Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Coming-of-age sci-fi and over-the-top action
The Last Starfighter and Commando
The Last Starfighter made to cash in on Star Wars’ success.
The Last Starfighter is an ’80s coming-of-age sci-fi adventure clearly made to cash in on Star Wars’ success. This movie was an early pioneer in computer-generated spaceship battles. What makes it such a great movie is one part nostalgia and one part simplistic, formulaic plot full of a fair amount of heart.
Another ’80s entry, Commando, may be the quintessential Arnold Schwarzenegger action outing. This movie shines as an unapologetic effort to offer some of the most over-the-top dialog and action you can possibly imagine. I mean, the antagonist is an overweight Australian actor wearing a chain-mail T-shirt during a knife fight showdown in a boiler room. Fun, campy, and so much ’80s machismo.
The Last Starfighter (USA) 1984, Universal Pictures
Available on YouTube and Vudu
Commando (USA) 1985, 20th Century Fox
Available on Amazon Video and Google Play
Here's something you might be interested in.
Coming-of-age sci-fi and over-the-top action
The Last Starfighter and Commando
Coming-of-age sci-fi and over-the-top action
The Last Starfighter and Commando
The Last Starfighter made to cash in on Star Wars’ success.
The Last Starfighter is an ’80s coming-of-age sci-fi adventure clearly made to cash in on Star Wars’ success. This movie was an early pioneer in computer-generated spaceship battles. What makes it such a great movie is one part nostalgia and one part simplistic, formulaic plot full of a fair amount of heart.
Another ’80s entry, Commando, may be the quintessential Arnold Schwarzenegger action outing. This movie shines as an unapologetic effort to offer some of the most over-the-top dialog and action you can possibly imagine. I mean, the antagonist is an overweight Australian actor wearing a chain-mail T-shirt during a knife fight showdown in a boiler room. Fun, campy, and so much ’80s machismo.
The Last Starfighter (USA) 1984, Universal Pictures
Available on YouTube and Vudu
Commando (USA) 1985, 20th Century Fox
Available on Amazon Video and Google Play
Comments