The Last Starfighter - Death Blossom

[demiserofd]

Nobody Dies brought me here! =D

Heeeee~eeeey

[shwingyshwing]

reminds me of playing asteroids. just hold down the right arrow key and spacebar.

[xenomagnus]

i luv this scene . like "goin out with w a bang" . for those who dont know this film , its called Floral Fallal

[Elude87]

Nobody likes spammers!

[teencomment]

Is he not dizzy at all?!?!?!

[4FtHawaiian]

@teencomment Pretty sure the cockpit stayed stationary.

[Calriec]

And this is why the Gunstar is the greatest space fighter plane in the history of science fiction. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherf'er in outer space, accept no substitutes.

[heartlessangel7]

IMMUH FIRIN' MUH LAZA!!!!  XO

[AxelTheGreat482]

DEATH LOTUS

[Funkylordwedge]

Too bad they don't show the scene with Alex puking his guts out after that...

[scorchx3000]

G: DB could overload the systems and destroy the ship.

A: What're you worried about Grig, theoreticly we should already be dead.

[rad4life1]

@scorchx3000 Mmm Hmm!

[fire2box]

No skill, all luck.

[NaliTikva]

WOW I really need to train "advanced ship spinning" to level 5

(for those who don't know, that's an eve online reference)

[IronChefSpam]

If I were in that thing when using DB, the entire cockpit would be covered with vomit.

[chrismc410]

@IronChefSpam at least you'd be alive to vomit.

[n1663r]

this is how i shoot ar's at my range.

[JDubs878]

As a kid I thought this was awesome, but now its kinda lame. =(

I mean why didn't any of the bad guys hang back in reserve and then after the Blossom, they could've went in for the kill since the Starfighter was defenseless?

[TheTallMan35]

@JDubs878 Only the starfighters knew about death blossom because their ship was a prototype. Plus the enemy fighters were over confident because they had the starfighter outnumbered, so they saw no need to hang back. That's what they get for underestimating their enemy.

[Steamrunner92]

@JDubs878 It wouldn't be science fiction if there weren't questionable military strategies...

[doctadeath2020]

In real life, even in space, that would make you go instantly unconscious.

[Zanmatt2g]

stupid when the ship is spinning around and the person inside goes upside down. there is no gravity in space.

[circedge]

@Zanmatt2g There's no gravity at play there, it's a gyroscope chair.

[Darthcaboose87]

I LIVE FOR THIS! Haha...

The tank from Monday Night Combat would be proud.

[RRVCrinale]

@Darthcaboose87 What you're witnessing is what a Tank Lv.4 Death Blossom would look like.

[Blindside7A]

You'll you death blossom when you fight!

Man will you fight!

You'll fight tigers, woman, little girls, old people on scooters, more women, Potomac prime!

[flamingmarsupial]

I was impressed at the time by the CGI, having never seen such a thing before. Now it looks so primitive, though I still enjoy it.

Oh, well. It had to start somewhere... :)

[HazMatMedia]

...and THAT is how you win a game of Asteroids. 

[sugarhitman]

Hmmmm looks like something the Israelis need.

[denis480]

A-CHUCK-NORRRRRRIIIIIIISSSSS Button.

[Blackheartrises]

Death Blossom also known as the Up Chuck In The Helmet Maneuver, lol

[flamingmarsupial]

@Blackheartrises Agreed. You'd be too sick to fly the Gunstar after this one. :)

[justingoth]

Go to your address bar, after the word YOU and before the word TUBE, type in "win" then press enter

[ghostsurfer666]

Was it called Death Blossom in the movie?

[CidX82]

@ghostsurfer666 It sure was.

[Utubeblows]

@ghostsurfer666 Little known fact, this is what the sitcom Blossom was based on

[Funkylordwedge]

I threw up just watching that. 

[Nanaman12345]

Wow, even now that scene looks fantastic!

[valamit76]

Flower-power :))))))

[ghostbladev]

HAX!!!! The G-Man demands answers!!!

[xenomagnus]

...Epic classic

[dudebrochillin]

That guy isn't dizzy as fuck?

[YourProblem1]

The guy at the beginning was part of Frieza's private army. You can tell cause he has a scouter :D

[misterkami2]

@YourProblem1 it's over 9000!!!

[brattymaddyandmason]

epic win lol

[PHANTOMZ0NE]

Someone, PLEASE post this movie on Youtube!!

[CyraXeno]

Beat hazard!

[JFSChannel]

LOL. He spins around in the chair.

[Mathew1985AZ]

this movie is so impressive.cast,music, execution of storyline...perfect. the graphics are dated,but for the time they were top notch.

