Everything you need to know about Explorers (1985)

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  • @Mr_Randomisation
    @Mr_Randomisation 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Incredible score from Jerry Goldsmith also. A forgotten gem with musical cues that capture the coming of age and wonder of adventure.

  • @BobaFettuccine3541
    @BobaFettuccine3541 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I saw this movie as a double feature alongside The Goonies. Being born in 73, the 80s really were an incredible time to be a kid.

    • @lindsey4382
      @lindsey4382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My dad was born in 73 and I would have loved to have been able to grow up when he did. The 80s had all the best movies!

    • @KarstensCreationsKC
      @KarstensCreationsKC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed.
      I wouldn't trade having grown up in the 70's and 80's for the world...and I genuinely feel bad for anyone stating that 'the 90's was a great period to grow up in', as I see that era as simply being warmed over 80's with too much cynicism and undeserved angst thrown in for poor measure, LOL...;)

    • @BobaFettuccine3541
      @BobaFettuccine3541 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KarstensCreationsKC cool

    • @zacharyjochumsen9677
      @zacharyjochumsen9677 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lindsey4382 my parents wre born in 1974 both each

  • @mysterious144
    @mysterious144 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    They really should release the 3 hour plus version of this film.

    • @JonnyBaak
      @JonnyBaak  5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Wouldn't that be great? We can only dream

    • @mysterious144
      @mysterious144 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes absolutely! Great video as always, looking forward to your next feature.

    • @joker_g7337
      @joker_g7337 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I remember this movie. I saw it 5 years later on TV but this was a great movie.

    • @rachelayvaz1579
      @rachelayvaz1579 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was so confused on the ending what happened???

    • @kasenronin7009
      @kasenronin7009 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      pro tip : watch series on flixzone. I've been using them for watching all kinds of movies during the lockdown.

  • @velveetaslingshot
    @velveetaslingshot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In the summer of 86 this movie was on cable every day. All my friends would stop everything and huddle around the tube to watch it. Whatever its flaws were, we loved it. Hell Im 47 and I watched it 2 weeks ago! lol

  • @bilwisss
    @bilwisss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    you can really tell, when a movie is made with spirit.

  • @solidshadow01
    @solidshadow01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    When I was a kid in the 80's I ran across this movie on the movie network. I really enjoyed it and would watch it whenever it came up. The sense of mystery and wonder that it inspired in me was fantastic. In the wake of Stranger Things, I think an Explorers TV series would be great. Hopefully Netflix or another streaming service has the same idea.

    • @teddratch_owner_signature_4920
      @teddratch_owner_signature_4920 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The ending was begging for a series, But at the time I guess it just wasn't that popular a movie, I believe I saw it on the wonderful world of Disney back before they had their own channel

  • @PaulHagl
    @PaulHagl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I had the same experience with seeing Explorers at the movies in 85. Best time to be a kid. Great video and I look forward to your next one.

    • @JonnyBaak
      @JonnyBaak  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks :-) Glad you enjoyed it

    • @1bottlejackdaniels
      @1bottlejackdaniels 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Explorers ...the Goonies ...Cocoon ...D.A.R.Y.L. ...my science Project ...Enemy Mine...saw them all at release.
      i was 11 years old in '85, and my favorite cinema-experience was Commando! ^.^ ..."leave anything for us?!" "just bodies."

  • @FalconPunch1978
    @FalconPunch1978 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve always been interested in ufo’s and anything alien related. Loved this movie as a kid and still do. Just as good as Goonies imo. Great video btw, well done sir!

  • @Ender7j
    @Ender7j 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    It’s tragic that the people who made this masterpiece from my childhood feel the way they do about it. Even with its faults, this movie is so awesome. I still watch this movie and in a few more years I’ll be able to share it with my son. Thanks for making this video. :)

  • @CaptainAndy
    @CaptainAndy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I rewatched it not long ago.
    It's one of those movies I'd file under 'not as good as I remember it'... but it is still good.
    Like 'The Goonies' or 'ET', it basically takes that childhood sense of adventure and just adds a far-fetched, science fiction/fantasy element to the mix.

