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The Last Starfighter--The Musical! 345

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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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  • Ripoff? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by g00bd0g ( 255836 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:31PM (#10325967) Homepage
    I liked that movie!

    • Re:Ripoff? (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      you meant to say:

      I liked that movie you insensitive clod!

    • Shop smart, shop S-Mart [evildeadthemusical.com].
      Only if there would be a run on off-Broadway. That would be worth my $40 in bus fare.

    • Re:Ripoff? (Score:5, Funny)

      by orthogonal ( 588627 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @11:27PM (#10326296) Journal
      I liked that movie!

      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.

      • Re:Ripoff? (Score:3, Funny)

        by FurryFeet ( 562847 )
        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.
        • 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.
    • Still, the story differs a lot from Starwars. In starwars, Luke is the descendant of a race of supernatural warriors.

      In Last Starfighter, the guy is simply a good space pilot because he trained (read: videogame addict :-P )

      Some elements were kinda unrealistic, but I still liked the movie. Maybe because it portrays the fantasy of every teenager: You play videogames, and now you have the chance to save the universe.

      (somehow reminds me of typical teen fantasies in anime shows like Love Hina, Tenchi, Chobits etc - is that why these shows are favorites? fulfilling a secret fantasy?)
      • 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.

      • Re:I watched it 5 times in a month! :-P (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Oliver Wendell Jones ( 158103 ) on Thursday September 23, 2004 @10:18AM (#10329390)
        In many ways, it relates more to The Matrix than Star Wars. No, seriously, think about it.

        Both stories revolve around a young, male geek/nerd.

        In both stories the young man is "trapped" in a going-nowhere existence

        In both stories the young man knows there is something bigger and more important out there waiting for him to discover it

        In both stories an older man approaches him and tells him that he's more than he thinks he is and that he may be the key to saving the world/universe

        Both movies feature (for their time) incredible special effects of a kind never seen before

        The young male geek gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to not only live out his dreams but to save all of humanity
        I could probably go on, but that seems like enough for now.

  • Troy! (Score:5, Funny)

    by mfh ( 56 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:31PM (#10325968) Homepage Journal
    Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such other nature films as "Earwigs, Ew." and "Man Vs Nature... The Road To Victory".

    Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such other medical films as "Mommy, What's On That Man's Face?" and "Alice Doesn't Live Anymore".

    Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such self-help videos as "Smoke Yourself Thin", and "Get Confident, Stupid.".

    Welcome to the Knowledgeum, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such automated information kiosks as "Welcome to Springfield Airport" and "Where's Nordstrom?" While you're enjoying our Hall of Wonders, your car unfortunately will be subject to repeated break-ins and... [Fades]

    Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such educational films as "Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun" and "Firecrackers: The Silent Killer".

    I'm actor Troy McClure. You might remember me from such TV series as "Buck Henderson, Union Buster" and "Troy and Company's Summertime Smile Factory". Today I'm here to tell you about "Spiffy.", the 21st century stain remover. Let's meet the inventor, Dr. Nick Riviera.

    etc...

    • Re:Troy! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Rallion ( 711805 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:34PM (#10325993) Journal
      R.I.P. Phil Hartman.

    • Re:Troy! (Score:4, Funny)

      by Epistax ( 544591 ) <epistax @ g m a il.com> on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @11:01PM (#10326170) Journal
      I was thinking of..

      Chimpanzee 1: Help! The human's about to escape. Troy: Get your paws off me, you dirty ape!
      Chimpanzee 2: (gasp) He can talk!
      Orangutans: He can talk! He can talk! He can talk!
      He can talk! He can talk! He can talk!
      Troy: And I can siiiiiiiiiiing!

      Chimp Nurse: Oooh! Help me, Dr. Zaius! Orangutans: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
      Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
      Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
      O, Dr. Zaius!
      Orangutan 1: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
      Troy: What's wrong with me?
      Dr. Zaius: I think you're crazy.
      Troy: I want a second opinion.
      Dr. Zaius: You're also lazy.

      Orangutans: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
      Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
      Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
      O, Dr. Zaius!
      Orangutan 1: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!

      Troy: Can I play the piano any more?
      Dr. Zaius: Of course you can!
      Troy: Well I couldn't before.
      (plays piano)

      Orangutans: Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
      Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!
      Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!


      Troy: I hate every ape I see,
      From chimpan-A to chimpanzee,
      No, you'll never make a monkey out of me!

