This was rad af | TheaterFire

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SeniorRum@reddit

Happy to say my 9 and 12 yos love this move too

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just-_-just@reddit

That movie had crazy special effects! If you haven't watched this video before it goes into crazy detail about it. It's way more entertaining than you'd think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyixMpuGEL8

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mur-la-kotam@reddit

Poor David. The actual future show no mercy to him.

In 2008, he was prosecuted for careless storage of a firearm, and received three months' probation. Later that year, he was convicted for possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, and received a prison sentence of six months.

On May 1, 2016, he was arrested in connection with the robbery of Scotiabank in Sechelt, British Columbia a few days earlier. On June 8, 2016, he pleaded guilty to charges of robbing a bank, wearing a disguise to commit a crime, fleeing police, and dangerous driving. On August 31, 2016, he was sentenced to a custodial term of two years less a day, as well as two years of probation, conditions of which included attending counseling and residing in a treatment center for narcotics abuse.

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Arieljacobsegal@reddit

He appears to be doing better now. I saw the footage of him in the documentary In Search of Tomorrow and he appears to be turning his life around.

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Emotional_Cause_5031@reddit

Wow I completely forgot about this movie, I used to watch it all the time!

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skrivetiblod@reddit

Ha, I saw this in the theater. The scene where the ship morphs into “hypersonic” mode melted my six year old mind.

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Kalel42@reddit

I will never forget the amazing day when we upgraded from a 19" to a 27".

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HedgehogOpening8220@reddit

😆 i remember when a 24” was a big deal!!!!

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ChaucersDuchess@reddit

This looked amazing on our 27” Zenith CONSOLE TV with wood grain details. That was a huge Christmas present “for the family” one year.

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And then one day you had to get rid of it and it weighed roughly one ton. My GF got me to do hers in about 2000. I said only if you will marry me. Still together she takes care of me after I broke my back.

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beccalou79@reddit

Hopefully you didn’t break your back moving the TV??

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ChaucersDuchess@reddit

She knew you were a keeper then!!

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Daemon213@reddit

We still had ours until about 2003.

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ChaucersDuchess@reddit

My parents didn’t switch until 2005!

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Dick_Stillhard_11_8@reddit

I remember when my parents got a new tv after the zenith went out. The zenith became the tv stand for the new tv

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rydan@reddit

For me that was the day before Thanksgiving 1998.

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Jewbacca522@reddit

I went from a 13” in my bedroom at 11, to a 24” in my bedroom at 14 and I swore we had secretly won the lottery or something. My life instantly exploded.

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BeefSupremeeeeee@reddit

We did this exact jump, went to a 27" Trinitron! I bought an s-video cable for our SNES.....

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cortesoft@reddit

This is the exact upgrade we did, too. We also moved from a portable tv cart to an actual tv cabinet at the same time, it was magical.

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RegularCommonSense@reddit

We went from 25” without remote to 28” with remote. It was nice (around 1991 or so, I think, but not sure).

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BurninCoco@reddit

Trinitron

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RegularCommonSense@reddit

Our family didn’t have that level of income. We used a domestic budget brand called Finlux and it had a mono speaker instead of stereo speakers.

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Mahaloth@reddit

I got a 27 inch TV in 2002. Flat Screen, the ones with glass.

Weighed a ton, we thought the image was crystal clear.

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6ynnad@reddit

ZENITH, nobody beats the Wiz!

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PastorBlinky@reddit

Remember trying to find a type J battery for the remote?

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seafox77@reddit

Lol, oh no no....this had clunky dials. Dad got it in the mid 70s, flush with all that Air America contractor money. Solid oak case, and calling it a cathode ray tube doesn't do it justice.

More like a small particle accelerator with industrial capacitors. Living room always smelled like menthols and ozone.

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RegularCommonSense@reddit

Pretty sure our TV (Finlux) used regular AAA batteries even back in the early 1990s.

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addicted2soysauce@reddit

The flat batteries! I can't believe we never found another use for them.

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Specific_Grape_6780@reddit

I can hear the clicking of the knob

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Shankar_0@reddit

Same, and same!

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CatchAlarming6860@reddit

I’m also a 79er who saw it in the theatre. Holy shit. I still remember how that movie made me feel!

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theoriginalmars@reddit

It's still a guilty please of mine. Bought it on video when I was 16. Must have worn it out by 17.

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MrCyn@reddit

rewatching for the first time as an adult, I got frisson goosebumps

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atticus_roark@reddit

Loved it so much I had the poster

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SuburbanHell@reddit

Me too!

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LazySwayze@reddit

Me too! First movie theater experience as a kid. Blew me away.

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Criticism-Lazy@reddit

Same! But go back and watch it now, I laughed my ass off.

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batsofburden@reddit

I thought the spaceship still looked cool.

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SnazzyStooge@reddit

Captain Disillusion did an outstanding VFX breakdown of this movie, including that scene — super interesting how they did the morphs, and Capt D put WAY too much effort into documenting it all...

https://youtu.be/tyixMpuGEL8?si=KTjngvYkxcyVUufg

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Crans10@reddit

I also remember seeing this at the theater. It was with a friend of mine and his mom took us. We ate at Wendy’s either before or after. The theater was in the Mall. I later saw TMNT there.

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DontEatThatTaco@reddit

I'm 46 and when my son (8) asked to watch it, I was waiting for that - and his reaction did not disappoint at all. His jaw dropped open, had a little squeal and looked at me with a giant smile and said 'that was awesome' in a not dissimilar way to the kid in The Incredibles.

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RWDPhotos@reddit

Captain D’s very good awesome excellent amazing video about the movie’s vfx

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Vegskipxx@reddit

To me it always looked like the ship just rotated

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Ripley1212@reddit

Same here! I also thought the kid’s house was awesome.

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Original-Cup2901@reddit

Same!

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SCP420ECHO@reddit

They need to remake a new one... Give it a modern touch

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Street_Time6810@reddit

I think this movie helped space make sense in the shadow of the Challenger disaster.

