman 3 cyborg lady
@randomaccessfemale5 ай бұрын
80s kids were raised differently.
@silikon25 ай бұрын
Heh, trauma? It was every kid's fantasy to get to do an adventure like this. The whole premise is based on the very widely believed rumor that the Air Force used video games as a test for recruitment. Though, it wasn't intended to be a kids' movie any more than ET or what have you.
@Ultracity60605 ай бұрын
@@hellomark1 This, and when the guy with a mask in Flash Gordon falls on the spikes, and his goo face leaks through the mask.
@alaneskew26645 ай бұрын
Look there is a reason why us Gen X are pretty hardcore
@Bshep13966 ай бұрын
"Greetings Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada" I love this movie
@shanefraser77646 ай бұрын
VICTORY OR DEATH 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
@spud69g5 ай бұрын
And only in Robert Preston's amazing voice does that ever go through my head.
@JnEricsonx5 ай бұрын
Hell, when I met Lance Guest first thing I said was "Greetings Starfighter!"
@ninjabearpress25745 ай бұрын
@@SeanBlader Same here, this is one of my favorite inspirational films.
@MrGchiasson5 ай бұрын
Loved it! Robert Preston was classic in it. Save Earth...plunking one quarter at a time in the Star League video game .
@MauriceCalis6 ай бұрын
25:50 - I thought it was cool when Grig casually flashes his photos on his little device. In this phone era, that doesn't seem like a big deal. But there was no such device then that could render photos at such high resolution, let alone flip thru them so fast, let alone be HAND HELD!!! For perspective, our family computer's memory was 100x smaller than the size of the average photo file today. Anyway, Grig's toy looks totally normal now, haha.
@vladyvhv95795 ай бұрын
Most people didn't even have computers back then. Too expensive.
@Brasc6 ай бұрын
The Ko-Dan Commander has one of the most badass lines in the history of cinema. Faced with the inevitable, asked by his subordinate what they're going to do, he looks up, swings his plastic monocle back into place, and just says, "We die."
@Enthymene6 ай бұрын
There are so many people who have no idea I’m quoting that line. Actually that explains some things.
@TrentRidley6 ай бұрын
Stoic a.f.
@ericomartins97946 ай бұрын
I watched this in the theaters with my sister and cousins. I said “we die” seconds before him. My relatives asked me: how did you know he was going to said that? My answer was: What else someone like him could say?
@TheMrPeteChannel5 ай бұрын
I'm the 100th 👍!
@veronica63255 ай бұрын
At the battle of Battle of Dien Bien Phu, when it became obvious they were going to loose a French junior officer asked his commander asked his commander what they were going to do. The commander replied, "We will die like paratroopers". I do not remember the names, it has been several years, but if you read "Hell In A Very Small Place: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu" by Bernard Fall like I did you will find the quote and maybe remember who said it.
@bigsarge87956 ай бұрын
"It will be a slaughter !!!" "That's the spirit !!"
@Jarumo765 ай бұрын
"No... MY slaughter ! One ship against the whole Armada ??"
@sithlordkaeyl216 ай бұрын
The woman who plays Maggie, is Catherine Mary Stewart, and she is in another sort of forgotten 80’s movie: ‘Night of the Comet’, which you should watch.
@jcg15766 ай бұрын
Catherine Mary Stewart was also in the 1989 film “Weekend At Bernie’s” which I found to be a very enjoyable movie but that’s just my personal opinion.
@scottyb73186 ай бұрын
Night of the Comet is an awesome 80s time capsule! Great movie!
@frankrodriguez29996 ай бұрын
Yes Night of the Comet.
@Parallax-3D6 ай бұрын
Night of the Comet, along with Robert Beltran, (Chakotay from ST:Voyager.)
@AlanCanon22226 ай бұрын
Night of the Comet rulez.
@dantedorran77156 ай бұрын
"The Last Starfighter" is a classic example of how the music can turn a good movie into a great one! Also, Grig forever!
@ericstarkey5516 ай бұрын
Last starfighter, Disney's the black hole, and flight of the navigator. Best sci-fi of that era.
@benmoore10976 ай бұрын
YES YES YES!!! Flight of the Navigator!! That is one of my favorite movies of all time!! ❤❤❤
@Cheepchipsable6 ай бұрын
Not sure about The Black Hole, the robots put me off a bit. Good for a younger audience maybe. I liked Silent Running, and Dark Star by Carpenter is good for a laugh.
@harnois755 ай бұрын
InnerSpace is the forgotten gem of the 80s.
@maksphoto785 ай бұрын
@@benmoore1097 Yes! My name is Max.
@danieldunlap40775 ай бұрын
Don't forget "Battle beyond the stars."
