Flight of the Navigator
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2014
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Everyone was incredibly hazy on the details of Flight of the Navigator's plot, but Donna did remember that even as a kid she wished the scope of the story were a bit bigger. Carlos thought that it was and realized that he had invented a completely fictional version of this film in his mind. Chris knew that the main character was transported 8 years into the future and that a spaceship was involved, but couldn't recall how those story threads connected.
And now that they know? Well, you could probably make a strong argument that there are two really great premises here that are sort of awkwardly squashed together.
Topics include: how long it takes David to get on board the spaceship and why Chris actually liked all of that build up, the lack of any real "bad guys" and a debate about how well that approach works here, the abrupt shift in tone once the robot A.I. turns into Pee-Wee Herman, how brief David's time on the ship really is and how little he does with it, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Flight of the Navigator? |
| 0:31.5 | Hello and welcome to Hey, do you remember, Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.8 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:36.7 | And today we're revisiting Flight of the Navigator. |
| 0:59.2 | It's the 4th of July, 1978, and 12-year-old David Freeman enters the woods near his home to look for his little brother. |
| 1:05.3 | He slips, hits his head, and wakes up to find that eight years have passed, despite the fact that he hasn't aged a day. |
| 1:09.7 | Where has he been? What's with a strange voice in his head trying to communicate with him? |
| 1:13.9 | And how is all of it connected to the mysterious spacecraft that's crash landed nearby? |
| 1:30.1 | Flight of the Navigator was not a big hit for Disney when it was released in 1986. It ranked ninth place its opening weekend and only pulled in 18 million domestically. But it did garner mostly positive reviews and went on to develop a devoted following thanks to the rising popularity of the home video market. |
| 1:36.4 | It's not exactly a cultural touchstone, but it is a movie that nearly everyone in our generation seems to be familiar with. |
| 1:40.4 | And that's not too shabby for a film that initially struggled to find an audience. |
| 1:43.3 | Donna, what do you remember about Flight of the Navigator? |
| 1:45.2 | A little bit. |
| 1:46.1 | A little bit. |
| 1:47.3 | I remember a little bit. |
| 1:47.6 | Okay. |
| 1:49.6 | Thanks, Robert De Niro. |
| 1:51.2 | A little bit. |
| 1:51.8 | A little bit. |
| 1:57.4 | So I know that my dad brought this home for one of our family movie nights, |
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