Questions tagged [the-last-starfighter]
A 1984 film in which a discouraged video-gaming boy finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.
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Was Wil Wheaton's part cut from the movie, "The Last Starfighter" (1984)
Wil Wheaton is listed in the credits of "The Last Starfighter" as "Louis' friend," but I was not able to spot him when I watched the movie. Was his part cut from the DVD version ...
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Why does Centauri keep wearing his disguise on the Starfighter base?
In The Last Starfighter, an alien named Centauri disguises himself as a human and travels to Earth. There he whisks away Alex, a young video game addict, to serve as a Starfighter, a spacecraft ...
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"Betazoids" in The Last Starfighter versus Star Trek: The Next Generation
Released in 1984, The Last Starfighter is sometimes accused of borrowing too many themes and plot points from contemporaneous sci-fi fare, including the Star Wars trilogy.
But conversely, one element ...
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