I can't remember what it was, it might not have even been Disney, but does anybody remember a movie where a kid gets taken up by a spaceship, he flies around for awhile, then he gets dropped off back home, but even though it didn't seem that long to him, he's actually been gone for years, and he's listed as a missing person...
It was a movie in the same vein as The Last Starfighter or The Boy Who Could Fly. I think, at some point, they take him for observation at some military complex. It's driving me nuts, 'cause I remember this from when I was a kid, but I can't think of the title.
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How could you forget Flight of the Navigator?
That was a piece of my childhood. I remember every scene.
ahhhhh..... thank you. Is this movie actually haunting and cool, or is my memory fucked because I was so young?
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Mmmmmmm...Lucy Deakins. Childhood lust, right up there with Kim Richards from the "Witch Mountain" movies.
Yes! I remember there being a hot chick in that. And doesn't she fall for that dolt who thinks he can fly? See junk like this made me think that nice, slightly weird guys got girls. Oh how wrong the last 15 years have proven me.
* sound of hushed weeping *
And she has purple hair and likes Twisted Sister!
I loved this movie so much when I was little. I don't want to watch it now. It probably sucks. I'll let the memories make me happy.
While we're on the subject of 80s sci-fi, remember Mac & Me? I never saw it when it first came out, but I caught it on late night TV a few years back; it's HILARIOUS.
"It's not water... it's piss!"
Haha. I just remembered that being one of my favorite lines when I was a kid.
While we're on the subject of great 80's lines:
"100 years of darkness, cats and dogs living together... mass hysteria"
&
"That's the bedroom, nothing happened there." "What a crime..."
Both from Ghostbusters, the only kids' movie that has aged well for me.
Wizard of Oz has aged well for me.
I could watch it everyday and still wouldn't get sick of it.
Max and the ship can currently be found at Disneyworld.... rotting
Quote from: GhostboyWhile we're on the subject of 80s sci-fi, remember Mac & Me? I never saw it when it first came out, but I caught it on late night TV a few years back; it's HILARIOUS.
I remember... it was this huge commercial for McDonalds.
Speaking of 80's kid's sci-fi... remember HyperSapien?
I remember seeing a movie where these kids build a spaceship. They end up going to space and seeing these aliens that like to watch I Love Lucy...that's all I really remember...any help there?
Quote from: Pedro the WombatI remember seeing a movie where these kids build a spaceship. They end up going to space and seeing these aliens that like to watch I Love Lucy...that's all I really remember...any help there?
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I remember this movie about a girl who lives on a farm and a tornado sucks her up and drops her house on a witch.
Quote from: RegularKarateI remember this movie about a girl who lives on a farm and a tornado sucks her up and drops her house on a witch.
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i remember, and resently watched again, this excellent forgotten film where this computer becomes conscious after having champagne spilled on it, and feels real love when a single tear falls on it in slow-mo..
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My biggest guilty pleasure film. Want
so bad on DVD. I have the cool 80's/Jeff Lynne soundtrack.
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Quote from: MacGuffinMy biggest guilty pleasure film. Want so bad on DVD. I have the cool 80's/Jeff Lynne soundtrack.
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word, the soundtrack is off the hook. i heard this cover Lali Puna did of the title track and it made me go rent it. :shock:
Speaking of 80's soundtracks, I have a good question for everyone: To Live And Die In L.A. -- does the Wang Chung score make... or ruin... the movie?
Discuss.
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word, the soundtrack is off the hook. i heard this cover Lali Puna did of the title track and it made me go rent it. :shock:
Haha! That was the first soundtrack I ever bought... I was pretty young and VERY into this movie... especially the duel the computer has with the cellist.
I still have the tape.
i was always so impressed (and still am to to this day) with the F/X shot of the side of the spaceship liquifying and morphing into a step ladder.
Holy shit!!!! "Flight of the Navigator"! Man, it's been so long since I've seen or even thought about this movie. I used to love it! Man, I'm gonna go rent it tomorrow!!!!
Damn, is this Xixax Nostalgia Week? What's with all the 80's threads (not that there's anything wrong with that)?
I've actually been thinking about Flight of the Navigator this week. With a young Sara Jessica Parker and Paul Ruebens as the voice of Max, the spaceship. Awesome!
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Compliance! This was one of those movies I watched repeatedly, along with The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking and Ewoks: Return to Endor.
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god that picture brought back so many memories. i feel like any second now i'll go back to my childhood home in 1988 and i'll have grown up but my family will still be young (yes, i know, it was the opposite way in flight of the navigator, but deal with it).