@@roryvstheworld Hah, I only came to the same realisation too, after thinking it was much more than a mere co-incidence the both posted videos about Foundation and Flight of the Navigator at the same time.
The best thing I love about all this is that all my friends have all grown up and are in there 40s and I’m still 12 years old in the head. Thank you Trimaxian
When children still had the sense of wonder. The journey of discovery back then was what made all these new things so fantastic. Kids today, they have everything they want or need or know at the touch of the button. The journey of discovery is now looking at a phone and not up at the stars.
Geez... Rewatching this, I am astounded at the level of detail they put into this back in 1986. The reflections on the hull and the water are quite remarkable.
Seemingly every trick in the book was employed. They used, at a minimum: full-scale models, miniatures, forced perspective, matte paintings, mirrors, motion control, chromakey, stop-motion, and CGI.
I remember seeing FOTN in theaters when I was 5. Great memories. The graphics still hold up! One of the greatest and underrated movies Disney ever made! Everytime I see the Golden Gate Bridge shot I instantly hear Max sing: "Rice A Roni, the San Francisco treat!" 🔔🔔
For some extra fun & amazing trivia... The musical soundtrack-score for *[Flight of the Navigator (1986) film]* was composed by *_Alan Silvestri,_* who besides having a long litany of great movie soundtrack-scores, is currently best known for many MCU film scores, in particular the MCU Avengers' theme.
This is the movie that started my love for space sci fi. My all time favorite movie of ALL time. I'm going to cringe when I see the trailer of the reboot...*cries*
i loved it too but after rewatching it recently I do think it can be improved *if* done right . (a big if of course , considering all recent remakes / sequels / reboots almost always suck )
Apparently Bryce Dallas Howard is supposed to direct the reboot/remake sooo considering she directed some of the best Mandolorian/BOBF episodes I'm hopeful.
just showed this to my son for the first time.... Has anybody else noticed that ship and how it moves looks STRIKINGLY FAMILIAR to what the Air Force and the Navy is claiming they've been seeing lately?
Doesn't necessarily have to be extraterrestrial 👽. Take away the faster than light speed space craft able to go underwater and put a altitude cap on it. And around 3030 most models of Chevys, Ford's, Hondas and other cars are going to look like this. All electric ⚡ hydrogen/ VTOL with AI assist and smart features/ nanobot infused polymer materials to change shape. I'd say in about a millennium we'll be taking our Trimaxion's to work.
i miss those times i'm 40 y.o now and let me tell you the movies, music and overall experiences as a child were great for me those times will be forever remembered as the best time to be alive
Yep, I remember He-Man, Transformers, GIJOE, Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff, those were my favorites the list goes on and on, I want to go back to the 80s so bad, what a great era!
I've seen this ship. One day above me in Chico, California. I thought it must be a weather balloon or a kid's silver helium birthday balloon. But then, suddenly it moved in a way impossible for those two... Then it disappeared out of nowhere.
I remember the first time I watched this movie as a kid. I so wanted to be David. That would have been so cool. Even at 48 I still tear up at the end when David says goodby to Max
This is exactly how one of the models of what you call UFOs or UAPs look like. Down to the way they operate but it's more sophisticated something between advanced AI mixed with your thoughts & intentions.
I had my fair share of issues filming reflective or shiny models in front on blue screen back in the optical days. I guess they used an additional UV light pass to pull usable mattes from the motion control miniature (the one in pod form when NOT reflecting anything off a moving BG plate) or severely dulled the ship down after the beauty & reflection pass. As for the CGI shots; nothing short of amazing at the time.
They actually used a hairspray that covered the chrome paint for the matte shots. The spray could then be washed off for additional takes ruclips.net/video/tyixMpuGEL8/видео.htmlsi=KXTehzzDfyWl3v0g
Captain Disillusion goes over it in his "VFXcool" video about the movie - After every shot, they spray painted the miniature with white hairspray and filmed again to get a matte. Then they washed it off to get ready for the next shot
That’s really true of most special effects movies from the 80s. These effects were a lot more expensive before they could just do it all in a computer, so they had to use them sparingly.