@yadaroni6 ай бұрын
I got so hyped when I saw that you were watching this!!! Nobody else has done this and I have no idea why. I have watched this movie more than a dozen times. Truly an 80's classic.
@gustymaat70115 ай бұрын
Probably most of the other first time reactors... have watched this sometime
@wyrmshadow43746 ай бұрын
Funfact, Grig is played by the old man, the CEO of OCP in RoboCop. "Nice shooting son"
@jayeisenhardt13376 ай бұрын
I did not know that.
@Gankhisprawn6 ай бұрын
Holy crap, I’ve loved this movie since I was a kid and I had no idea!
@mikematusek42335 ай бұрын
He was also Commandant Lassard of Police Academy.
@BlueBrainMountainStream5 ай бұрын
He was also the Warlock in Halloween 3.
@cl8445 ай бұрын
@@mikematusek4233 no that was george gaynes in police academy
@nluna756 ай бұрын
One of the greatest death scenes by a movie villain ever...... Kodan Officer : She won't answer the helm! We're locked into the moon's gravitational pull. What do we do? [Kril's eyepiece swings into place] Lord Kril : We die.
@zenzmurfy5 ай бұрын
in the novel he started laughing because of the bad luck that in all the directions in space the kodan ship happened to lose power when it was pointed at the moon.
@derrickcarwardine45165 ай бұрын
The sci-fi movie with Kurt Russell you are probably thinking of is "Stargate"
@sethmoses62795 ай бұрын
@@zenzmurfyWait, this movie was based off of a novel?
@zenzmurfy5 ай бұрын
@@sethmoses6279 i think it was a short story first, but i was referring to the novelization for the movie. usually novelizations are based on the scripts. sometimes some cool scenes in the novels that were in the original scripts that aren't the movies.
@davidge58566 ай бұрын
Nerd trivia: Granny from the trailer park in Last Starfighter is the main Talosian who imprisons Captain Pike in the original Star Trek pilot, "The Cage." And Grigg the lizard guy is "the Old Man" who runs OCP in the Robocop films, "Nice shootin' son, what's your name?" He's more fun in this one, lol, but you can tell from the voice and the little twinkle in his eye that he had fun with whatever he was doing. And yes, you should add Excalibur to your bucket list. Features a bit of pre-Trek Patrick Stewart among other famous British thespians.
@jerrylee78986 ай бұрын
Fascinating!
@pipe2devnull6 ай бұрын
Will Wheaton was the kid brother's friend according to Wikipedia.
@pipe2devnull6 ай бұрын
Also Marc Alaimo, Gul Duket of DS9 is a hitchhiker.
@roncooper56026 ай бұрын
it actually wasn't solely a kids movie when it was released.
@cyberingcatgirls70696 ай бұрын
"If a boy has been chosen, a boy shall be king!"
@Lone-wolf-19826 ай бұрын
Very excited to see this with you. It's been about 20 years since I've seen it.
@christopheryochum36026 ай бұрын
Holy crap, Jen!!! This movie is NOT reacted to often; MADE MY DAY! Craig Safan did the wonderful score. Wasn't it wonderful when Mags told Alex to stop on the lift to the ship and said she was going with him. The music at that point brought me to tears. Incidentally, this was one of the first movies to use CGI for the ships and effects. They actually had the ability to make them more detailed, but, back then, the computers weren't fast enough to process the calculations to process all the shots they needed, so they made due in order to make their release date. Despite that, the gunstars still looked really neat.
@rhonafenwick56435 ай бұрын
The music alone from Centauri's death scene is enough to bring me to sobbing tears. The whole film is deeply underrated, I think, but the score perhaps most of all; Safan went all-out on making truly stupendous music that conveys the emotion and sense of scale phenomenally well. (I read somewhere that the score calls for _twelve_ trombones. He went hard-core with the orchestra!)
@VTX001285 ай бұрын
Oh you're correct about the technical aspect of the computer it was the very first rendering of early CGI it was done by a Cray-1 a supercomputer of that time usually meant for number crunching for weather reports. This was a revolutionary turning point for video media in with computer graphics special effects.🤓
@christopheryochum36025 ай бұрын
@@VTX00128 I sometimes think about how wonderful this movie would've looked, if done today. I really enjoyed the characters and the humor, but I think, if they could just redo the effects, that would be something. Oh well ... still an enjoyable movie.
@SlamminGraham6 ай бұрын
- Explorers - Flight of the Navigator - The Manhattan Project - D.A.R.Y.L. - Time Bandits - Short Circuit - Real Genius - Spacecamp - Innerspace - Goonies
@NotaVampyre1115 ай бұрын
I have seen everyone of those movies at least once and most several times.
