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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
A high school student discovers his favorite video game was made for military recruitment.
Wholesome entertainment.
- Trailer
- Inspired Star Raiders II – (1986 game)
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Inspired The Last Starfighter – (1984 book), by Alan Dean Foster
- The Last Starfighter – (1984 movie)
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Has a potential sequel, but it’s stuck in pre-production hell.
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- 2023-07-25
- 2008-07-10
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Watched before, more than once; no notes were taken.
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2023-07-25 ∞
- 0:30 — Shakey titles!
- 3:00 — Coca-Cola
- 5:30 — Arcade game
- 6:45 — Foreign legion, probably a reference to the French Foreign Legion
- 17:00 — Bran Chex
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17:45 —
- 20:30 — Maybe offer the kid some candy while you’re at it.
- 21:30 — Las Vegas – United States
- 24:45 — Boy is this movie due for a remake.
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27:45 — Playboy – Inappropriately rated
- A June edition with “Yolanda” appears to be fictional.
- 37:30 — Inappropriately rated. Torture!
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44:30 —
- 47:00 — Anti-whaling
- 48:45 — Tonka toy
- 55:30 — “Old friend”? I don’t recall it being established that they knew one another particularly well.
- 59:15 — Xenon
- 1:12:15 — Wouldn’t the base know where they are now? Given that some of their fighters have been killed?
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1:31:00 — Better shoot him to check that it’s him.
2008-07-10 ∞
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1:32:18 — How can any of the humans understand him? They don’t have translators.

