Sunday, July 13, 2008

Cinema Memoir #12

Flight of the Navigator (July 30th, 1986)

I don't think I actually saw this movie in 1986, but rather at one of those summer kid's movie shows a few years later.

All I remember is being really depressed because everyone thinks the main character is dead. I haven't seen this movie in probably 15 years. I don't plan on watching it anytime soon.

Oh and Paul Reubens did the voice of the ship's robot pilot.

UPDATE: May 24th, 2010

Evidently there's a Flight of the Navigator Remake in the works. I was able to watch this movie again recently and it was just about as depressing as I remember it.

Also, I was at Disney's Hollywood Studio (always MGM to me) last week and saw the space ship from this movie on the back lot tour. It's always really cool to see movie props even if the movie sucked.

(Image from impawards.com)

2 comments:

DCP said...

I guess I thought this was the first movie I saw in the theater, but if it was released in 1986 there's no way that's possible.

Dan said...

Haha, this is one of my brother's favorite films from his childhood. I have a feeling it's because he likes flying so much; he's an airline pilot now.