The Last Starfighter (1984)
Do all the movies we loved as youths hold up? Nah. This weeks answer to that question is THE LAST STARFIGHTER. Episode highlights include Gabrus breaking his NDA and discussing video games related to cinema and vice versa, Rodgers positing an interesting theory on what the premise of this movie could have led to and Stanger continuing to show signs of repeated head trauma. Remember the first rule! Always trust Centauri!
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Hell yeah
I stole so many games and movies from Movie Gallery, they were the worst store. They had quotas for selling candy and movie packages. They fired so many people because they wouldnt push a fucking bucket of popcorn on someone who barely could afford the movie. no regrets that store/company was the worst
Beta Alex and the Silverlake Scene is a bitchin band name
It’s not a one-for-one with Rodger’s brother’s bit but check out Abducted in Plain Sight. The guy uses what we could call a ‘modified Last Starfighter’ to, well, abduct in plain sight.
Trust in Centauri.
The intro was especially hilarious this time...
If you need any more reason to hate Mike Love, watch his Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous clip https://youtu.be/mUNmpOuCGg8
And I thought Yoda was a creep.
Since most have seen The King of Kong, I'll share a great companion documentary made around the same time featuring many familiar faces (Billy Mitchell, Robert Mruczek, Todd Rogers, etc.) about the 80's arcade scene called Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade. Here's a link to the workprint version, featuring licensed music not found in the final cut: https://mega.nz/#!HVhDzaDC!ZzL8an1zM4TBvMniXTR6RIEMkaNXq_Ec9-jhTbi_fVg
I saw Billy Mitchell at a barcade in June (after being outed as a cheater) and he had a posse with him. One guy who was his “muscle” and 3-4 barfly looking women
The boyz missed an opportunity not having Chet guest on the Marked for Death episode.
Those building toys with the straight gray pieces and the blue six-way joiner pieces were Construx.
I was listening to it at work and had to pop into a meeting with my laptop, and then came back out to my desk and forgot that I hadn't plugged my headphones back in. The sound that everyone heard loud and clear when I clicked to unpause the ep, I kid you not, was Gabrus saying "We love titty fucking"
Curious what Starfighter Lance Guest has been up to recently? I was doing some stoned research on the cast while I watched and went down a sauna spiderhole and kinda gave myself a mild panic attack: https://youtu.be/EMR8B-Oc7wk?t=39
This article from The Onion always stuck with me. https://politics.theonion.com/bush-cites-the-last-starfighter-as-inspiration-for-ente-1819566852
I mean, it definitely inspired the Space Force.
Longtime listener, first time getting called out but Kurt Russell clearly says "smoke wagon" in the Tombstone episode. Which is a term Gabrus should use for a collection of smoke shows perhaps?
Also, I was doing 40 minutes in an infrared sauna, so jokes on you ABZ!
Rodgers’ impression of ABZ commenters keeps devolving. One year from now it’s just gonna be a throat clearing mucus sound
All the way back to grapefuiting
Hey, I thought this was the theme month where you only watch Jan-Michael Vincent movies. You know... "Jantember"
I fucking love Stanger Gorgon. Also, RIP Kobe.
I watch most action boyz movies with my 14 year old son. He usually enjoys them but he couldn’t take his eyes off this movie. He kept laughing at how bad the graphics we’re but overall he loved the hell out of this movie.
I hope you gave him the important “don’t get into spaceships with strangers” talk.