      (Statue of Liberty rises)

      O my God! I was wrong!
      It was Earth, all along!
      You've finally made a monkey,
      Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey,
      Troy: Yes you've
      & Apes: finally made a monkey out of me!

      Troy: I love you, Dr. Zaius

  • Like Alex Rogan's mobile home... (Score:4, Funny)

    by thewiz ( 24994 ) * on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:32PM (#10325973)
    This play won't go anywhere either.

  • I think I'll pass, or... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Weaselmancer ( 533834 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:32PM (#10325974)

    ...just have my beta unit go watch it, and tell me about it later.

  • Phil Hartman (Score:3, Funny)

    by xombo ( 628858 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:33PM (#10325983)
    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.

  • On HBO This month! (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Lord Kano ( 13027 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:34PM (#10325994) Homepage Journal
    A truely classic movie.

    Even by today's standards the CGI isn't too bad.

    LK

    • its awesome (Score:3, Interesting)

      by waspleg ( 316038 )
      i've watched it at least 3 times since its been on HBO this month

      death blossom = fucking awesome

      anyone know what kind of hardware they used to render those scenes?

      is there soem reason we can't play 3d arcade games using them now 15 years later with bad ass nvidia and ati cards?

      • Hardware used to render The Last Starfighter (Score:4, Informative)

        by isdale ( 40622 ) on Thursday September 23, 2004 @10:00AM (#10329171) Homepage
        The main computer used for TLS was a Cray XMP... one of the first (double headed) Cray machines outside a govt installation. There was a DEC VAX 782, a double headed VAX, that fed the Cray - there wasnt a really good way to work on the Cray directly. Digital Productions, the animation company,also used a farm of Evans and Southerland PS300s for digitizing/modeling and IMI 500s for motion. A couple RasterTech boxes were also used as frame buffers for test images. A specialized film printer was also used - one originally developed for Tron.
        The same hardware was used on a number of other films from that era (2010, Ice Pirates, Labyrinth, etc) and numerous commercials.

        The IMI 500 was a UNIX box and the VAX ran Interactive's Unix On VMS. The Cray had a small permanent on-site support staff to keep it alive.... along with some BIG AC units.

        DP was bought by Omnibus Computer Graphics in 1986. Shortly afterwards Omnibus bought Robert Able Associates, thus merging 3 of the top 5 computer animation houses of the time.... and promptly went bankrupt. BofA had a 11mil loan on the Cray, and discovered that Cray had one in storage they couldnt unload for $3mil. They found out the landlords had taken the keys and the security company stopped sending guards 'cause of non-payment. This being the neighborhood where the LA Riots were several years later, BofA immeadiately sent a truck and crew to yank out the Cray.... Some of the animators pleaded with the workers to let it run just an hour more so they could complete some pieces...

        Btw, Omnibus was the first commercial company not doing network development to have an Internet connection. Of course back then it wasnt called the Internet.

        its a bit odd to have lots of 20-somethings tell me how much they loved that movie... i still remember creating the short proof-of-concept animation that got DP the job.

  • More Proof... (Score:3, Funny)

    by JenovaSynthesis ( 528503 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:35PM (#10326003)
    ...that there is no God.
  • see here [snpp.com]

    or here [tripod.com]

    or google [google.com]

    Oh and I need more characters per line

  • Hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)

    by capz loc ( 752940 ) <capzlocNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:36PM (#10326011)
    I smell a Tony...

  • ...Wow... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Pantero Blanco ( 792776 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:37PM (#10326022)
    I thought the Simpsons episode that had the Musical Planet of the Apes was just hyperbolic satire.

    I guess I was wrong...

  • Star Wars ripoff? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by plasticquart ( 75467 )
    Yes, both movies are Scifi (space, aliens, etc)... but where exactly does The Last Starfight qualify as a ripoff of Star Wars?

    • Re:Star Wars ripoff? (Score:3, Interesting)

      by kundor ( 757951 )
      Young nobody character suddenly injected into interstellar war, is only hope of good guys, single-handedly ends unstoppable bad guy offensive with mystical powers. Space fantasy that speaks to adolescent wish fulfillment (I don't belong here.)

      And a great movie.

      • Aka, the Bible. Or any other sci-fi.

      • Re:Star Wars ripoff? (Score:3, Informative)

        by bckrispi ( 725257 )
        There was also a scene (late in the film when the characters are already established), when Xur reveals that the leader of the Star League is his father. This point was never elaborated upon, so I'm assuming they were setting up for a sequel that never happened. Also, you have the story of a hick farmboy (in this case, white trailer trash) who after being told he can't go to the academy (gets a rejection letter from the college he applied to) meets an eccentric old man (Centauri) that he takes as his ment
      • Ah, you've never read Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.