@thebluelunarmonkey5 ай бұрын
Is it a dream where you are standing in sort of sun god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
@thebluelunarmonkey5 ай бұрын
TRON. The CGI in that movie are similar to the starfighter CGI
@Xyridin5 ай бұрын
ALL OF THESE
@yendub5 ай бұрын
Innerspace. Classic 80's
@LoneCloudHopper6 ай бұрын
One of my favorite movies in my childhood. Films like this, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Never-Ending Story, and Star Wars shaped my world back then.
@johto6 ай бұрын
Ah, yeah, good list, those were the movies some of my favourites my parents rented as VHS back then when i was around 10 years old 👍
@LoneCloudHopper6 ай бұрын
@@johto Me too. :)
@johto6 ай бұрын
@@LoneCloudHopper 🤘
@johnirving59496 ай бұрын
This and Dragonslayer!
@SCAW19726 ай бұрын
Not Tron?
@positivelynegative91496 ай бұрын
My favorite part is Jen being impressed by wheezing. 🤣
@andrewsawyer13756 ай бұрын
The Explorers will be another fun space adventure movie. It's comical too.
@line_noise6 ай бұрын
Oooh, yes. Explorers and Flight Of The Navigator. Classic '80s kids sci-fi.
@joeb9186 ай бұрын
Seconding The Explorers… I was one part River Phoenix and one part Ethan Hawke’s character so this movie…. Hell, that’s still sort of my personality to some degree. I remember trying to follow them by building my on spaceship out from an old doghouse turned fort and then spaceship after this movie.
@mr_pickles30156 ай бұрын
One of the greatest music scores when they build the ship!!
@NZBigfoot6 ай бұрын
Has anyone EVER reacted to The Explorers?.. i think ive seen 1 person on YT do it. Sure its 3rd act is bizarre, but man Jerry Goldsmiths soundtrack is top teir and i tend to not care much for movie sound tracks, but that main theme and the middle trippy part of 'Have a Nice Trip' are tear inducing from nostalgia. Yeah, Jen needs to do Explorers and Flight of the Navigator, a rare set of mostly non existent reactions and her journey and apparent growing appreciation with sci fi with Star Trek would make them a fun watch.
@Ramsiusthx5 ай бұрын
I’m sorting my age but here goes, Dude! Last Starlight, Flight of the Navigator and Explorers are my childhood trinity.
@karlsmith25706 ай бұрын
Interesting Fact for you, Jen: Actor Robert Preston, who played Centuri, this movie was was credited as his last film before he'd died
@SylviusTheMad6 ай бұрын
Since you asked, yes, Excalibur is an excellent choice. It features the most realistic depiction of running through a bog wearing heavy armour in the history of cinema. You'll know it when you see it.
@bluebird32816 ай бұрын
Great movie
@bodine576 ай бұрын
Excalibur is well worth a watch. Not without flaws, but overall an excellent retelling of the Arthurian/Merlin legend.
@mattwhorlow99006 ай бұрын
Excalibur is a must watch. Flawed yes, but it by far and away the definitive big screen version King Arthur (that isn't Monty Python). Music by Wagnar and Orff, and the shot at the end with Excalibur, the Lady of the lake and the sunset is outstanding.
@galandirofrivendell47406 ай бұрын
Probably the most faithful telling of the legend of King Arthur ever put on film.
@EvilBonsai6 ай бұрын
also has a very hot Jennifer lawre...er, I mean HELEN MIRREN.
@JasonRayShute4 ай бұрын
Less than a minute in and I already liked the video. Why. The pure excitement you displayed at seeing a Doge.
@derekfnord6 ай бұрын
For me, The Last Starfighter kind of has everything. It came out when I was in my mid-teens (almost the same age as Alex). Also like Alex, I had grown up poor, with a single mom, we lived in a mobile home park, I was into arcade games, etc. So I really related to the protagonist. Now, for adult me, all of that is still part of me, plus the nostalgia of capturing that time in my life. As a bonus, Robert Preston is one of my favorite actors of all time. There's simply nothing to dislike about it, as long as you go into it knowing not to take it too seriously. Watching this can turn my mood around any time. 🙂
@gibbletronic51396 ай бұрын
Robert Preston was at his best in "Victor Victoria." Check it out.
@derekfnord6 ай бұрын
@@gibbletronic5139 Totally agreed. One of those "make you laugh and make you cry" roles.
@kevincerda66666 ай бұрын
Another classic Sci-Fi flick is “Starman”.
@phohead6 ай бұрын
Kurt Russell in Soldier(1998) about a space soildier. Enemy Mine, Starman and Dragonslayer are great too.
@spencerbookman25236 ай бұрын
Yeah, all these movies. It's difficult to imagine Soldier without Kurt Russell (it was written with him in mind, if memory serves, and it's worth watching just for his performance). Also Dragonslayer is, by far, my favorite movie featuring a dragon. Not sci-fi, but another underrated Kurt Russell movie is the police drama Dark Blue(2002).