This is first time I've seen this I have to watch this movie , I remember trying to watch it as a kid n I freaked out how he came into the future & his little brother was now older than him and I turned it off lol 😅 my 8 yr old mind couldn't handle it
And 40 years later the UAP videos that are showing up arent that much different than this. Bob Lazar spoke of working on them in the 80s and they moved exactly like this except the part where the real ship flies belly forward. They have been dumbing us down with movies to desensitize us of the truth which is that their really is alien crafts that have visited us and the ones that we have found from one form or another, hidden by the military. Our future is gona get scarier sigh :(
The only star trek con or fest i've been to was the one with Francis Ford Coppola, and Brent Spiner.. and Scotty was there too.. just wish Winona Ryder showed up!! ;) I was in the presentation room with Coppala with about 2-3 other people sitting nearly front row for quite awhile.. and was minding my own business and never dawned on me to simply say Hello! LOL
my review of this movie : ruclips.net/video/nK7FWCbSxmk/видео.html
Wait a minute, Major Grin is Nitpicking Nerd!? Lol how did I not know this. I've been enjoying both channels serperatly for ages.
@@roryvstheworld Hah, I only came to the same realisation too, after thinking it was much more than a mere co-incidence the both posted videos about Foundation and Flight of the Navigator at the same time.
The best thing I love about all this is that all my friends have all grown up and are in there 40s and I’m still 12 years old in the head. Thank you Trimaxian
The soundtrack to this movie is beyond amazing chills every time.
Alan Silverstri always delivers and he was in his prime here. The very next year is his best IMO with Predator.
Some of the greatest movies ever made came out in the 80's.
When children still had the sense of wonder. The journey of discovery back then was what made all these new things so fantastic. Kids today, they have everything they want or need or know at the touch of the button. The journey of discovery is now looking at a phone and not up at the stars.
when special effects added to the story and were not a substitute for it.
100% truth. This movie. Goonies. Willow. Just a huge list of absolutely great adventure movies that could take an hour to type.
indeed
You are damn right they did.
Geez... Rewatching this, I am astounded at the level of detail they put into this back in 1986. The reflections on the hull and the water are quite remarkable.
Yeah thanks screw his block lol
Pretty amazing how well the effects held up
This is what happens when you work with in the limitations of the effects.
Unlike later MCU movies where most of it just stands out badly.
Seemingly every trick in the book was employed. They used, at a minimum: full-scale models, miniatures, forced perspective, matte paintings, mirrors, motion control, chromakey, stop-motion, and CGI.
@@sl600rt 🤡
You can tell if its real cause when David steps out of it the real prop is actually there but when he is inside that's when it's cgi
I remember seeing FOTN in theaters when I was 5. Great memories. The graphics still hold up!
One of the greatest and underrated movies Disney ever made!
Everytime I see the Golden Gate Bridge shot I instantly hear Max sing: "Rice A Roni, the San Francisco treat!" 🔔🔔
i really liked this movie when i saw it as a kid, had one of the coolest ship designs.
ofcourse its one of the coolest because they took a look at the real thing, this is based on a real life story probably, just like E.T
LOVE this movie,got this & the last starfighter for Christmas
One of my favorites, ive seen this movie at least 50x and never get sick of it 😊
I love how they fly over the people in the city, and they just have to point with their fingers because nobody has a smartphone in their hands
Why not?!! Idiots.
I remember pointing
@@bitter-bit we pointed and pointed but never got a single like for it
I must have spent countless hours as a kid trying to draw this ship.
I did too!
The movie box art couldn’t get it right.
Do you want it ? I can make it big size metallic model
i tried to model it in 3D. on an SGI Onyx workstation at my uncle's office in Chicago. i failed miserably
My favorite movie growing up, don't like Disney really but they did very well with this. So nice and wholesome. I like it better than ET.
Me too
For a film that is 38 years old the effects have aged really well and still hold up.
For some extra fun & amazing trivia... The musical soundtrack-score for *[Flight of the Navigator (1986) film]* was composed by *_Alan Silvestri,_* who besides having a long litany of great movie soundtrack-scores, is currently best known for many MCU film scores, in particular the MCU Avengers' theme.
He gave the Delta Force theme too
Back to the Future? Judge Dredd? Contact? Predator?
@@RemiRusso *(& @DOI-ARTS) --* Yes, all those would fall under the _"long litany"_ part of my initial Comment. *:)*
James Cameron contacted the director of this movie to find out how they did the CGI which he used for The Abyss and T2.
