LAST STARFIGHTER: THE MUSICAL

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― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

END TIMES, PEOPLE

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Good lord.

They only did this because Robert Preston was in the film. They'll have Centauri sing something about 76 spaceships in a big parade.

The first all-CGI special effects movie, remember? And they're probably better than the ones made these days.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember playing the arcade game in kmart

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

THE EXCALIBUR TEST TO FIGHT XUR AND THE KODAN ARMADA?

(I saw the film in the theater even.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

So what was more absurd about the bad guys, the prancing ninny with his ass-ramming spike sceptre or the one general with the bad skin peel who had a little orange plastic monocole that automatically swung into place?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

all the aliens had translatx0rs

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ned you are such a classical nerd. i love you. seriously. in a non-platonic way.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i bet the parts where alex's gf are trying to get the android replica of him to get freaky with her down by the lake are gonna be totally when set to music

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

totally WHAT, you ask?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ned you are such a classical nerd. i love you. seriously. in a non-platonic way.

I am an honest man in my passions (hey, you had Transformers, I had that, you probably turned out all the better for it).

Andrew M., I hope they do that and just, you know, set new words to "Open Arms" by Journey.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I think my classical sf TV/movie nerd stance withered in the mid-nineties at some point when I got bored with Trek (movies aside), Babylon 5 demonstrated the perils of 'neat idea, terrible goddamn actors' and every other genre film was a video game adaptation, usually from games I could care less about. But Lord of the Rings brought it back with a beautiful, nature-red-in-tooth-and-claw vengeance.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i totally got confused in my tired-ness for a second and when i re-read this thread title i imagined a musical of enemy mine

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Good Christ, NOW I'm sick.

Though I am entertained by the idea of Louis Gossett Jr. singing and dancing about his fetus.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hello, is it my womb you're looking for?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i go bed now

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Rest up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, now that I've got Journey in my head...
What the hell is next? "War Games: The Musical"?
What was the name of that movie where the three or four kids build a spaceship and go into space and get caught on an alien ship which is pretty much like the aliens car and has an alien family on it? Errgh. Well, that could easily be a musical. With muppets. More space musicals based on 80s movies (based on video games/comics/etc.), that's what the world needs, yeah...

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, phew, of course it was "Explorers"! Sometimes at night I forget things, like apostrophes and 1980s movie titles regardless of whether both Ethan Hawke *and* River Phoenix are in them.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

BUCKAROO BANZAI: A ROCK OPERA

I saw The Last Starfighter in theatres, too. I didn't wanna; Mom made me; I ended up liking it; I only remember the ads on the back cover of comic books.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, your MOM made you? What was all this about?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw both the Transformers movie and the Last Starfighter in theaters; I don't really remember anything about the latter one, but the Transformers movie is great!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, is this the flick where the guy is so good at playing a video game they recruit him to fly a spaceship and save the universe? How on earth are they going to portray those space battles on stage?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"BACK TO SLEEP, Lewis, or I'm telling mom about your Playboys!"

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The CGI rocked as did that death blossom weapon.

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, Me To Thread.

This is the last piece of beutiful glitter in the crown of my dissertation...

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

...about the death of the musical?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

bah the link isn't working for me :(

i'm sure i will, at some point, have seen last starfighter, but remember nothing of it...

war games: the musical really WOULD be TEH BEST THING EVER...

(Ned, almost right, pete's dissertation is about films that have become musicals)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

there's this ancient 'last starfighter' coloring book at this el-cheapo discount store near me that's been left unsold for literally years. it's been there since i moved to south carolina, which is 1992. last time i checked it was still there!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw both the Transformers movie and the Last Starfighter in theaters; I don't really remember anything about the latter one, but the Transformers movie is great!
-- Casuistry (chri...), September 24th, 2004.

Death of Optimus Prime=EMOTIONAL APOCALYPSE FOR 4 YEAR-OLDS.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Not strictly true CSS, its films that have been adapted for the stage, not necessarily musicals. And its due in next wekk. And then I am going to get very, very drunk.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

woohoo!

but several of those adapted for the stage have been made into musicals, all teh funneh ones anyway, eg carrie: teh musical...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps this is a question better suited for a seperate thread devoted solely to the film itself, but i don't really have the heart to start one. so, about this alex replica thing, why did they make it so prudish? wait. i just figured it out, actually. see, if the replica had been all forward and had tried to get in alex's gf's pants down by the lake, she probably would've been forced to retaliate by pouring beer on his head, thus causing blue sparks and smoke to envelope him. cover blown. but by making the replica prudish and standoffish, it ensured the truth would be hidden for long enough for the real alex to save the universe. ahh. now i never have to think about that again.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

If I am a classical nerd, you are a nerd in excelsis (this is not a criticism).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit, my brother and I were obsessed with this movie. He's going to pee himself when he hears the news.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really trying to wrap my brain around TEH DETH BLOSSOM CHOREOGRAPHY!

― Dale Panopticalis (cprek), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah! Oh man, you're right, that's going to be...weird.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

So which role does Mandy Patinkin play?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete's dissertation sounds like a thing of beauty, BTW.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

re the death blossom, i keep thinking awesome blossom. the fried onion thing. perhaps the movie parody version will utilize that. little late for a parody, i guess. though aparently not too late for the musical version. so who knows.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking of a swing dance + amphetamines combo.

― Dale Panopticalis (cprek), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It may sound like a thing beauty. It looks like a thing of crap.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the way of such things, sir.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

This movie is reminding me - does anyone remember the name of that movie about the kid who finds this girl alien and her little sister alien and they have a weird ALIEN pet thats basically a furry leg with an eyeball at the top? And the furry leg BONDS with the boys grandfather. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

are you making this up, towelette?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i am not strong enough to google furry leg

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a scene in this movie that used to scare the beejezus out of me as a child, but I can't exactly remember what it was for anything.
Next up: Flight of the Navigator, the opera

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't make it up. PLEASE, SOMEONE, THIS HAS BEEN HAUNTING ME FOR YEARS.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

that sounds familiar mandee but i can't remember either...any more clues your memory can dig up?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Well, guess what folks -- the demo CD of the original cast recording of this thing is, with the permission of the creators and performers, available for download. So if you're interested, go grab it, like I've just done. (119 MB, zipped file.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

eleven years pass...

Every now and again when im home i run to the corridor and lean on the doorframe and shout "hey everyone! alex is going for the record!" just cos

― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Friday, 27 May 2016 00:05 (nine years ago)

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