WING COMMANDER Clip - "Star Battle" (1999) Matthew Lillard

[@jamieolberding7731]

First Officer Paul Gerald: [urgently] "Sir?!" Captain Jason Sansky: [shouts] "SHIELDS UP!!!"

[@TheGlassSword]

This was a fun movie, while not great, I still enjoyed it

[@EvanCops]

Matthew Lillard was a hell of a maniac dude. He has the same energy as Thomas F wilson

[@johnathan651]

I honestly loved this movie as a kid!

[@nebulousy]

This movie is a guilty pleasure

[@scottr6755]

I like how the planes were basically A10 warthogs.

[@glennlao52]

They are actually mig 21

[@kuribayashi84]

*Actually* they were built from scrapped English Electric Lightning jet fighter fuselages.

[@Twitchguy]

Both wrong they used the UKs harrier jets for the bones & cock pits every cockpit scene minus the bombers they used the uk military’s training academy flight simulator because of their small budget

[@robwebnoid5763]

Yeah it gives the story setting the feel & vibe of an alternate steampunk cyberpunk dieselpunk earth universe where they are using classical ship designs from the 20th century & not the 27th century of which is the original era/setting in the game. As Chris Roberts put it, it is World War II in space.

[@mtjoy747]

I remember Wing Commander, even before they decided to use Mark Hamill in it LOL

[@potterj09]

I always loved how they had machineguns. Felt more visceral.

[@blablubb4553]

Wing Commander series has so many awesome ship designs... why didn't they stick to those? Would have LOVED to see an actual Dralthi or a Rapier Starfighter on the big screen! And the plot of the first game would have been fine as a movie story!

[@flintsky7706]

Yall are some hater. This movie was awesome, I guess you had to be there.

[@vincentramirez6967]

Didn't do the game justice, though. Mark Hamill could've starred in this movie, just as he starred in Wing Commander games.

[@kuribayashi84]

The Special Effects in this movie kind of get a bad rap but I still love the shot of the Kilrathi Battleship getting ripped apart by the Pulse Wave.

[@gogaonzhezhora8640]

It has the best FX of capital ships being ripped arart in space. Not the generic dumb fireballs we are getting from all the high-budget productions.

[@zzygyy]

More entertaining than phantom menace same year release.

[@angelofverdun456]

That’s funny because I remember going to see this with my friends because we heard the Phantom Menace trailer was going to be on before it.

[@Tigerman1138]

@@angelofverdun456a number of people went to see the movie for that reason…some walked out post-trailer.

[@Tigerman1138]

Better than Disney Star Wars too.

[@FleetAdmiralVildstar]

Nah. Still good but not as good.

[@Aikurisu]

@@Tigerman1138 Agreed. There are honestly few moments in Disney Star Wars that are better than scenes in this film.

[@michaelzahnle5649]

One of the few issues I have with movies like this, is that they simply forget that if you shut down your engine in space, you don't crash. Shut it down, drift, and get picked up by a rescue tug. Obviously, Rosie had to die to push the following story arc, but jeeze... do it right.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I completely forgot this was a thing.

[@FusionArmorX]

Watching this scene more closely made me wonder if the idea of the cannons on those Rapiers spinning when they fired like a minigun was a Mandela Effect thing...

[@Heckleburger]

Such a great if not campy movie that doesn't understand newtonian physics in the least but who cares! FIRE TORPEDOS!!!

[@robwebnoid5763]

Perhaps it is time for a remake/reboot.

[@robwebnoid5763]

0:04 ... Why are the space ships falling a little bit just before rising after they leave the edge of the deck? There is no gravity there at the end of the deck. I know the studio is just making it subconsciously familiar to audiences who have seen this happen on oceanic aircraft carriers in real life. But it does not have to happen here though, so it is just odd. Of course we can further make things up as to why it is happening here. It is science `fiction` after all. 12/08/24

[@puniopenetrante]

4:43 crazy squid badass space french.

[@victorgodoy5820]

Para ser 1999 esta buena con cgi decente

[@blockmasterscott]

0:08 Would anyone happen to know what his job is on the ship? I know it's not communications or helm.

[@Tigerman1138]

XO Executive Officer.

[@johnnyflores5954]

The only cool thing about this movie, were the Kilrathi ships, space combat scenes.

[@powahwave8915]

Aren't the bad guys thundercats

[@MrWhateverfits]

Yeah they were big Cat people like lions.

[@lordearthblood]

@@MrWhateverfits Depends, would you call Caesar from Planet of Apes a human?

[@Tigerman1138]

Full salvo 05:08

[@Twitchguy]

Cheesy lame and still a better movie to watch than any of the crap coming out of Disney lately lol This movie gets too much hate

[@torstendeklerski946]

1999 Outstanding special effects. this movie looks in so many scence so good. but... he is a litle bit shitty.... please relaunch this movie!

