The Last Starfighter (1984)
150 Best Science Fiction movies, Rolling Stone list #145. The Last Starfighter (1984) “A re you 11? Is the year 1984? If so, here’s a movie you’re going to want to see.” n -- Keith Phillips The term “Space Opera” was an outgrowth of a habit calling any long-running Radio Serial an “Opera,” so in the 1920s people started calling the Westerns “Horse Operas,” and in 1938 Daytime Domestic Dramas started getting called “Soap Operas” because they were often sponsored by Soap-Powder Companies. In 1941, SF Author Wilson Tucker coined "Space Opera" as a pejorative for any "hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn." But the term landed out evoking fonder feelings in the Audience than Wilson intended, and it was soon applied to all of the more ambitious (or at least wanabee ambitious) and tales of Interplanetary, Interstellar, or Intergalactic Conflict. There are Serious-Minded Space Operas for sure, most notably Aut...