{"id":13932,"date":"2004-09-23T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/the-last-starfighter-the-musical\/"},"modified":"2004-09-23T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T11:29:00","slug":"the-last-starfighter-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/the-last-starfighter-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Starfighter: The Musical?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Gunstar\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/gunstar.jpg\" \/><i>Yahoo<\/i> reports that the 1984 movie <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=89&amp;ncid=789&amp;e=10&amp;u=\/playbill\/20040921\/en_playbill\/88513\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Last Starfighter<\/i> is to be made into a &ldquo;science fiction musical.&rdquo;<\/a>  Wow, this sucks on so many levels.  I remember seeing this movie in the theaters 20 years ago (now that&rsquo;s scary!), and as &lsquo;80s sci-fi\/action flicks go it&rsquo;s better than most.  I didn&rsquo;t realize until today that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087597\/\" target=\"_blank\">movie<\/a> featured the first fully-<acronym title=\"Computer Generated Imagery\">CGI<\/acronym> spaceship, the Gunstar (at right).  I can&rsquo;t see any musical version doing anything but sullying the memory of this movie&hellip; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/09\/22\/2352253&amp;tid=214\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109593896904820814?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo reports that the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter is to be made into a &ldquo;science fiction musical.&rdquo; Wow, this sucks on so many levels. I remember seeing this movie in the theaters 20 years ago (now that&rsquo;s scary!), and as &lsquo;80s sci-fi\/action flicks go it&rsquo;s better than most. I didn&rsquo;t realize until today that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/the-last-starfighter-the-musical\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Last Starfighter: The Musical?!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}