(at Republic Square Park)
Enjoy a nerdtastic evening under the stars at the newly renovated Republic Square Park. Bring your own blanket or folding chair, pack a picnic lunch and enjoy a free screening of the 80s classic The Last Starfighter. Food and drinks will also be available in the park, and of course, we will kick off the night with a barrage of vintage space-themed trailers.
About Last Starfighter
What sweaty-browed video game aficionado hasn’t pretended, while feverishly pounding away on their Playstation control, that they were actually saving the universe? That’s the conceit employed in 1984’s THE LAST STARFIGHTER, a lightweight yet wholly entertaining sci-fi adventure that’s come to command a special place in the heart of my disaffected generation. Our hero is the mild-mannered and anxious trailer-park denizen Alex Rogan. After mastering the local Starfighter video game, Alex is visited by an interstellar messenger who delivers a curious message: The game Alex has been dominating is much more than a simple plaything; a planet desperately in need of savvy star pilots has planted these games on Earth in an effort to find new recruits. Imagine that! Excel at a video game and you’re drafted to save a distant planet! How very cool. (Scott Weinberg)
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