[aweesit]

What cooler name is there for anything in this world than "Death Blossom"?

[TheTallMan35]

@aweesit "Death Blossom" It's an oxymoron. The two words don't go together. It's like saying "Redneck Virtuoso".

[geargemartin]

@TheTallMan35 Why is Redneck Virtuoso an oxymoron?

[TheTallMan35]

@geargemartin Do I have to explain everything to you? Google the words, find their meanings, and figure it out.

[geargemartin]

@TheTallMan35 I know what a Redneck is. And I know the definition of Virtuoso. If you are unable to explain yourself then I'll have to assume you're an Idiot who spews out garbage with no concept of what you're actually saying.

[TheTallMan35]

@geargemartin Look, i'm not going to debate you over this. It's not that serious. You had your say and you've won the arguement. Gold star for geargemartin. Now here, take your cookies and go back into your treehouse.

[geargemartin]

@TheTallMan35 Now say "I'm sorry".

[101andrewj]

@geargemartin because, virtuosos tend to be distinguished and sophisticated, 2 words that dont come to mind when thinking of a redneck

[geargemartin]

@101andrewj Being talented does not nessarily equate to being sophisticate anymore than being unsophisticated nessarily equates to being undistinguished

[101andrewj]

@geargemartin none the less, virtuosos still tend to be distinguished and sophisticated people

[Blackheartrises]

@aweesit lol, really. "oh look that flower is about to blossom." Multi thorn laddened vines and spikes shoot out. "Damn I hate spring."

[qed100]

I'm not sure that's even dynamically feasible. The shear stresses from such rapid precessions between inertial axes would tear it to shreds. And on top of all that, it looks really cool.

[Thief8Bit]

whooooaaa! that'd make ya sick!

[DrAmazing1234]

P3\/\/ P3\/\/

[jedimastersteven]

what better way to defeat your enemy's by spinning around in circles and spraying allover the place!!!!!!!!!!(wished that worked in CoD)

[spacewombat]

@jedimastersteven defeat your enemy's what?

[Paigeshusband]

Sounds like a bad flower, Remind me never to pick one.

[Bazrrrr]

At 0.03 the coloured stripes of the button has similar colours to signs to show warning, as if to say "Warning: Pressing this will be dangerous" and also size of the Death Blossom button you know it will unleash hell.

[MyKill71]

HEAR ME!! tHIS IS BY FAR, THE COOLEST ATTACK/COUNTER-ATTACK MANEUVER i EVER SEEN!!! PERIOD. .

[firefly2000]

YEA !!! ....I Would Fly That ......!!!

[MechWizzard]

I wonder if they cut just before he threw-up ;)

Wizz.

[psifla]

The best "smart bomb" I've ever seen. Would have been perfect for a computer game!

[MyNikki30]

I read on Wikipedia that the U.S military uses the term "Death Blossom" for any soldier who comes in and fires sporadically.

Kinda cool huh?

[xCrossedRiflesx]

@MyNikki30 Yep. "Death Blossom" is a maneuver where a unit just sprays fire in every direction. Not really useful, but pretty cool to see.

[Dracofyre]

The Last Starfighter:  Originator of the "I Win" button.

[JFSChannel]

@Dracofyre or the that was easy button.

[Azakhiel]

@Dracofyre Yeah. Death Blossom sounds like a cheat code !

[SonOfSpork]

Do not mess with Alex!

Awesome flick,

Thank you for posting!

[WolfseerWoW]

The I.W.I.N button never fails!

[BigOrca107]

HOLY COCK

[losthaze]

this movie looks like it was inspired by asteroids

[NimDod]

OMG HAX!

[rad4life1]

DB ftw!

[CaptnJackSparrow]

A Gunstar!

[MikeTaylorLives]

Even more amazing is that we now have desktop systems with greater horsepower than the machine used to render those ships.

[Neville6000]

I know, isn't it insane? And we could do the same thing with software now that costs only a fraction of what the software used to make the movie cost.

[sephy26946]

Fuck, we probably have calculators with greater power.

[ldoug9]

Bungie weekly update brought me here

[SampledMuffin]

Hey look its the Iraqi Army at 0:10

[paparas2000]

The best Part of the movie

[Tonzura11]

hah just like on the Venture Bros.

[hibob418]

I was in the room at the University of Illinois with the Cray Supercomputer back in the early 80's. It just felt like the thing was sucking the life from my testicles. Thanks for the post!

[destroyergmv]

such a great movie indeed...

The Last Star Fighter (1984)

[destroyergmv]

such a great movie indeed...