@fortmanr6 ай бұрын
Pretty sure she is thinking of Stargate with Kurt
@justinpreid6 ай бұрын
Love Starman. Would be a great movie to react to.
@divemonkeys6 ай бұрын
@@fortmanr I looked to see if I was missing a movie, but it looks like Stargate, Soldier, and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 are his only 'space' movies.
@alemander_016 ай бұрын
OMG, I would love Jen to react to Dragonslayer.
@b.thomas89265 ай бұрын
Problem was that the Last Starfighter released against Ghostbusters, Temple of Doom, Karate Kid, and Gremlins. It was 80's movie paradise that summer. It's theorized that Starfighter just had to much competition. That same summer gave us Splash, The Never Ending Story, Revenge of the Nerds, Romancing the Stone, and Bachelor Party. Lets just say Starfighter was stacked against up against some long odds.
@porflepopnecker43766 ай бұрын
I remember this movie being noteworthy at the time as the first to have all-digital spaceship effects.
@divemonkeys6 ай бұрын
It was cool at the time and they were fairly cutting edge, but they still looked like what we see now and for what they are I think they have held up well.
@toddkes58905 ай бұрын
And the fun part is computers today are more powerful and run larger programs faster than what was used then.
@alfax5 ай бұрын
Yup. First movie to use CGI
@DaveBukowski6 ай бұрын
Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) from Star Trek TNG is in this. He is one of Louis's friends at the start of the movie for the few seconds he is on screen. Another famous person is Robert Preston. He plays Professor Harold Hill in the 1962 musical: The Music Man. He plays a travelling salesman and he uses his same.charisma from that show as the recruiter here. If you want to watch a musical, that one is a classic. Fun to hear Robert Preston singing as well. This movie is one of my favorite movies. I had a Last Starfighter coloring/activity book. The graphics looked more "real" back then because it was not HD like it is now. Harder to see CGI and it seemed more real because of it. The soundtrack you can find on KZbin Music. I have listened to it on my way home from work before. Those horns just gets you going.
@VTX001285 ай бұрын
Well at least I'm not the only one who listens to the music. Always wish I could get ahold of that Star car and blast off to the stars.🎶
@Downtime-336 ай бұрын
What child doesn't dream about being spirited away on a grand adventure. This was the absolute peak of my childhood and inspired my love of sci fi and fantasy. So glad to see you reacting to this classic!
@Im_The_Dude6 ай бұрын
RIP Robert Preston, knew him as Professor Hill in the music man, and saw this soon after. Great actor
@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.6 ай бұрын
Thanks Jen, great reaction. A couple of Sci-Fi films which you might have been thinking of: "Starman" with Jeff Bridges, "Enemy Mine" with Dennis Quaid, These are possibilities, I highly recommend "Innerspace" which has Denis Quaid and Marin Short, it's a great Sci-Fi Comedy, well worth reacting to.
@Joel_Matrix6 ай бұрын
All good ones 👍🤓
@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.6 ай бұрын
@@Joel_Matrix Thanks, I agree (obviously). 😄
@scoundrell6 ай бұрын
I loved Starman! I only found out later that it was John Carpenter’s movie. If I remember correctly, he said he took the Starman job to help revitalise his career after The Thing bombed
@nickgalea826 ай бұрын
I adore this movie, when I was a little kid in the 80's my Dad brought this movie home from the rental place and it became a movie we shared for years and especially one of my faves. Dad passed away last month and I'm waiting for the time to sit down and watch this again, just to have some nostalgia and memories come back.
@packersamurai6 ай бұрын
When I was first introduced to my future wife, she TOTALLY reminded me of Maggie. She was the best wife for 28 years. Love you, Mam'. RIP.
@kevinburton39486 ай бұрын
"WHAT DO WE DO?!?" "........We die." Best line ever!
@AlanCanon22226 ай бұрын
A classic from the very first days of photorealistic CGI. LOVING your reaction. Should have known, this movie has Jen written all over it. Robert Preston's perhaps most enduring film role is as Professor Harold Hill, an unscrupulous music instrument salesman, in "The Music Man" (1962), with Shirley Jones and Buddy Hackett, one of the great film musicals of the 1960s. I don't know, but looking at his performance in The Last Starfighter, it seems almost as if this role was written for him to play.
@raxephon696 ай бұрын
Actually...it was !
@bisseefamily96986 ай бұрын
Loved this movie, and it introduced me to Robert Preston's - saw and enjoyed his movies "The Music Man" and "Victor Victoria" . Really worth watching, Jen!
@manueldeabreu19806 ай бұрын
Grig is played by Dan O'Herlihy. He was great as Marshal Ney in Waterloo. Everyone knows him better as the old man CEO in Robocop.
