Explorers (1985)

Movies Viewed in 2024 (390 movies items)

" First Viewing Viewing Date: September 20th Via: Apple TV Plot: A boy obsessed with '50s science fiction movies has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third child, they follow the blueprint and build a spaceship. Rating: 7.2/10 Why Did I Watch It? I stumbled upon this while browsing. It's an '80s adventure movie from Joe Dante, and it looked right up my alley."

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 80’s (1542 movies items)

" A boy obsessed with '50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what? The film, featured earlier performances by Jason Preston, Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Amanda Peterson, Danny Nucci, James Cromwell, and Meshach Taylor, The special effects were produced by Industrial Light & Magic, with make-up effects by Rob Bottin. Rushed"

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 80’s (1542 movies items)

" A boy obsessed with '50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what? The film, featured earlier performances by Jason Preston, Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Amanda Peterson, Danny Nucci, James Cromwell, and Meshach Taylor, The special effects were produced by Industrial Light & Magic, with make-up effects by Rob Bottin. Rushed"

My trips to the cinema 2023 (410 movies items)

"SCREENING: 35mm DATE: May 20th CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End"

Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era (500 movies items)

"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★½ NOTES: Opened on a rare, unofficial U classification card. First reel had focus issues, so the opening credits and the end of the reel where projected out of focus. The building of the Thunder Road faces sound system corruption issues, which are repeated in the reel in which Charlie begins his investigation up until the explorers take off into space. The bit in which the explorers name and christen the Thunder Road suffers from four cuts. DATE: May 20th 2023 "

The characters of: ETHAN HAWKE (80 movies items)

"1985 as Ben Crandall in EXPLORERS (1985, dir: Joe Dante)"

Summer 2020 Viewings (30 movies items)

"Format: Streaming Viewing: 2nd (or 3rd) Thoughts: Great little 80s sci-fi flick from goofball director Joe Dante. Has all the 80s coming-of-age trappings: geeks and bullying, space exploration slash video gaming, playing outdoors and building things, and a group of friends taking on the world together. A classic from my childhood."

Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Films: 1984-1985 (66 movies items)

" Directed by: Joe Dante Produced by: David Borndyk, Edward S. Feldman, Michael Finnell, and Tom Jacobson Written by: Eric Luke Cinematography: John Hora Edited by: Tina Hirsch Music by: Jerry Goldsmith Distributed by: Paramount Pictures"

Watched in 2018 (193 movies items)

" Re-Watched: 2/10/2018 Rating: 6.0 Format: Blu Ray It was good uptil they meet the aliens then it kinda just falls apart. "