The Last Starfighter - Chase At The Frontier

The Last Starfighter - Chase At The Frontier 1984

[@dickstryker]

Man it would be great to see a high budget remake or sequel to this. A deeply slept on cult classic with tons of heart. They don't write movies like this anymore. Time to bring AWESOME back!

[@mohanicus]

1:57..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. absolutely love this film since I was a kid...I'm 42 now and still love it...Great story and I really really hope that they get the sequel called the last starfighters off its feet...plus the theme is one of the best themes ever made.

[@Lightray110]

This scene really shows how good a pilot Grig is. flying at god knows what speed inside of an asteroid.

[@EVAUnit4A]

It took me many long years to link Grig's wheezy laugh with Muttley's from _Wacky Race._

[@joeyD213]

I was always hoping for a follow up movie to this. Maybe where Alex's little brother has to go into space to fight for the Frontier because his brother died or goes missing 😁

[@JohnG6]

A week or two ago I read about talks of a sequel

[@waynemcneil7714]

How about " The Last Starfighter Too" with Alex AND the little brother all grown up (with special tactical training from big brother)? No need to cut anyone out. Word.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I like Grig's laugh at 1:57.

[@VulpisFoxfire]

A shame you cut off the line immediately before this scene.. "I'll have it all figured out before we reach the Frontier." *beep-beep-beep* "What's that?" *sour expression* "The Frontier."

[@dalehall2067]

Remember this movie. Would love to watch it with advertising because I don’t have the money to pay the rent or buy the movie

[@Shadowkey392]

I want to see this movie with finished effects.

[@ThePathStrider]

That's actually a funny joke .. that nobody else got.

[@isaned]

The part at 2:45 When the ship just turns around is so sad.

[@JungleDjinn]

So hokey, but such a great movie!

[@maureencora1]

They Should Do a Remake of This Movie.

[@waynemcneil7714]

* continuation (part 2 using same actors...that are still alive) Word.

[@McFrozenNuggets]

2:04 “I did it? You did it! You almost got me killed!!" LOL

[@danielwilliamson6180]

2:10 - 2:25 Alex was hard on poor Grig.

[@Squattingtiger9]

So many of us Gen X's screaming out for a remake or sequel....I have no hope now...The modernism and "you aren't allowed to be a man" movement has taken this away...it's not "PC"

[@NDChurchofWH]

I’m a man

[@toddkes5890]

@ 0:20 - The transport's bridge crew panics.

[@bb7931]

Great movie, love everything about i t. But......how big is that frontier? I mean I assume those barrier things go on for lightyears. So that any ship trying to go around it would exhaust all their resources before reaching the end in any direction?

[@davidgriego549]

Still pretty cool computer graphics for the time

[@davidweihe6052]

They were the best of the time, done by Evans & Sutherland on DEC-20s.

[@tompearce5418]

The Frontier would have required a lot of satellites.

[@dorpth]

They needed the best pilots to push the "kill everything" death blossom button.

[@stt5v2002]

Not actually a plot hole. Death blossom was an experimental weapon that was only on Alex's ship. That ship was not located in the main base, or it would have been destroyed with the other gunstars. The weapon was short range and not ready for deployment as it depleted all the energy reserves in the ship, leaving it helpless. The good guys expected to have 20+ ships in a large scale battle. DB only worked because there was just one ship left and the Kodan had it completely surrounded at close ranges, were not aware of it, and were ambushed leaving the command ship unable to simply blast Alex's powerless ship. This was all made clear in the movie, so I think the scene holds up even if it is a bit of deus ex machina.

[@normanlee6609]

Death Blossom is a new prototype weapon. It's didn't exist before now. Previous Star Fighters only had the standard aim and shoot tech. So, no, your joke fails for the lack of factual accuracy

[@peterp2153]

Don’t be silly. The reason they had to use it was because it was a single ship vs a whole armada. Up to that point, Alex was wrecking the Ko-Dan fleet. The problem was it was they were outnumbered like 100-to-1. That’s too much even for the best Starfighter in the galaxy.