I loved the scene where the kids brain is communicating with the machine and searching through star charts. Neurodivergence haha

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Fragrant-Age4424@reddit

What about the Peanut Butter Solution, anyone remember that? They were parallel in my mind

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Fragrant-Age4424@reddit

I’ve been wondering if it’s a good one for my 10 and 13 yos… anyone watch with kids?

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ProfessorPitiful350@reddit

Flight of the Navigator (late 80s)....not better than TMNT (90s), but definitely a childhood fav....

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InevitableCrafty4298@reddit

SIT DOWN NAVIGATOR!

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Trickydicky232@reddit

Obligatory Captain Dissillusion video https://youtu.be/tyixMpuGEL8?si=3jf77RRzK-znPNRN

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DifficultyNo9712@reddit

Compliance!

Plus, the way that ship opened and closed up was a true mindfuck. There was a reason for that. This film is full of early CGI graphics!

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Curious_lexe@reddit

I remember the first time I seen that film.

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Jade-almost26@reddit

One of my FAVORITES!!!🤩🤩

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BonnyFlamingo@reddit

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Flight of the Navigator is 40 years old this summer! My favourite childhood movie, rewatched it last week for the first time in a while.

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MoreColdOnesPlz@reddit

I still say “Compliance” occasionally but I don’t think anybody gets the reference.

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Dry_Election6496@reddit

Compliance!

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EVILtheCATT@reddit

Last movie my dad took me to shortly before he died. It’ll always hold a special place in my heart.

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rapidpeacock@reddit

Compliance!

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Olosabbasolo@reddit

Rolls Canhardly....

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DrewBaron80@reddit

I must have been in 2nd or 3rd grade when we all went to the library on a Friday afternoon, the teachers rolled out the TV strapped onto a cart, and we all watched this movie.

I work in elementary schools now and the thought of kids just watching a movie on a random Friday afternoon (probably cause the teachers needed a much deserved couple hours of peace) is kind of funny.

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Stuartburt@reddit

I’m a teacher now too. School was more fun back in those days. Now it’s too much about “data” and remediation.

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sovietmcdavid@reddit

TRACK EARLY TRACK OFTEN

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Bedzyk59@reddit

I put this on cause I thought it would bore my nephew to sleep when he was like 3. He loved it.

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Koalashart1@reddit

Fuck ya

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InfamousChannel2407@reddit

I think I only saw this movie once in primary school. It was one of those days where they got the whole class together and put on a movie for us. It must have been towards the end of the year or close to the school holidays or something.

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R3dRh1n0@reddit

And just a lil bit creepy.

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GravyPainter@reddit (OP)

The time relativity hit hard. Imagine imagine losing your brother and not knowing what happened. To me that is what is impactful. Tragedy makes it memorable. That's why GoT was so popular. The protagonist dies in the first series and makes you engaged

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benthelurk@reddit

Man I loved The Navigator. Last time I saw it must been 94 or something. I think. Maybe even earlier than that. My brother watched with his kids a few years back and said he didn’t enjoy it at all now. He said it didn’t age so well.

Anyway, Loved it as a kid.

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Rage-With-Me@reddit

I can hear the music he’s listening to

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Stuartburt@reddit

As the older brother in my family, my concern during the whole movie was that he would be returned to his place as the older brother. Great movie.

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fyukhyu@reddit

I just showed this to my wife for the first time like 3 weeks ago, she's 40. She loved it!

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Dizzlean@reddit

Had it on VHS. Watched it a lot.

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Rbp7Ooz@reddit

COMPLIANCE!

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insert40c@reddit

Yes, it was. I think thisame influenced my life long video game addiction. Aliens still have not reached out.

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Ok-Abrocoma-667@reddit

I still quote this movie somtimes. The alien robot eyeballs always cracked me up

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drunkatdesk@reddit

I always feel sad for the parents and the brother… all those years passing thinking he was taken by an 80s predator

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sky-lake@reddit

I loved the little detail they added, where the brother (in the future) takes out the missing child poster from his pocket (another great detail he still has it on him) and says that "mom and dad made me put up these posters... every Saturday". It was such a great way to help the audience get "caught up" with what happened after, without spending too much time on it.

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DontGrumpyStop@reddit

The thought of everyone else getting older while I stay the same age freaked me out.

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Sharessa84@reddit

I think I experienced my first bout of existential dread as a child the first time I watched this.

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I_have_questions_ppl@reddit

A lot of 80s kids movies did that! Dark Crystal or Never Ending Story for example. Traumatising 80s kids was the norm. And it was awesome!

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master_idiot@reddit

Gmork scared the crap outta me as a kid.

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BeenDragonn@reddit

Return to Oz is another favorite of mine but definitely traumatized me a bit

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AvidCyclist250@reddit

yay!

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Walkaway20@reddit

Yes. All of the above. I was a sensitive kid and this part of the storyline really stuck with me.

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Cholest_throwaway@reddit

Same! I remember feeling so deeply uncomfortable and sad. Like I couldn’t comprehend it

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JRockPSU@reddit

I remember feeling very uncomfortable, like you said, a sense of dread when he went back to his house but his family didn’t live there anymore.

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scum_manifesto@reddit

I loved the film but that bit scared the shit out of me

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Indigo2015@reddit

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ExpireAngrily@reddit

The “waking up 8 years later and everyone aged except him” fucked me UP.

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toasterb@reddit

The reverse Matthew McConaughey from Dazed and Confused.

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bobrosserman@reddit

The end reverses it so it’s like it never happened, but the kid is just left with this memory of flying through time and his family thinking he disappeared.

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jinsaku@reddit

70s predator. As my wife is fond of saying, "The 70s were the heyday of the serial killer. They were running around everywhere."

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4n0m4nd@reddit

Dumb family, the Predator was in the jungle.

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Siegfoult@reddit

There can be more than one predator!

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4n0m4nd@reddit

'80s Predator is specific in my head lol

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Obvious-Hunt19@reddit

It’s Jimmy Carter!