        Star Wars is a prototypical Hero's Journey story. It is not original in Star Wars, or The Lord of The Rings, or The Neverending Story, or The Last Starfighter, or Beowulf, or The Odyssey, ...

        I really think TLS was a pretty creative movie, and "rip-off" is neither fair nor even helpful in understanding what it was about...
        • Minor Nit: I think you mean "stereotypical." "Prototypical" would suggest a new approach, which Star Wars decidedly wasn't.

        • Re:Star Wars ripoff? (Score:3, Informative)

          by Dirtside ( 91468 )
          Ah, you've never read Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.
          And I can recommend against ever reading it. Campbell was insightful, but reading his writing style is like trying to strain molasses through a sieve. I can instead recommend The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler, which basically distills HWATF into its essence, and is a thousand times more readable.

  • Obscure? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by NMerriam ( 15122 ) <NMerriam@artboy.org> on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:38PM (#10326029) Homepage
    I thought the Last Starfighter was a pretty groundbreaking film -- IIRC, it was the first film to have totally computer-generated space sequences.

    I can't help but think it would make a pretty kickass space sim, now that we have the GPU power to render in real-time even higher quality than they had originally. The one arcade game I remember didn't compare well to the classic Star Wars 3D polygon arcade game in terms of sheer fun (damn that game was fun).
  • everyone's favorite obscure 1980's Star Wars ripoff

    Can anybody explain to me how The Last Starfighter was remotely like Star Wars?
    • Remember in StarWars when Luke kept loosing his quarters playing that video game, till he learned the force... Oh wait, that's in the next remake of Return of the Jedi...

    • Re:Ripoff (Score:5, Funny)

      by kgbspy ( 696931 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:44PM (#10326079)
      Centauri shoots first.

    • Re:Ripoff (Score:3, Insightful)

      by uberdave ( 526529 )
      In the 80's everything that was science fiction was considered to be a Star Wars ripoff.
    • *tsing* *tsing*.

      lasers and shit=="starwars ripoff".

      of course it isn't so simple, but the funny thing is that it probably got the green light and got produced because of starwars.

      so, while not being a direct ripoff in the real sense, it was a direct ripoff in the movie moguls heads("kids really seem to be into this space stuff now, maybe we should do a movie with space fighters and stuff").
    • Can anybody explain to me how The Last Starfighter was remotely like Star Wars?

      At least one scene had a starfield as a background.

  • Star Wars ripoff? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by mveloso ( 325617 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:38PM (#10326037)
    It's no star wars ripoff. WTF is the OP talking about? It had a decent plotline and was fun to watch, which is a lot more than you can say about star wars 1,2, and 6, and probably 3.

    It has acting and writing at a level that George Lucas can only dream about.

    Yeah, it's a genre film, but so was battlestar galactica.
    • It had a decent plotline and was fun to watch, which is a lot more than you can say about star wars 1,2, and 6, and probably 3.

      The plot has hardly been Lucas's problem -- it's the dialogue, script, & directing. Plot-wise, he's fine. :)

      It has acting and writing at a level that George Lucas can only dream about.

      It [The last starfighter] is a "kid goes into video game" story, with a corney super-maguffin that would never fly in a real video game and makes Lucas's plot twists seem genius.

      OTOH, it [s

      • The plot has hardly been Lucas's problem -- it's the dialogue, script, & directing. Plot-wise, he's fine. :)

        No, his plots suck pretty badly too.

        A couple of examples: Obi Wan stashes Luke on the same planet where Anakin grew up. Oh yeah, DarthAnakin would never think to look there... And Leia is supposed to be Plan B should Luke fail but Darth can't sense that the Force is strong in her, even when he's personally overseeing her torture?

        Remember, Lucas invented the Chewbacca defense.

        • Oh yeah, DarthAnakin would never think to look there...

          Well apparently he didn't. Luke grew up fine. Whiny as hell, but fine.

    • Re:Star Wars ripoff? (Score:3, Insightful)

      by PMuse ( 320639 )
      It's no star wars ripoff. WTF is the OP talking about?

      Ditto that. Some big differences:

      The villian. A ravaging horde kept at bay by a barrier wall (the frontier) is not the same as your own imperial government stomping out the last of the political dissenters.