  • @metaleater9
    @metaleater9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I somehow had an uncut version of this on VHS when I was a kid in the late 90's early 00's, I loved the hell out of this movie then but had mostly forgotten about after a few years.
    It was thrust out of my memories in 2017 when I seen the "USS Nimitz UFO incident" FLIR camera footage the Pentagon released to the public and heard the eyewitness testimony of the UFO.
    The apparent capabilities and (theoretical) psychics behind the Nimitz UFO and the Thunder Road were so close I suddenly remembered something I hadn't seen or thought of in 20 years.

  • @Daddydaughtergamer
    @Daddydaughtergamer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I remember my dad taking me to see this in the theater, while the aliens were kind of funny looking they did add some humor and I fondly recall this movie being magical. I would daydream about making a space ship and flying to the stars for quite sometime after that.

    • @speckledjim9895
      @speckledjim9895 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I've already built a space ship but can't get the force field to work......yet!

    • @JadMock
      @JadMock 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup same I'd draw illustrations of what it would look like if I made it but need that forcefield

  • @tampere29
    @tampere29 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One of my favorite movies as well. I saw it for the first time on vhs in the mid eighties when I was 40 years old. I loved it then and I love it now.

  • @insanelook
    @insanelook 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Film of my childhood, I was 17 then, loved it.

  • @williamporter7596
    @williamporter7596 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Exploers has always been one of my favorite movies as well despite it's choppyness. The novelisation has some of the missing plot points in it. The dvd release in Oz was also stuffed with missing scene which were in the cinema release but only included as deleted scenes on the dvd. Would love to see a blu-ray release with all the missing plot points as deleted scenes.

  • @nurseelliott4256
    @nurseelliott4256 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hands down my favorite movie that year. And this movie will have a place in my heart cause it appeals to the dreamers in all of us.

  • @mark4d148
    @mark4d148 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great little film with a cosy, warm place in my memories and heart.

  • @mischiefmakerstudios9900
    @mischiefmakerstudios9900 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Explorers was the first dvd I ever rented from our video shop back in the day. Of coarse I was at the age before I knew what a good or bad movie was. That’s sadly changed since then. Despite the fact Explorers didn’t do that well, I remember really enjoying it & I managed to follow all three boy’s careers over time.

  • @kavinspence5955
    @kavinspence5955 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank god! i finally found this movie I am 29 of age and I watch this movie about two times form when I was just 6 i think and I remember these boys build a spaceship and went to space form that two times I watch the movie till now I always wanted to see the movie again but I never know the name of the movie till now thank you Jonny Baak

  • @JaesonFinn
    @JaesonFinn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks Jonny. This is one of my favourites. I had a huge crush on Amanda Peterson & was heartbroken to find she died a few years ago.

    • @DCMACNAMARA-vh6op
      @DCMACNAMARA-vh6op 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      She most likely was molested as a child actress.

    • @oooh19
      @oooh19 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea it's terrible but many child actors and actresses are treated so terribly

  • @isaace8090
    @isaace8090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of my all time favorite movies when I was a kid. It had those fun elements that kids in my neighborhood liked to do like build things in the backyard. Of course something like the spaceship in the movie was well beyond our building skills. We just used wood and made our dads mad by cutting up all of their lumber and using all of their nails and screws to build it. I would love to see the full Dante cut of the movie!

  • @RonKhan
    @RonKhan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm late to the party, but you and I are both Explorers!
    I saw it in the theater! I love it! I built their space ship out of a cardboard popcorn bowl, and put my GI Joe's in it!

  • @TMS5100
    @TMS5100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of my favorite movies growing up.