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wavetoyou@reddit

That’s what it was! I saw the picture and immediately felt bittersweet nostalgia, and was about to go read the plot on wiki to figure out why. I remember this movie bumming me out as a kid

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salinefurball783@reddit

There's an outstanding documentary called Life After the Navigator that you may also like!

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stdowney@reddit

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BookishBiscuit@reddit

Watched this movie for the first time a couple years ago, and I couldn’t help but think Max’s voice was kind of attractive. It wasn’t until I heard Max’s laugh that I realized his voice sounded oddly familiar. I quickly searched on Google only to realize it was PeeWee’s voice!🤣

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Responsible_Park3317@reddit

Holy shit. My 6/7 year old mind didn't even realize! I need to watch this again. Haven't seen it since the 90s.

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

I figured it out because there's a few parts where he does the Pee Wee voice

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FullMetal_55@reddit

I always assumed it was just an impersonation, like the other impersonations he does... but then I never cared to know actors did other things :P

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

I think they wanted to keep it ambiguous though, because in the credits, he's credited as Paul Mall instead of Paul Reubens

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batteryacidsmoothies@reddit

It was the 1st thing I watched when I got disney+, I'd been waiting for a good chunk of my life to see it again.

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v1p3rsbite@reddit

Yes me too, right when Disney + came out! Kids couldn’t care less but I watched it start to finish. Flight of the Navigator was my favorite movie as a child.

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Mortwight@reddit

check out 3oclock high

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OldCreezy@reddit

It holds up!

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Junior_Article_3244@reddit

It's still a really good movie. I watched it with my kids a few months ago.

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Intelligent-Salt-362@reddit

They tried to say that people at the time didn’t know it was him because he wasn’t credited as PeeWee Herman, but when he was like “I know you are but what am I,” every kid our age knew exactly who that was.

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dadjokes502@reddit

Paul didn’t want it to be known it was him as the voice to take away from the movie itself.

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smackthenun@reddit

Wait for real?!?!?!?!

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newsflashjackass@reddit

And there is a subplot where Sarah Jessica Parker trafficks a child.

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charliehustle757@reddit

Isn’t the stairs on the ufo the boy lover symbol too

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Unfair@reddit

How come he wasn’t credited?

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ExpectedBehaviour@reddit

He's credited as "Paul Mall" by his own request.

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cityshepherd@reddit

Wherever Particular People Congregate. Fascinating slogan for a particularly nasty cigarette lol.

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dbwedgie@reddit

He's credited on IMDb. Was he not in the credits??

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Unfair@reddit

No in the movie credits he’s credited as Paul Mall. I remember being confused because I was like - that sounds just like Peewee Herman/Paul Reubens but I guess it’s another guy doing an imitation?

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dbwedgie@reddit

From Google AI: According to director Randal Kleiser, Reubens wanted to stay "low key" so that fans would discover his presence naturally during the film.

Also brand separation. At that time he rarely appeared in anything or gave interviews out of character as Pee-wee Herman.

Interesting!

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PsyOpBunnyHop@reddit

When he was promoting his Pee-Wee character, he avoided being known as Paul Reubens whenever he could.

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HomelessKitchenCat@reddit

No wayyy. This movie is even cooler than i thought

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Acceptingoptimist@reddit

Compliance!

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mzx380@reddit

I remember that as a kid I was blown away by the plot as

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Dangerous_Midnight91@reddit

Just watched two weeks ago with my kids and they loved it! Holds up well!

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SchwillyMaysHere@reddit

Saw this in the theater. Later on saw the ship at MGM Studios.

This was my dad’s favorite movie. We’d watch it on TBS or TNT every fourth of July.

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funkeebeep@reddit

My favorite childhood movie.

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CoffeeAddict76@reddit

I destroyed 2 tapes of this from blockbuster back in the day because I rented/watched it so many times I wore them out.

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Dashcamkitty@reddit

This and DARYL were my favourites. You don't really see sci fi for kids as much now.

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atticus_roark@reddit

This. Goonies. And d.a.r.y.l

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HomelessKitchenCat@reddit

One of mine too. I've brought it up so many times to other people and it seems like it totally dropped out of the collective conscious a little while after it was released

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wagashi@reddit

This, Batteries not Included, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and Airwolf pretty much fraimed my childhood.

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TP_Crisis_2020@reddit

Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Talked to so many people our are who have no clue at all about this movie. Got me thinking I grew up in a different timeline or something.

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funkeebeep@reddit

I made sure to pass it on, making it one of my kids many childhood movies as well

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Winter_Dimension8107@reddit

Yes along with the last star fighter and the never ending story.

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dbwedgie@reddit

It was between this and The Neverending Story for me, and this one holds up way better for me as an adult.

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tmofee@reddit

For me it was this film and my science project

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Future_Burrito@reddit

Yeah. Willow and Dark Crystal, too.

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ziggster_@reddit

I think I watched this movie more than any other movie when I was a kid.

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IndyJonesJr73@reddit

See ya later navigator.

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dronegeeks1@reddit

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IIFireMissionII@reddit

Compliance.

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s-goldschlager@reddit

I loved that movie. Tried to find it to show my kids

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Silver_Draig@reddit

I wanted to be abducted so the military would give me a new in box soundwave too.

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Smokey_Cat_@reddit

It's a great movie. I just saw Project Hail Mary and it made me think of this movie. I wonder if there'll ever be a remake.

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AdorablePainting4459@reddit

Flight of the Navigators, Batteries Not Included, The Cat from Outerspace

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SomeGuyOverYonder@reddit

Literally the earliest VHS tape I remember renting.

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The_Machine80@reddit

Max was the best alien.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

This was all my brother’s bag. Flight of the Navigator, Space Camp, my brother loved that stuff. I didn’t start sharing interest with him until he got into Star Trek The Next Generation. Now that was cool!

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VexersVexation@reddit

It's insane that I had to scroll this far down to find the name of the movie.

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SixersJawn@reddit

max in space.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

I totally thought that was cool when I first saw it. We also saw Short Circuit.

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dmonsterative@reddit

Who didn't see Short Circuit?

For some reason, I tend to mentally file Space Camp next to War Games and Amazing Grace & Chuck.