      The hero. The Starfighter is a kid living on obscure planet who is deliberately recruited against his will to save life as he knows it. Luke is a kid living on an obscure planet who stumbles into a bit part in an adventure; only later does he

  • On learning of the musical... (Score:5, Funny)

    by PDHoss ( 141657 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:39PM (#10326040)

    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.
  • 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

  • "Definitely sounds like a Troy Mclure role" (Score:4, Funny)

    by Nathdot ( 465087 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:40PM (#10326046)
    Who knows; maybe it sounds like a Wil Wheaton [imdb.com] role :)

    • Re:"Definitely sounds like a Troy Mclure role" (Score:5, Funny)

      by 10Ghz ( 453478 ) on Thursday September 23, 2004 @06:54AM (#10327626)
      Although Wil Wheaton's scenes were cut, but his name still appears in the end credits.


      His part was cut?!?!??! I saw his name in the end-credits, and I watch the movie several tiems trying to find him! And now, years later, I find out that his part was in fact cut!

      And all these years I thought I was blind and/or idiot for not finding him! Damn you all! Damn you to hell!

  • Oh come on. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by multiplexo ( 27356 ) * on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:41PM (#10326058) Journal
    This can't be any dumber of an idea than anything that Andrew Lloyd Webber has done. Look at Cats, a musical starring singing and dancing cats, or Starlight Express, a musical which features a bunch of people rollerskating back and forth pretending that they're all singing railroad trains. Cats has run for about four billion weeks on Broadway, proving that no one ever lost money underestimating the taste of the American theatre-going public.

    • Re:Oh come on. (Score:3, Insightful)

      by kfg ( 145172 )
      Cats at least is inherently lyrical. People have been setting poetry to music since the invention of poetry; and started dressing in costumes imitating animals and spirits while dancing and singing them not long after that.

      And T.S Elliot's cat poems really are a bit of alright.

      You've got me on Starlight Express though.

      KFG
    • Cats has been playing for four billion consecutive weeks on Broadway because it has become a tourist attraction. When you return home from Las Vegas everyone wants to know if you saw Elvis impersonators, and when you return home from New York everyone wants to know if you saw Cats on Broadway.

  • To Paraphrase The Movie (Score:5, Funny)

    by BRock97 ( 17460 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:42PM (#10326063) Homepage
    Me: "Oh no, we can't get tickets! What do we do?"

    ***Eye piece swings over friend's eye***

    My Friend: "We die."

  • Last Starfighter Star Wars (Score:5, Funny)

    by humankind ( 704050 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:44PM (#10326075) Journal
    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.
  • I want to see it, but I'm kind of afraid of a set malfunction when Alex initiates the Death Blossom, causing the entire audience to be vaporized. I'm also wondering how the hell they're going to simulate things like the Frontier and, well, flying through space!

    Seriously, wasn't Death Blossom just the coolest thing ever when you first saw The Last Starfighter? All I know is, every single Lego spaceship that me and my friends built from that point on had a Death Blossom device somewhere on it. Some had s

  • First CG movie (Score:3, Interesting)

    by lawpoop ( 604919 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:46PM (#10326089) Homepage Journal
    The Last Starfighter was the first move with CG special effects. The plot is that an arcade video game is a training simulator for starfighter pilots, and one was accidentally sent to earth. Very geeky ;)
    • Not quite. The plot is that the arcade video games were intentionally placed on Earth, and being as a recruiting test by an unscrupulous "businessman" looking to make a quick buck by finding good Starfighters on Earth, even though Earth was (IIRC) by Star League rules not supposed to be interfered with. Still very geeky though - get a high score on the videogame, and you might just find yourself kidnapped to take part in a real live interstellar war...
    • The Last Starfighter was the first move with CG special effects. Bzzzzt!!! Wrong!! LSF came out two years after TRON did.
    • The Last Starfighter was kind of pioneering in its use of CGI, but it was by no means the first film to use CGI special effects. Tron [wikipedia.org], made two years before The Last Starfighter, used a lot of CGI (watching it today, you sit there screaming "use some Gouroud shading, you lazy bums" at the screen in some parts). For that matter, the trench run briefing in A New Hope, way back in 1977, was CGI. This timeline [wikipedia.org] on the Wikipedia has a lot more detail, though it's a little breathless in its reporting of press re

  • A musical isn't the worst they could do (Score:5, Insightful)

    by humankind ( 704050 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @10:59PM (#10326156) Journal
    It doesn't bother me they're making a musical. A musical is more a homage to the original film than it is a ripoff or sequel or anything derivative. Unlike Star Wars, which has been driven into the ground and is now a mere shadow of the greatness it once was.