  • @orinokonx01
    @orinokonx01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey! Adelaide kid here too! Thanks for this, I love this movie, warts and all.
    My inner geek longs to see a recut with all that dropped footage...

    • @JonnyBaak
      @JonnyBaak  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good to know there is someone in Adelaide just like me :-)

  • @DCMarvelMultiverse
    @DCMarvelMultiverse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I dream the dream of you and Minty teaming up.

    • @baronvg
      @baronvg 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s coincidental they’re both Aussies, too.

  • @ThieflyChap
    @ThieflyChap 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We had this on tape for years, recorded off of the telly and was amongst me and my brother's favourite films. I honestly never minded the aliens, but then, I was very young.

  • @TheRealVolk
    @TheRealVolk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I’m ready for the Dante cut.

  • @RightNowMan
    @RightNowMan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you JonnyBaak for your videos, they're very entertaining and informative.

  • @woof3598
    @woof3598 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    excellent review, always thought there was some thing left out of the script

  • @ridebywire6712
    @ridebywire6712 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this movie. I saw it a thousand times as a kid. I can't wait to see it again with my kids.

  • @wakkywabbit5446
    @wakkywabbit5446 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    🎶All around the world ...🤗... Rock-and-Roll is here to stay🎶

  • @mapesdhs597
    @mapesdhs597 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fully agree with everything you said about this movie, still one of my favourites. I identified more with Wolfgang since I was a total tech nerd at the time. Surprising really how enjoyable Explorers is given the degree to which it's said to be unfinished, and yes it would be great to see a finished version.
    The goofyness of the aliens didn't bother me that much though, perhaps because I really liked the basic joke that they were also kids who'd nicked their father's car (so to speak). I thought it was an interesting idea at the time, to consider that if there were aliens out there, then there must be alien "teenagers" too, so what would they be like, did they find their parents annoying aswell? etc. To me the movie posed questions that no other movie had even bothered to ask. It was fun, but it also made me think about it.
    Strangely, I did not like The Neverending Story at all, for some reason I thought the giant puppet creatures looked stupid, somehow I simply couldn't take them seriously, they were just too obviously not real. Perhaps they reminded me too much of shows like Sesame Street (which I loathed).
    Spot on about that trailer, ye gods it's awful! How bizarre the studio would make such a hash of the later stages of production.
    I was intrigued about what you showed of the scenes added to the OZ VHS release; the UK VHS version has all of them except the bit with the ThunderRoad in the classroom - I wonder why they left that out?
    I laughed when you said two of the cast had a crush on Peterson. :D Hope they didn't argue about it.
    And yes it is a pity Presson's portrayal of Darren didn't receive greater praise; the way he becomes friends with Wolfgang and Ben reminds me of people I knew at school who were not obsessed with tech like I was but were still cool to hang out with. I liked writing computer games, but they liked playing the results.
    Films like Explorers, at that time, had the ability to chime with an audience, especially the demographic shown in the story, in a way which I don't think modern movies are able to do at all. These days productions are too full of politics for this kind of film to even be made (TLJ and Captain Marvell being two of the more recent awful examples). No studio today would make a movie like ET, and Explorers would doubtless be criticised for not having girls as the main characters or something. Funny though how they ignore movies like The Goonies which had a very broad cast, easily one of the best from that era.
    I've talked to neighbours who say their children often enjoy 1980s movies of this kind far more than modern productions, assuming they're able to get them to try watching them at all (because they're "old"). I would include in this the original Ghostbusters and many others. Interesting though how one does not often hear similar things said of movies from the 1990s, there's something about the 80s which meant optimistic movies like Explorers were possible (which is odd given how much the cold war was constantly in the headlines, parents freaking out about the media-hyped nuclear peril). I can enjoy movies like Megamind, How To Train Your Dragon and Over The Edge, but they're fun for entirely different reasons.
    If there's an exception it's probably Toy Story, that had an appeal which reached a very broad age spectrum. Ditto Jurassic Park, the only movie I've been to where several dozen children left their seats and moved down the steps so they could sit closer to the screen. :D (I noticed one child literally keeping his eyelids open with his fingers so he wouldn't miss anything) As is so often the case though, whatever was captured so well by an original like JP is utterly lost in the sequels.
    I hope they don't try to remake Explorers, it would probably be horrible.