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lucid808@reddit

I always got those 2 kid actors mixed up also, thinking they were the same person originally. Probably why I lump ET along with those two movies you mentioned.

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MaddyKet@reddit

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SixersJawn@reddit

i quote "I don't leak, you leak" and no one has ever got it.

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mzshowers@reddit

This is really one of my personal favorites from our generation. I’ve seen it so many dang times and I still watch it occasionally!!!!

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lovinglife-hotwife@reddit

i hated this movie

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7askingforafriend@reddit

Watching this as an adult hit so much different. Thinking about what his parent and sibling went through was awful. It was just a much sadder movie than I remember from watching as a kid.

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DangerBrewin@reddit

Yeah, as a kid I always saw this as a fun little adventure movie. I watched it recently with my kiddo and it definitely hits differently as an adult and parent.

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TheSteelFactory@reddit

And how did your kid saw it?

I notice on my kids that they are more sensitive about these things than i was a kid.

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DangerBrewin@reddit

He got sad during the scene where David first returns to his old house and his family isn’t there anymore and when David is talking to his little big brother, but he was more reacting to the emotions being portrayed on screen. It definitely didn’t hit him with the same severity.

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dbwedgie@reddit

I was a sensitive kid, so those hit me young. And time travel/timelines messed with my child brain!

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Effy7242@reddit

Love this movie!!

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oz_mouse@reddit

I watched it again about two weeks ago who knew Sarah Jessica Parker was in it

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R4808N@reddit

We rented it from the library last year and watched it with my kids. Surprisingly they loved it too.

"Don't take any shit David!" is one of my favorite lines in any movie ever. If my wife is ever anticipating a difficult day at work or the kids are giving her a bad time that's what I tell her. lmao.

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Luder714@reddit

Free on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVebPEYiq2o&list=PLkfKOqH-SqIlCd07xR7snUfKO3sL9vO5F

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taking_crazy_pill5@reddit

I loved the start and end credits synth... awesome. Still holds up to this day.

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According-Assist-501@reddit

Pretty sure I messed my drawers when the creature ate his hat.

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redclover83@reddit

I used to call this movie Flight of the Alligator because I was little and didn't know what a navigator was 😁

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_AncientAlien_@reddit

I would watch the shit out of Flight of the Alligator

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_AncientAlien_@reddit

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therustysmear@reddit

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Crazy_Information816@reddit

Stoke me a clipper!

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Stuck_In_Reality@reddit

What a guy!.

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EntertainerNo4747@reddit

It's already my favorite movie

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CharlestonChewChewie@reddit

I'd watch that movie

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guitar_stonks@reddit

It does take place in Florida lol

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Tribblehappy@reddit

My husband did too so that's what we all call it now.

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hunchinko@reddit

Omg I remember being at summer camp and everyone teased me bc I called it Flight of the Alligator

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Tylerdurden389@reddit

Loved it and watched at least 200 tines as a kid. Actually found the soundtrack on ebay when I was 16 over 25 years ago. I live neart fort lauderdale and tried to find the 2 houses the family lived in but the neighborhood is sectioned off for residents only. Probably could've snapped a pic of the drawbridge, though, if I could've found a parking spot, lol.

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AgentWD409@reddit

At my old job, I used to work in the Compliance Department, so I printed out a picture of Max saying "COMPLIANCE!" and taped it to my cubicle.

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Texas_Kimchi@reddit

Movie had insane music too.

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xAlice_Liddell@reddit

Round round get around, I get around…

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yyzda32@reddit

Robot Romp, what a tune

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Whippity@reddit

We watched this as a class treat in elementary school on the TV with the VCR on a cart, etc. Turns out they say “shit” in the movie (I think), teachers weren’t expecting that.

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Paul8219@reddit

Loved that film. Top notch 80s classic

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One_above_alll@reddit

What’s the name of the Movie?

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danielsdesk@reddit

Just watched this with my daughter! I’m putting her through an 80’s family sci if trip. Batteries not included is next

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TacticalFunky@reddit

Freakin' loved this movie. I must've seen it dozens of times as a kid. Loved the effects, the plot, and the soundtrack. Plus, Pee-wee Herman as Max was awesome for an 80s kid.

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TacticalFunky@reddit

Freakin' loved that movie. I must've seen it dozens of times as a kid. Loved the effects, the plot, and the soundtrack. Plus, Pee-wee Herman as as Max was awesome for an 80s kid.

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austex99@reddit

We showed this one to our kids and they really loved it. Probably their third favorite of the 80s movies we’ve showed them, after Princess Bride and Back to the Future.

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Oldpuzzlehead@reddit

I don't leak, you leak.

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slithyknid@reddit

Such discussion about this line between 8-year-old me and my 5-year-old sister. Did this Disney movie just make a PEE joke? Did they really??? It was deliciously scandalous hahaha

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b_casaubon@reddit

Me missing that until you pointed it out - thought he was talking strictly about how they filled his head with information and it leaked.

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slithyknid@reddit

That was the discussion, in part! We went back and forth on what the intention was.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Disney made Aladdin, remember?

“Good kitty, take off and go” right..who the fuck says take off AND go?

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LuisMataPop@reddit

See you later alligator!

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Bat_Nervous@reddit

See ya later, navigator!

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m8k@reddit

I loved this movie as a kid

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AquaValentin@reddit

I saw this in the theaters. I didn’t want to go but my mom made me. She still finds it hilarious that I love this movie

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HiroProtagonist1984@reddit

My most watched vhs as a kid by an absolute landslide. My poor mom must have been so sick of walking to the little rental spot on the corner and getting the SAME movie week after week after week.

COMPLIANCE

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Devil_Fruit9971@reddit

Oh wait is this the movie 3 kids making a spaceship from a junkyard voyage of the something or other

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Intelligent-Salt-362@reddit

“COMPLIANCE” is one of my vocal stims… LoL

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Brilliant_Comb_1607@reddit

Sarah Jessica Parker

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b_casaubon@reddit

Lol - I love the conversation with my mother in law when her daughter and I had just started dating where I said I had a huge crush on SJP when I was a kid. She got all excited and was naming all these movies I’d never heard of and I said “No, from Flight of the Navigator” and she gives me the dead stare I’d just been giving her.

