What other Sci Fi should we check out? SCI FI Playlist: kzfaq.info/sun/PLQHhQlj8i5doQmNbYogcJTYZkxhGMHpah 1980's Playlist: kzfaq.info/sun/PLQHhQlj8i5drsQx2uSifPV3sKWZEJrnyx

"ENEMY MINE" - A sci-fi adventure starring Dennis Quaid and (the recently deceased) Louis Gossett Jr.

“This is pretty hardcore for what I thought was a kid’s movie.” It’s an eighties kid’s movie. Old kid movies were based on the premise that a little trauma is necessary and natural.

"It will be a slaughter !!!" "That's the spirit !!"

- Explorers - Flight of the Navigator - The Manhattan Project - D.A.R.Y.L. - Time Bandits - Short Circuit - Real Genius - Spacecamp - Innerspace - Goonies

"Greetings Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada" I love this movie

The Ko-Dan Commander has one of the most badass lines in the history of cinema. Faced with the inevitable, asked by his subordinate what they're going to do, he looks up, swings his plastic monocle back into place, and just says, "We die."

One of the greatest death scenes by a movie villain ever...... Kodan Officer : She won't answer the helm! We're locked into the moon's gravitational pull. What do we do? [Kril's eyepiece swings into place] Lord Kril : We die.

I got so hyped when I saw that you were watching this!!! Nobody else has done this and I have no idea why. I have watched this movie more than a dozen times. Truly an 80's classic.

Funfact, Grig is played by the old man, the CEO of OCP in RoboCop. "Nice shooting son"

The woman who plays Maggie, is Catherine Mary Stewart, and she is in another sort of forgotten 80’s movie: ‘Night of the Comet’, which you should watch.

"The Last Starfighter" is a classic example of how the music can turn a good movie into a great one! Also, Grig forever!

Problem was that the Last Starfighter released against Ghostbusters, Temple of Doom, Karate Kid, and Gremlins. It was 80's movie paradise that summer. It's theorized that Starfighter just had to much competition. That same summer gave us Splash, The Never Ending Story, Revenge of the Nerds, Romancing the Stone, and Bachelor Party. Lets just say Starfighter was stacked against up against some long odds.

One of my favorite movies in my childhood. Films like this, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Never-Ending Story, and Star Wars shaped my world back then.

Nerd trivia: Granny from the trailer park in Last Starfighter is the main Talosian who imprisons Captain Pike in the original Star Trek pilot, "The Cage." And Grigg the lizard guy is "the Old Man" who runs OCP in the Robocop films, "Nice shootin' son, what's your name?" He's more fun in this one, lol, but you can tell from the voice and the little twinkle in his eye that he had fun with whatever he was doing. And yes, you should add Excalibur to your bucket list. Features a bit of pre-Trek Patrick Stewart among other famous British thespians.

25:50 - I thought it was cool when Grig casually flashes his photos on his little device. In this phone era, that doesn't seem like a big deal. But there was no such device then that could render photos at such high resolution, let alone flip thru them so fast, let alone be HAND HELD!!! For perspective, our family computer's memory was 100x smaller than the size of the average photo file today. Anyway, Grig's toy looks totally normal now, haha.

Robert Preston (Centauri) turned in his final film performance here, and if you ever saw him as Harold Hill in "The Music Man," you'll catch on right away. Preston also did the vocals for the 1962 youth fitness song "Chicken Fat," a version of which would be used by Apple half a century later to promote iOS 8.

Last starfighter, Disney's the black hole, and flight of the navigator. Best sci-fi of that era.

I remember this movie being noteworthy at the time as the first to have all-digital spaceship effects.

My favorite part is Jen being impressed by wheezing. 🤣

RIP Robert Preston, knew him as Professor Hill in the music man, and saw this soon after. Great actor

The Explorers will be another fun space adventure movie. It's comical too.

