Tribute to Explorers --- First Flight --- Behind Scenes Pix

[BelatedCommiseration]

It aslmost makes me sad to think that we are getting to the point when films like this will almost seem as far removed from the day we are in as films like the original Charlie and the Chocolate factory and Old Yeller were to me when I was getting into my early teens...but the memories still seem fresh! Personally I don't know if you get old when you stop dreaming, you get old when no one else but you remembers. Whilst I am here does anyone have the cool space age end music for this film?

[gothatway09]

The 80s were magic. Even blockbuster wannabees like Explorers had more magic then it knew what to do with.

[christellelovesRiver]

I love this movie!

River Phoenix was too great!

He was so young and so cute and talented!

I adore River!

He still the best forever!

[TheAltair4]

@zozanday The day you stop dreaming is the day you start getting OLD. Never stop dreaming!

[Johnlindsey289]

@TheAltair4

Nice quote from Twilight Zone The Movie

[TheAltair4]

@Johnlindsey289 lol. Well, the actual quote from the TZ movie is " The day we stop playing is the day we start getting old.", but the message still essentially means the same thing.

[DJGirl5]

That's so awesome I have a huge crush on river as a kid!

Thanx

[irhjma30000]

Rare pictures of a young River Phoenix that I have never seen before = YESSSSS.

You are totally amazing for making this video!!!!!!!

[joshanator1]

Whatever happened to the kid that played Darren?

[justifan]

That movie and music, more than any other, makes me to want to go to the stars. I still dream...

[Vale0star13]

what's the title of this song???

[nunofm2005]

@Vale0star13

The title of this song:

First Flight

Original Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

[Vale0star13]

@nunofm2005 thanx!!!!!!!!

[Vale0star13]

@nunofm2005 sorry, maybe have you got this song?? I can't find it anywhere...if you have it, can you send me by msn??

[upinflamezzz]

Ethan Hawke has a nasty looking grill now. Everytime I see him I cringe.

[nunofm2005]

Thanks for the upload Dingorex!

The best scene of the movie it's MISSING fromm the movie, Amanda Peterson and Ethan Hawke making out!

Incredible!!!

Maybe they put it on Blu-ray!

[MeBenHalpin]

@nunofm2005 Never knew that, was that originally in the movie, how far into the film was this.

[nunofm2005]

@MeBenHalpin

Go to the site fast rewind 80's, search for explorers and read the page about the making of explorers!

Read carefully and then comment, ok?

[Emanistan]

It's a shame to be so disappointed by something that's had such a big impact for so long: for the last 25 years, every time I rouse myself to start some ambitious new project, I automatically start whistling this music.

[Emanistan]

Just saw this movie again for the 1st time in 25 years. I must say it doesn't stand the test of time well. The dialogue is atrocious, and the climax an utter copout. Very depressing; and to think I spent the last two & a half decades wondering why this movie hasn't made the same mark on my generation as Stand by Me!

The James Horner score Is awesome though, as is the art direction. Cool spaceships.

[nunofm2005]

@Emanistan

The score it's from Jerry Goldsmith not James Horner!

[Emanistan]

@nunofm2005 Yeah, my mistake. It definitely has the Goldsmith sound to it too. Sounds quite similar to the Enterprise theme from Star Trek TMP.

[Shazam961]

@Emanistan Are you kidding me this is one of quissential 80's kids movie, its a insult to say the dialogue was atrocious, WTF you expect be like HAMLET!

[melodypaige2009]

river phoenix is soooo adorable!

[gothatway09]

The music was so amazingly rousing, especially for a kids film.

[stevo0124]

Ohhh man, I just took this movie out of the library, SUCH an underrated classic! Thanks for making this! :)

[christellelovesRiver]

Great video.

Thanks for share.

River Phoenix was so great!

I love and bless River Phoenix forever.

[noblondie46]

were did you get that one pic of amanda peterson and ethan hawke making out?

[dingorex]

From the magazine mentioned in earlier comments by me. I really wish Joe Dante had released a better DVD with ALL the missing and alternate footage. He has a website called Trailers From Hell, I think I'll ask him....

[TheNightBadger]

@dingorex The kissing pic was also in the Explorers Storybook. Dante has said he has no idea where the lost footage is now, but he thinks it will never be seen. I think there was a vid of him at a special showing of Explorers somewhere on Youtube,

[TheNightBadger]

@TheNightBadger It's in the sidebar! I must be blind!

[dingorex]

@TheNightBadger Thanks, Is the Explorers Storybook an illustrated kids book or are you talking about the novelization of Eric Luke's script?

[TheNightBadger]

@dingorex It's a picture book with a shortened version of the story (for kids). They used to be standard releases. Clearly both were taken from the rough version of the script since they both contained material that wasn't in the finished cut. I had mine before the movie was released. Imagine my dismay when I realised the guys didn't go to Lori Swenson's party!

[TheNightBadger]

@dingorex You should do that. He speaks about looking for the lost material at the New Beverley Cinema showing (linked in the sidebar) and he says he couldn't find anything.