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Kade7596@reddit

not even remotely related or relevant, each one reminds me of the other every time

https://community-sitcom.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Britta

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frankm191@reddit

Square pegs!

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slithyknid@reddit

When Twisted Sister and Blancmange were the height of “weird” pop culture for Disney 😂

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Taupenbeige@reddit

The same Twisted Sister that cameo’s in Pee-Wee’s…. Hmmm…

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wildmaninid@reddit

This was my first crush.

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GrumpyKaeKae@reddit

Holy Crap!

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SlapHappyDude@reddit

I loved this movie and it was a sleepover staple along with Labyrinth.

Apparently they have been trying and failing to remake it since at least 2009.

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b_casaubon@reddit

Keep failing! Needs no remake!

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Ckn-bns-jns@reddit

Loved this movie and the Explorers.. the latter was the one where the kids made a spaceship with an old carnival ride and trash can.

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Here-To-Be-Messy@reddit

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leighla33@reddit

Classic!

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BibFortunaCookie@reddit

"That must be BIG AL!"

I grew up in Florida and loved the space center. This movie was right up my alley.

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Euphoric-Pangolin-81@reddit

COMPLIANCE!

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bfume@reddit

Round round get around I get around

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True_Dimension4344@reddit

This is what I came looking for.

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pack3tSniff3r@reddit

Best movie ever!!

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guitar_stonks@reddit

Love the movie, but makes me sad in a way seeing Florida as I remember it as a kid. That pang of homesickness and nostalgia hits in a weird way.

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octopi917@reddit

Deep cut, man. Love this film

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Sun-God-Ramen@reddit

Name the movie you assholes

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Visual_Cauliflower92@reddit

My dad's favourite film.

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hotdogjumpingfrog1@reddit

Omg. One of my faves. And twisted sister??? So good

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Blurstingwithemotion@reddit

1st movie I saw in theater

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KetoMeUK@reddit

Compliance

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uncreativedreamer@reddit

Flight of the Navigator, right?

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DabBoofer@reddit

it was tubular!

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nattywoohoo@reddit

Compliance!

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Sagemode1245@reddit

Man, that was my favorite movie back in the day. I watched it whenever it was on either wonderful world of Disney or Saturday matinee I don't remember witch one.

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FloridaRedWolf@reddit

Loosely based on a true story.

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hiphophed85@reddit

One of the best movies most people have never seen. Waiting eagerly for the day I will watch this with my 4 year old

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kryptosis9@reddit

Compliance!

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dpg23@reddit

I had this on vhs. Watched it a ton

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EducationCute1640@reddit

This is my favorite movie

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SAINTnumberFIVE@reddit

We need more movies like this.

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hiro111@reddit

Trivia: the original spaceship prop from this movie was reused in Tommorowland in Disney World as a decoration.

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VerdellSJC@reddit

I think it’s gone now. That drink stand was remodeled last year.

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MaddyKet@reddit

I’m low key mad that they painted it and it’s not somewhere as it was where we can see and take selfies with. LOL

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HangryHangryHedgie@reddit

Ha! Cool. It always reminded me of an acorn squash.

Then bicycle helmets looked like this... and that was even better.

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whoisisthis@reddit

Radical

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pathologuys@reddit

My boyfriend is still traumatized at the idea of jumping forward into the future like that from when he saw it as a kid

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clownyboots@reddit

This movie scared the fuck out of me as a kid

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smoot99@reddit

Why didn't I see this? Nobody I knew saw this either, we talked about all movies oriented towards us.. and with Reubens in it even...

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MrCyn@reddit

Its such an underrated movie, I wonder honestly if the lack of toys and merch was the problem, as it was seriously overshadowed by Goonies, ET, neverending story etc despite being just as good if not better.

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bianco_fool@reddit

I do not leak. You leak.

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Darthscary@reddit

Compliance!

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lorem_opossum@reddit

I remember seeing this in true theatre and having my mind blown and I could tell that my dad really wasn’t into the movie at all.

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CRT-Gaming-HQ@reddit

I was more of a Time Bandits kid. I also loved Clash of the Titans a lot.

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raspberrybee@reddit

I loved that movie when I was a kid. I saw it so many times.

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kretslopp@reddit

I rewatched it a couple of years ago. It didn’t age well.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit

Ok, I'll bite.

Why do you say that?

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kretslopp@reddit

I might have used the term in error.

What I mean is the movie was released 1986. I was born 1982 and I think we might have rented a VHS around -87 or -88 and through the eyes of a 5 or 6 year old, I only saw it once and it blew me away, I have these memories of a super cool and very serious movie.

As a 40 year old watching it, I was struck by how comical the ship ai becomes. It was unfortunately not that pleasant to rewatch as I thought it would be.

So a part of the problem is that I saw it once and never again. If I compare it to Star Wars. I saw Episode IV around the same time and those films I have seen continuously through my life. I basically grew up with those and still enjoy them.

The same can be said about Nintendo NES games. I still enjoy playing those games that I played in the later part of the -80s and I am now transferring my love for Super Mario games to my son. And he enjoys them as well.

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big_ringer@reddit

The only time someone said "shit" in a Disney movie.

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wolfdickspeedstache@reddit

Compliance

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DasKittySmoosh@reddit

Still holds up and my 9 year old loves it too

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Farquharson7873@reddit

This kid’s head is full.

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CliffLake@reddit

If ever they should make a '30 years later' remake, it's right here. It was a great movie, they could make a great sequel, and they would fuck it up so hard! I can only imagine how. So bad.

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FacePalmTheater@reddit

This movie is what got me on twisted sister

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Foxgoku@reddit

Compliance

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siteofsanity@reddit

Still in my top 5.

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elvisWorms@reddit

My introduction into hair metal.