For me, The Last Starfighter kind of has everything. It came out when I was in my mid-teens (almost the same age as Alex). Also like Alex, I had grown up poor, with a single mom, we lived in a mobile home park, I was into arcade games, etc. So I really related to the protagonist. Now, for adult me, all of that is still part of me, plus the nostalgia of capturing that time in my life. As a bonus, Robert Preston is one of my favorite actors of all time. There's simply nothing to dislike about it, as long as you go into it knowing not to take it too seriously. Watching this can turn my mood around any time. 🙂

Another classic Sci-Fi flick is “Starman”.

"WHAT DO WE DO?!?" "........We die." Best line ever!

When I was first introduced to my future wife, she TOTALLY reminded me of Maggie. She was the best wife for 28 years. Love you, Mam'. RIP.

Kurt Russell in Soldier(1998) about a space soildier. Enemy Mine, Starman and Dragonslayer are great too.

Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) from Star Trek TNG is in this. He is one of Louis's friends at the start of the movie for the few seconds he is on screen. Another famous person is Robert Preston. He plays Professor Harold Hill in the 1962 musical: The Music Man. He plays a travelling salesman and he uses his same.charisma from that show as the recruiter here. If you want to watch a musical, that one is a classic. Fun to hear Robert Preston singing as well. This movie is one of my favorite movies. I had a Last Starfighter coloring/activity book. The graphics looked more "real" back then because it was not HD like it is now. Harder to see CGI and it seemed more real because of it. The soundtrack you can find on KZfaq Music. I have listened to it on my way home from work before. Those horns just gets you going.

Kurt Russell was in a movie called "Soldier" & "Enemy Mine" has Dennis Quaid, both sci-fi films.

Since you asked, yes, Excalibur is an excellent choice. It features the most realistic depiction of running through a bog wearing heavy armour in the history of cinema. You'll know it when you see it.

*FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR (1986)*

I posted this on your Patreon, but I'll post here, too: There were at least 5 Star Trek actors in this. [NO SPOILERS, don't worry] Meg Wyllie (Granny with the shotgun) was the head Talosian on The Menagerie 2-part episode with the giant head and telepathy, Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) as one of Louis' friends, Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat on DS9) was the hitchhiker who turns into an alien assassin, Dan Mason (Lord Krill in this movie) was on a season 1 TNG ep, "When the Bough Breaks", where he and his wife steal all the kids of the Enterprise including Wesley, Kay E. Kuter (Enduran, leader and father of the evil Xur) was on the TNG season 4 ep The Nth Degree and DS9 season 1 ep. The Storyteller.

Trivia Fact: The actor who played Centauri starred in “The Music Man” (1962)

Holy crap, Jen!!! This movie is NOT reacted to often; MADE MY DAY! Craig Safan did the wonderful score. Wasn't it wonderful when Mags told Alex to stop on the lift to the ship and said she was going with him. The music at that point brought me to tears. Incidentally, this was one of the first movies to use CGI for the ships and effects. They actually had the ability to make them more detailed, but, back then, the computers weren't fast enough to process the calculations to process all the shots they needed, so they made due in order to make their release date. Despite that, the gunstars still looked really neat.

What child doesn't dream about being spirited away on a grand adventure. This was the absolute peak of my childhood and inspired my love of sci fi and fantasy. So glad to see you reacting to this classic!

1981 Excalibur. Yes!! The best of all King Arthur movies.

Very excited to see this with you. It's been about 20 years since I've seen it.

Bit of trivia. It took a Cray Super Computer nearly think it was 8 to 14 months to render the effects. At the time the Cray was THE most powerful computer in the world.

A classic from the very first days of photorealistic CGI. LOVING your reaction. Should have known, this movie has Jen written all over it. Robert Preston's perhaps most enduring film role is as Professor Harold Hill, an unscrupulous music instrument salesman, in "The Music Man" (1962), with Shirley Jones and Buddy Hackett, one of the great film musicals of the 1960s. I don't know, but looking at his performance in The Last Starfighter, it seems almost as if this role was written for him to play.

Yes. You MUST watch “Excalibur.” It is the standard to which all Arthurian movies are compared. Another movie to watch is “Night of The Comet.” Also “Enemy Mine,” and “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.”

I always thought that after the Death Blossom the movie should cut to Alex and Grig vomiting for a full minute.

