The Last Starfighter is a film that fits into multiple categories.
It’s one of the first films, alongside the original Tron, to make use of early computer-generated imagery.
It’s a video game movie that manages to capture the exhilarating feeling of getting lost in a video game movie — and it’s not even based on a pre-existing video game series! But more importantly, it’s a sci-fi film that takes a long, hard look at the hero’s journey that most protagonists go through and shows why the life of a hero isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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