Interstellar Hit-Beast: Creating the Special Effects - interview with special effects supervisor Kevin Pike Greetings Starfighter! Inside the Arcade Game – an interview with arcade game collector Estil Vance on reconstructing the Starfighter game Arrow Video’s new 4K restoration of “The Last Starfighter” will have you feeling ready to take on the Kodan Armada. almost peach colored look now, which is one of the few real highlight differences I noted in this version. My score is Maggie's Memories: Revisiting The Last Starfighter - Interview with actor Catherine Mary Stewart (HD 9:28)

imagery a more organic appearance than the often smeary looking Universal Blu-ray did. There's a slight but noticeable difference in color Collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Amanda Reyes and sci-fi author Greg Bear’s never-before-published Omni magazine article on Digital Productions, the company responsible for the CGI in The Last Starfighter – FIRST PRESSING ONLY in the film version (I'm sure there are some fans out there who feel strongly that Preston should have replaced Mastroianni in the "final five".) Greetings Starfighter! Inside the Arcade Game (1080p; 00:07:24) – an interview with arcade game collector Estil Vance on reconstructing the Starfighter game The Last Starfighter follows the intergalactic adventures of high-schooler Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), who spends his days trying to beat the Starfighter video game that sits in front of his local convenience store. Little does he know, the game is just a test. And when he eventually beats the game, much to the joy of all the locals, he’s recruited by the game’s inventor, an alien named Centauri (Robert Preston), to fight in the real-life battle between the Rylan Star League and the Ko-Dan Empire. The game is just a recruiting tool, and now Alex and his reptilian pilot partner named Grig (Dan O’Herlihy) must defeat the evil Xur (Norman Snow), the leader of the Ko-Dan Empire.

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the most noticeable differences between the two presentations is the retention of grain in the Arrow presentation, something that at last provides the Studios & Distributors: Lorimar Film Entertainment (as A Lorimar Presentation) | Universal Pictures (as A Universal/Lorimar Production) | Arrow Video Into the Starscape: Composing The Last Starfighter (1080p; 00:12:20) – a new interview with composer Craig Safan Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited to watch this new 4K Blu-ray release from Arrow Video, which comes with a single BD100 disc that houses the feature and all the special features. The 4K Blu-ray n boots up to a standard menu screen with options to set up audio and video or explore bonus features.

High school senior Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) wants more than the life of a trailer park resident. He dreams of going to a proper college, far away from the park, but a rejection for a loan seems to leave that dream in the dust bin. Frustrated, he decides to take a spin on the Starfighter game set up at the local store, only to find himself beating the high score and setting a record. That enough seems to brighten his spirits, until a mysterious man appears looking for the person who beat the record. Alex rightfully takes credit and the man introduces himself as Centauri (Robert Preston), creator of the game, offering Alex an incredible prize for such an achievement. Curious and with little to lose, Alex accepts, only to find himself transported to the distant planet Rylos, currently under siege from the Kodan Armada. Suddenly, Alex must decide which he wants more: to return to the trailer park or to seize the opportunity to become something more.

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Semi-tangentially, for those who may be interested, there's a rather charming musical version of the film by Is it worth the upgrade? For a videophile, unquestionably. For more casual viewers, since the Blu-ray is identical in every way other than video quality, it’s a release for Last Starfighter super fans only.

Using the same 4K master that Arrow Video used for its 2020 Blu-ray, this UHD disc gives the film’s image an extra boost in clarity. The old-school CGI still looks unavoidably unnatural and awkwardly integrated with the live-action footage, but everything else has a beautiful film-like quality to it, from the sand staining the sides of the desert trailer park’s RVs to the velvety textures of nighttime shots and the glow of the arcade cabinet screen.The disc finishes things off with some standards: a theatricaland teaser trailerand a very large image gallery. The galleries include cast photos, photos of the arcade game within the film, photos of the various sets and props (including the Star Car and Gunstar ship), and all of the bad guys. There are also photos from an alternate ending (dumped to make the final sequences a little grander), photos around the effects, including wireframes, and then photos showing various promotional materials. In all, there are a few hundred photos. The Last Starfighter is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Arrow Video with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.35:1. Arrow's insert booklet The original 35mm camera negative was scanned in 4K resolution at EFILM. The film was graded and restored at R3Store Studios in London. Audio The film is one of the earliest films to use what is now referred to as CGI, with Disney’s Tron being another. But Tron only used the technology sparingly, with most of the effects work in that film being classically animated. The Last Starfighter’s use of the technology is heavier in comparison, with most of the spaceship effects and space battles rendered using computers. Computer-generated asteroids and a few other “textured” objects look pretty terrible by today’s standards (even by videogame standards) but the ships, despite a maybe too-smooth look, do manage to hold up surprisingly well. Considering the limitations of the technology of the time, especially the limitations in computer power, they do still look decent enough. Interstellart Hit Beast: Creating the Special Effects (1080p; 10:14) features special effects supervisor