Grig does have the best wheeze. You can see him looking less like a lizard in Robocop, as the Old Man. And at the time, both the video game and the graphics for the film were revolutionary. I was about a year older than Louis at this time, and I hadn't seen anything like it since Tron.

This is one of those lost movies of the 80’s like “2010: The Year We Make Contact,” and “Dragonslayer.”

I always thought the Codan commander was a G. XO - What do we do? Commander - We die.

Interesting Fact for you, Jen: Actor Robert Preston, who played Centuri, this movie was was credited as his last film before he'd died

Catherine Mary Stewart Who played Maggie was also in the ultra fantastic “Night of the comet”, very worth watching!

Thanks Jen, great reaction. A couple of Sci-Fi films which you might have been thinking of: "Starman" with Jeff Bridges, "Enemy Mine" with Dennis Quaid, These are possibilities, I highly recommend "Innerspace" which has Denis Quaid and Marin Short, it's a great Sci-Fi Comedy, well worth reacting to.

Someone FINALLY reacting to one of my favorite inspirational films! "I'm not any of those guys, I'm just a kid from a trailer park." "If that's what you think, then that's all you'll ever be." Chase your dreams, even if you fail you won't be sorry you tried.

I'm a life-long Star Wars fan, but, TLSF has always had a special place in my heart! This was not a hit at the box office, but became a classic in the early days a VHS rentals! The graphics and effects were awesome for the day, and still hold up pretty well! I've always loved the design of the GunStars! And the burst-fire laser effect from Centauri's pistol!

you were probably thinking of Star Gate for Kurt Russell but personally I think Soldier is his best space movie

You'll love 'Battle Beyond The Stars' (1980) starring George Peppard or The Black Hole(1979) Really hope you get round to reacting to either or both! ❤

I adore this movie, when I was a little kid in the 80's my Dad brought this movie home from the rental place and it became a movie we shared for years and especially one of my faves. Dad passed away last month and I'm waiting for the time to sit down and watch this again, just to have some nostalgia and memories come back.

When i was 8, i spent my summer in Michigan with my aunt and cousin. He was 20 yrs older than me, and showed me this movie. It is one of my absolute favorites. He passed away in 2020. On my way to his funeral, i played this soundtrack and absolutely lost it. This movie will always remind me of him, and i watch it at least 2x every year since.

Many a weekend spent watching this on tape as a kid. A delight - that's probably the best way I can describe it.

Robert Preston (Centauri) was in the fun musical, The Music Man.

This is where "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command" came from! Fun fact: The navigator was played by the same actor who played "the old man" from Robocop.

So the computer graphics in this movie were so advanced for 1984 that they required the use of a Cray X-MP Supercomputer which was the 2nd most powerful model of supercomputer in the world at the time. They rendered a total of 27 shots, which took several months of continuous rendering to finish the effects layers and consumed a good proportion of the $17million production cost. The other impressive thing to note was that the entire movie was shot in only 38 days

Very tough call to say what Jen liked more: Grig’s wheeze or the soundtrack.

Yes, you should react to 'Excalibur'

2:12 Mark! A "trailer park" is for short term camping, and the camper trailer is towed behind a car or small truck. (Somehow people forget that.) A "mobile-home park" is a long-term residential place. Pre-manufactured homes are made in factories of assembly plants, with a set of wheels that are meant to be temporary until a truck can haul or tow the house to a lot and the people connect it to the utilities. The wheels are removed of the set-up is intended to be long-term if not permanent. A "motor-home" is an "RV" ("Recreational Vehicle"!) You drive those like a bus, coach, or truck! Confusion happens when people ignore semantics! For example in the movie "Independence Day" we were clearly shown "motor-homes" in use, okay! But in the novel, the author(s) called them "trailers"! 😮 That indifference may be because so many celebrities are confused! I relatively recently saw and heard an actress explain to a late-night talk show host why her "mobile-home" is neither a "trailer" or a "motor-home" and it had me feeling like she read something that I posted about! I wished that more people were as well informed as she was! But anyway, for "dressing rooms" and/or "hair and make-up rooms" tiny trailers are used sometimes. Also, camper trailers get treated like small apartments during some movie making periods. The more important your status, the bigger the temporary residence is! You could have a private coach that on the outside looks like a bus! Or a motor-home! Newer streamlined models also now resemble buses on the outside. 😮 Well, in this movie we see camper trailers being used as long-term term homes along with single-wide mobile-homes that are slightly bigger or longer. But there aren't any double-wides or triple-wides! I'vd lived in a single-wide that had additions attached to make it look like a regular house-home on a concrete foundation. I've also lived in a double-wide mobile-home that looked like what it was. It was the better of the two options. Whew!