[samudelux83]

non so voi ma io con sto film ci sono rimasto sotto sara' perche' l'ho visto da bocia comunque ogni volta che lo guardo mi fa venire la pelle doca sopratutto la parte dove collaudano la navetta..

[speranza8e8amore]

Your italian is not very good. You speak mostly in slang.

It is a very amazing film. Who is Bocia?

[samudelux83]

children

[speranza8e8amore]

what?

[samudelux83]

bocia =child

[speranza8e8amore]

alright i got it now

[speranza8e8amore]

River phoenix died from drugs. RIP

did the other two boys get into drugs at all? and what happened to amanda peterson?

[chuckysbride87]

wat i sthe kids name in the middle at 0:44

[dingorex]

Jason Presson is the actor's name. He played Darren Woods.

[davy023]

GREAT MOVIE AND GREAT MUSIC!!!!!

[christellephoenix]

I have never see pictures before!

Thanks for share!

I like Explorers. I love River Phoenix!

River was so great! I love him god bless him.

[raphaelalizee]

Classic!!! I put that space ship into my animation! Pretty cool. Star Wars with Thunder Road!

[paramore6855930]

Did you get the pictures from the magazine or a website. Where can you find a magazine, or what website did you go to.

Great video by the way I love this movie so much. Oh, and I love jason presson!!!

[dingorex]

From a magazine--The Official Explorers Movie magazine from 1985 put out by Starlog Press. Jason Presson should have got an Oscar nod for The Stone Boy.

[paramore6855930]

Thanks!

And yeah he definitely should have!!!

[paramore6855930]

sorry few more questions.

were all of these pictures behind the scenes? what was she holding at 2:26

[dingorex]

I'm assuming it is from an alternate ending that has never been released yet. The captions and the text don't mention the part of the movie. The book released had many scenes with Ben and his brother and family that were either never filmed or deleted to the cutting room floor. The "traveling-matte" guy is Ben's brother in the book, FYI. John P Navin?? I think,,, he was the gooch on Diff'rent Strokes.

[paramore6855930]

grazie.

[TheNightBadger]

@dingorex That scene wasn't from the end, it was from the party scene (earlier in the movie): Lori invites Ben to her party after he looks in her bedroom window. The party is after their first flight and the crash at the drive-in. Ben gives her a ring with martian rock in it, and kisses her, but she rejects his advance. The guys then argue on the way home.

[upinflamezzz]

Is that Ethan Hawke before his teeth turned black and yellow? Amanda Peterson was always hot. Where did she go?

[dingorex]

He needs to eat more red meat and drink less tea. Isn't he Vegan?

Amanda was in a great Dante directed episode of The Twilight Zone in the fall of1985 called The Shadowman (with Jason Presson) She also did a series called A Year in the Life with Richard Kiley and Adam Arkin in 1986. I've not seen her since. Her voice got deeper throughout the short-lived series, so maybe she lost the WOW factor auditorily, definitely not visually !HUBBA HUBBA!.

[speranza8e8amore]

who did amanda peterson play in shadowman?

[nunofm2005]

@speranza8e8amore

Not Amanda Peterson in shadowman, another actress play the role!

[dingorex]

@nunofm2005 You're right, I was wrong. But, I think the girl who played Trista, the smart redhead in Ben's science class is an extra in the diner scene.

[nunofm2005]

@dingorex

Yes, she is!

[nunofm2005]

@dingorex

Amanda Peterson

No! She is not in The Twilight Zone - The Shadowman.

You are wrong!

[nunofm2005]

@dingorex

Not Amanda Peterson in shadowman, another actress play the role!

[MYFATE1978]

sehr gut gemacht

[MYFATE1978]

Perfekt i like this film from the 80s

Is this Material from a special dvd?

[dingorex]

Nicht einen dvd, aber das Photographieren heise Explorers ins 1985.

[MYFATE1978]

Thank you

[Sage80]

Thats so awesome!! Where did you find all those pics??

[dingorex]

From the official Explorers magazine from Starlog press dated July 1985. Is Starlog still in print? They may have back issues if they're still around.

[DMaustrap]

Incredible score for a wonderous film that's so underrated. Thanks for the upload.

[tunafan1]

In some pictrures River looks pissed because Ethan was talking to the girl...lmao

[irhjma30000]

@tunafan1 wait, why? cuz river wanted to talk to the girl instead?

[tunafan1]

@irhjma30000 well I had heard that both Ethan and River had a crush on Amanda during filming but, who knows?

[irhjma30000]

@tunafan1 Oh haha funny! Cool I didn't know that :)

[SorenTimble]

awesome movie is awesome!

[angelgurl009]

im so pissed that last scene where ethan & that girl is kissing wasnt on my d.v.d!!! ugh im seeing all kinds of different version of this movie everywhere why the hell couldnt they all be the same with all the scenes put back in it

[kaleycancilla]

well what website

[RioandMe]

that was great i LOVED that movie where did u get those pics!!!!?????

[dingorex]

From the official Explorers movie magazine that Starlog magazine published in July 1985.