    If you think about it, taking a sci-fi movie such as TLS to the stage will probably test the cutting edge in theatrical and lighting effects. This would be very challenging. I would love to see this just to see if they're capable of pulling it off convincingly.

    As for TLS being a rip-off of Star Wars, that's BS. Star Wars is as derivative of dozens of other films that came before it. The two movies may have shared some plot similarities, but they both had their cheesy moments.

    However, IMO, the cinematography in many scenes in The Last Starfighter is far better than Star Wars. The trailer park scenes were brilliantly shot. The acting and character development was superlative and nowhere near as pressured as Star Wars.

    I think the two movies are really dramatically different in their approach. Star Wars whisked you off to a far-away place where you vicariously watched someone else save the world. Whereas The Last Starfighter brought the battle to Earth and make the viewer feel like it could really happen to him - it was much more realistic.

    If you haven't seen The Last Starfighter in awhile, rent it and watch it again. It holds up better than the original Star Wars now.
  • Definitely sounds like a Troy McClure role...
    Did he ever deal with that fish thing?

  • Hey! (Score:4, Funny)

    by fritter ( 27792 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @11:04PM (#10326177)
    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 [roadhousetheplay.com]? 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.)

    • Re:Hey! (Score:2, Funny)

      by cpt kangarooski ( 3773 )
      The recent Tron game was pretty good, so you might be on to something there.

      Hm. How about The Last Starfighter: The Musical: The Game. Some levels might be like space combat, while others are like DDR or Parappa or something.

    • Re:Hey! (Score:2, Funny)

      by hai.uchida ( 814492 )
      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?

      Certainly not. I guarantee there is no line in The Last Starfighter as disturbing as Swayze's rival delivers before their big showdown... "I used to fuck guys like you in prison!"
  • The Last Starfighter today is nothing without his rich voice and animated acting. The CG is only amusing to see what they had back then.

  • That's right! Everyone's favorite: "The Last Starfighter" is scheduled to be re-re-released on DVD special edition. In addition to polished visuals and THX sound re-engineering, TLS:DVD:SE will include 5 minutes of digitally re-created footage!

    Oh wait... I'm thinking of that "other" DVD... uhhh, what about SW:epIII Springtime for Sithboys. [cue music] Springtime... for Sithboys... in Mos Eisley

  • go back to bed or I'm telling mom about your Playboys
  • Maybe they'll go on tour with Cobra The Musical [geocities.com]?

  • Evil Dead: The Musical (Score:5, Funny)

    by Griim ( 8798 ) on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @11:38PM (#10326338) Homepage
    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.
    • Silence of the Lambs: the Musical, Batboy: the Musical (yes, the Weekly World News Character), A Shuggoth on the Roof (Lovecraftian mythos set to Fiddler on the Roof).

      There have been plenty of oddball musicals; the genre itself inspires flights of fancy and a strong suspension of disbelief. Science Fiction in musicals is a good match.

      Now excuse me, my cast has a handful of performances of Rocky Horror this month...

      --
      Evan

    • Slashcode appears to have stripped my link:

      http://www.evildeadthemusical.com/

  • How about Evil Dead 1&2, The Musical [evildeadthemusical.com]. It's not currently in production, but it'll be back, I'm sure of it.

  • Considering that Star Wars.... (Score:3, Informative)

    by SvnLyrBrto ( 62138 ) on Thursday September 23, 2004 @12:17AM (#10326499)
    .... was nothing more than a ripoff of Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress", Lucas and his fanboys have no business in the world complaining about "The Last Starfighter", or anything else, ripping off Star Wars.

    cya,
    john
  • The guys who did the graphics for Last Starfighter were way ahead of the curve, venture-capitalwise. They managed to round up financing for an $11 million Cray X-MP1 back when that was the first 100 Mips machine, and they placed the first order for one. Los Alamos got the first one delivered, however, because of some silly ideas about producing weapons that are never used being more important than movies. Jeez!

    Totally regardless, despite some brilliant successes like 15 minutes of that movie and a bunch

  • were the best. Especially the inside of a digital watch which was used as a universal translator. Strange, but when I ripped apart my watch I couldn't get it to translate anything.

    (The watch PCB was placed beneath the starfighter's collar just before or after he stepped on the alien's tenticles)

    PS. It was a good movie and my spelling sucks.

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