  • @xman577
    @xman577 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As I remember they said this movie up for a sequel.If they need one today it would have to be about their children

  • @XcashblackX
    @XcashblackX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I saw it in the cinema too , loved the first two thirds of it

  • @miniontm69
    @miniontm69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Movies had magic back then. Something that was lost through the 90s.

  • @izzynutz2000
    @izzynutz2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was a carnival worker when this movie came out and I was intrigued when they use the Tilt-A-Whirl tub although I never saw it in the I would often see it late night on television...

  • @beeurd
    @beeurd 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember watching this as a kid, and it's one of those films that has stuck with me too. Hardly anybody seems to remember it. ☹️

  • @waynesmalley5335
    @waynesmalley5335 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a film this is I still go on TH-cam and look back on memories some one take me back

  • @christopherwhite1648
    @christopherwhite1648 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am 18 years older than my youngest brother and I took him to see this movie. It is a fond memory since I went out my own when he was just 1. It was fun.

  • @lelandclayton5462
    @lelandclayton5462 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I saw this Movie on HBO one night back in the early 90's and thought it was neat. Believe it or not a lot of people never heard of this movie.

  • @haruruben
    @haruruben 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    if the aliens didn't look so silly, it doesn't match the rest of the mysterious and ominous tone of the rest of the film. Imaging that, seeing a design in your dream that actually works... amazing and inspiring but scary too!!

  • @shoftim
    @shoftim 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Ethan Hawke flies the bubble up to a window to peep on the girl from Can’t Buy Me Love while she eats Boston Cream pie and listens to the Thompson Twins (Records on her bed) ... " Please mention The Thompson Twins reference in the music credit section, if you ever do an edit, for us New-wavers... Thank you for doing this video; the early 80's was a magic time to grow up in.

  • @SherryMosleyAkashicEnlighten
    @SherryMosleyAkashicEnlighten 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I absolutely loved and still LOVE this movie! My grandfather built me a red spaceship in their backyard for me after the movie and I played in it for hours!

  • @technologic21
    @technologic21 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my favorite movies of all time.

  • @dwarren1010
    @dwarren1010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If there is a movie that deserves a reboot it's this movie.

  • @Datumist
    @Datumist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I cant say how many times I watched this movie. I used to rent it every weekend as a kid when the fam went to the video store to rent movies (If that does not age me, I dont know what will). Rolls-Can-hardly.... still rattles around in my head!

  • @resofactor
    @resofactor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Right on with the opening sentiments of this piece.

  • @jamesgraham6796
    @jamesgraham6796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Still one of my favorite feel good movies.

  • @woof3598
    @woof3598 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    always thought there was some thing more about the cop, like he had the same thing happen to him when he was younger

    • @phoenixdark9
      @phoenixdark9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agreed. It did seem like there was something there. Like he had the dream but never followed it... something he regrets now in his older age

  • @Nono-hk3is
    @Nono-hk3is 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I still recall the feeling of discovery and magic in the first two acts as the kids figure out how to make and use their spacecraft. I honestly blocked out the ending because when I saw it again, about 10 years ago, for the first time since the original release, I was so shocked and dissappointed.

  • @Kreln1221
    @Kreln1221 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    *With the reported technical capabilities of the recent UAP/UFOs in sightings by the U.S. Military..., such as incredible acceleration/deceleration, direction/vector change, and massive G Force tolerance, with no apparent flight surfaces or means of propulsion, and subsea/atmospheric/space travel capabilities..., it very much strongly reminded me of this very movie...*

  • @filiperodrigues889
    @filiperodrigues889 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this movie. Watched many times. Is from my 80's years...