@alfax5 ай бұрын
My first memory of him was Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
@Witchfinder.General6 ай бұрын
*FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR (1986)*
@Otokichi7866 ай бұрын
Don't forget "Explorers" (1985).
@asgardpictures6 ай бұрын
1981 Excalibur. Yes!! The best of all King Arthur movies.
@BouillaBased6 ай бұрын
Grig does have the best wheeze. You can see him looking less like a lizard in Robocop, as the Old Man. And at the time, both the video game and the graphics for the film were revolutionary. I was about a year older than Louis at this time, and I hadn't seen anything like it since Tron.
@Billinois786 ай бұрын
I was younger than Louis at the time, so it really blew me away.
@ldkinbote5 ай бұрын
When Tron came out, I saw it in the theater 4x. The most I'd seen any movie in the theater. There have been other movies since that I've seen 4x, but not many. The Matrix was one. This one, I saw 2, maybe 3, times. When Tron came out, I'd read an article by the SPFX team that talked about how, in the future, CG would become so advanced that you wouldn't be able to tell it from real life and I said, much to my chagrin (but still find it funny), "No way! HOW could it get better than THIS???" 😂
@michaelcole81962 ай бұрын
When i was 8, i spent my summer in Michigan with my aunt and cousin. He was 20 yrs older than me, and showed me this movie. It is one of my absolute favorites. He passed away in 2020. On my way to his funeral, i played this soundtrack and absolutely lost it. This movie will always remind me of him, and i watch it at least 2x every year since.
@jimperry64636 ай бұрын
Very tough call to say what Jen liked more: Grig’s wheeze or the soundtrack.
@Billinois786 ай бұрын
I posted this on your Patreon, but I'll post here, too: There were at least 5 Star Trek actors in this. [NO SPOILERS, don't worry] Meg Wyllie (Granny with the shotgun) was the head Talosian on The Menagerie 2-part episode with the giant head and telepathy, Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) as one of Louis' friends, Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat on DS9) was the hitchhiker who turns into an alien assassin, Dan Mason (Lord Krill in this movie) was on a season 1 TNG ep, "When the Bough Breaks", where he and his wife steal all the kids of the Enterprise including Wesley, Kay E. Kuter (Enduran, leader and father of the evil Xur) was on the TNG season 4 ep The Nth Degree and DS9 season 1 ep. The Storyteller.
@TerryButterfield5 ай бұрын
Wil Wheaton ended up on the cutting room floor though ;)
@Billinois785 ай бұрын
@@TerryButterfield Yeah, I wonder if there is a deleted scene. The movie "A Christmas Story" cut a scene where Ralphie dreams of helping Flash Gordon defeat Ming the Merciless with the help of his bb gun. Just like Wil Wheaton, they show up in the ending credits, even though their scene was cut.
@KatSpencer.6 ай бұрын
You'll love 'Battle Beyond The Stars' (1980) starring George Peppard or The Black Hole(1979) Really hope you get round to reacting to either or both! ❤
@misterprickly6 ай бұрын
This is where "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command" came from! Fun fact: The navigator was played by the same actor who played "the old man" from Robocop.
@cliffgraham98926 ай бұрын
you were probably thinking of Star Gate for Kurt Russell but personally I think Soldier is his best space movie
@jenmurrayxo6 ай бұрын
Stargate is on my channel! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJuXk5Z3dtqprq8
@Saalome84Blue6 ай бұрын
@@jenmurrayxo ...so Kurt Russell in a space movie, well not many options left - Soldier (1998) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)...
@GreenCrim6 ай бұрын
I always thought the Codan commander was a G. XO - What do we do? Commander - We die.
@Thewingkongexchange6 ай бұрын
Many a weekend spent watching this on tape as a kid. A delight - that's probably the best way I can describe it.
@David-l6c3w5 ай бұрын
"Oh no wait, I just realized this movie is called The LAST StarFighter!" .... LOL
@Luciphell6 ай бұрын
Yes, you should react to 'Excalibur'
@mikealvarez23226 ай бұрын
This is such a wonderful movie that is under most people's radar.
@memnarch1296 ай бұрын
Bit of trivia. It took a Cray Super Computer nearly think it was 8 to 14 months to render the effects. At the time the Cray was THE most powerful computer in the world.
@dant76776 ай бұрын
This. AND my understanding is that their CGI modeling was later adapted for the TV show Babylon 5. In that show, the Earthforce's "Starfury" fighters look a lot like this movie's Gunstars.
@Parallax-3D6 ай бұрын
@@dant7677- Nope. Not even done by the same people. Babylon 5 was done by Ron Thornton using Lightwave and Video Toaster on a Commodore computer. It was also 9 years later, and much more advanced than the stuff in this movie.