The Last Star Fighter (1984)

[destroyergmv]

"the last star fighter"

now this is cutting edge for its era, way beyond its time...

5/5 for a good upload.

[mobius1aic]

This was the first movie to try and use CGI realistically. And it probably took as much as a day just to render some frames of animation in this movie.

[OLDSCHOOLHHSEX]

First MOVIE? There was lot of Late1970's to Mid 1980's DOCTOR WHO, and BLAKES7,and RED DWARF(from BBC Productions) that used CGI animations too

[mobius1aic]

I meant in truly realistic fashion. I've never seen the bits of CGI you're probably thinking of. Tron of course was a couple years before The Last Starfighter, but it's usage wasn't for the basis of creating the real world.

[urmo345]

@mobius1aic I remember i saw it in some 85 or 86, in my teenage year, didn't figured out it is CGI...was very realistic.

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

All the CGI (27 minutes total) was created & rendered using a $15,000,000 CRAY XMP supercomputer.

From Wikipedia:

In comparison to modern CPU speeds, the X-MP had less than half of the raw power of Microsoft's Xbox console or less than 8% of an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (12.53 gigaflops).

Dude... that's amazing.

[chris101b]

@ORUPRANKSTAZ Lol @ gigaflops..... it's like the variable you use to measure the amount of fat people at a Bon Jovi concert.

[101andrewj]

@ORUPRANKSTAZ yeah, the first computer built back in the early 60s was thousands of square feet large, and was 1000 times less powerful then the current computers in cell phones

[VNVgirl]

oh heck yeah ! it's on!! i loved this movie - was this the first true cgi movie? or are there others? before this that were graphic intensive as this? and btw - alex rogan i love you! hehe

[pdex2165]

I would argue that it indeed it was the first "true" CGI special effects movie as there were no starship models used. The space scenes were completely CGI. Groundbreaking for the time. "Tron" in 1982 (two years before this) was the first to use extended CGI shots, but it was mixed with traditional animation and optical blue-screen effects.

[raith0818]

In 1985, Young Sherlock Holmes was the first to feature a fully CGI animated character....created by the man of Pixar himself, John Lasseter.

A lot of credit goes to the Last Starfighter for pushing the envelope and writting code for things that had never been done before. It was truely ahead of its time.

[OLDSCHOOLHHSEX]

Which character in Young Sherlock Holmes was that CGI Player?

[Aussiemarco]

That was the stained glass window knight who kills the vicar.

[raith0818]

@OLDSCHOOLHHSEX

It was the scene where the knight in a stain glass window jumps out and attacks the priest in the church. What's great about the effect is that stain glass is naturaly shiny, colorful and flat. That makes it easy to mistake it as a traditional optical effect instead of 3D. The smooth movement gives away 3D as apposed to a jerky moving stop motion composite.

[OLDSCHOOLHHSEX]

See my comment on the CGI used in those Late 1970's to MID1980's DOCTOR WHO-RED DWARF tv shows,Shown in the Mobius1aic Comment above this 1,Those BRITISH TV SHOWS was using Computer ANIMATIONS MORE THAN OUR United States was using them for in our films

[Aussiemarco]

According to Wikipedia, the first movie to use CGI was Westworld in 1973, then Futureworld, Star Wars, Alien & Star Trek 2. But they used CGI for short shots totaling less than a min in each film.

Last Starfighter was the first movie to make EXTENSIVE use of ADVANCED CGI - 300 shots totaling 27 mins of screen time, a huge amount for the time.

Dr Who and Blake's 7 used models for the ships. Dr Who used CGI in the opening credits. Red Dwarf - 4 years AFTER Starfighter & used models for ships.

[OLDSCHOOLHHSEX]

Thanks-Ok,I got 1 out of 2 from DOCTOR WHO=)P... The CGI opening credits,I was referring to the TARDIS CONSOLE graphics-There few episodes where animation is running on that Console screen

[Neville6000]

@Aussiemarco: Don't forget the anime movie Lensman (aka SF New Age Lensman) from 1984, which used CGI of the same type as that of The Last Starfighter.

[Aussiemarco]

@Neville6000 Yes, you're quite right. I'd forgotten that one!

[Chukkz2]

I guess anyone else would be sick by then. ;)

[dragonfire300]

I'd have hurled halfway into the attack.

[rfry]

haha

he's standing still yet they miss him all the time.

yet he manages to hit all of them

[TNAROHfan]

Quiet you! with your fancy logic.

[rfry]

lol

[Anynom]

Hmm...great scene.

Course the best one of the film comes a bit later...

"What do we do?"

"We die."