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The Last Starfighter--The Musical!
nomadic writes "Yes, seriously. Some people have decided to remake everyone's favorite obscure 1980's Star Wars ripoff into musical form. Definitely sounds like a Troy McClure role..."
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The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
This play won't go anywhere either.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
...just have my beta unit go watch it, and tell me about it later.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Let Phil Hartman live in peace, Jesus Christ. We can only ressurect him from the dead every so-often for obscure roles!!! He's still recovering from News Radio.
Hopefully they won't follow it up with The Holiday Special on Ice...I can just see Wookies skating now...
...that there is no God.
Anonymous Cowards generally receive no replies because you're a coward and I'm a bitch
I smell a Tony...
I liked that movie you insensitive clod!
I thought the Simpsons episode that had the Musical Planet of the Apes was just hyperbolic satire.
I guess I was wrong...
Storm theatre serious artist #1: Damage report!
Storm theatre serious artist #2: Our credibility is shot! Our theatre is a laughing stock! What do we do now?
[dramatic pause]
Storm theatre serious artist #1: We die.
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Writers get in shape by pumping irony.
spaceballs, the musical!
i can see it now, opening night, the helmets glistening under the lights. ahhh...
i predict it will come out the same year as history of the world, part II
Who knows; maybe it sounds like a Wil Wheaton role :)
Me: "Oh no, we can't get tickets! What do we do?"
***Eye piece swings over friend's eye***
My Friend: "We die."
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
At least they didn't beat the Last Starfighter into a bloody, over-merchandized pulp with ever-increasingly mediocre sequels. As a result, the Last Starfighter is singularly better than all the Star Wars movies combined.
Centauri shoots first.
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Aka, the Bible. Or any other sci-fi.
Damned if I know. Star Wars is obviously a rip off of the Robin Hood ballads, whereas the The Last Starfighter was obviously a rip off of the Chansons de Geste.
KFG
Mostly I'm pissed the submitter pointed out it was a Star Wars ripoff, because I never caught on to that when I was a little kid, and now that he mentions it it's really blatant. :)
But I still think this is a fun movie to catch on TV. I mean, yeah, it's really cheesy, but does this deserve the Road House treatment? It probably has the best "lizard guy in human mask gives stirring speech to guy from trailer park that's secretly a great space pilot" scene I've seen, although the one in The Wedding Planner comes pretty close.
Oh, man. Now that I think about it... the second-in-command lizard guy whose eyepiece thing closes after every line he has? The scene with all the Gunstar pilots that's a direct, totally unapologetic ripoff of the Death Star briefing in Star Wars? That half-bald badguy leader that practically breaks a tooth chewing so much scenery? Aaaaugh! You're killing my childhood, Slashdot!
(As a sidenote, I always thought somebody should make a Last Starfighter videogame today, on the latest 3d hardware, that exactly mimcs the really stylized CGI from the movie. Say what you will, those scenes still look cool.)
If you think thats wierd, how about this:a llas.php3
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Me too.
It was a decent movie, but what really brings back the memories is that...
...I got my first kiss ever after watching a replay of it...
...at a science fiction convention...
...while dressed as a "medieval" priest...
...from a girl I'd met the day before by going up to her and "blessing" her.
Yes, I am an unrepentant geek.
;)
That was, what, some nineteen years ago.
And as an unrepentant geek, I hope one day to get my second kiss.
In all seriousness though, Sandi Lynn E., here's to you, wherever you are after all these years.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
I thought I would take this moment to mention a play that was here in Toronto last year called Evil Dead: The Musical.
I am not one for musicals. But this was godamn funny. With such musical numbers as What The Fuck Was That? and (All Of The Men In My Life Keep Getting Killed By) Candarian Demons, you really can't go wrong.
I hope to see it again.
Oh, wait. That spoiler is on the DVD cover as well. Never mind.
Attack its weak point for massive damage!
What rhymes with "Ko-Dan Armada"?
Read my blog.
Now you've done it.
Coming into Slashdot to brag about how big of a geek you are... geez, it's like walking into a biker's bar screaming about how you're the toughest guy around.
I expect the barrage of geeky, each-more-pathetic-than-the-previous stories to start about... now.
Let the fun begin.
Some elements were kinda unrealistic
You, sir, are the undisputed lord and master of understatement.
Or you live in a different world. I can't really tell from here.
Bah that's nothin', back when I was a young geek we didn't have "kisses", we had a wet toilet plunger and we LIKD IT! We had to...
Oh never mind, I don't think anyone wants to know more about unrepentant geeks.