[@inigma_X]

lost me at the planes dipping after exiting the launch run way... as if there is gravity in space, and aerodynamics to bump them back up? and why exactly would fighters shake like that? what are they buffeting against? and torpedos that fall into space like water? movie looks like it was made just after a WWII battle scene and they forgot to hit the space physics switch when the new film crew came in. its WWII carrier combat... but in space... almost half expected to see the pilot eject without a suit into space... with a parachute. and "pull up"? pull up from what? heh.

[@Xingmey]

have you any understanding of physics? The torpedo scene makes totally sense, those torpedoes are pushed out by... compressed gas whatever out of the tubes and then start getting speed when their engines kick in. Of course does a fighter shake up like that, when it has some big ass cannon that uses primer and gunpowder to shoot that gun. they don't use lasers in the movie (do in the games tho). And why should a spacecraft not dip after the runway? i mean they don't need a runway at all, but they wanted one in the movie, since it's in the books. to have them slide over the runway just some rcs thruseters firing down, and disengaging and engaging some other thrusters to bump back up. you are not very smart for pointing out these things and not coming up with an explanation for yourself. also, noone cares if they 'lost you' this movie is 25 years old - older than you probly by 2 decades

[@inigma_X]

@@Xingmeyprob the most awesome sarcasm-in-support post ive ever seen. lol you're awesome man! ya this movie had its moments, but the physics...oily moiley. prob why i choose to watch SQ:DSV as a kid instead. at least more believable. heh.

[@Arcturus572]

I thought it was hilarious that they treated the space battle like an old submarine fight, with torpedo tubes and everything, just add in the fighters that were effectively A-10's and it makes it even better... And space physics? Hush you with that common sense... lol

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

I bet you are fun at parties 🙄🙄

[@inigma_X]

@@Jabber-ig3iw hehe u have no idea

[@Щекослав]

Is it was made in 99s? Looks like in 80's

[@Nurhaal]

Lol not even close 90s early 2000s CGI and miniatures has a very clear a distinct looks compared to just raw 80s blue screen. This is post Industrial Light and Magic and during the start of the SW Prequals. The CGI back then wasn't that great but was game quality level but the miniature detail was amazing and probably the best it had ever been.

[@andysmith-vi1bo]

Books were great, didn't play game . Was this a movie by chance

[@DMSProduktions]

LOL!

[@blockmasterscott]

I never knew there were novels based on this. I want check that out!

[@DMSProduktions]

@@blockmasterscott There numerous WC novels over the years, set in different eras & regions.

[@Tigerman1138]

Better than ANY "STAR WARS" by Disney ("Rogue One' is exception).

[@tylerwinkle323]

5:18 why would you have ships in formation like that...if one ship explodes they all explode

[@Tigerman1138]

Space battle formation. Besides-in a battle in space there is no submarine. They didn’t consider one ship a threat.

[@DrPet80]

Using smaller ships to screen the big one. Also for cinematic effects.

[@maciejzuk7756]

So where are Luke Skywalker and Biff Tannen?

[@MrWhateverfits]

In the video games. This was the movie that wasn't connected to the Wing Commander video game universe.

[@maciejzuk7756]

@@MrWhateverfits I see. Thanks for the response

[@ЕвгенийАртюхов-щ2в]

Ejection into the outer space??!))

[@DMSProduktions]

Where ELSE?

[@100domathon]

this along with double dragon are 2 of the least known video game movies from the 1990s compared to mortal kombat or street fighter

[@DrPet80]

i liked the movie by just ignoring the cringe. But cringe was a thing back in the day. Even SW had a lot of it.

[@snakes3425]

The Games, the Books, and the Cartoon were all great...the movie...was awful (Except for the Space Battles, the only time the movie felt like the games) also replacing Mark Hamil with Freddie Prinz Jr.? I get it this is Blair at the start of his career and he has yet to earn his Heart of the Tiger nickname, but you couldn't find someone who at least looked like Mark Hamil

[@ahmadsantoso9712]

Looks cheap, like cutscenes from Windows 95 era games rather than a movie.

[@flintsky7706]

Found the gen z kid

[@wg1751]

It was a film adaptation of an actual video game from the 90s.

[@Izzyduude]

Lillard was soooo sooo bad. Cheesy dialogue. Them talking with masks on and then taking them off to continue talking seems pointless but I guess dumbing visuals down for the audience some how makes it seem more intense. So bad.

[@klackon1]

I played the video game Wing Commander many years ago, long before it was made into a film. It was a good space combat game, but the dialogue was quite puerile with awful American style nick names for the pilots - maniac being one of them.

[@sabataskull9661]

Top gun film in space. A little cringe but a fun and good game.

[@tren380]

THis movie was so so bad.

[@anlq1240]

7:55 she doesn't need to land that fighter, it is space, she just turns off the engine, let it flow near the mothership for recovery. What a noob.

[@MiG-31893]

It’s space, if you turn off the engine you will still be traveling the same speed.