[@JohnWise-vg3zj]

I lost my virginity while "watching" this movie on HBO.

[@mikedski9698]

Grig: A Xurian Ship!

[@agf7destined424]

does anyone have the full movie? :(

[@KOBUN40]

I'm not sure why Alex hesitated so long. That thing looks like an easier target to hit than the decoys.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Maybe it's because he's never killed for real.

[@KOBUN40]

That makes sense. After all, this was his "first live target".

[@sparrowlt]

look at Alex face when he says "your first live target" .. he is about to kill someone

[@Shadowkey392]

Because he was killing someone.

[@peterp2153]

Bingo. It’d be like the best player if I dunno, Contra, being put into action against live commandos. It’s not just like the game anymore.

[@heyitsthatguy4517]

Fox do a barrel roll

[@user-sp2qv3ov4o]

The original copyright for the gunstar was created by David J Ward and no other July 13 1984

[@PJVids83]

If you replace the human guy with one of those kangaroos from Tank Girl, you'd have a poorly made film version of Starfox.

[@liquid6901]

Griggs was the old man from Robocop, its amazing he's so limber as to pilot a star fighter.

[@magnusdiridian]

Do a death blossom Can't let you do that, starfighter Your master spy screamed REAL good, before he DIED

[@viceadmiralparke8486]

Mine too

[@PC4USE1]

Love this movie, but the planetoid/asteroid looks like a lump of modeling clay. This movie cries out for an fx digital update in a lot of places. Classic,though,anyway.

[@EVAUnit4A]

Oh, do NOT even jinx it like that, because you KNOW Hollywood will find SOME WAY to drain all the life energy out of any sequel or reboot! _The Last Starfighter_ is a product of the early 1980s and is best viewed _in_ the 1980s; this is proven when someone comes along and _complains_ that "the planetoid/asteroid looks like a lump of modeling clay".

[@tampabaylightning8661]

Sadly this movie was rushed by universal. they never had the chance to finish the texture.

[@EVAUnit4A]

@@tampabaylightning8661 I think it was _a combination of_ pressure from the studio _and_ technological limits on CGI texturing at the time.

[@peterp2153]

I read somewhere that with the limitations of the processing power, it would’ve taken at least another year to render the way they envisioned. Plus god knows how much $$$ to lease the Cray supercomputers for another year.

[@toomanyaccounts]

​@@peterp2153 crays at the time were the supercomputers to have. i have actually been in a room at a school that had an old cray. the floor of the place was quite chilly. it was using the old tape reel storage. i have even seen and helped take apart an old washing machine sized hard drive that held an impressive one megabyte of storage. the part that held the data was quite large chunk of metal.

[@briannonez608]

was it worth it?

[@NWNativeTracker]

Baldwin

[@Usora777]

CGI 1984 !!

[@stardude2006]

The Frontier endured for a long time and kept the KoDan at bay But on Earth artificial barriers don't have the same fate because they are ill conceived and ultimately end in shallow rhetoric and a symbol of financial burden to the ones desiring the ill conceived barrier.

[@royzview6254]

The graphics look pretty basic compared to today huh?

[@kaos2317]

Compared to current CGI....yes. But in it's day, this movie was the very FIRST to use full CGI instead of models as was still in use in 1984. A rather daring and bold move, I dare say.

[@mitchbarredo3990]

It wasn't even about the graphics. It was the story and the acting that made the effects secondary. For the time they were very impressive trust me.

[@Folken355]

cgi at its best

[@Cheburashka207]

Zurian ship is very lame in shooting

[@archangelcastiel2242]

GOING INTO BATTLE WITH A GUNG HO IGUENNA . YUP I COULD CROSS THAT OFF MY BUCKET LIST! #INTERSTELLAR