Explorers (1985)

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 80’s (794 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"

Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era (250 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 "

My trips to the cinema 2023 (139 movies items)

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

The characters of: ETHAN HAWKE (77 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. "

Netflix Instant Project for 2016 (65 movies items)

"Recommended by: moviewatcher122 Supported by: the giraffe, djprojexion"

Moviewatcher122's 2016 Film Diary: April (28 movies items)

"April 15 "I've waited all my life to say this." "Be my guest." "We come in peace." This may not be Joe Dante's best work, but I still really enjoyed this movie. It's a really fun movie with a down to earth premise, good acting from our child starts especially a very young Ethan Hawke and like pretty much all of Joe Dante's movies they look really impressive on a visual level even though some of the effects look very cheesy and dated by todays standards, but even that isn't a problem as it ad"