Liar
@@randomguy56789 Randal Klieser said it in an interview
@@randomguy56789 Who’s lying now
@@DMalltheway ok fine now shut up you win 🥇
@@randomguy56789 Go back to your mom’s basement.
This is the movie that started my love for space sci fi. My all time favorite movie of ALL time. I'm going to cringe when I see the trailer of the reboot...*cries*
i loved it too but after rewatching it recently I do think it can be improved *if* done right . (a big if of course , considering all recent remakes / sequels / reboots almost always suck )
No, no please. No reboot!!
Apparently Bryce Dallas Howard is supposed to direct the reboot/remake sooo considering she directed some of the best Mandolorian/BOBF episodes I'm hopeful.
just showed this to my son for the first time.... Has anybody else noticed that ship and how it moves looks STRIKINGLY FAMILIAR to what the Air Force and the Navy is claiming they've been seeing lately?
Doesn't necessarily have to be extraterrestrial 👽. Take away the faster than light speed space craft able to go underwater and put a altitude cap on it. And around 3030 most models of Chevys, Ford's, Hondas and other cars are going to look like this. All electric ⚡ hydrogen/ VTOL with AI assist and smart features/ nanobot infused polymer materials to change shape. I'd say in about a millennium we'll be taking our Trimaxion's to work.
Yes I was thinking the same thing!
This was my go to move as a kid. Watched it hundreds of times.
Best spaceship movie of all time.
Take me back to my childhood, when we didn't have a care in the world i miss them days.
Wouldn’t be surprised if those “Tic-Tacs” the navy got footage of didn’t look too dissimilar from this close up.
If nothing else they nailed the performance aspects of an NHI craft
@@christophercobb386yep they got the acceleration spot on
This movie was amazing! Love it! Love it! Love it!
I was waiting for my turn as a navigator. I still am 😊
This is my favourite movie of all time.
The future of space flight
How incredible it would be to be that advanced in the universe just so you can fly to another planet just to mess around for a bit then leave.
One of my childhood fav movies awesome 👏
The music reminds me of carefree days in the mid 80’s watching this movie on Betamax recorded from the TV on a summer afternoon
the 80's were great to grow up in as a kid :E i loved this film
There's an interesting documentary somewhere showing how a lot of the effects were made. Quite recently too
@Captain disillusion
These are the drones we're looking for! Love this movie.
i miss those times i'm 40 y.o now and let me tell you the movies, music and overall experiences as a child were great
for me those times will be forever remembered as the best time to be alive
Yep, I remember He-Man, Transformers, GIJOE, Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff, those were my favorites the list goes on and on, I want to go back to the 80s so bad, what a great era!
I love that movie so much. I watched it so many times as a child!
It was my favorite movie back then and I need a copy
1986 . . . and still looks as cool as back then. 👌😎👍
Still awesome after all this time. I wonder if Bob Lazar got high one time and watched fotn and that's how we came up with his story hehe.
It's still amazing to watch now in 2024😊
yo one of the best movies ever made yo
Damn I use to watch this movie back in 2010-11 when I was 5 or 6 years old damn this movie brings back memories of the 2010s!!!!
Disney nailed scifi with that one.
This one was originally an independent film. Disney ended up buying the rights to the film for distribution.
“it’s getting dark, that’s not right.” “NO ITS LEFT!”
Back when I used to dream…
Loved this movie as a kid 🥰🥰🥰
This is insane but I was watching this 2 days ago!
"This isn't Miami, this is Tokyo! How'd we get here?"
"Oops."
Moya and the Delta Flyer had a baby... it's high-tech and frigging cute.
Moya… now _that_ is a name I haven’t heard in a _long_ time… a long time…
Still 80ies and 90ies had just the best movies ever to be made
I've seen this ship. One day above me in Chico, California. I thought it must be a weather balloon or a kid's silver helium birthday balloon. But then, suddenly it moved in a way impossible for those two... Then it disappeared out of nowhere.
That sunset shot at 1:37 **chef's kiss**
Hopefully, I will have a second right before I die to think of this movie. I will go smiling. Fond memories from Earth
Magical Movie thanks Major Grin
I am watching this movie already 1986 nice movie 👌
I like how the "high speed" configuration is a Wave Rider lifting body shape.
Ikr, from a low forward angle, you could mistake it it's profile for an SR-72.
Our fastest aircraft have become the aliens.
Awesome, thanks a lot!