2:34 Mark! Barbara Bosson is in 1981's "Hill Street Blues" as "Fay Furillo"! That was an "NBC" police drama series. 🎉

Fun Fact: This movie has some connections to the Halloween Movies. Lance Guest (Alex) played Jimmy the Paramedic in Halloween 2, Dan O'Herlihy (Grig) played the main villian in Halloween 3: Season of the Witch and Director Nick Castle played Michael Myers in the first Halloween movie.

"Greetings, Starfighter!"😁Today is a day that We've-All been waiting for: We-All knew that You'd LOVE this one, because We've Loved it Our whole lives too!👍Once more and forever, "Thank You Jen!"💝 Easter Egg: next time Y'all watch "Back to the Future Part II" be-on-the-look-out for Centauri's Star-Car!😉You can clearly see it parked on the street (in 2015) when Marty is being chased by the Hoverboard Gang!👌

This movie was one of the first to use computer graphics in a movie. It's been one of my All Time Favorites since I was a kid.

The actor playing his "navigator" is the same actor who played the head guy in the original Robocop. "What's your name, son?"

In the 80s I was quite often in the arcade, so many coins lost to digital light and sound… anyway, this movie led me there even more so, hoping to find such a cabinet to take me away. No such luck.

I hate when people do this as reactors never pay attention but.... Enemy Mine

Grig is played by Dan O'Herlihy. He was great as Marshal Ney in Waterloo. Everyone knows him better as the old man CEO in Robocop.

HOLY ... EFFING ... SHIT !!! This movie was an absolute staple of my early teenage years Victory or death !!

Jen Murray I love ya buddy. No one ever reacts to this movie. Lance Guest as Alex and the special effects were great for its time. At the end, what do we do, we die. This is only 1 out of a few movies I would like to see remade. Thank you a million times over Jen. Always sending love and positivity. Ps I'm going to have to watch this with my mom, she loves your channel too

This one takes me all the way back! As a lifelong gamer, i LOVED this movie as a kid! I absolutley love that you accept the 80s graphics and tropes without blinking and enjoy the movie for what it is. You continue to be awesome! A+++++++++😊

Saw this as a kid, from the back of a station wagon, backed in a drive-in theater, and words cannot express my sorrow at how few kids nowadays will get to have such an experience.

The score for this movie is so damn good. It is so freaking Epic, and it has probably what is considered one of the best bad guy deaths in all the cinema

I've been waiting for someone to react to this! I know Jen's gonna love it.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie!!! You're my 1st reactor to watch it, it's why your one of my favorites Jen!

This is such a wonderful movie that is under most people's radar.

Loved watching this on Patreon. Forgot how epic the music was in this, although maybe this was just orchestral arrangements were taken for granted back in the day. And yes, you should react to Excalibur. It has Patrick Stewart in it, and the soundtrack is music from literal operas.

What a super fun movie!! Jen’s gonna love the “Death Blossem”!!

As a kid in the 80's, there was almost nothing cooler than the Death Blossom. Perfect reaction! Glad you liked the movie, and yes the music really is fantastic. I still listen to it just by itself.

I saw this movie when it came out. I’ve never seen anyone react to it. I’m so excited you are doing it. ‘If that’s what you think, then that’s all you’ll ever be.’ I love that line.

Jen found herself a Wheezer !!! LoL

Ree ta naa - Enemy Mine. Ree ta naa - Starman. Ree ta naa - Dreamscape. Ree ta naa Tay lo for all of these 80s sci-fi classics. That means react to them I think.

