Yup, I gave it a 9. This film really sparked my imagination as a kid, make-it-yourself-spaceships and all that. It went the wrong way in the end though, but the first half was great.
share........ well... speaking of the ending... or the very ending I should say it left it open for another one. But maybe it's a good thing that they didn't make another one.
shareI would rate it a 9 or a 10 personally. But I saw it in the eighties when I was 8 or 9 years old. I hadn't seen it in nearly 20 years until I stumbled across it in Walmarts 5.00 DVD bin. I was so excited to take it home and watch it! My wife had never seen it and she thought it was incredibly stupid and thought I was weird for even liking it.
All I can say is that if you didn't watch it as a kid, you might not appreciate it as an adult.
Wow, same thing happened to me, almost identically. I found it in the bin at Walmart for 4.88. Brought it home and watched it with my wife and oldest son (7). My wife's response was, and I kid you not, "Were you dropped on your head when you were a kid?" I asked her why and she said "This movie is weird. Those bugs (referring to Wak and Neek) are weird. The big daddy is weird. Your just weird." LoL. She said at the end though that she liked it, but that it was very strange to her. My son loved it and I felt like a kid again watching it after so many years. Tres cool. A 6.1 is disgustingly low. No less than a 7.5 and that's on the extreme low end.
shareanyone know why the version they aired for years on cable t.v. already had the two 'deleted' scenes from the dvd release? i liked watching the scene of the kids chasing the thunder road down the street with the fast-beat carnival music built right into the movie, not watching it seperately.
at least some of the 80's era cheesie movies from our childhoods are making their way to dvd.
"All I can say is that if you didn't watch it as a kid, you might not appreciate it as an adult."
Oh Not true! Not true!
I've just seen this film for the first time (I'm in my mid 40s) and loved it.
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You guys have *beep* wives. I must be lucky. My girl totally loves all the weird movies I liked when I was a kid. In addition, she even loves bloody horror films, 60's trash, John Waters, and Japanese Exploitation.
"Belief is the Death of Intelligence" - Robert Anton Wilson
Yeah id even push for a 10. One of my top five from my childhood in the 80s and id probably put it in my top 10 ever cuz of that. Even has a killer score soundtrack that id love to find. Great performances all around, especially Robert Picardo Aka The Doctor on Star Trek Voyager lol as Wack the Alien, lol outstanding. Highly entertaining. Look forward to passing this movie onto my kids eventually.:)
shareYeah, the rating should be higher. This movie is very enjoyable.
shareIt doesn't have the modern CGI graphics of today's movies. I hope they never do a remake. Modern CGI graphics would kill this movie. Remember when they used to make movies that actually telied on writing and acting to carry them, instead of CGI.... There are only a handful of movies every year that are worth seeing, and Hollywood is actually making more movies than ever before....
shareLet me break this movie down into chunks of rating.
0-15 minutes: 9
15-30 minutes: 8
30-45 minutes: 9
45-60 minutes: 9
60-75 minutes: 6
75-90 minutes: 2
The last section of the movie with the aliens? Absolutely, horrendously awful. The aliens should never have been. It should have been something less corny, less pathetic, less contrived, less ridiculous. The aliens out and out ruined that movie for me. When I was 9 years old, the entire buildup of the movie was fantastic. And then when the aliens appeared? I think that was probably the loudest, most resounding swear I'd ever said at that age. Yes, I was that disappointed. Aliens = Poo.
i agree. the first 2/3 of the film are great. it builds magically. it really does go downhill for me towards the end. i think between a 6-7 overall is pretty accurate for me.
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i feel root vegetable. am i dead? or buried alive?
it's amazing that different people from all around the world all had the same idea as a kid - to ignore the bit with the aliens!!!
it just goes to show that when u create something - if you 'put it out there' it is no longer urs and it takes on a life of its own.
how i wish this film ends as soon as they leave planet earth...i actually think it would be a 10/10 in that case. such imagination, humour and heart.
the aliens ruined it for me as a kid. it still does.
Highly accurate ratings. I always hear that it was because the studio changed hands that the film was released in its work-in-progress form. Sad but true. I loved it up until they enter the alien ship. Given Joe Dante's love of classic television and Looney Tunes, the ending doesn't surprise me. But in fairness, he wasn't allowed to do any reshoots or rewrites once the newbie studio heads at the time put the kibosh on it. Would be interesting to find out if the footage Dante DID intend to cut into the film still exists, and if so, how different the movie would be.
"Two ideas that conflict each other cannot coexist. One must be right, or both must be wrong."
mfettema777 100% agree, this film was and still is my favourite childhood film of all time but the one thing that annoys me is the aliens. seriously the film is perfect up until the second you see the ailens... then it just turns to *beep* should have been a 10 without the aliens with them still should be a 9, the rating it has is awful
sharePROOF that I could put an iPhone on a tripod, set it up in my laundry room, record for 90 mins, and many people would rate it 7+.
shareI just got done watching it and I have to disagree. It wasnt terribly interesting except for the middle with a vague sense of mysterious exploration. But that was quickly ruined by meeting the annoying, butt-ugly aliens. Theres better movies in this genre, and not just from the 80's but the 70's and 90's as well.
shareThe opening third is one of the best examples of post-childhood early-teen 'dreaming' ever put to screen in my opinion. Even Spielberg didn't nail it that well. A little cliched with the characters maybe, but knowing what was cut out just makes me feel like the movie would've been better if they'd lengthened the start. Shame about the aliens!
Out of curiosity... what movies in this genre (or similar) did you think were better?
Best movie of the 80s?????
REALLY?
Better than The Terminator, Aliens, Robocop, or Best Picture Oscar winners American Beauty, Shakespeare in Love, Titanic, or Blade Runner, ET, Ghostbusters, or Back to the Future. Thats ten I can think of...
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It deserves at least an 8 IMO Its a great movie.
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