@timmooney75286 ай бұрын
A Cray from that era probably cost at least $20 million. I imagine most smart phone's CPU's can out perform it in floating point operations.
@deathtoraiden20806 ай бұрын
@@timmooney7528 The timeline would make it the Cray-1. The very first smartphones would already be several times more powerful than it.
@AlanCanon22226 ай бұрын
I am a computer person and was agog to read about the Cray 1 (I think in Scientific American) was new, when I was maybe 12 years old. I lived my whole life until this year thinking it surely must be still more powerful than what we make today. Recently, I looked it up, the specs. No. My (very cheap) Android phone is more powerful. It is a sobering thing to contemplate how fast computers have developed.
@trevalarose81556 ай бұрын
Kurt Russell was in a movie called "Soldier" & "Enemy Mine" has Dennis Quaid, both sci-fi films.
@ToABrighterFuture6 ай бұрын
Robert Preston (Centauri) turned in his final film performance here, and if you ever saw him as Harold Hill in "The Music Man," you'll catch on right away. Preston also did the vocals for the 1962 youth fitness song "Chicken Fat," a version of which would be used by Apple half a century later to promote iOS 8.
@rcrawford426 ай бұрын
Ah, "The Music Man" -- where you can see a young Ron Howard sing about Gary, Indiana. With a lisp.
@scapevelocity6 ай бұрын
He also had a prominent role in Victor Victoria with Julie Andrews. What an amazing presence!
@BeeWhistler6 ай бұрын
I remember a role play sort of book I picked up in the 80s, some kind of D&D knock off, that used Harold Hill/Centauri to represent what you got with maximum charisma levels.
@bigsarge87956 ай бұрын
HOLY ... EFFING ... SHIT !!! This movie was an absolute staple of my early teenage years Victory or death !!
@awall17016 ай бұрын
Robert Preston (Centauri) was in the fun musical, The Music Man.
@BeeWhistler6 ай бұрын
And played almost the same character! That charismatic con man.
@karlsmith25706 ай бұрын
He's great in "Victor/Victoria", co-starring with Julie Andrews
@pringals6 ай бұрын
Been over 30 years since I last seen this! I forgot all about it. So excited to rewatch this with you. Enemy Mine is another one to watch... and Starman! My memories are popping with movie suggestions now! haha
@NightRanger-lz6tp6 ай бұрын
Fun Fact: This movie has some connections to the Halloween Movies. Lance Guest (Alex) played Jimmy the Paramedic in Halloween 2, Dan O'Herlihy (Grig) played the main villian in Halloween 3: Season of the Witch and Director Nick Castle played Michael Myers in the first Halloween movie.
@Ian-xx1xb6 ай бұрын
speaking of halloween jens reaction is on her channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGrGgKJ3rr6La8Wdts a blast
@Yuurei215 ай бұрын
This movie was my childhood. To this day, I can't help but be deeply moved by Otis's advice, "Your chance will come, but you got to grab it with both hands and hold tight." That is what I miss about movies from the 80s. Where the message was always dare to dream and never stop fighting for it.
@tomhoffman43306 ай бұрын
"Greetings, Starfighter!"😁Today is a day that We've-All been waiting for: We-All knew that You'd LOVE this one, because We've Loved it Our whole lives too!👍Once more and forever, "Thank You Jen!"💝 Easter Egg: next time Y'all watch "Back to the Future Part II" be-on-the-look-out for Centauri's Star-Car!😉You can clearly see it parked on the street (in 2015) when Marty is being chased by the Hoverboard Gang!👌
@LogicalNiko5 ай бұрын
So the computer graphics in this movie were so advanced for 1984 that they required the use of a Cray X-MP Supercomputer which was the 2nd most powerful model of supercomputer in the world at the time. They rendered a total of 27 shots, which took several months of continuous rendering to finish the effects layers and consumed a good proportion of the $17million production cost. The other impressive thing to note was that the entire movie was shot in only 38 days
@jasonbeatty8316 ай бұрын
Catherine Mary Stewart Who played Maggie was also in the ultra fantastic “Night of the comet”, very worth watching!
@timmooney75286 ай бұрын
She's also in Christine
@eugeneshadwell65966 ай бұрын
@@timmooney7528 You're thinking of Alexandra Paul.
@timmooney75286 ай бұрын
@@eugeneshadwell6596 You're correct
@chadkeymon59396 ай бұрын
This made my day! Great reaction Jen!