This movie was my childhood. To this day, I can't help but be deeply moved by Otis's advice, "Your chance will come, but you got to grab it with both hands and hold tight." That is what I miss about movies from the 80s. Where the message was always dare to dream and never stop fighting for it.

I've loved this movie for 40 years now. I wear my Geeky Jersey regularly (#84, ROGAN). "Victory! Or death!"

Trailer Park Boys is indeed a Canadian creation, but it has exploded in popularity in the last decade. I love it, and I highly recommend the whole Netflix series and their movies Countdown To Liquor Day and the other one that I can't recall the title of. The first season is a little raw and unpolished but I think that you would fall in love with all the characters!

Should follow this with 'Starman'.

Omg my childhood. Remember my mom showing me this in the mid 90s. Still convinced this is why I'm so obsessed with everything space.

Less than a minute in and I already liked the video. Why. The pure excitement you displayed at seeing a Doge.

This is one of my personal favorites. I was 13 the year this was released and I instantly loved. Several years ago, during annual Market Days Festival where I live, they had a movie under the stars every night and they showed this movie. It was awesome watching it under the stars. I love the late Robert Preston as Centauri. He was great. Lance Guest as Alex and Catherine Mary Stewart as Maggie were wonderful. Catherine Mary Stewart was in quite a few sci-fi movies back in the 80's. One of those she was in that I highly recommend is Night of the Comet, which came out the same year as The Last Starfighter. She was also in a film called Mischief, set during the 1950's, which also starred the late Kelly Preston, the wife of John Travolta. Catherine Mary Stewart was also in the 1989 comedy Weekend At Bernie's. I also love the music for this movie. It was beautiful.

0:02 Mark! Jen, greetings! 🖖 Before actress Mary Beth Evans took over the role of "Kayla Brady" in "Days of Our Lives" the role was played by.... Quote: Catherine Mary Stewart (née Catherine Nursall; born 22 April 1959) is a Canadian actress. Her film roles include The Apple, Night of the Comet, The Last Starfighter and Weekend at Bernie's. She was also the original Kayla Brady in Days of Our Lives. End quote! Now what's odd to me about it is that back then, actor Josh Taylor played the role of "Chris Kositchek" and Chris & Kayla were lovers! Since then because of time passing and recasting and so on and so forth, Josh Taylor now plays "Roman Brady" who is Kayla's older brother! I guess it helps the cast to act differently than before, since Mary Beth Evans has played "Kayla Brady" for decades now and some people have forgotten about Catherine Mary Stewart or never knew about that time period! 😮

Wow, I just found out the actor who played Grig (Dan O'Herlihy) also played "The Old Man" in Robocop. I never would have guessed it!

Jen, you're awesome! I grew up during the 70s and 80s, and I love your enthusiasm for the movies and music from that time. I wish the younger generations could get the whole experience. It is nostalgia for me, but that's not a bad thing. Great reaction!!😊

I don’t know if you noticed, but in the end credits will Wheaton is credited in this movie as Louis’s friend, but the Director cut all of his scenes, except at the very end in a blink, and you’ll miss it appearance. He’s with the group of people next to the gun Star at the far right a little kid in a blue jacket.

God I loved this movie. I probably saw it 100 times as a kid. As a (and still) big video game nerd this was the perfect movie. The graphics were beyond 'top of the line.' Regular computers couldn't generate anything like that in the 80's. They were created on a Cray supercomputer.

CGI rendering done on a Cray X-MP Supercomputer. 😀

Thank jen. A classic gem. They are making a sequal ( original writer)

To answer your question, yes, those were state of the art video game graphics when this movie was released. The original idea was that the movie was supposed to be released alongside the video game as a cross promotion thing, but the game wasn't released. That is, it wasn't released until a few years ago when they released online for free.

I went on a big 80s movie binge during Covid and this was one of the movies I watched that I enjoyed. Told my dad about it and he saw it the year it released, and started reminiscing about the time lol

Ill free up some coinage to join your patreon in the coming months, all because of this reaction

One of my favorite movies that I grew up with! Thank you for reacting to this!!!