When I was a kid, one movie I loved was The Last Starfighter, which, in a recent fit of nostalgia, I ordered from Amazon. How timely, then, that an interpretation of it, in Broadway Musical form, opens next month in NYC. I'm... not really sure how to feel. I don't think there's any way they could faithfully recreate the scene where Alex kicks the alien in the knee and it doubles over in pain, and Centauri explains, "not all creatures have their testicles in the same place," much less the scenes with the beta units.

Fun trivia: The Last Starfighter was the first movie to have all its special effects (except makeup) done on a computer. All of the space scenes were rendered on a Cray supercomputer. Also, Atari programmed some prototype versions of games to release on its home systems (5200 SuperSystem and 400/800 series), but they were never released because they were completely different from the game Alex plays in the movie. This was because at the time, the technology didn't exist to produce real-time 3-D polygonal graphics on a home machine.