@davidward97376 ай бұрын
Jen Murray I love ya buddy. No one ever reacts to this movie. Lance Guest as Alex and the special effects were great for its time. At the end, what do we do, we die. This is only 1 out of a few movies I would like to see remade. Thank you a million times over Jen. Always sending love and positivity. Ps I'm going to have to watch this with my mom, she loves your channel too
@wyrmshadow43746 ай бұрын
I've seen a few. You must not have been looking
@timhonigs68596 ай бұрын
I grew up with this movie. Even though now, we cringe at the SFX, back then, the story carried us away into the unknown galaxy
@scorp77snake6 ай бұрын
it wouldn't even need to be fully remade just update the ships and battles etc
@davidward97376 ай бұрын
@@wyrmshadow4374 a few it is a seldom reacted to movie, as I meant that no one reacts to it
@davidward97376 ай бұрын
@@scorp77snake good point, I have thought for years how more amazing it can be with updated cgi. Already a great film
@Journeyman.715 ай бұрын
I'm a life-long Star Wars fan, but, TLSF has always had a special place in my heart! This was not a hit at the box office, but became a classic in the early days a VHS rentals! The graphics and effects were awesome for the day, and still hold up pretty well! I've always loved the design of the GunStars! And the burst-fire laser effect from Centauri's pistol!
@jamielandis43086 ай бұрын
This is one of those lost movies of the 80’s like “2010: The Year We Make Contact,” and “Dragonslayer.”
@AlanCanon22226 ай бұрын
And don't forget The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension! 'Laugh a-while you can, a-Monkey Boy!'
@Enthymene6 ай бұрын
I’d add Krull and Split Second to that list
@JnEricsonx5 ай бұрын
@@Enthymene You are a serious person of culture, Ironically I have met one of the cast of 2010, the guy who plays Floyd's kid. :)
@g-urts55186 ай бұрын
Omg my childhood. Remember my mom showing me this in the mid 90s. Still convinced this is why I'm so obsessed with everything space.
@tmckain55326 ай бұрын
This one takes me all the way back! As a lifelong gamer, i LOVED this movie as a kid! I absolutley love that you accept the 80s graphics and tropes without blinking and enjoy the movie for what it is. You continue to be awesome! A+++++++++😊
@kevincerda66666 ай бұрын
Trivia Fact: The actor who played Centauri starred in “The Music Man” (1962)
@DouglasJohnson.6 ай бұрын
I've been waiting for someone to react to this! I know Jen's gonna love it.
@jimmiegiboney24735 ай бұрын
2:34 Mark! Barbara Bosson is in 1981's "Hill Street Blues" as "Fay Furillo"! That was an "NBC" police drama series. 🎉
@BobCrabtree-ev4rzАй бұрын
The first police series I watched faithfully.An excellent program.Loved it.
@glenngalloway61916 ай бұрын
Loved watching this on Patreon. Forgot how epic the music was in this, although maybe this was just orchestral arrangements were taken for granted back in the day. And yes, you should react to Excalibur. It has Patrick Stewart in it, and the soundtrack is music from literal operas.
@allisterfiend_21126 ай бұрын
It also has a few other very famous actors who were just starting out. This version of Excalibur is my favorite, it's dark and bloody, like I would expect things to be during those times.
@Dystopia11116 ай бұрын
Loved Excalibur. Best version of Merlin I've ever seen (well, best version not named Tim anyway).
@curtisbailey785 ай бұрын
As a kid in the 80's, there was almost nothing cooler than the Death Blossom. Perfect reaction! Glad you liked the movie, and yes the music really is fantastic. I still listen to it just by itself.
@beboz286 ай бұрын
I don’t know if you noticed, but in the end credits will Wheaton is credited in this movie as Louis’s friend, but the Director cut all of his scenes, except at the very end in a blink, and you’ll miss it appearance. He’s with the group of people next to the gun Star at the far right a little kid in a blue jacket.
@ridleysaria5 ай бұрын
The Last Starfighter feels like the first movie in what should have been a series. Very cool concept that never got explored as much as it should have.
@LabRat3556 ай бұрын
LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie!!! You're my 1st reactor to watch it, it's why your one of my favorites Jen!
@dragonweyr445 ай бұрын
The guy who played Grig, Alex's navigator, is the same guy who played The Old Man on Robocop 1 and 2
@menolikey_6 ай бұрын
I hate when people do this as reactors never pay attention but.... Enemy Mine
@charlestaylor6865 ай бұрын
Kurt Russel was in a sci-fi movie called Stargate which became a popular tv series, Stargate SG-1, that ran for 10 seasons. It had 1 major spinoff, Stargatr Atlantis, and 2 minor spinoffs Stargate Universe and Stargate Origins. Sg-1 and Atlantis have a big cult following.
@SeanHendy6 ай бұрын
Should follow this with 'Starman'.
@Bohemiahotrodandcustom6 ай бұрын
Fun fact 1 the translator is an internal circuit board from an 80s casino watch. Fun fact 2 the car used by centuries was also used in Back to the Future 2, seen in the back ground.
