I love "Memento", but apart from that I think Christopher Nolan is somewhat overrated as a film director, even if I enjoy and appreciate a few of his other movies. Watching "Inception" (2010) years ago did nothing to change my mind no matter how mind bending or mind blowing the film tried to be. That I have little affection for either Freud or Di Caprio didn't help much, of course. Something about the whole film felt both too smooth and…
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The Last Starfighter 1984
One can understand this film as an imitation, an attempt to capitalize on the "Star Wars" craze (as most seem to do), or see it as an outright parody of it. From the soundtrack to the idea of the chosen one (this time the chosen nobody lives on a trailer park instead of some desertic border planet), the film cleverly makes innocent fun of all the more outlandish aspects of space operas.
But at the core of this parody is…
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