One of the best movies ever. They should do a remake
I absolutely love this film
Любой мальчик мира хотел бы попасть в такое приключение! В том числе и Я !!! 👍👍👍❤❤❤😍😍😍
I loved this movie as a kid
I remember the first time I watched this movie as a kid. I so wanted to be David. That would have been so cool. Even at 48 I still tear up at the end when David says goodby to Max
I wonder what all capabilities does this Trimaxion Drone Ship have!
This is exactly how one of the models of what you call UFOs or UAPs look like. Down to the way they operate but it's more sophisticated something between advanced AI mixed with your thoughts & intentions.
wait i thought it was all cg? i only saw a small handful of cgi scenes. like 2 or something... did they use miniatures for most of this?
@@MajorGrin Of course CG existed...? The environment mapped reflections look completely different from the practical models.
@@hughJ yeah reflection mapping must have been computerized . very early CGI
The 80s where the best years for really good movies of all Times I really anyjoyed all Of the movies from the 80s the best years
This is no movie prop!
It s the air ray built by FESTO Company.
Yes, that is the good stuff!
I had my fair share of issues filming reflective or shiny models in front on blue screen back in the optical days. I guess they used an additional UV light pass to pull usable mattes from the motion control miniature (the one in pod form when NOT reflecting anything off a moving BG plate) or severely dulled the ship down after the beauty & reflection pass.
As for the CGI shots; nothing short of amazing at the time.
They actually used a hairspray that covered the chrome paint for the matte shots. The spray could then be washed off for additional takes
ruclips.net/video/tyixMpuGEL8/видео.htmlsi=KXTehzzDfyWl3v0g
Captain Disillusion goes over it in his "VFXcool" video about the movie - After every shot, they spray painted the miniature with white hairspray and filmed again to get a matte. Then they washed it off to get ready for the next shot
No defense against the technology like that 😮
Now it’s a snake shack at Disney World.
Starfleet would love it tech since it can go anywhere
Thanks
Эх класный фильм в детстви смотрел. Просто класика того времени
Ahh I love that movie.
Wow I'm surprised it had so little screen time.
That’s really true of most special effects movies from the 80s. These effects were a lot more expensive before they could just do it all in a computer, so they had to use them sparingly.
recuerdo cuando lo vi de niño, era tipo Wow q real se ve!! jaja, ahun asi fue de mis peliculas favoritas de niño, era tan genial
Amazing movie of the century
Forever thankful to be Gen-X 🤘
My favorite
This is first time I've seen this I have to watch this movie , I remember trying to watch it as a kid n I freaked out how he came into the future & his little brother was now older than him and I turned it off lol 😅 my 8 yr old mind couldn't handle it
And 40 years later the UAP videos that are showing up arent that much different than this. Bob Lazar spoke of working on them in the 80s and they moved exactly like this except the part where the real ship flies belly forward. They have been dumbing us down with movies to desensitize us of the truth which is that their really is alien crafts that have visited us and the ones that we have found from one form or another, hidden by the military. Our future is gona get scarier sigh :(
super metroid inspired?
This predates Super Metroid by 7 years.
The Major is Grinning for sho!! great film of my time!! go 80's!!!! GO NASA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It really is a Small World we live in.. fellow space nut nerds... ;)
The only star trek con or fest i've been to was the one with Francis Ford Coppola, and Brent Spiner.. and Scotty was there too.. just wish Winona Ryder showed up!! ;) I was in the presentation room with Coppala with about 2-3 other people sitting nearly front row for quite awhile.. and was minding my own business and never dawned on me to simply say Hello! LOL
See you later navigator!
Love this movie
Great film
Pretty close to the technology that exists
They should do a remake
Hasnt the kid in this spent most of his adult life in prison for robbing banks and shit?
yeah he robbed a bank while wearing a wig
That's sad...
A Tic Tac !!
Who do I pay to make me one of these with a full interior as a home
Don't like to add salt to the wounds but I like the UFO in the first class monouvour, hows that for a school of thought? Lol
Film stupendo
ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES 🎬 GROWING UP AS A KID.
2 KINGS 24:13-16
GOD BLESS EVERYONE 🙏.
the remake is gonna be crap
there better not be a remake
SEE U LATER NAVIGATOR
Really unfortunate about what has happened to the kid in this movie.
Ah yes the Nerf football spaceship.
Looks like the new brazil ufo
They knew already
3.14 I've been there lol