@benbamboo55586 ай бұрын
Ree ta naa - Enemy Mine. Ree ta naa - Starman. Ree ta naa - Dreamscape. Ree ta naa Tay lo for all of these 80s sci-fi classics. That means react to them I think.
@commandercaptain46645 ай бұрын
"Oh wait, I just realized this movie is called The LAST Starfighteeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr!!!" 💀
@danwest99006 ай бұрын
Trailer Park Boys is indeed a Canadian creation, but it has exploded in popularity in the last decade. I love it, and I highly recommend the whole Netflix series and their movies Countdown To Liquor Day and the other one that I can't recall the title of. The first season is a little raw and unpolished but I think that you would fall in love with all the characters!
@andrewouellette49986 ай бұрын
The actress Maggie has played in a few other cult classics of the eighties such as "Night of the Comet" and "Weekend at Bernies". Both are worth watching. The movie that you may be thinking about starring Kurt Russell is "Enemy Mine", but it is with Dennis Quaid. Another sci-fi movie with Dennis Quaid may be "InnerSpace". It also stars Martin Short and Meg Ryan.
@robertfalcon60836 ай бұрын
What a super fun movie!! Jen’s gonna love the “Death Blossem”!!
@alaneskew26645 ай бұрын
The score for this movie is so damn good. It is so freaking Epic, and it has probably what is considered one of the best bad guy deaths in all the cinema
@3Kings_Industries6 ай бұрын
Jen found herself a Wheezer !!! LoL
@EMarvinJohnson5 ай бұрын
The actor playing his "navigator" is the same actor who played the head guy in the original Robocop. "What's your name, son?"
@shanenolan56256 ай бұрын
Thank jen. A classic gem. They are making a sequal ( original writer)
@LogicalNiko5 ай бұрын
Best Wheez goes to Dan O'Herlihy as Grig, also known as the CEO of OCP (or The Old Man) in Robocop.
@anonymes28846 ай бұрын
Man, I had the biggest crush on Catherine Mary Stewart :). Fun slice of the 80s this one, easily one of the best of the "young man has space adventures" movies that came along post 'Star Wars'. And yep, the graphics were state of the art at the time, rendered on a Cray supercomputer (in 1984, the fastest in the world, taking up most of a small room and weighing several _tonnes_ - of course _now_ any half decent smartphone is several _thousand_ times more powerful :). (you have to really look for him because I _think_ all his lines got cut but in the background of some scenes, playing Louis's friend, was a young Wil 'Wesley Crusher' Wheaton)
@joeb9186 ай бұрын
In the 80s I was quite often in the arcade, so many coins lost to digital light and sound… anyway, this movie led me there even more so, hoping to find such a cabinet to take me away. No such luck.
@hoodwinkiez6 ай бұрын
It's a fun kids movie for sure. This and Flight of the Navigator hold a special place in my childhood. Oh, and Ice Pirates. :D
@christophercurtis41316 ай бұрын
This is one of my personal favorites. I was 13 the year this was released and I instantly loved. Several years ago, during annual Market Days Festival where I live, they had a movie under the stars every night and they showed this movie. It was awesome watching it under the stars. I love the late Robert Preston as Centauri. He was great. Lance Guest as Alex and Catherine Mary Stewart as Maggie were wonderful. Catherine Mary Stewart was in quite a few sci-fi movies back in the 80's. One of those she was in that I highly recommend is Night of the Comet, which came out the same year as The Last Starfighter. She was also in a film called Mischief, set during the 1950's, which also starred the late Kelly Preston, the wife of John Travolta. Catherine Mary Stewart was also in the 1989 comedy Weekend At Bernie's. I also love the music for this movie. It was beautiful.
@BomageMinimart5 ай бұрын
I've loved this movie for 40 years now. I wear my Geeky Jersey regularly (#84, ROGAN). "Victory! Or death!"
@rdawgo146 ай бұрын
I always thought that after the Death Blossom the movie should cut to Alex and Grig vomiting for a full minute.
@ninjabearpress25745 ай бұрын
Someone FINALLY reacting to one of my favorite inspirational films! "I'm not any of those guys, I'm just a kid from a trailer park." "If that's what you think, then that's all you'll ever be." Chase your dreams, even if you fail you won't be sorry you tried.
@danikasilva99066 ай бұрын
Ill free up some coinage to join your patreon in the coming months, all because of this reaction
@jenmurrayxo6 ай бұрын
Always appreciated!
@xbeaker6 ай бұрын
God I loved this movie. I probably saw it 100 times as a kid. As a (and still) big video game nerd this was the perfect movie. The graphics were beyond 'top of the line.' Regular computers couldn't generate anything like that in the 80's. They were created on a Cray supercomputer.