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Topic	Trdl Actually Finishes a Ranking Topic: 65 User-Nominated Finishing Moves
trdl23 07/21/21 1:27:55 AM #9:	#63: Death Blossom Nominator: @redrocket (3/5 remain) Characters: Alex Rogan and Grig Source Material: The Last Starfighter Scores: Aesthetics: 2 Dominance: 3 Damn: 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLNvUsTBGyE Sadly, the secret maneuver of the Last Starfighter is a product of its time, budget, technology, acting talent, writing talent, studio talent, and amount of film used to record it. Would I be saying this in 1984? Given Star Wars came out in 1977 and Tron came out in 1982, then yes, yes I would. I know this movie has historical value as being the first bigger-budget movie to use extensive CGI, and honestly the CGI isn't that much worse than what you'd see in some Tron scenes, but Tron filmed around their technical limitations, whereas this film just... threw things at the wall and hoped for the best, I guess. Even with those limitations, the aesthetics of just "spin and shoot pink lines in a bunch of directions" don't hold water. There aren't enough lasers! Either the lasers were super accurate, in which case I should see how precise they are despite the spinning nature of the attack, or there should have been way more of them so that most lasers could miss, but the move would still annihilate every enemy in the scene. Points off of dominance, as well, given the only way the move worked was for the enemies to all get in range of the maneuver despite doing real damage to the ship from a safe distance beforehand. If your finisher relies on your opponents to be collective morons, then your dominance thereof ceases to impress. It wasn't even like they deliberately laid a trap. Man, now I'm imagining how much cooler this move could have been if it took the same premise, but it put the two heroes into a more active role, gunning the engines while spinning through space to cut a path through their enemies. It couldn't have been much costlier than what we got, could it? Why am I going so hard on overanalyzing a silly early-CGI kids movie? This is what you came to this topic for, folks, and it's what redrocket delivered. --- E come vivo? Vivo! <cite>trdl23 posted [p:956305696] in Trdl Actua... [t:79575332]...</cite> <quote>#63: Death Blossom Nominator: @redrocket (3/5 remain) Characters: Alex Rogan and Grig Source Material: The Last Starfighter Scores: Aesthetics: 2 Dominance: 3 Damn: 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLNvUsTBGyE Sadly, the secret maneuver of the Last Starfighter is a product of its time, budget, technology, acting talent, writing talent, studio talent, and amount of film used to record it. Would I be saying this in 1984? Given Star Wars came out in 1977 and Tron came out in 1982, then yes, yes I would. I know this movie has historical value as being the first bigger-budget movie to use extensive CGI, and honestly the CGI isn't that much worse than what you'd see in some Tron scenes, but Tron filmed around their technical limitations, whereas this film just... threw things at the wall and hoped for the best, I guess. Even with those limitations, the aesthetics of just "spin and shoot pink lines in a bunch of directions" don't hold water. There aren't enough lasers! Either the lasers were super accurate, in which case I should see how precise they are despite the spinning nature of the attack, or there should have been way more of them so that most lasers could miss, but the move would still annihilate every enemy in the scene. Points off of dominance, as well, given the only way the move worked was for the enemies to all get in range of the maneuver despite doing real damage to the ship from a safe distance beforehand. If your finisher relies on your opponents to be collective morons, then your dominance thereof ceases to impress. It wasn't even like they deliberately laid a trap. Man, now I'm imagining how much cooler this move could have been if it took the same premise, but it put the two heroes into a more active role, gunning the engines while spinning through space to cut a path through their enemies. It couldn't have been much costlier than what we got, could it? Why am I going so hard on overanalyzing a silly early-CGI kids movie? This is what you came to this topic for, folks, and it's what redrocket delivered. --- E come vivo? Vivo!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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