  • @glyph2011
    @glyph2011 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A great movie. Btw. Red 7 are well know to fans of Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER. They appear on that infamous soundtrack.

  • @dazpar88
    @dazpar88 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this awesome video..love Jerry Goldsmiths scores.

  • @brianjohnson2905
    @brianjohnson2905 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A country boy... now I'm 52. I was 14 in most of 1985. Greatest times to be alive. Born in 69.. I've seen 70s 80s 90s. Etc.

  • @KevinR1138
    @KevinR1138 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is a good retrospective however I couldn’t disagree with you more about the reveal of the aliens, the fact that you’re expecting some incredible epic alien reveal only to have goofy awkward alien teenagers influenced by 50s pop culture broadcasts is perfect for the tone of the film in my opinion. I remember laughing my head off when they revealed this and I still think it’s a great extreme left turn that fits the films out of left-field mind set.

    • @rattratt12
      @rattratt12 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agree, loved that movie.

  • @ElectroDFW
    @ElectroDFW 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not only Live Aid, but they were also up against "Back to the Future" which came out the previous week and pretty much dominated the rest of 85.
    As Vivian says in 'Pretty Woman', "Big Mistake. Huge!"

  • @Ray30
    @Ray30 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really liked this film as a kid and instill do. I do hope that he releases his cut of the film. I really liked the score too.

  • @Truthseeker1515
    @Truthseeker1515 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also 12 in 1985 but missed it in the UK. It did not stay long at the theatre, like Breakfast Club, it bombed in the UK. My parents took me to see Police Academy 2 instead that July which was a hit! I did not even know Ethan or River starred in the movie. Beverly Hills Cop, Witness, Pale Rider, The Goonies, Back to the Future, Rocky IV were 1985 flicks which I was fortunate enough to see with my parents...

  • @jezz2k
    @jezz2k 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That Star Trek episode is called "The Nth Degree" (pronounced enth not 9th). It means the utmost, extreme, or as much as possible.

  • @adventureswithme525
    @adventureswithme525 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this movie and one of my favorite soundtracks.

  • @legneil
    @legneil 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Their here.Who can forget that line.

    • @KarstensCreationsKC
      @KarstensCreationsKC 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL, it WAS a line originally spoken in POLTERGEIST...you knew that tho, right?...;)

  • @Tommy-me3uh
    @Tommy-me3uh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My favorite movie as a kid I still watch it classic

  • @SUPERFANpresents
    @SUPERFANpresents 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi! Just found your channel and subscribed. Fellow Adelaide youtuber here! Loved this movie, still do! It's a pity the ending does let it down. :(

    • @JonnyBaak
      @JonnyBaak  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nice to know there’s someone here in good old Adelaide who watches my channel :-) Thanks for subscribing to my channel

    • @SUPERFANpresents
      @SUPERFANpresents 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JonnyBaak You are the first Adelaide youtuber I've come across so I had to sub, didn't know we existed, thought I was the only one :D! And your content is the kind I like to watch too so that's a bonus! If your interested you're more than welcome to check out my channel. I do fan made trailers and just recently have done one for explorers, that's how I ended up finding you. Look forward to watching more of your stuff!

    • @JonnyBaak
      @JonnyBaak  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SUPERFANpresents Thanks I'll check out your channel

  • @TheRadioAteMyTV
    @TheRadioAteMyTV 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Saw it on cable a few times and loved everything but the really weird puppet aliens. The ship bubble was freaking awesome!

  • @QwenLee
    @QwenLee 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've never seen this movie, but I learned about it. Way before I was born in 1992. I always like classic science fiction films and it is a bit similar to E.T. that I grew up watching. I will find this movie on Blu Ray. I had no idea Ethan Hawke was so young and his 1st film, River Phoenix too before I watched him in Stand by Me. Jerry Goldsmith was one of my favorite film conductors too for Rambo and Star Trek the Next Generation. Industrial Light and Magic I know is established by George Lucas in 1975.

