Billed as a poor man’s Star Wars, The Last Starfighter was another 1980’s space adventure. Starfighter was unique because of the groundbreaking use of CGI. The results of CGI in Starfighter made it look more like Starfox rather than photorealistic CGI. For the times though, it was truly groundbreaking. Regardless, this movie is sfilled with 80’s goodness, big hair and goofly clothes on the females, TV antennas, and trailer parks. This movie was magical when I saw it in the theatres - the HD version captures that magic, that 80’s style and updates it for my kick ass TV and kick ass sound system.

80’s movie have a certain feel to them - a very analog feel, like holding a classic LP. The transfer to an HD 1080 image was awesome. Its not perfect, you will see some minor scratches, but it translates very very well. Again, the science fiction nature of the film lends itself well to a 1080 resolution. Starfighter was one of the first movies to really take advantge of new CGI technology, instead of models like Star Wars used. In the theatre the CGI looked CGI. It looked good, but it was not very realistic. The CGI nature of these shots comes through beautifully in HD - don’t expect to be sold on the effects though.

The audio is awesome. Recorded in 70mm 6 track the ability to make a 5.1 mix was alot easier. The environment was very spatial and I have no complaints. This movie is a great example of how a TrueHD mix can make a movie come alive.

The extra features are lacking. There is a nice little documentary on the amking of the movie, but apart from that and commentary, there is nothing.

A fun movie that should be in every collection. There was no ‘wow’ factor which would require me to redo my top 5 or honorable mention list, but its pretty fun and looks and sounds great.

ILHDDVD Rating: 4/5 (I still love this movie)
Video/Image: 3/5 (Its 80’s but the HD transfer was great)
Audio: 4/5 (awesome)
recommended

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