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June 2nd, 2014: The Last Starfighter (1984)

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A farmboy teenager lives in a moisture farm on a backwater desert planet trailer park. His father is out of the picture and, though he’s a good kid and does his chores, he dreams of attending the Academy a good college. He spends a lot of time in his T-16 shooting womprats playing Starfighter, a really bad ass video game. One day his uncle buys new droids that have a mission to fulfill he gets the highest score ever and the droid take him to a mysterious old mystic who wants to take him out on a mission to rescue a princess a mysterious old man in a Delorian shows up and takes him to be the latest recruit to fight Xur and the Ko-Dan armada. The boy has doubts and returns home to find his aunt and uncle killed returns home which allows him to avoid being massacred with the rest of the Starfighters. After a perilous rescue of the princess from the Death Star several run-ins with bounty hunters sent by Xur, the boy (with a little help from a friendly smuggler and his alien sidekick his alien sidekick) flies against The Death Star Xur’s flagship and has to hit a tiny ventilation shaft control unit which sets off a chain reaction that blows up the Death Star allows the boy to use a special weapon to destroy the rest of the armada.

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