  • @ivannightly1919
    @ivannightly1919 ปีที่แล้ว

    loved it fantastic piece of work a great adventure movie when I was a kid

  • @cheddarcheese7928
    @cheddarcheese7928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Most movie fans have that one(or 2) movies they always meant to see but somehow alluded them all their lives..This is mine..

  • @simpl3simon806
    @simpl3simon806 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in Adelaide as well and live right around the corner from THE CHELSEA. Awesome memories

  • @KevinR1138
    @KevinR1138 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    If we’re going to talk about River Phoenix’s tragically short life we should also talk about the tragic life of Amanda Peterson, she quit acting in the mid 90s and suffered from drug addiction through two marriages and two children ultimately dying of a “accidental drug overdose” in 2015.

  • @jgooo101
    @jgooo101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a good vid, you should have more subs.

  • @LifeBloodMarketing
    @LifeBloodMarketing 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So that's where they got the trash ship for Rick and Morty.

  • @kamandi1362
    @kamandi1362 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw this on rental video as a kid in the UK (having waited in vain many months earlier for it to arrive at one of my two local 2-or-3-screen cinemas). I loved the concept, loved the first two acts, then watched bewildered as it fell apart in the final twenty minutes. I'd really like to see a proper director's cut of it, but I think the main problem would still be there, namely the jarring change of gear from Spielbergian suburban sci-fi to cartoonish surrealism.

    • @TheNightBadger
      @TheNightBadger 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Many of the scenes they cut were great (in terms of content), but I agree, even a Director's cut couldn't save the basic problems with the ending of this movie.

  • @Heegaherger
    @Heegaherger 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This movie is why I first thought the Kree map in S.H.I.E.L.D. was a circuit board. I was sure it was circuitry until the plot said otherwise.

  • @RobinJohnstonphotography
    @RobinJohnstonphotography 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved this film at the time.

  • @erho2967
    @erho2967 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Same my friend, 43 here it was big

  • @jediknight73
    @jediknight73 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely love never ending story

  • @baneblackguard584
    @baneblackguard584 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    they must not have advertised it very well, first i heard of it was seeing it at video rental stores. I thought it was a great movie and remains one of my favorites.

  • @tvmasterc
    @tvmasterc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this movie! I grew up with it!

  • @steveangello6586
    @steveangello6586 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah I was 13 then, that movie was always in the back of my mind

  • @ruuman
    @ruuman 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved explorers as a kid!

  • @geraldmcdevitt3996
    @geraldmcdevitt3996 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why not NOW?! I'd love to see the other version!!!

  • @elfhighmage8240
    @elfhighmage8240 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember all of this. Never heard of this movie until it was on laserdisc at the local movie rental shop. Just loved it. I knew the aliens were fake looking but I didn't care.

  • @thomasloney612
    @thomasloney612 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dad introduced me to this film, and I loved it growing up! I actually remember buying the promotional magazine for the movie, but lost it years ago. The only issue I have with the film is the goofy aliens. I know they explain it away as the aliens learned about our culture through television, but it didn't fit well with the serious tone of the rest of the movie. Still, it grew on me over the years.

