Flight of Navigator Review (no video)

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Mark H. Baker writer
Michael Burton writer
Matt MacManus writer

A young boy chases his dog into the woods, falls in a ravine. He loses consciousness for a few seconds. When we comes to and runs back to his home, he finds that his parents are not there. He is 8 years in the future. He is still 12, but his family and the world are 8 year in the future (1986). How did he get 8 years into the future? And can he return?

This is one of my favorite movies of the 80’s. It plays on the fantasies of a 12 year old boy having control of a highly advanced space craft. The boy is Joey Cramer. Cramer played in a few other 80s movies. Flight of the Navigator has a group of very familiar faces: Cliff De Young, Veronica Cartwright, Howard Hesse, and Sarah Jessica Parker. Paul Rueben actually did a voice over in the film. One thing I noticed is that of the 40 or so credited actors only about 6 have still active and doing movies and TV regularly, so only 15%. I wonder if this means there is only about a 15% chance of the serious actors making it.

Aside from the story, Alan Silvestri’s music to Flight of the Navigator is my favorite thing about the movie. Looking through is extensive body of work, I can see hes done a lot of my favorite movie music: Polar Express, Forest Gump, The Bodyguard, Back to the Future II, Predator, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Abyss and many others (he’s done over 100 movies).

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The 10 Most Insane, Child-Warping Moments of ’80s Cartoons

Toplessrobot.com created an awesome list of the terrible 80’s Cartoon images that should not have been shown to children. Sadly, neither animators or Ronald Reagan gave a shit about us 80’s kids. The topless list missed one of the greatest and most trouble enigma’s of hideously inappropiate cartoon history. Ladies and gentlemen I submit to you.. Tranzor Z:

(in spanish - but you’ll get the idea.. its screwed up)

The ‘80s were supposed to be a harmless time for toys and the cartoons that sold them. In spite of this, cartoons sometimes snuck in certain moments that were clearly designed to break impressionable minds and pervert the youth of America. Here are the 10 worst.

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fashion of the 80s

The 80s fashions are some of the most flamboyant of the of any decade in the 20th century, perhaps that is because some of the 70s DISCO fads contaminated it.  Fashion in the 80s can definitely claim the biggest hair (comparable only to the “big wigs” of the 18th century). 

Just check out Hair metal band poison and you'll have some idea of what “big hair” means.  80s also had the greasiest hair of any other era.  Just look at the Jheri curl:

I really can't say I liked ANY 80s hair styles.  At the time I did.

80s clothes were fashionable but often really tacky.  I did like the member only jacket though, I must admit.  I'm sure it will come back.

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