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chiropteran_expert@reddit

This movie was my first introduction to light speed travel and its relationship with time. Blew my mind

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Trashy_Cappy@reddit

Between this and The Last Star Fighter, I'm still mad the aliens never came for me. still stuck here.

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winstonsmith8236@reddit

Project Hail Mary = Flight of the Navigator + Contact moviebaby

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AssumptionMean2159@reddit

I walked out of the theater telling friends it was FOTN + Andromeda Strain.

But the late reveal sure lifted heavily from Contact.

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usmcnick0311Sgt@reddit

Compliance

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Unhappy-Fox1017@reddit

This awakened a long lost memory in me. Forgot all about this movie!

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FabiusBill@reddit

I have bittersweet memories of this movie.

My friend Jody, who was a few years older and like a big brother to me, took me to the cheap seats at the mall where we watched this. Popcorn, soda, and candy, everything. We then went and bought some matchbox cars, which we took back to his mom's house and smashed flat with cinder blocks. It was the last Summer day I remember is spending together, as school started, he turned 16, for a car, a job on the weekends, and started chasing girls.

A few years later, like River Phoenix's character in Stand By Me, he was stabbed in the neck trying to break up a fight. The way it was told to me, he was dead before he hit the floor. The guy who stabbed him was never caught.

I'm going to hold my son, watch this, and remember Jody.

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elfmere@reddit

I wanna show this to my 8 year old but not sure if he is ready for old timie shows... He did love flash Gordan when he was like 5

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HunterGonzo@reddit

This movie is the reason that after I got my driver's license, the first song I played alone in the car was "I Get Around" by the Beach Boys.

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batsofburden@reddit

I watched it a year ago for nostalgia's sake, but it actually really holds up as a movie.

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jibby13531@reddit

I don't leak, you leak

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aintthatjustheway@reddit

OINK OINK too many twinkies

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Mahaloth@reddit

We had this on tape. Watched it quite a bit.

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MarkDavid04@reddit

I was thinking about the scene where the boy hides inside that little robot cart. We thought we'd have those things running around all over the place in our future! (Only partly true)

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Heart_Love@reddit

I loved that robot cart! My robot vacuum’s name now is R.A.L.F. 😂

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CaterpillarHookah@reddit

Robotic. Assistant. Labor. Facilitator.

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Siegfoult@reddit

He really RALFed all over that role!

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PlantAcrobatic302@reddit

Still one of my favorites!

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tmofee@reddit

It’s an interesting film. Starts off more serious and slightly hard scifi. Then halfway through there’s a swerve to the silliness of the 80s films we’re used to. Still love it, though.

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nahtfitaint@reddit

The most 80's line was uttered in this movie: "Come on, mom. He is 8 years old. He can make it a half mile through the woods in the dark on his own. Why do I have to go get him?"

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No_Olive_3310@reddit

One of my favs as a kid!! I would use pillows as my “steering” arms 😂

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tpero@reddit

Showed this to my kid, he loved it as much as I did!

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shadowst17@reddit

In case you've ever wanted to know how they did some of those rad effects.

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silver_tongued_devil@reddit

I learned the Beach Boys music from this movie. My sister and I loved this and short circut.

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Oswaldbackus@reddit

I still love this movie

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col_akir_nakesh@reddit

One of my favorite movies as a kid. Along with the Goonies and Big Bird In China lol.

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Mister_Brevity@reddit

“I don’t leak, you leak!”

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glake603@reddit

Compliance

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bluesgrrlk8@reddit

Flight of the Navigator and BeastMaster being faves in my childhood are why my Sci-Fi/Fantasy standards are so high as an adult.

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Ill-Percentage-3276@reddit

Why does this pic make me want to cry?

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Hareborne1@reddit

Showed this to my 8 and 9 year old- still freaking holds up!!

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Mysterious_Secret827@reddit

Loved this movie as a kid! I remember watching it on TV in the 90s. But this is just a lovely and wholesome family movie!

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keitchi@reddit

I'm still disappointed that the song on the Mustang geeks' car radio isn't a full song and only a small clip created by the film's composer.

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AvidCyclist250@reddit

yeah i fucking loved that

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leesharon1985@reddit

I used to always watch this on tv as a kid and didn’t know the name for years. I loved it.

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Tall-Introduction414@reddit

The mom was in an X-Files episode.

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Starscream147@reddit

Naboo vibes.

Er…the other way around. Ha!

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Spicy_Potato_Person@reddit

The Mom, Veronica Cartwright, was also in Alien.

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Starscream147@reddit

Hell yeah, it was!!

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GABigBear@reddit

I know I saw it, but I honestly don’t remember it.

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FashionSweaty@reddit

I used to be so jealous of the kid's room before the alien abduction..

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KinopioToad@reddit

I used to call it "Flight of the Alligator" when I was younger, because I couldn't say Navigator.

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StickItSomewhereNice@reddit

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This was Rad

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geekdadchris@reddit

This and The Neverendng Story were my go to movies as a kid.

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charliehustle757@reddit

It was

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Justaticklerone@reddit

"See you later, Navigator! Huh huh!"

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TransportationOk657@reddit

Watched this a few years ago for the first time in decades. Had my kids (17 and 12 at the time) watch it, too. Surprisingly, they loved the movie. Still held up in my eyes as well.

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superpananation@reddit

Hell yeah! Also recently rewatched Explorers with Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix and it was still so good!

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RWDPhotos@reddit

Captain D’s very good awesome excellent amazing video about the movie’s vfx

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Freaky_Freddy@reddit

its a great video!

feels like a mini-documentary

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twolfhawk@reddit

This movie is why I moved to florida.

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omegaphallic@reddit

I understand if you never forgive the movie for that.

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twolfhawk@reddit

I am happy to not pay an additional 19% in state tax plus 2.5% in local tax and actually get paid my fair share and not in coal dust

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jbott456@reddit

Best assembly movie ever. I left a changed child!!

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stricktd@reddit

I constantly woke up in the morning wondering if it was several years later

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stricktd@reddit

Compliance!