  • @RSEFX
    @RSEFX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well, I could say a LOT about the early stages of this film. The writer, Eric Luke, worked with us in efx, and let me read the script before it was sold. The 3rd act certainly wasn't all about playing baseball on another planet. It had a very strong 3rd act that took place on Mars. Yes it needed some tweaking, but along came Spielberg who's suggestions were all wrong, as far as a lot of us thought. But Eric felt this was a great opportunity, so he felt he should listen to the very popular and influential director. Mistake, but I' may've done the same thing under the same circumstances. Eric's original instincts were correct and his original script was superior, even given that it needed some work. Only SOME work. (We were tasked with making the bad effects for the drive-in sequence, based on footage from Toho's BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE. We used copper ashtrays for the flying saucers. The small ships were designed to look like light meters, and the big ship was a spoof of ILM's vistavision camera, which apparently caused some ongoing problems that caused delays for Joe and frustrated the production company ---this is what I was told/i don't have direct knowledge of what happened on the set----but we were told to make that one ship a goofy version of that vistavision camera.. All those horrible efx still were tricky to create since, due to the tiny tiny budget, had to be done entirely in-camera, including all of the "laser-beams": Opticals weren't affordable. That series of silly shots had to be done this way since buying the stock shots from Toho's film was too expensive!! That's how cheap that sequence was!). A shame the film had all of these problems. The original script had huge potential, and , after reading it, i wasn't at all surprised when it got purchased---which I recall happened pretty quickly.) Ok, enough blah blah.

    • @TheNightBadger
      @TheNightBadger 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very interesting. Never heard a lot of this.

  • @hazzah1007
    @hazzah1007 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The 35th Anniversary came and went. Let's make a 40th Anniversary Special Edition a THING!!

  • @AccidentalLyrics
    @AccidentalLyrics 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw this at home, I think a movie rental. I really liked it. The silly aliens were my favorite part.

  • @Disthron
    @Disthron 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When Stranger Things first came out, I'd just finished watching American Horror Story and I was really hoping they'd turn Stranger Things into an Anthology show in the same vein. A cover of this film would have been perfect for that kind of thing. Alas, it was not to be.

    • @fauxtaco3426
      @fauxtaco3426 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was thinking Stranger Things was going to be like Eeria Indiana reminds me more of Super 8

  • @lawrencekedgettjr2364
    @lawrencekedgettjr2364 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thunder road was mentioned in Grees during the race between Johnny and bluto ,,,,,, the phrase that was mentioned was it takes more than a coat of paint to make it on thunder road ,,,,,, just saying ,,,,,

  • @tehguitarque
    @tehguitarque 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This should have been one of Tom Paris's holodeck "novels" ... featuring the Doctor!

  • @mwm48
    @mwm48 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fucking loved that movie as a kid. 👍

  • @RobinJohnstonphotography
    @RobinJohnstonphotography 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    ‘That’s what they call a travelling matt’

  • @sirreginalddukeofchutney234
    @sirreginalddukeofchutney234 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your movies 🍿
    Neapolitan Dynomaite never had this crappy excuse.
    Lesson learned.
    Also, we could continue into a new and better feature.

  • @slckb0y65
    @slckb0y65 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    if they didn't fuck'd up the ending, this movie would be more famous than the goonies. one of the few film i'd love to see remade or even better, a director's cut

  • @baronvg
    @baronvg 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was a bad ass teaser trailer and poster. Admittedly, it only works really well if you already know the movie lol

  • @ZyxthePest
    @ZyxthePest 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I actually disagree that the initial promotion of the film was bad. I actually quite like the ambiguous nature of it, especially given how trailers spoil entire films these days. The problem was that it wasn't followed up on properly, which is more due to the studio's rush to get it out. If they released that teaser for a Netflix series, especially in the wake of Stranger Things, people would love it.

  • @kymrobinson7986
    @kymrobinson7986 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mainline drive inn , I think that we saw this one at

  • @DamonCzanik
    @DamonCzanik 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rented it and *loved* the first two thirds. If they had stuck the landing it might have been one of the best. I still watch it all the time until I get to the aliens. Alien first encounter movies always struggle with the ending. But I love the discovery, problem solving and space adventure.

  • @HardCase1911
    @HardCase1911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dude you reading this right out of wikipedia??

  • @worthlessendeavors
    @worthlessendeavors 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe where you grew up in 85, kids were optimistic as you say, but we sure as hell weren't optimistic in NJ.