The Last Starfighter (1984)
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Wikidata Q1888138, film, IMDb tt0087597, TMDB 11884: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 2 more episodes agree.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
Blank Check with Griffin & David
- Unattributed: 1 line, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
The Big Picture
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
A Minecraft Movie: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (childhood echo):
A Minecraft Movie → The Last Starfighter.
A 10-year-old picking up a sword to fight an evil pig echoes 80s kid-hero movies.
“movies I saw as a kid, like the last Starfighter or, um, invaders”
The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:16:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
The Color of Money: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (video-game movie parallel):
The Color of Money → The Last Starfighter.
Vincent's obsession with an arcade game that supposedly sharpens his skills is compared with the game in The Last Starfighter.
“What was the video game in Last Starfighter?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:49:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan, first at 1:49:00, 2 times
- compared in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman, first at 1:13:54, 2 times
- compared in The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best …, first at 0:16:04, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
theme (2)
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theme (video-game movie parallel):
The Color of Money → The Last Starfighter.
Vincent's obsession with an arcade game that supposedly sharpens his skills is compared with the game in The Last Starfighter.
“What was the video game in Last Starfighter?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:49:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (childhood echo):
A Minecraft Movie → The Last Starfighter.
A 10-year-old picking up a sword to fight an evil pig echoes 80s kid-hero movies.
“movies I saw as a kid, like the last Starfighter or, um, invaders”
The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:16:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- No one.