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mommaholly@reddit

Rewatching this movie I was obsessed with as a kid, now as a parent and adult made me sob... losing your kid for years, and then for them to come back the same age but everyone else has aged, would be a mindfuck.

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PinFabulous2806@reddit

I watched this movie as a kid and never even realized that was the plot lol, I just thought “oooooo a space ship!”

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therealpopkiller@reddit

I rewatched this movie during the pandemic. Loved it as a kid. Loved the first half as an adult. Thought the second half was kind of goofy and a huge tonal shift. Suffers from the same problem Explorers does. Kind of disappointing.

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SadPhase2589@reddit

I agree, it doesn’t hold up well at all.

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Brainpilot@reddit

The last time I saw this was a few years ago. I broke my ankle the next day and when I woke up from surgery, I was singing Beach Boys and talking like PeeWee Herman. Sadly, no one knew what I was talking about since they were half my age.

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forlornhope22@reddit

This was the favorite movie the teachers would show at the end of the school year when they couldn't be f'ed anymore.

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lacyhoohas@reddit

I loved this movie!

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ArtexBonesinger@reddit

Compliance!

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mntnskyman@reddit

Flight of the Navigator. Great flick.

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USConservativeVegan@reddit

Flight of the Navigator > ET.

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b_casaubon@reddit

I still love this movie. When I was younger, my folks always wondered why I wanted to do the backlot tour at Hollywood studios - it was just to see the ship lol

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Master-Topic-2989@reddit

It still holds up which is nice.

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OffMeta13@reddit

One of my favorites!

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Synth42-14151606@reddit

Upon rewatch as an adult, I couldn’t let go of just the absolute randomness and disconnectedness of the whole thing. The alien was visiting and then kidnapped him, then had to kidnap him again in the future just to get him back to the past? What? Also, Sarah Jessica Parker hitting on a 12yo? Also, over the years, I have come to hate the Beach Boys. TL;DR - I really liked it as a kid. As an old cranky person, this movie sucks. Lol.

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Iris-Luce@reddit

THE MUSIC. The soundtrack is so good. I would pay so much for a release of the soundtrack

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cosmicfluffnstuff@reddit

The soundtrack for this movie is the best.

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HighlanderAbruzzese@reddit

Banger

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TrimaxionDrone_BR549@reddit

Great movie, still holds up today.

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Used-Height-2670@reddit

Still one of the best ever

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RyanEversley@reddit

Compliance!

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taleofbenji@reddit

Starts out with heady time travel themes.

Ends with Pee Wee the spaceship.

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BornanAlien@reddit

Tripped me out when he went back and his brother was older than he was.

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heyitsrider@reddit

Compliance

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Internal_Example1185@reddit

42 here. One of my favorite movies of all time.

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NurkleTurkey@reddit

I got to meet and work with the director in film school. It was an absolute highlight of my life.

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picklefork421@reddit

loved that movie!!

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ROXARIO92@reddit

If I had to name the first movie I remember watching as a kid, I think Flight of the Navigator would be the winner!
I watched it countless times on VHS.
Definitely one of my favorite childhood movies. Even today, I still rewatch it whenever I'm in the mood.

Also, I really like "Lose Your Love" by Blancmange, thanks to this movie. :D

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Raven_Blackfeather@reddit

Compliance!

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HighSeasArchivist@reddit

It actually stands up pretty well. I watched it a few months ago, and wasn't disappointed.

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Alternative-Light514@reddit

I wanted to move to Ft Lauderdale so bad as a kid because of this film

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Ja_the_Red@reddit

This was the first “official” movie I remember getting on VHS after our VCR ate our recorded copy. Still a top five favorite of mine.

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MaddyKet@reddit

This started my love of the Beach Boys.

🎶 Round round get around, I get around, yeah (Get around round round I get around, ooh-ooh) I get around Fom town to town (get around round round I get around)🎶

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AiringOGrievances@reddit

Great movie but the missing child scenes are dark.

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Starbreiz@reddit

Oooo I have this dvd, time for a rewatch

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Narradisall@reddit

Compliance? Compliance!

How can I still hear this decades laterZ

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midunda@reddit

Great movie, and most of the special effects have aged pretty damn well considering the movie's age!

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this_knee@reddit

In my pre teenage mind, that ship is exactly what it looked like inside my computer and is exactly how it ran.

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HangryHangryHedgie@reddit

It always reminded me of an acorn squash

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2cstars@reddit

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dbwedgie@reddit

Kid me wanted one of those so bad!

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HangryHangryHedgie@reddit

Still want one. It's like a pygmy marmoset!

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unicorn-beard@reddit

Same, I still one want to put in my backpack and go everywhere with me!!

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HangryHangryHedgie@reddit

I wanted that little monkey alien squish thingy so badly!!!

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dodge2895@reddit

One of those movies I watched as a kid and took years to track down what it was.

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Responsible-Maybe289@reddit

LOVED THIS when it came out! I so wanted it to happen to me!

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Flimsy_Situation_506@reddit

I watched it with my kids a few years ago and they really enjoyed it

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JustTinman@reddit

Compliance!

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Bright_Respect_1279@reddit

Stumbled upon this documentary on YouTube while searching to see if "Flight of the Navigator " was on there.Life After the Navigator I had no idea he went through so much. 🥺

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megamanx4321@reddit

This used to air on TV every year. No idea how many times I watched it.

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GrungeCheap56119@reddit

Yesssssss

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TimeCadet@reddit

I loved this film growing up so much, and was stoked when YouTube channel, Captain Disillusionment, interrupted his normal programming to do a serious deep dive of the special effects from Flight of the Navigator: https://youtu.be/tyixMpuGEL8

I highly recommend it, he's a fellow Xennial and VFX artist who was also an enormous fan of the film

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ColoOddball@reddit

If you live this movie and have never read Armada by Earnest Cline, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

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AziCrawford@reddit

LOVED Flight of The Navigator!

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three-sense@reddit

Ok, so some of my older family memers told me this was a true story and I believed that for years

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Ziograffiato@reddit

I’m the navigator! I’m the navigator!

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madlibs13@reddit

First movie I ever saw on the Disney channel.

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AggressiveCommand739@reddit

That way they aged the parents to make them look creepy! As an adult I imagine it is in large part to reflect the stress of losing a child, but when I was a kid, it made me fear my own parents aging.

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las3rschw3rt@reddit

Just watched it a few weeks ago. Still holds up

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polkadotrose707@reddit

The eldest of 3, youngest being 7 years younger than me with parents who minded the movie ratings we had many years of rated g/pg/pg13 movies we watched over and over again and this was one of the favorites we could all agree upon. I loved this movie and now I want to find it to watch again.

I love this sub. 😍🥰🥳✊💜

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andy189@reddit

During the last big snow storm in the North East I sat down with my son and watched this with him. He loved it.

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plastigoop@reddit

Not the peewee herman voice tho

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singlesunbeam_enough@reddit

This was my favorite childhood movie!

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vornec@reddit

One of my favorites. I watched it at grandmothers house with cousins a lot. I watched it recently with my 10 year old son and he really liked it. I liked going back to it. It holds up for the most part.

I loved that the kids had so much freedom. I know it leads to him getting taken, but my childhood involved a lot of this free ranging. I think it’s good for kids… though I know it’s a different world now. I loved the house on the water and the boat.

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porb2020@reddit

Can you imagine the pitch for this movie. Sentient alien space craft kidnaps a 12 yo and makes him the captain then time travels to the future. Then they mind meld and try to return to the past. Brilliant. 🤣

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StealTheDark@reddit

Compliance!

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Bellatrix_Shimmers@reddit

Yes! I was trying to remember this, thanks.

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Sufficient_Debt8615@reddit

I'm gen x and I love this movie. Compliance!

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Diafuge@reddit

On his way to rob a bank!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/child-star-bank-robbery-sunshine-coast-1.3565444

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MarieO49@reddit

When I saw this post I scrolled through the comments to see if anybody had a “where are they now” update. What a bummer. Not the update. I was hoping for. I had imagined him going on to live an ordinary life, happily walking amongst us without anyone knowing he was once a superstar.

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Diafuge@reddit

Right there with you, my friend!

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TaxesRextortion@reddit

Movie day was always Da Bomb; even though we watched more than 11,000th times since kindergarten 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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megamisanthropic@reddit

Compliance

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NuncErgoFacite@reddit

And I still want my AI assistant to sound like Max and not Jarvis

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Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit

A boy from 48 years in the past raked an incredible trip to 40 years in the past... 😝

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JinxOnU78@reddit

I LOVED this as a kid!

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leg00b@reddit

I probably didn't see this until I was like 7 and it was 1993

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g1mp3d@reddit

Nice find! I'm suddenly craving Rice a Roni though...

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statistacktic@reddit

F yeah

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TheVexingRose@reddit

Flight of the Navigator feels like such a weird fever dream

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BrutalHunny@reddit

It’s how I know all our favorite beach boys song.

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AnswerGuy301@reddit

I so wanted this spacecraft!

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LooseAlbatross@reddit

This movie taught me more about relativity than I care to admit. “Time slows down as you approach the speed of light.”

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Ok-Piglet1157@reddit

One of my favs growing up

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Fortestingporpoises@reddit

I think I wanted a frisbee dog my entire life because of this movie. And then I got one.

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moonbunnychan@reddit

I remember finding this movie both deeply disturbing and deeply enthralling at the same time. Maybe disturbing isn't quite the right word but it made me feel... uncomfortable in this almost existential way

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SigintSoldier@reddit

Still is!

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Embarrassed_Art5414@reddit

COMPLIANCE!

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NiaApp@reddit

Just the other day I was thinking I have to find and watch this again!

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Moonbutter@reddit

I was just thinking about rewatching this next week, thanks for the rad reminder. 🛸

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Worth_Specific3764@reddit

The little alien pet was friggin awesome

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brooklynderek@reddit

I wanted to be friends with a UFO so bad after seeing this.

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Fine_Violinist5802@reddit

Buuuurrrrrrp

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Luda_malo@reddit

Awwww See you later navigator 🥰🥰🥰

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jcstrat@reddit

Hell my kids loved it 30 something year later. It’s a fantastic movie.

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Cainesbrother@reddit

I hade my 5 year old sit down and watch it. She actually liked it. She wasn't obsessed like i was but I guess it still holds up

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SteveEcks@reddit

This is exactly what we're missing from movies today. The inventiveness of find like this, the Last Starfighter, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Ninja Turtles.

No one was afraid to do something weird and also make it good.

Flight of the Navigator stuck with me from the first time I saw it. I was probably 4 or 5 but the wonderment was so powerful.

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Luminaire_Ultima@reddit

Love this movie. It’s part of my 1980s Kids In Space Quadrilogy with Explorers, SpaceCamp, and The Last Starfighter.

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ExpectedBehaviour@reddit

One of those seminal films of my childhood like E.T., Short Circuit, and Ghostbusters. This film holds up surprisingly well; the design work and early CGI still looks incredible.

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FloridaGirlMary@reddit

This is where I first heard about “twinkies” lol

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Impressive-Potato@reddit

This used to play all the time on TBS

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

Hell yeah it was...

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derekschroer@reddit

I was literally just thinking about this movie on Friday...this and The Last Starfighter

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Vintage_Visionary@reddit

I still think about this movie every now and again. It sort of twisted my childhood mind to think about going into the future, living outside of time, being in other worlds that are similar to my own (future times).

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bagal@reddit

Best 4th movie ever.

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Snickrrs@reddit

This movie scared the shit out of me as a kid. I don’t know why exactly, but I haven’t watched it since.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

It’s very fucking rad. But the little gooey alien made me scared of cereal (the milk lurking below) for quite a while.

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Tiny-Cup7029@reddit

I spent a week in the hospital just as this came out for rent ...my parents (who are awesome and I fully didn't appreciate it at the time) paid for me to have one of those little bedside hospital TVs with an integrated vhs player. I must've laid there and watched this movie 3 dozen times. Brings back some very vivid memories.

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